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Forgotten Hollywood

Forgotten Hollywood

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Producer/Creator/Host Doug Hess takes you on a journey back in time and shares with you pieces. of Hollywood you may or may not have known about!Copyright JLJ Media Art
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  • Episode 469: Capra: A Life with Author Sam Wasson

    Episode 469: Capra: A Life with Author Sam Wasson
    Oct 15 2026
    From the author of the beloved Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye comes the definitive account of one of the quintessential American artists, Frank Capra, visionary behind the iconic and timeless It’s a Wonderful Life.Frank Capra, the director of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It Happened One Night, and, supremely, It’s a Wonderful Life remains one of the great chroniclers of the American heart, how we love, lead, dream, hope, and fight for our individuality. But Frank Capra was a more complex artist than is usually reckoned and a more complicated man than anyone knows. As his most famous collaborator Jimmy Stewart put it, “the best Frank Capra story is the story of his own life. It’s got more highs and lows than a roller coaster. It’s heartwarming. It’s kind of hard to believe, really. And it could only happen in America.”Like many great American stories, this story begins in Ellis Island where a penniless family of Sicilian immigrants arrives in 1903. Frank Capra’s life goes on to take in the explosive growth of Southern California and the film industry, the depths of the Depression, the enormity of the Second World War, and America’s uneasy post-war as an empire riven by a loss of unity. It is a life as shot through with both “moonbeams” and melancholy as that of his greatest creation, George Bailey. Capra is both the exemplar of American ideals, as in his truly vital work for Roosevelt’s war effort, and of American failings, as in his informing during the McCarthy period.This extraordinary book, making full use for the first time of Capra’s own archives, including deeply personal writings from his later years, has brought this seminal artist into urgent life. At the same time, in its epic richness, it offers a dazzling portrait of both a lost America and an enduring one.
    Doug Hess is the host.
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    29 mins
  • Episode 468- Bad Columbus Movies

    Episode 468- Bad Columbus Movies
    Oct 12 2026
    In honor of Columbus Day/Indiginous Peoples Day, James Lott Jr talks about two films that came out in 1992 that depicted Christopher C's journey to America. Included is some of the music from Vangelis for one of the films, 1492. (We do not own the rights)
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    5 mins
  • FH Mini Spotlight :Alan Ladd Jr

    FH Mini Spotlight :Alan Ladd Jr
    Oct 10 2026
    He won his Oscar in 1996 for Braveheart and died on March 2, 2022, at age 84. His daughter Amanda Ladd-Jones made the documentary Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies about his career. And more.....
    James Lott Jr is the host.
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    4 mins
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