You can put the blame on Mame, boys, because the 7th season of “The Online Movie Show with Phil Hall” has launched with a celebration of the ultimate Love Goddess, the one and only Rita Hayworth. Actor-writer Joe Mannetti returns as the guest for this season premiere episode.
Heads up: the sixth season of “The Online Movie Show,” hosted by Cinema Crazed’s Phil Hall, has come to a close and it will be on hiatus until the fall.
If you missed any of this season’s episodes – or the episodes of seasons that came before it – all 187 episodes can be found here.
For this final episode of the sixth season of “The Online Movie Show” pays tribute to the Oscar-winning force of energy Susan Hayward. Actor-writer Joe Mannetti returns to offer his insight on Hayward’s rise to glory and her big screen triumphs.
BOOTLEG FILES 803: “Stick Around” (1977 TV pilot starring Andy Kaufman).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: Mostly likely due to rights clearance issues.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Probably not.
During the mid-1970s, Andy Kaufman began to percolate across television in a number of guest appearances on popular programs ranging from Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” to “The Midnight Special” to the premiere episode of “Saturday Night Live.” He was also a regular on Dick Van Dyke’s short-lived 1976 variety show “Van Dyke and Company,” where he used his Foreign Man persona for a running gag of coming out in the middle of a skit and interrupting it with sincere bafflement over what was transpiring on-stage.
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On this episode of “The Online Movie Show,” film historian Geno Cuddy takes a look at the strange Hollywood career of Howard Hughes-backed actress Faith Domergue.
On this episode of “The Online Movie Show,” the challenges of bringing Broadway musicals to the movie screen are explored by Michael B. Druxman, author of “The Musical: From Broadway to Hollywood,” published by BearManor Media.
In celebration of the 75th anniversary year of the teaming of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (and conversely, the 65th anniversary of their split), this episode of “The Online Movie Show” takes a look at how the zany comedy duo became overnight sensations. Richard S. Greene, author of “Marketing Mayhem!: Selling Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis to Post-War America,” is the episode’s guest.