Happily Wedded weirdos

12/17/2023

We don’t want to keep doing half assed work and having bad sound. Once we are able to address these issues and have a more organized schedule we will be back. See you in the new year!

11/17/2023

Raymond Wallace Bolger was born at 598 Second St., South Boston, Massachusetts, into a first generation Irish catholic family, y’know, the fun kind. He got his start in vaudeville shows performing tap with an act called"Sanford & Bolger" with his dance partner. Being tall as s**t and gangly as f**k, he was an ideal performer for many leading roles on Broadway in the 1930s. He signed his first cinema contract with MGM in 1936, and even played HIMSELF inThe Great Ziegfeld (1936) and pre wizard of oz appeared in Sweethearts (1938), the first MGM film in Technicolor. Even though his contract stated he had to play any part the studio chose, he was not having it with the Tin man role. The original scarecrow was Buddy Ebsen who then swapped with Ray. We’ll get to that role later. After the Wizard of Oz, Ray went to
RKO Pictures. On December 7, 1941, s**t got real and Bolger toured in USO shows in the Pacific Theater. Post WW2, he had his own sitcom on ABC, Where's Raymond? (1953–1954), renamed the second year as The Ray Bolger Show (1954–55). He then appeared in Walt Disney's remake of Babes in Toyland (1961) and smaller cameos throughout the 1960s and 1970. His last television appearance was on Diff'rent Strokes and even danced in a Dr Pepper television commercial. 1985, he and Liza Minnelli, the daughter of his Oz costar Judy Garland, starred in That's Dancing!, a film written by Jack Haley, Jr., the son of Jack Haley, who portrayed the Tin Woodman in The Wizard of Oz, which is so wholesome. Bolger was married to Gwendolyn Rickard for 57 years and They had no children, but he had like a dozen nieces and nephews. In 1986, Ray was diagnosed with bladder cancer. He died on January 15, 1987, five days after his 83rd birthday.At the time of his death, Bolger was the last surviving main credited cast member of The Wizard of Oz and the only one of her Oz costars who attended Judy Garland's funeral.

11/16/2023

Margaret Brainard Hamilton. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 9th, 1902. Like most parents of talented children, hers insisted she attend Wheelock College in Boston, which she did, becoming a kindergarten teacher. Hamilton made her debut on her 27th birthday in the Charles S. Brooks Theater at the Cleveland Play House. Hamilton married Paul Boynton Meserve on June 13, 1931, They had one son, Hamilton Wadsworth Meserve. Hamilton made her screen debut in the MGM film Another Language (1933). As her acting career picked up, the couple divorced in 1938. So f**k him. She went on to raise her son as a single mother and working actress. she never put herself under contract to any one studio, which was extremely risky at the time and priced her services at $1,000 ($20,400 with inflation a week. In describing her iconic casting Hamilton said: “my agent called. I said, 'Yes?' and he said 'Maggie, they want you to play a part on the Wizard.' I said to myself, 'Oh, boy, The Wizard of Oz! That has been my favorite book since I was four.' And I asked him what part, and he said, 'The Witch', and I said, 'The Witch?!' and he said, 'What else?”. She became so iconic for the role it was referenced in almost all of her later work. She worried that children would think save was really like that. She appeared on an episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in 1975 where she explained to children she was only playing a role and showed how putting on a costume "transformed" her into the witch. And I’m not crying, you are.
Hamilton had three grandchildren, Christopher, Scott, and Margaret. Hamilton never remarried, which is sad because she’s a f**king catch. Always having a passion for education She served on the Beverly Hills Board of Education from 1948 to 1951 and was a Sunday school teacher during the 1950s. Hamilton lived in Manhattan for most of her adult life, and later moved to Millbrook, New York. Sadly she developed Alzheimer's disease and died in her sleep following a heart attack on May 16, 1985, in Salisbury, Connecticut, at the age of 82.

11/14/2023

This is our longest episode ever! But for good reason; it’s the best movie ever made (in Jubie’s opinion) listen for some fun trivia, recapping our childhood memories and why the magic of Oz still holds up

11/14/2023

This is our longest episode ever! But for good reason; it’s the best movie ever made (in Jubie’s opinion) listen for some fun trivia, recapping our childhood memories and why the magic of Oz still holds up

This is our longest episode ever! But for good reason; it’s the best movie ever made (in Jubie’s opinion) listen for some fun trivia, recapping our childhood memories and why the magic of Oz still holds up

11/05/2023

We finally saw and it was amazing! Definitely worth seeing if you can, the cast was great, is everything. Ian Shaw really brings his father back to life and was such a chill chief , loved the beats and delivery. As a Jaws fan, it was amazing

11/02/2023

I can support this

11/01/2023

Happy Halloween !

10/30/2023

Inspired

10/30/2023

This week’s movie stars one of the best classic actors of our time; Charles Laughton. Born on 1 July 1899 in Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire. His parents were hotel owners who were able to send him to private schools. He became a drama student at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1925, where actor and later universal monsters The Invisible man’s and Phantom of the opera, Claude Rains was one of his teachers. Laughton made his first professional appearance in 1926 as Osip in the comedy The Government Inspector. In 1931, He made his United States debut at the Lyceum Theatre in New York.
Laughton commenced his film career in Great Britain while still acting on the London stage. While in theatre he met his wife Elsa Lancaster best known for her iconic performance as The bride of Frankenstein. Laughton’s first Hollywood film, The Old Dark House (1932) also starred horror icon Boris Karloff.
He starred in several films in the 1930’s but ultimately these films were not commercially successful enough until RKO Pictures offered Laughton the title role (Quasimodo) in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), a remake of the Classic Hunchback made by Lon Chaney in 1923. Laughton received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for his role in Witness for the Prosecution (1957). He was known later after his death, to be bisexual, he spent his life married to Lancaster but was rumored to have feelings for Tyrone Power. In 1962 Laughton checked in to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital saying he had a uptured disc. During surgery it was discovered he had cancer of the spine. He checked into the hospital in July, left at the end of November and slipped into a coma before dying on December 15, 1962 from renal cancer & bladder cancer. #

10/28/2023

New episode is out!

Ever wonder what would happen if you crossed animals and people? Because it’s never good. Come listen to our thoughts on the H.G Wells adaptation of yet another mad scientist who goes too far with his creations

10/27/2023

My god….

10/26/2023

🐺Meet the Monsters🐺

The Wolf Man is a 1941 Universal Pictures film starring Lon Chaney Jr. as the tragic Larry Talbot and Bela Lugosi (who has appeared in all three monster films!) as the cursed Gypsy Bela who bites Chaney. The film is the second Universal Pictures werewolf film, preceded six years earlier by the less commercially successful Werewolf of London (1935). The Star Creighton Tull Chaney was born on February 10, 1906, in Oklahoma City, the son of one of the most famous silent film stars,Lon Chaney who portrayed the first universal “monster” Quasimodo in the 1923 version of The Hunchback of Norte Dame. His parents' troubled marriage ended in divorce in 1913 following his mother's scandalous public su***de attempt. His father discouraged him from show business, so he went to college, got married and had kids. His draw to the screen came when Chaney Sr was diagnosed with throat cancer and died on August 26, 1930, at the age of 47. Lon did not undergo an on-screen facial transformation from man to wolf in the original film, as featured in all sequels. The lap-dissolve progressive makeups were seen only in the final ten minutes and were presented discreetly. He was made up using a rubber nose, grease paint and yak hair. The Wolf Man is one of three top-tier Universal Studios monsters that was not based on an existing book. The others are The Mummy and the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
The Wolf Man was also featured on a 1997 series of United States postage stamps depicting movie monsters (his father appeared as the Phantom of the Opera, while Bela Lugosi appeared as Dracula, and Boris Karloff had two stamps as Frankenstein's monster and the original Mummy).

10/25/2023

🧟‍♂️ Meet the Minsters: Frankenstein 🧟‍♂️
Frankenstein stars Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein the archetype of the “mad scientist”. By gathering dead bodies and combining them with an abnormal brain he creates the Monster portrayed by Boris Karloff, Who would go on to appear as another universal monster The Mummy. Karloff would also appear in several films alongside Bela Lugosi. The iconic make up look for the monster was provided by legendary make up artist Jack Pierce who also created the make ups for The Mummy and The Wolfman.
In 1930, Universal Studios had lost $2.2 million in revenues. They were desperate for a hit and they got one; Within 48 hours of its opening at New York's Roxy Theatre on February 12, 1931, Dracula starring Bela Lugosi had sold 50,000 tickets, and made $700,000 profit, the largest of Universal's 1931 releases. Carl Laemmle Jr. Who was the head of universal announced immediate plans for more horror films. Thus the universal monsters were born. They purchased the film rights to John L. Balderston's planned stage adaptation of Peggy Webling's British stage adaptation of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's original novel.
While Lugosi wanted very badly to play the lead role of Henry Frankenstein, he was already typecasted and Laemmle wanted him for the monster who was a completely different character. However Dwight Frye who was Dracula’s demented servant Renfield, would now become Fritz, Frankensteins assistant who was the archetype for the “hunchback creepy assistant”. The film opened in New York City at the Mayfair Theatre on December 4, 1931, and grossed $53,000 in one week. Due to its success there were several sequels, one of them Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man Would have Lugosi play Frankenstein's Monster. To this day Frankenstein is still one of the most iconic and well know films that has influenced so much of the horror genre as well as some of the Science Fiction genre.

10/24/2023

Well s**t

10/24/2023

🧛Meet the monsters🧛‍♀️
First up a little bit about Dracula.
Dracula is a 1931 pre-Code supernatural directed and co-produced by Tod Browning, who also made the tragic classic movie Freaks. Originally released as a 1924 stage play Dracula by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, the story was adapted from the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Bela Lugosi portrays Count Dracula, an aristocratic vampire who preys upon the blood of living victims.

The film was originally intended for Conrad Veidt, who had just appeared in Universal's The Man Who Laughs (1928). However Veidt returned to Germany. Universal then looked to Lon Chaney, star of the studio's The Phantom of the Opera (1925). Sadly his sudden death occurred shortly after his only “talkie” The Unholy Three. Bela Lugosi had played the role on Broadway, and was in Los Angeles with a touring company of the play when the film was being cast. Lugosi was determined to be castes and agreed to the small, even for that time, price of $500 per week salary for seven weeks of work, amounting to $3,500.

Lugosi was buried wearing one of the "Dracula" capes and his full costume as well as his Dracula ring in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Contrary to popular belief, Lugosi never requested to be buried in his cloak; Bela G. Lugosi confirmed on numerous occasions that he and his mother, Lillian, made the decision but believed that it is what his father would have wanted.

10/23/2023

Join us for a monster mash straight outta the 40’s. The timeless duo meet up with the icons of the universal monster movies and set to create the most ambitious collaboration since the avengers

Join us for a monster mash straight outta the 40’s. The timeless duo meet up with the icons of the universal monster movies and set to create the most ambitious collaboration since the avengers

10/19/2023

Some other versions of the beloved classic In 1908, a film was made Produced by Kalem Films, Directed by Sidney Olcott, and starring Frank Oakes Rose in the lead role. 1910, The Duality of Man was released directed by Harry Brodribb Irving. 1912, the Thanhouser Company produced a film based on their adaptation of the play Starring James Cruze and Florence Labadie. Prior to the film existence of Universal Studios Universal Film Manufacturing Company distributed an adaptation in 1913. In 1920, the Famous silent film version, starring John Barrymore was release with with elements from The Picture of Dorian Gray. In 1931, Fredric March was the first actor to win an Oscar for a horror movie for his incredible portrayal of the tragic Doctor. The 1931 film was so well received they did a remake in 1941, starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, and Lana Turner.By 1960, House of Fright and Jekyll's Inferno was released with more lurid images and explicit scenes of snakes, o***m dens, r**e and murder. In 2002, Director Maurice Phillips filmed an adaptation starring The Mummy’s John Hannah. 2007, the singular Jekyll, starring Matt Keeslar, Jonathan Silverman, Alanna Ubach, and directed by Scott Zakarin was release with some modern twists. Most recently in 2021, another UK based adaptation was made starring Michael McKell, and directed by Steve Lawson. This year a new take has been released. Simply titled Doctor Jekyll, starring Eddie Izzard, and directed by Joe Stephenson.