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).

Grab your trombone and head down Main Street with Robert Preston and Shirley Jones in 1962's "The Music Man."

Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore and Jimmy Stewart share a difficult life in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946)

Cook up some trouble with "Mildred Pierce" (1945). starring Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth and Eve Arden.

Hop aboard "Shanghai Express" (1932) with Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong and Werner Oland.

You don't need an umbrella for this month's episode. Just put on your dancing shoes for 1943's "Stormy Weather," starring Lena Horne and Bill Robinson and featuring dozens of African American performers.

Grab your moped and hit the streets for Rome with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in 1953's "Roman Holiday."

Buster Keaton and his train-driving skills go head-to-head with the enemy in 1926's "The General."

Everybody comes to Rick's in 1942's "Casablanca" starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart.

Spence Tracy and Katharine Hepburn pit the human brain against the machine in the 1957 comedy "Desk Set."

Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable hit the road to New York in 1934's "It Happened One Night" -- right before The Code went into effect.

In High Noon (1952) Gary Cooper's marshal takes on a criminal back in town for revenge, and Grace Kelly's Quaker wife helps define the moral questions of this movie.

There's singing, dancing and falling in love in the rain in the 1952 musical "Singin' in the Rain," starring Debbie Reynolds and Gene Kelly.

Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and Doris Nolan star in this 1938 comedy about love and work.

Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Bing Crosby, and Danny Kaye find love and snow in 1954's "White Christmas."

In Alfred Hitchcock's "Dial M For Murder" (1954) Grace Kelly and Ray Milland dial T for Thrilling.