The Tinsel Factory: A Film History Podcast

This week on The Tinsel Factory, ghostly tales of dearly departed performers whom are believed to still haunt the town that made or broke their dreams.

Movie Reviews: Talk to Me

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Sources:

http://www.discoverlosangeles.com/blog/hollywood-roosevelt-hotel-story-la-icon

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/haunted-locations-los-angeles-hollywood-645040/

https://laghosttour.com/hollywood-roosevelt-hotel/

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/10/hollywood-sign-haunted

youtube.com/watch?v=Vj1XW-636TI

Episodes:

Walt Disney: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/tOe4xYpysBb

Marilyn Monroe: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/7UMAKttysBb

Sharon Tate: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/fL9NystysBb

Peg Entwistle: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/qoFtOINCsBb 

Joan Crawford: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/jnSHOGNCsBb

Thelma Todd: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/I5N0EMeEsBb 

Stage 28: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/SWL2rLxGsBb 

Rudolph Valentino: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/joeDXIxGsBb 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we debunk some of the most enduring film urban legends. What’s true, and what’s just a bunch of Hollywood Hogwash?

Movie Reviews: Theatre Camp, Past Lives, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Joy Ride

TW: Brief mentions of s*ic*de

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Sources:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/01/the-silent-film-that-caused-audiences-to-stampede-from-the-theater.html 

https://time.com/5647491/wizard-of-oz-curse/#

https://www.slashfilm.com/852272/how-the-wizard-of-oz-changed-margaret-hamilton-and-her-stunt-double-forever/

https://screenrant.com/wizard-oz-movie-dead-munchkin-myth-explained/

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-ghostly-urban-legend-of-three-men-and-a-baby/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/disney-sexual-messages_n_6452666

BREAK MUSIC:

youtube.com/watch?v=rpMvf4Gdn-4 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we cover the life and careers of everybody’s favorite OG stoners - Tommy Chong and Richard Cheech Marin.

Movie Reviews: No Hard Feelings

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Sources:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4302492/How-friendship-Cheech-Chong-went-smoke.html 

https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/tommy-chong-talks-comedy-pot-politics-and-his-days-as-a-calgary-herald-paper-boy

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/cheech-and-chong-on-40-years-of-up-in-smoke-real-life-drove-everything-629983/ 

 https://www.grunge.com/374365/this-is-how-cheech-and-chong-met/ 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, we off on the road to the lives and careers of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. 

Movie Reviews: Dirty Dancing (1987)

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Sources:

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/bing-crosby-and-bob-hopes-road-pictures/17321/

https://oldmovieteams.org/about/bob-hope-bing-crosby/ 

American Masters: Bing Crosby: Rediscovered, 2014

American Masters: This is Bob Hope, 2017

Breaks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53hGjaGpRkw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIDQQiJnmnQ

This week on The Tinsel Factory, who’s on first? We look at the lives and careers of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.

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Sources:

youtube.com/watch?v=0cGSH1mI5xI 

Breaks: youtube.com/watch?v=sYOUFGfK4bU

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the 2007/2008 writer’s strike, and what we can learn about the 2023 strike from the past.

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Sources:

https://www.wga.org/the-guild/about-us/history/a-history-of-wga-contract-negotiations-and-gains

Hollywood on Strike! by Jonathan Handel

Breaks:

Break 1: youtube.com/watch?v=5ou2V3hLLy4

Break 2: youtube.com/watch?v=p5cWMxzzMdA&list=PLfP6i5T0-DkJuP3T-8p5mNTnkI0sQH8ml&index=3 

This week on The Tinsel Factory, the events surrounding Hollywood’s Black Friday. 

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Sources:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/black-friday-hollywood-in-1945-1235021178/ 

https://laist.com/news/la-history/hollywood-strike-1945-unions-iatse-bloody-friday 

Class Struggle in Hollywood: 1930-1950 By Gerald Horne

Working In Hollywood by Ronny Regev