{"podcast":{"title":"From Beneath the Hollywood Sign","slug":"from-beneath-the-hollywood-sign-6629956","podcast_index_feed_id":6629956,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ARML5770995891","website_url":"https://www.frombeneaththehollywoodsign.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/10e7cc5a-46c3-11ee-9532-57e3a37083c3/image/FBTHS_LOGO__3000___3000_px_.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Steve Cubine & Nan McNamara","episode_count":145,"summary":"If the Golden era of Old Hollywood is your thing, our podcast is for you! If you want TYRONE POWER instead of TOM HARDY, JENNIFER JONES instead of JENNIFER LAWRENCE, or ROBERT MITCHUM rather than ROBERT PATTINSON, then FROM BENEATH THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN is the gin joint for you. Each week, writer and producer STEVE CUBINE and actress and writer NAN MCNAMARA explore, discuss, and dissect the magical, mysterious, amusing, and sometimes bizarre tales of Old Hollywood. So sit back and revisit a time when the pictures were still big and everyone was ready for their close-up.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-15T10:17:41.659308+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/from-beneath-the-hollywood-sign-6629956"},"episode":{"title":"“LUCILLE BREMER: CLASSIC CINEMA STAR OF THE MONTH” - 6/01/2026 (142)","slug":"lucille-bremer-classic-cinema-star-of-the-month-6-01-2026-142","published_at":"2026-06-01T04:05:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/from-beneath-the-hollywood-sign-6629956/lucille-bremer-classic-cinema-star-of-the-month-6-01-2026-142","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/from-beneath-the-hollywood-sign-6629956","url":"https://frombeneaththehollywoodsign.com","audio_url":"https://tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/mgln.ai/e/211/traffic.megaphone.fm/ARML2415636933.mp3","summary":"EPISODE 142 - “LUCILLE BREMER: CLASSIC CINEMA STAR OF THE MONTH” - 6/01/2026 One of those fascinating “what happened to her?” MGM stories is LUCILLE BREMER. Bremer was an elegant redheaded dancer who MGM clearly thought was going to be their next big musical star after ELEANOR POWELL had stepped away. She had the glamour, the dancing ability, the carriage… she looked like she belonged in Technicolor. However, her career lasted only a few short years, and during that time, she worked with visionary talents like VINCENTE MINNELLI and ARTHUR FREED. She danced with FRED ASTAIRE at the absolute height of his artistry. She appeared in Technicolor spectacles that later generations would rediscover and celebrate. She shone so brightly in films during the 1940s, but then, like a shooting star in the night sky, she just vanished. So just what happened to this talented actress? We’ll find out as we honor LUCILLE BREMER as our June Star of the Month. SHOW NOTES: Sources: “Actress Lucille Bremer: From Broadway Lights to La Jolla Shores,” January 17, 2025, by Debbie L. Sklar, Times of San Diego; Lucille Bremer, 79, Actress and Dancer, April 20, 1996, New York Times; “Actress Lucille Bremer Marries,” August 5, 1948, The Spokesman-Review; Life Magazine, March 25, 1946; “Flight of a ‘Rocket’,” January 7, 1945, Albuquerque Journal; Wikipedia.com TCM.com; IMDBPro.com; Movies Mentioned: Penny Arcade (1942), starring Lucille Bremer & Peter Garey; This Love of Mine (1944), starring Cyd Charisse & Lucille Bremer; Meet Me In St, Louis (1944), starring Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor, Leon Ames, Lucille Bremer, Marjorie Main, & Tom Drake; Yolanda and the Thief (1945), starring Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, Mildred Natwick & Leon Ames; Ziegfeld Follies (1945), starring…","meta_description":"EPISODE 142 - “LUCILLE BREMER: CLASSIC CINEMA STAR OF THE MONTH” - 6/01/2026 One of those fascinating “what happened to her?” MGM stories is LUCILLE BREME…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2073,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/from-beneath-the-hollywood-sign-6629956/episodes/lucille-bremer-classic-cinema-star-of-the-month-6-01-2026-142/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/from-beneath-the-hollywood-sign-6629956/lucille-bremer-classic-cinema-star-of-the-month-6-01-2026-142.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}