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Cinema Sounds & Secrets

Cinema Sounds & Secrets

By: Janet Dulin Jones
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Hosted by screenwriter Janet Dulin Jones and actor John Schwab, this podcast takes you on an exciting & revealing journey through the great films of over 118 years of cinema with stories, fun facts, celebrity interviews, memorable film scenes, quotes, and classic songs. We’ll pull back the curtain to reveal behind-the-scenes secrets and stories on how the best movies came to be – comedies, dramas, thrillers, mysteries, action movies, silent movies, animation, musicals, romances, bromances, grimances – you name it – we’ll talk about it. You’ll hear fantastic trivia about your favorite movies and learn about great films from the 20th and 21st centuries you’ve never seen – but will see after hearing our podcast. Subscribe to Cinema Sounds & Secrets and learn everything you ever wanted to know about movies but had no one to ask!Janet Dulin Jones Art Entertainment & Performing Arts
Episodes
  • Tribute 70: Robert Morse
    Jul 4 2025
    Welcome to another Cinema Sounds & Secrets Tribute Episode! This week, Janet, John, (and Pen) dive into the life and career of an incredible actor that was still singing and dancing at 90! With that gap-tooth grin and nervous bundle of energy, appearing on screen and stage alike, it is none other than Robert Morse! Born in Newton Massachusetts, he developing an interest in stage perfomance in high school, and later joined his brother to study acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. At first all he receiveed was uncredited roles, but eventually landing on Broadway as Barnaby Tucker in The Matchmaker launching him into spotlight! Morse's work has never been less than interesting, ranging from a ever-amitious business man in a hit musical to the one man play as the eccentric Truman Capote. This extraordinary two-time tony and emmy award winner starred in a plethora of theatrical and cinematic works, such as The Matchmaker (1958), The Loved One (1965), How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (1967), Sugar (1972), Tru (1989), and Mad Men (2007-15).

    To learn more about this episode and others, visit the official Cinema Sounds & Secrets website!

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    26 mins
  • Tribute 69: Gene Hackman
    Jun 27 2025

    In our latest tribute, Janet, John, (and Pen) celebrate the life and career of a revered American actor whose career spanned over four decades... Gene Hackman! After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, he decided to prove his teachers wrong and move to New York City to become an actor, eventaully getting his breakthrough role in Bonnie and Clyde (1967). From playing a rough NYPD detective to Superman's arch nemisis, Hackman did it all, with over eighty screen credits to his name! An acting titan of 1970s and 80s Hollywood, the two-time academy award and four-time Golden Globes winner starred in numerous classics such as Bonnie and Clyde (1967), I Never Sang for My Father (1970), The French Connection (1971), Superman films (1978–1987), Hoosiers (1986), Unforgiven (1992), The Royal Tenenbaums (1994), and more up until his final film role in Welcome to Mooseport (2004), after which he retired from acting, occasionally narrating documentaries until 2017.

    To learn more about this episode and others, visit the official Cinema Sounds & Secrets website!

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    42 mins
  • Encore! - Tribute 43: Tom Wilkinson
    Jun 20 2025

    Encore! To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Batman Begins, today we're revisiting a tribute for the incredibly versatile actor who could play a bad baddie to Christian Bale's first Batman and do the Full Monty with Robert Carlyle... it's Tom Wilkinson!

    To learn more about this episode and others, visit the official Cinema Sounds & Secrets website!

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    29 mins
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