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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
  • Encore! - Extra Bits: Edith Head
    Aug 9 2025

    Encore! Encore! - This summer we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes. This time its a minisode! Lets take another look at one of, if not the most ledgendary costume designer in cinema history, Edith Head!

    By the end of her Golden-Age spanning career, she made her mark on the fabrics of over 400 Hollywood films and dressed some of the biggest American stars of the past century. Receiving a record 35 Oscar nominations for Best Costume Design and 8 winning a record 8 times, she most awarded and most nominated woman in the Academy's history. We are, of course, referring to Edith Head, likely the most prolific costume designer Hollywood has ever seen!

    To find out more about this and past episodes' movies, including trivia and other fun facts, visit the official Cinema Sounds & Secrets website.

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    14 mins
  • Tribute 71: Ennio Morricone
    Aug 5 2025

    Welcome to another Cinema Sounds & Secrets Tribute Episode! This week, Janet, John, (and Pen) dive into the life and career of an incredible composer who wrote his first compositions when he was just six years old! A five-time Oscar nominee and a two-time winner, its none other then the ledgendary Ennio Morricone! Born in Rome, Italy on November 10th, 1928, his father, a trumpet player himself taught Ennio to read music and how to play many instruments. It was in his childhood he met his future collaborator and ledgendary director and pioneer of the Spagetti Western, Sergio Leone. During the 50s and early 60s, Morriconne composed songs for Italian and international jazz and pop stars, selling millions of copies of his music worldwide, eventually finding his way composing music for film, with his breakout film being released in 1964, Fistful of Dollars. Morricone would go on to score countless of films in the western genre and beyond, composing more than 400 across his entire career. The last notable project he worked on was with another iconic director, Quentin Tarantino, for the film, The Hateful Eight. Some of Ennio Morricone's most notable scores include, Fistfull of Dollars (1964), The Good The Bad And The Ugly (1966), Days of Heaven (1978), The Mission (1986), Untouchables (1987), and The Hateful Eight (2015).

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

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    28 mins
  • Encore! - Episode 12: Turning Back Time
    Jul 26 2025

    Encore! Encore! - This summer we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes. Contining with some more rootin tootin escapades in the Wild West, lets take another look at two films rich some of the most ledgendary filmmaker's and talent to grace the genre, Stagecoach (1939) and Ragtime (1981)!

    A classic, beloved Western from 1939 - the watershed greatest year of cinema almost didn’t happen. At the time, everyone thought the Western was dead, except John Ford – he was right, they were wrong. The other film featured one of the greatest acting legends of Hollywood in his last and rivetting film role in 1981 as a tyrannical turn of the century police commissioner – this actor starred in his first hit role in films in 1939 in a classic gangster drama – any ideas?! …while not a commissioner my producer extraordinaire and wingman, actor and cinephile, John, Schwab polices this show with j’nai sais quoi so... Let’s go to the movies!

    To find out more about this and past episodes' movies, including trivia and other fun facts, visit the official Cinema Sounds & Secrets website.

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    44 mins
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