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Welcome to From Beneath the Hollywood Sign.

If you love old movies, Hollywood history, or the golden age of filmmaking, you've come to the right place.

This is the podcast that talks about amazing stories of Tinseltown from another era and fascinating conversations with writer-producer Steve Kubine and actress writer Nan McNamara.

So Steve, did Ava Gardner and Howard Hughes have a good relationship?

Well, they did until he dislocated her jaw.

What?

Well, don't worry. She hit him back with an ashtray.

From beneath the Hollywood sign is the gin joint for you.

This newly mastered version of a universe of horrors is one of 12 series of the secret history

of Hollywood. New episodes are being written and created all the time. If you'd like full access to

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Just the sort of night to tell good goose-fleshy stories. Oh, right. You know I'd like to meet

one of these old castle ghosts that one hears about? Just for an interview.

Oh, what a story that'd make. I'd get a promotion on a scoop like that.

You joke about it, but strange things do happen.

Even in these days, mysterious things.

You know what I'm thinking of. Don't you, Mr. Von Heldorf?

I? Why? You know. The blue room. Why talk about that? It's Irene's birthday. What about the blue room? Nothing? Nothing at all. Just... Tommy means the blue cello in the castle here. The room that's been locked for 20 years. Didn't you know about it? Locked for 20 years? Have we a ghost in our midst?

You mean the Blue Room is haunted? Whole nonsense. There are no spooks. But what? Remember what

happened to Bluebeard's wife when she got too curious? Junior Lemley had begun work on 1933's

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