Mary of Scotland: Hollywood Stage

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Chained: Hollywood Stage

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Suspicion: Hollywood Stage

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My Favorite Wife: Hollywood Stage

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Shadow of a Doubt: Hollywood Stage

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Jezebel: Hollywood Stage

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The Perfect Specimen: Hollywood Stage

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Winchester '73: Hollywood Stage

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Irene: Hollywood Stage

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Only Angels Have Wings: Hollywood Stage

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This Land Is Mine: Hollywood Stage

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Strawberry Blonde: Hollywood Stage

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The Sidewalks of London: Hollywood Stage

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Alibi Ike: Hollywood Stage

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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon: Hollywood Stage

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town: Hollywood Stage

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A Man's Castle: Hollywood Stage

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Joan Crawford in Suspense

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Casablanca: Hollywood Stage

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The Buccaneer: Hollywood Stage

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The Virginian: Hollywood Stage

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Front Page Woman: Hollywood Stage

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The Phantom Lady: Hollywood Stage

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The Awful Truth: Hollywood Stage

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The Jazz Singer: Hollywood Stage

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Peg O' My Heart: Hollywood Stage

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Blood and Sand: Hollywood Stage

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The Front Page: Hollywood Stage

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Mildred Pierce: Hollywood Stage

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British Agent: Hollywood Stage

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Stage Door: Hollywood Stage

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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir

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The Grapes of Wrath

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Death of a Salesman

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The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book

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Romeo and Juliet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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The Power of Myth

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NPR Funniest Driveway Moments: Radio Stories That Won't Let You Go

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Othello: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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Hamlet: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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Cinema Speculation

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Macbeth: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition

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Save the Cat!

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Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time

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Julius Caesar: A Fully-Dramatized Audio Production From Folger Theatre

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Is this Anything?

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When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice From a Professional Clown

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Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography

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Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

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Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative Life

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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

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The Science of Storytelling

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Wuthering Heights (dramatic reading)

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Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?

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Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

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Gielgud's Hamlet: (Dramatized)

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Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

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Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling

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Pure Drivel

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Mary Louise Wilson (#153) June, 2007: From "Grey Gardens".

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136: Yvonne De Carlo: The Seduced, Episode 5

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28: Star Wars Episode II: Carole Lombard and Clark Gable: The queen of screwball comedies married the king of Hollywood in 1939, but Lombard's 1942 death in a plane crash on the way home from a trip to sell war bonds drove Gable into a physical and emotional breakdown, and eventually the Army.

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Episode 551 - Ladd and Lasses (Box 13, Screen Guild Theatre, & Hollywood Star Time): Actor Alan Ladd was born 110 years ago this month, and we're celebrating his life and career with four of his old time radio appearances. He plays mystery writer and amateur gumshoe Dan Holiday in "Diamond in the Sky" and "The Professor and the...

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How the 1916 Shark Attacks Worked: In 1916, a series of shark attacks took place along the shores of New Jersey. The media downplayed the first attack as a fluke -- but the attacks continued. Tune in and learn more about the story that inspired Jaws in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.

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153: Hollywood’s First Weight Loss Guru: Madame Sylvia (Make Me Over, Episode 2): Glamorous and shrewd, Sylvia of Hollywood became the movie industry’s first weight-loss guru during the end of the silent era. An immigrant of mysterious origin, she would cannily market herself to clients like Gloria Swanson, who she promised to ‘slenderize, refine, reduce and squeeze’ into shape. But her taste for gossip and publicity would become her downfall in the 1930s when she published a catty tell-all memoir about her star clients. This episode was written and performed by Christina Newland, an award-winning journalist on film, pop culture and boxing at Sight & Sound Magazine, Little White Lies, VICE, Hazlitt, The Ringer and others. She loves 70s Americana, boxing flicks, fashion and old Hollywood lore. She was born in New York and lives in Nottingham, England.

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70: MGM Stories Part 15: Mayer’s Downfall: In the 1940s, Louis B. Mayer was the highest paid man in America, one of the first celebrity CEOs and the figurehead of what for most Americans was the most glamorous industry on Earth. In 1951, Mayer was fired from the studio that bore his name. What...

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30: Star Wars Episode IV: Gene Tierney (Or: The Many Loves of Howard Hughes, Chapter 5): The luminous star of a number of key film noirs and melodramas of the 1940s, Gene Tierney's personal life was highly dramatic and heartbreakingly tragic.

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8: Follies of 1938, Part 1: Hollywood’s Greatest Year: This micro-episode sets up a topic we’ll be exploring throughout the summer: the films, stars and scandals of 1938. By midway through that year, Hollywood was in such a desperate downswing — and so concerned that Americans were losing...

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139: Mary Astor's Diary (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 13): In 1936, actress Mary Astor (who had not yet made her most famous film, The Maltese Falcon) and her husband went to court to fight for custody of their four year-old daughter. The trail made international news thanks to both sides’ use of Astor’s diary, in which she had recorded details of her affair with playwright George S. Kaufman. How much did Astor truly reveal in her diary, and what role did the scandal play in her life and career?

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Episode 504 - Swinging Sixties (Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar): Sixty years ago this month, the Golden Age of Radio signed off as CBS aired the final episodes of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar on September 30, 1962. Both shows hung on as TV overtook radio in the late 50s and continued to produce...

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72: The Blacklist Part 2: Crossfire – The Trials of the Hollywood Ten: In 1947, HUAC subpoenaed dozens of Hollywood workers to come to Washington and testify to the presence of Communists in the film industry.

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64: MGM Stories Part 9: Spencer Tracy: When Spencer Tracy signed with MGM, he was a character actor better known for his problem drinking (and very public extramarital affair with Loretta Young) than for his movie hits. But the studio made him a star, and by the time Katharine Hepburn was...

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27: Star Wars Episode I: Bette Davis and the Hollywood Canteen: In the first installment of 'Star Wars' (about the experiences of stars during wartime, not Chewbacca or Mos Eisley), Karina Longworth looks at Bette Davis and the Hollywood Canteen.

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140: Lupe Velez (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 14): Mexican actress Lupe Velez was the victim of one of Anger’s cruelest invented stories. His fabrication of her manner of death lays bare a vicious racism in addition to Hollywood Babylon’s usual sexism. Today we will sort out the fact of Velez’s life from Anger’s fiction and consider the star of the Mexican Spitfire series as a comedienne ahead of her time.

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17: Theda Bara, Hollywood’s First Sex Symbol: Theda Bara might be the most significant celebrity pioneer whose movies you’ve never seen. She was the movie industry’s first sex symbol; the first femme fatale; and she might have been America’s first homegrown goth.

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12: Madonna, from Sean to Warren, Part One: Over the course of two episodes, we will explore the high-cinephile period of Madonna's life and work, roughly bracketed by her relationship with Sean Penn and ending with the dissolution of her rebound affair with Warren Beatty.

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141: Marlene Dietrich, Claudette Colbert, and the “sewing circle” (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 15): The bisexuality of Marlene Dietrich was not exactly a secret in 1930s Hollywood -- in fact, her ambiguous sexuality was part of her on-screen brand. But there is some debate as to who Dietrich counted among her lovers, and which of her fellow stars participated in what has been called the “sewing circle” of female intimacy. Anger alleges that Dietrich had a “passionate affair” with Claudette Colbert, an Oscar-winning actress with an extremely heteronormative persona. We’ll explore what was going on in Dietrich’s life and career around the time when this affair could have taken place, and then delve into Colbert’s image as a very different kind of on-screen sex symbol, and her complicated off-screen personal life. 

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1987: Fatal Attraction and Dirty Dancing (Erotic 80s Part 10)

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146: Disney’s Most Controversial Film (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 1): Disney Plus is launching with the stated intention of streaming the entire Disney library... except for "Song of the South," a 1946 animation/live-action hybrid film set on a post-Civil War plantation. It was theatrically re-released as recently as 1986, and served as the basis for the ride Splash Mountain, but has never been available in the US on home video. What is "Song of the South?" Why did Disney make it and why have they held the actual film from release, while finding other ways to profit off of it?

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Episode 247 - Through Thick and Thin Man (Lux Radio Theatre): “Are you packing?” “Yes dear, I’m putting away this liquor.” William Powell and Myrna Loy are back as Dashiell Hammett’s husband and wife crime solvers Nick and Nora Charles as The Lux Radio Theatre presents After the Thin Man. The sequel...

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1988: Kevin Costner, Sean Young, No Way Out & Bull Durham (Erotic 80s Part 11)

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Blacklist Flashback: Bogey Before Bacall: Prepare for next week's Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn and John Huston episode with this look back at Ep 13.

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62: MGM Stories Part 7: MGM's children: Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland: MGM's children: Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland

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22. Bela Lugosi Jr. & Sara Karloff

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Emma Thompson: Kirsty Young's castaway is the actress and writer Emma Thompson.

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To The Stage: After A Year Away, Broadway Is Back: Three Broadway veterans recorded audio diaries of their experiences as Broadway returns.

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144: The Trials of Confidential Magazine: Maureen O'Hara (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 18): In part two of our two-parter on the demise of the biggest and most pernicious tabloid of the 1950s, we’ll explore what happened after the magazine’s claim that redheaded star Maureen O’Hara was caught having sex at Grauman’s Chinese Theater. O’Hara positioned herself the “Joan of Arc” of Hollywood, single-handedly defending a cowardly industry against the existential threat posed by Confidential. As we’ll see, this is one story where the Kenneth Anger version is more credible than the version related by one of the subjects. 

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Desi

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"The Scandalous Screen Siren" Pt. 2: Mae West