Fade to Chat: Golden Age Cinema

Cindy and Marty discuss facts and fun from the Doris Day / Rock Hudson pairing in Send Me No Flowers Quick Facts ·       Release Year: 1964 ·       Genre: Romantic Comedy / Farce ·       Director: Norman Jewison ·       Screenplay: Julius J. Epstein (Oscar winner for Casablanca) ·       Source Material: Broadway play by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore ·       Studio: Universal Pictures ·       Ru...

Cindy and Marty speak about Billy Wilder’s The Apartment with lots of movie trivia and the portrayals done by Lemmon. MacLaine, and MacMurray Quick Facts Release Year: 1960Runtime: 125 minutesFormat: Black-and-whiteStudio / Distributor: United ArtistsDirector: Billy WilderScreenplay: Billy Wilder & I.A.L. DiamondMusic: Adolph DeutschSetting: New York City (corporate offices, Upper West Side ap...

Cindy and Marty reflect on the holiday classic, Miracle on 34th Street - 1947, with trivia and actor information you haven't heard yet. Quick FactsRelease year: 1947 (U.S. release: June 1947)Runtime: 96 minutes • Black-and-whiteStudio / Distributor: 20th Century-FoxDirector / Screenplay: George Seaton • Story: Valentine DaviesSetting: New York City, between Thanksgiving andChristmas Key Credit...

Cindy and Marty look at a swinging-’60s dark comedy mixing bachelor-fantasy satire, comic-strip meta-storytelling, and commentary on marriage expectation,  How to Murder Your Wife.   Basic Film Facts • Release Year: 1965 • Director: Richard Quine • Screenwriter: George Axelrod • Stars: Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Mayehoff • Studio: United Artists • Genre: Black comedy, farce, sati...

Cindy and Marty share stories about the iconic screwball comedy, Howard Hawks’ Bringing Up Baby.   Bringing Up Baby (1938) Director: Howard Hawks Writers: Dudley Nichols & Hagar Wilde Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, May Robson, Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Catlett Animals: Nissa the Leopard (“Baby”), Skippy the Dog (“George”) Studio: RKO Radio Pictures Runtime: 102 minutes;...

Stephanie Marder joins Cindy and Marty to talk about the wackiness that is the Marx Brothers Duck Soup. The Basics ·       Release Date: November 17, 1933 (Paramount Pictures) ·       Runtime: 68 minutes ·       Country/Language: United States / English ·       Director: Leo McCarey ·       Writers: Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby (with dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin) ·       Principal Cast...

Marty and Cindy take on a classic that Cindy hadn’t seen before, Lawrence of Arabia Title: Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Director: David Lean Writers: Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson Stars: Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Jack Hawkins, José Ferrer, Claude Rains Studio: Horizon Pictures / Columbia Pictures Runtime: 222 minutes (original) | 216 minutes (restored) Format: Super P...

Cindy and Marty chat about the movie Gaslight, a psychological thriller that coined the term we use today. Director: George CukorWriters: John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, and John L. Balderston (adapted from Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play)Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, Angela Lansbury, Dame May WhittyStudio/Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)Runtime: 114 minutes; Format: B&am...

Cindy and Marty converse about one of their favorite movies, North by Northwest, packed full of trivia. Website: ThePodTalk. Net Email: ThePodTalkNetwork@gmail.com YouTube: YouTube.com/@FadeToChat

Cindy and Marty talk about another favorite comedy by director Billy Wilder, Some Like It Hot with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, and its contemporary influence about gender roles and expectations.  Some Like It Hot (1959) ·       Director: Billy Wilder; Writers: Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond (from Robert Thoeren & Michael Logan’s story) ·       Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmo...

Cindy and Marty do their first FTC episode on the Frank Capra classic (1944) "Arsenic and Old Lace" • Year: 1944 (shot late 1941; broad release held until 1944) • Runtime: 118 minutes; Studio: Warner Bros. • Director: Frank Capra; Writers: Julius & PhilipEpstein (from Joseph Kesselring’s play) • Music: Max Steiner; Cinematography: Sol Polito; Editing:Daniel Mandell • Release: New Yor...