The Screen Sirens

Hit sunny Florida to escape the mafia's hit men - just be sure to pack your band instruments and your dress! Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe star in 1959's "Some Like It Hot."

The term "Gaslight" is more or less mainstream these days. It comes from this 1944 film and the play it's based. Join us, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Angela Lansbury on Thornton Square. *Content Warning: This movie contains a lot of emotional abuse and we discuss it at length, so please don't listen if that will upset you!*

A nation divided by race and class, an upcoming election that could change everything, and the people whose lives will change. Sound like 2020? It's "Island in the Sun" (1957), starring Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Joan Fontaine, and Joan Collins.

This podcast episode is about the business we call show! Hit "42nd Street" with Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers.

Join us at a little Argentinian casino, where the stakes are high and the men can't be trusted. Here's our take on "Gilda" (1946) starring Rita Hayworth.

Hit the pool deck and the polo field with Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalbán, Red Skelton, and Betty Garrett in "Neptune's Daughter" (1949).

It's 1942, Poland is under attack, and the underground is about to be betrayed by a Nazi spy. Luckily, there's a theatre troupe ready to foil him, unless their egos get in the way. Carole Lombard and Jack Benny star in "To Be Or Not To Be."

The mediator between the head and the hand? It's all about the heart - and class warfare - in the German silent film "Metropolis" (1927).

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn go head to head in the courtroom and at home in 1949's "Adam's Rib."

Strangers fall in love on an ocean liner, but they're each promised to someone else. They agree to meet on the Empire State Building - and then fate intervenes. Listen in "An Affair to Remember" (1957).