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The Dream Factory is a podcast about the sometimes magical, sometimes terrifying world of MGM studios during Hollywood's golden age. Join host Derek Lajeunesse and fellow movie fans as they reawaken the ghosts of MGM, deep diving into people and the films that defined an era of moviemaking.
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- Dec 22, 20251h 39m
The Dream Factory Christmas Show
Happy holidays everyone! To mark this special time of year I’m opening my home (just like Judy Garland did on TV in 1963) to some cherished podcast family and friends. Together we’ll discuss a few of the MGM classics that have become must-watches over the Christmas season. Conor from The Garland Gab is back with me to discuss a Judy Garland classic; my podcast mentors Tara and EmKay from Down the Yellow Brick Pod explore some Oz Christmas connections (and Kevin McCallister!); Christian ...
- Nov 30, 202543 min
Summer Stock - Goodbye, MGM (Part 9)
Well folks, we’re reached the end of the season on The Dream Factory and it’s been trolley-fuls of fun speaking about my favourite topic: Judy Garland’s movies she made at MGM. We touched on two special movies from her canon and hopefully lifted the veil on the world that was the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie factory and its crazy ups and downs. To mark the end of Judy’s time at MGM, Nate and I talk about some of the movies that might have been for Judy while at the studio (Pride and Prejudice???...
- Nov 23, 202553 min
Summer Stock - Just Get Happy! (Part 8)
The penultimate episode of our Summer Stock deep dive is upon us and it’s been acres and acres of fun to have Nate as my guest host. This time we explore the unique sound of the MGM musical through some of its behind the scenes musical talent plus much more. Plot wise, it’s opening night of the show that’s taking over Jane’s barn and we talk about its musical numbers from the bouncy (All for You!) to the ridiculous (Heavenly Music ughhhh) to the sublime (Garland’s iconic Get Happy). What a mo...
- Nov 16, 20251h 4m
Summer Stock - The Smell of Greasepaint (Part 7)
Thank you for joining us on our tractor as we plow through the Gene Kelly/Judy Garland homage to the backyard musicals: MGM’s Summer Stock. As the plot chugs along, Nate and I really begin to feel the heat coming off the Judy-Gene screen pairing (are they REALLY kissing? Why the strange jump cut mid-kiss?) and we get to smell some greasepaint and do a little dancing on newspapers. Why is this movie so much fun??? And please check out the fantastic book "C'mon, GetHappy: The Making of Su...
- Nov 9, 20251h 3m
Summer Stock - The Portland Fancy (Part 6)
Every great movie musical has a big dance number at a party and MGM’s Summer Stock is no exception. Nate once again joins me as Judy and Gene turn a country square dance (“The Portland Fancy”) into a red hot number where they both tear up the barn floor! We start this episode with a “tour” of the musical production units that created the idea of the MGM Musical, giving the studio its most identifiable genre. We then dive into the lives of some child and character actors and some of the ...
- Oct 29, 202553 min
The Scream Factory - Mark of the Vampire (1935)
Happy Halloween! We interrupt our regularly scheduled Technicolored programming on the Dream Factory, sorry I mean the SCREAM FACTORY, for a seasonal change of pace. I travel back to MGM in 1935, a place of glitter and glamour but not many ghouls, to take a bite out of the horror film Mark of the Vampire. Hollywood was horror movie crazy at this time and MGM jumped on the bandwagon resulting in the atmospheric but messy Mark of the Vampire directed by the legendary Tod Browning. F...
- Oct 26, 20251h 0m
Summer Stock - Chores, Snores and Captain Hook (Part 5)
Nate and I put on our dungarees and help out on Judy Garland’s farm as we continue our exploration of the 1950 MGM musical Summer Stock! We’re about as much help as Gene Kelly’s theatre troupe with the farm chores but we do dig into the plot and more supporting characters in the film. We traverse the careers of MGM ingénue Gloria DeHaven, boy-next-door Carleton Carpenter and vocal technician Hans Conried, all of whom make up the stellar acting ensemble of Summer Stock. And please check out th...
- Oct 19, 202555 min
Summer Stock - Dig, Dig, Dig for your Dinner (Part 4)
Now that Judy Garland as Jane Falbury has her beloved tractor the plot of Summer Stock (1950) can really get cooking. Talented and studly Gene Kelly finally enters the picture and shakes up not only Falbury farm but Jane herself! Nate Hallett returns as my wonderful co-host as we venture back to stage 27 at MGM studios to talk about the leading man of Summer Stock, the incomparable Kelly. We also talk about Gene’s second wife who appears as a dancer in this movie- look for her in the white sh...
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The Dream Factory is a podcast about the sometimes magical, sometimes terrifying world of MGM studios during Hollywood's golden age. Join host Derek Lajeunesse and fellow movie fans as they reawaken the ghosts of MGM, deep diving into people and the films that defined an era of moviemaking.
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