Ep. 178: The Two C(a)esars: A Chat with Samuel Garza Bernstein About LGBTQIA+ in Golden Age Hollywood

This week Zach is joined by author & screenwriter Samuel Garza Bernstein to chat about the subject of LGBTQIA+ creatives in the Golden Age of Hollywood and the impact of two of his subject, Roddy McDowell & Cesar Romero.

 

Join them as the two talk at length about the importance of these stories being brought to the front, how actors and directors navigated their sexual preference in in thee Old Hollywood system, how the content of film managed queer coded material before the production code, and finally shoot the breeze with candid chat about film from the credits of Romero and Roddy.


 

Be sure to pick up Sam’s two books discussed in today’s episode!

 

Cesar Romero: The Joker is Wild- https://a.co/d/07bgFnPl

Roddy McDowell: An Actors Life- https://a.co/d/062q36Vr

 

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