Old Hollywood Realness!

"Anchors Aweigh" starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson and Dean Stockwell. On a four day shore leave two sailors look for love, babysit a wannabe junior sailor and teach Jerry the Mouse to tap dance.
Director: George Sidney
Costumes: Irene
Studio: MGM
Year: 1945

"On The Town" starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin, Vera-Ellen, Ann Miller and Betty Garrett. Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin star as three sailors who get twenty-four hours of shore leave and their misadventures lead to musical numbers, a high speed police chase and love. Turns out New York, New York IS a wonderful town.
Director: Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
Costumes: Helen Rose
Studio: MGM
Year: 1949

"This Gun For Hire" starring Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Laird Cregar and Robert Preston. Alan Ladd stars as Raven, a hit man for hire who gets double crossed by one of his clients. This get complicated when Veronica Lake get mixed up in his run from the law while working her own angle.
Director: Frank Tuttle
Costumes: Edith Head
Studio: Paramount
Released: 1942

Our guest for this episode is Renee Patrick, which is the pseudonym for married authors Rosemarie and Vince Keenan. Dangerous to Know is the second in the Lillian Frost & Edith Head Mystery series. Rosemarie is a research administrator and a poet. Vince is a screenwriter and a journalist. Both native New Yorkers, they currently live in Seattle, Washington. Please be sure to also check out their first novel in the series, Design for Dying.

"The Court Jester" starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone and Angela Lansbury. Danny Kaye stars in this medieval musical comedy about reclaiming a usurped throne in the name of a child king. Sword fights, hypnotism and technicolor costumes abound in this hilarious romp.
Director: Melvin Frank & Norman Panama
Costumes: Edith Head & Yvonne Wood
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Year: 1955

"His Girl Friday" starring Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy and John Qualen. Rosalind Russell stars in this screwball comedy, as Hildy Johnson, ace reporter for The Morning Post. Cary Grant plays the paper's editor and her ex-husband, who cooks up a a scheme to lure her back to her job and keep her from marrying another man.
Director: Howard Hawks
Costumes: Kalloch (Robert Kalloch)
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Released: 1940

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"Gypsy" starring Natalie Wood, Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden and Ann Jillian. Natalie Wood stars as the legendary star of burlesque, Gypsy Rose Lee and Rosalind Russell portrays her overbearing stage mother, Rose Hovic. This musical, based on Gypsy's memoir, tracks the Hovic family, from their early days in vaudeville through to Gypsy's rise to fame as the world's most famous burlesque dancer.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Costumes: Orry-Kelly
Studio: Warner Bros.
Released: 1962

TANSY -
Tansy is a New York based burlesque dancer and the muse of the podcast host, Philip Estrada. She has been able to thrill audiences around the globe with her unique talents and unparalleled stage presence. She joins us on the podcast to bring her perspective on this classic film

"Marie Antoinette" starring Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, Robert Morley, and John Barrymore. Norma Shearer plays the titular character in this biopic based on the 1932 biography of the ill fated queen. Shearer, as Antoinette, navigates double dealings in the royal court, an extra marital love affair and the impending French Revolution. As we all know, things don't end well for her.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Costumes: Adrian (Gowns) and Gile Steele (Menswear)
Studio: MGM
Released: 1938

"Gigi" starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Isabel Jeans and Eva Gabor. Leslie Caron plays Gigi, a young Parisian woman who is not impressed with the French traditions of love. When she is being groomed to be the mistress of the most elidgible bachelor in France love becomes an unexpected obstacle.
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Music and Lyrics by: Lerner and Loewe
Costumes: Cecil Beaton
Studio: MGM
Released: 1958

"The Prodigal" starring Lana Turner, Edmund Purdom, Louis Calhern and James Mitchell. Lana Turner stars in this 'biblical epic' inspired by the parable of the Prodigal Son. Turner as the high priestess of a pagan religion is pursued by Purdom who is swindled out of his family fortune while trying to buy her love.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Costumes: Herschel McCoy
Studio: MGM
Released: 1955

Fun Fact, the giant bull statue from this film was used in two additional movies, Tarzan the Ape Man (1959) and Atlantis, The Lost Continent (1961).  The bull made it's way to a backyard in Lumberton, NJ. The most recent articles I found are from 2013 and some say it was sold to a bar in Philadelphia, but I can't find out which one. More info on this bull can be found here.

"Laura" starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price and Judith Anderson. Gene Tierney plays Laura Hunt, a ravishing beauty whose mentor molded her into a scion of the advertising world. Everyone seems to fall in love with Laura, including the detective investigating her murder.
Director: Otto Preminger
Costumes: Bonnie Cashin
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Released: 1944