Escapades Through the Dream Factory

Ephemera 22: Gold Diggers of 1933

It's our second anniversary show! And what a show it is. After Take Me Out to the Ball Game, we decided we needed to take a little break from MGM in the forties, so we turned our eyes to Warner Brothers in the 1930s. Vive la différence! We've got sex! We've got frank discussions of poverty! We have explicitly Jewish characters! New, new, new! Of course, we do have plenty of old involved, Busby Berkeley, Guy Kibbee, Harry Warren, all our friends from our journeys together, but in fresh contexts, with plenty of surprises along the way! Anyway, this is literally one of the best considered, most important musicals ever made, so it just made sense to save it for our big occasion. Gold Diggers. It's really, really good.

Episode 23.2: Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Welcome to our triumphant return to a movie that is...less than triumphant. It's 1949's Take Me Out to the Ball Game, a successful film that most people involved would rather forget. However, there's still interesting stuff here! We have Busby Berkeley's last credited directorial effort. We have what might be Frank Sinatra's queerest performance. We even have Esther Williams! Sort of. Less so than you'd think. We have all of that, and we're only one podcast. Texts Referenced: The World of Entertainment by Hugh Fordin Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Times of Louie B Mayer by Scott Eyman Gene Kelly: The Making of a Creative Legend by Earl J Hess and Pratibha A Dabholkar He's Got Rhythm: The Life and Career of Gene Kelly by Cynthia Brideson and Sara Brideson Buzz: the Life and Art of Busby Berkeley by Jeffery Spivak Dancing On The Ceiling: Stanley Donen and His Movies by Stephen M Silverman They Made Us Happy: Betty Comden & Adolph Green's Musicals and Movies by Andy Propst Baseball: The Early Years by Harold Seymour and Dorothy Seymour Mills Frank: The Voice by James Kaplan The Million Dollar Mermaid: An Autobiography by Esther Williams and Digby Diehl Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @adreamescapade Write us a letter: adreamescapade@gmail.com Intro theme performed by Journeyman John Baker (@pos1)

Episode 23.1: Take Me Out to the Ball Game

And we're back! Join Harry and Angela for our most sports centric episode ever. That being said, if you know anything about sports, maybe don't listen, because we are officially clueless in this particular field. Or maybe scratch that. Maybe the entertainment is in watching us fumble about in the dark about America's past time. Despite all that, come for the comradery and fellow feeling, stay for the random screaming of Angela's new cat. We got rid of most of it, but there's still cat in there!

Intermission

Just a brief note, due to scheduling issues, there won't be a new episode this week. Come back in two weeks for our next full episode on Take Me Out to the Ball Game.

Ephemera 21: Mickey and Judy's Last Ride (with Michael Moseley)

We've finally reached it, our final Mickey and Judy episode, examining one of the great artifacts of the television era, the first episode of the Judy Garland Show, with special guest, Mickey Rooney. In order to talk about this one last meeting of the masters, we've brought back our own very special guest, that's right, it's the return of people's favorite, Michael Edward Moseley. Please, join us as we appreciate our favorites giving us what they did best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPaqeVM4zMo&t=2s Texts Referenced: The Other Side of the Rainbow With Judy Garland On the Dawn Patrol by Mel Torme Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @adreamescapade Write us a letter: adreamescapade@gmail.com Intro theme performed by Journeyman John Baker (@pos1)