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Marg, The Old Movie Lady
The Old Movie Lady Podcast
Starting in 1922, the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers released an annual list of the 13 young women they predicted would be the next big Hollywood stars... But who were these starlets? How were their images shaped by the media of the time? Just how right were the Wampas... and who the heck do they think they are, anyway? Delivered by Marg The Old Movie Lady, with her trademark sense of humour and research brought on by intense hyperfocus, this is The Old Movie Lady Podcast: The Wampas Frolic!
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5.0 stars from 11 ratings
I didn’t know how much I didn’t know
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“It’s a truism at this point that the 2020s mirror the 1920s, but this belies just how strange and alien those times were compared with now. I’ve watched a fair few silent films, but I never appreciated what it was to make them—or to be someone trying to make it in that world.
The Old Movie Lady...”Read full review »
breeeeen via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
08/16/23
Focused and funny!
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“An excellent look into a particular corner of old Hollywood history! Well researched, poignant, often funny, it’s a must-listen for fans of silent era cinema.
The podcast also paints a picture of a still-forming Hollywood and the culture that surrounded it. 1920’s America was rife with...”Read full review »
LeoMonListening via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
08/03/23
“A wonderful deep dive into one of the first lines of “manufactured starlets” in Hollywood, the WAMPAS episodes have been exceptionally well researched, including asterisks for points of documentary uncertainty, and in turns sweet, sad, and (relative to the time period) scandalous.
The host...”Read full review »
Raising Expectations via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
07/27/23
Recent Episodes
Published 03/26/24
Legend has it that when Jean Arthur walked out of Columbia Studios for the very last time, she shouted "I'm free! I'm free!" If it didn't happen that way, well, Jean had her own habit of stretching the truth so The Old Movie Lady thinks it's okay.
She was the unusual character with the quirky...
Published 01/30/24
All the plans are set for 1929's Annual Wampas Frolic and Ball, where the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers introduce the latest batch of Baby Stars to the world. The venue is booked, tickets are sold, what could go wrong? Find this out, and more including why Marg the Old Movie...
Published 01/23/24
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