Cinema Sounds & Secrets
Hosted by Janet and John and Pen · Janet Dulin Jones
4.9from 53 ratings
- 251
- Episodes
- 3
- Transcribed
- 53
- Ratings
- 2022
- First episode
- 11K
- YouTube views
About Cinema Sounds & Secrets
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!
- Publisher
- Janet Dulin Jones
- Category
- arts · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Apr 2022
- Latest episode
- 3 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
3 of 251 episodes have a transcript.
3 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 41: The Irishman of Irishmen!
29 May 2026
Tribute 83: Norman Jewison
8 May 2026
Tribute 82: Tom Stoppard
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Episode 41: The Irishman of Irishmen!
Published 3 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Who we've talked about before on the show. Because he did like every Broadway musical, No Man to Man, and lived 107. Right, as you do. I had something. So he got in with George Abbott. He's a lizard man. And by the time he was 31, he was in a show called Penny Arcade with Joan Blondel. And Al Jolson saw it. No, the jazz singer. The man in the first ever sound movie. Right. The jazz singer in 1927. And he bought the rights to the play. And he then sold it to Warner Brothers with the stipulation that Jimmy Cagney and Joan Blondel had to be in it. No way. And it was retitled Sinner's Holiday. And it was released in 1930. […]
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- Brian Cox
- Mike Newell
- John Schwab
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- YouTube views
- 10,737
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 32 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 21 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100
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- Quality
- 97
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 72
- Engagement
- 77
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Janet and John and Pen host the show. Published by Janet Dulin Jones.
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