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Producer/Creator/Host Doug Hess takes you on a journey back in time and shares with you pieces. of Hollywood you may or may not have known about!
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17 MAR 2025 · In this episode, Warren Croom and I spoke with Bentley Mitchum the grandson of Robert Mitchum about his grandfather. Bentley is also an actor and musican. Follow Bentely on ig @mitchumontop
Also Saturday March 22nd at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, showing of the film Out of the Past/The Killng staring Robert Mitchum.
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13 MAR 2025 · In this episode, I discuss screen writer Charles Brackett. He co-wrote https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033373/?ref_=nmbio_mbio, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037884/?ref_=nmbio_mbio, and https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043014/?ref_=nmbio_mbio to name just as few films.
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10 MAR 2025 · In this episode, I discuss the life of Director James Whale.
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6 MAR 2025 · In this episode, I discuss the life of actor/director Fred C Newmeyer.
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3 MAR 2025 · In this episode, I spoke with author Diane Kiesel about her latest book "When Charlie Met Joan: The Tragedy of the Chaplin Trials and the Failings of American Law". Charlie Chaplin, the silent screen’s “Little Tramp,” was beloved by millions of movie fans until he starred in a series of salacious, real-life federal courtroom dramas.
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27 FEB 2025 · In this episode, I discuss the work of Director, Producer and actor Sam Wood.
Directed eight Oscar Best Picture nominees: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028944/?ref_=nmbio_trv (uncredited), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031385/?ref_=nmbio_trv, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/?ref_=nmbio_trv (uncredited), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032881/?ref_=nmbio_trv, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032671/?ref_=nmbio_trv, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034946/?ref_=nmbio_trv, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035211/?ref_=nmbio_trv and https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035896/?ref_=nmbio_trv.
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24 FEB 2025 · In this episode, I discuss with Mallory O'Meara and her latest book "Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman". Helen Gibson was a woman willing to do anything to give audiences a thrill. Advertised as "The Most Daring Actress in Pictures," Helen emerged in the early days of the twentieth-century silent film scene as a rodeo rider, background actor, stunt double, and eventually one of the era’s biggest action stars.
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20 FEB 2025 · In this episode, I spoke with author Chris Alexander about his latest book "Art! Trash! Terror! Adventures in Strange Cinema". From filmmaker, former Fangoria editor-in-chief, and Corman/Poe author Chris Alexander comes ART! TRASH! TERROR! Adventures in Strange Cinema, a treasure trove of in-depth essays and edifying interviews that celebrate some of the most eccentric and unforgettable movies in cult cinema history.
The book will be released in the US on March 15, 2025, until then go ahead and pre-order your copy today.
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17 FEB 2025 · In this episode, I spoke with author William Elliott Hazelgrove regarding his book " Dead Air: The Night That Orson Wells Terrified America". On a warm Halloween Eve, October 30, 1938, during a broadcast of H G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, a twenty-three-year-old Orson Welles held his hands up for radio silence in the CBS studio in New York City while millions of people ran out into the night screaming, grabbed shotguns, drove off in cars, and hid in basements, attics, or anywhere they could find to get away from Martians intent on exterminating the human race.
Producer/Creator/Host Doug Hess takes you on a journey back in time and shares with you pieces. of Hollywood you may or may not have known about!
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