EPISODE # 71: Lara and James welcome classic film commentator and author Jeremy Arnold to chat about one of the most popular MGM musicals of the 1940s, starring the one and only Judy Garland. Based on a series of short stories from New …
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Citizen Kane (1941)
EPISODE # 69: Orson Welles produced, co-wrote, directed and stars in his 1941 masterpiece about a rich newspaper tycoon who utters the word “rosebud” on his deathbed. A newspaper reporter is then assigned to investigate the meaning of “rosebud,” uncovering details about a tragically …
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
EPISODE #63: Bonnie and Clyde is a groundbreaking film that pushed the limits on sex and violence in cinema. Warren Beatty produced the film and also stars as Clyde Barrow, an ex-con who falls in love with a bored waitress played by Faye Dunaway. …
It Happened One Night (1934)
EPISODE # 60: Claudette Colbert jumps ship (literally) to escape her father’s disapproval and ends up meeting Clark Gable on a bus. What could possibly go right? Join Lara Scott and James Moll as they welcome Randy Haberkamp from the Academy of Motion Picture …
Funny Girl (1968)
EPISODE # 44: Say “Hello, gorgeous!” to Barbra Streisand in FUNNY GIRL. This podcast episode was recorded at the famed Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Theater historian Margot Gerber joins us to talk about how the theatre not only hosted the FUNNY GIRL premiere, but …
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
EPISODE # 39: Do you love IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE as much as we do? Michael Wright, CEO of Amblin Partners and former president and head of programming for TCM (Turner Classic Movies), is our “Audience of One” as James and Lara discuss this …
Born Yesterday (1950)
EPISODE #37: In BORN YESTERDAY (1950), Judy Holliday’s performance as Billie Dawn is a must-see; you can’t take your eyes off of her and it is easy to see why she won a Best Actress Oscar for the role. But even though she was …
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
EPISODE #25: Lonesome Rhodes, played by Andy Griffith as you have most likely NEVER seen him before, is a drifter and a raconteur. When we—and Patricia Neal—meet him, he’s in jail, but his storytelling and singing land him on her radio show, which …
Grand Hotel (1932)
EPISODE # 13: In this Best Picture Oscar winner from 1932, a drunk doctor, an eccentric ballerina, a jewel thief, a businessman, his mistress and a dying bookkeeper all cross paths in the finest (fictional) hotel in Europe, the Grand Hotel.
James and Lara …
Casablanca (1943)
EPISODE # 01: Could someone watch CASABLANCA, a film consistently ranked as one of the greatest ever, and think…”meh?” Which part of Southern California stood in for Morocco? And can anyone decipher the plot? It doesn’t matter, since CASABLANCA is all about the romance! …