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Cinema Sounds & Secrets

Janet Dulin Jones

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,

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10:12

Encore! - Extra Bits: Jack Lemmon & the 1963 Oscars

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/08/31

Encore! Encore! - This summer we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes. Welcome to another minisode! Inspiration for today's minisode comes from... Jack Lemmon! He starred in over sixty films and was nominated for an Academy Award eight times, winning twice, and received many other accolades. Check out our website at cinemasoundsandsecrets.com!

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0:25

Brian Cox Loves Movies and Cinema Sounds & Secrets!

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/08/31

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13:40

Encore! - Extra Bits: Edith Head

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/08/09

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

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27:51

Tribute 71: Ennio Morricone

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/08/05

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

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44:13

Encore! - Episode 12: Turning Back Time

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/07/26

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

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0:35

Summer Fun!

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/07/18

Janet, John, and Pendleton are on summer break! We’re playing some of our favorite episodes, tributes, and extra bits (because we love those extra bits), for your enjoyment. Encore! Encore!

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31:19

Encore! - Episode 4: The Best of The West

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/07/18

Encore! Encore! - This summer we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes. What better way to escape the heat than watching cowboy gunfights across desert expanses! Join us for Episode 4: "The Best of the West" Redford and Newman, nowdays those names go together like Damon and Affleck, but there was a time, not so long ago when the first real Bromance team almost didn’t happen… and did you know one of the iconic American Westerns was directed by an Italian auteur? Get ready for some gun-slinging

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0:35

Summer Fun!

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/07/14

Janet, John, and Pendleton are on summer break! We’re playing some of our favorite episodes, tributes, and extra bits (because we love those extra bits), for your enjoyment. Encore! Encore!

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36:40

Encore! - Episode 1: The Singing Sixties & The Super...

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/07/14

Encore! In Honor of James Gunn's newly released Superman (2025), we're revisiting the FIRST episode of Cinema Sounds & Secrets! Westside Story (1962) and Superman (1978) Our first film was a groundbreaking musical based on a smash Broadway show, and the other a movie from a very different planet – so what do they have in common? Both films are the best of their genre – the film musical and comic book superhero and both films brim with star power. To learn more about this episode and others, visit

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26:26

Tribute 70: Robert Morse

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/07/04

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

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42:15

Tribute 69: Gene Hackman

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/06/27

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

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29:08

Encore! - Tribute 43: Tom Wilkinson

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/06/20

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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Encore! - Saturday Matinee With Brian Cox

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/06/13

Encore! Today we're revisiting an episode with cinephile and massively brilliant actor Brian Cox, who joins Janet, John, (and Pen) for a deep dive into the most iconic gangster films that created the genre. To learn more about this episode and others, visit the official Cinema Sounds & Secrets website!

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43:45

Encore! - Episode 5: Yellow Brick Roads & Ruby Slippers

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/06/07

Encore! Today we're revisiting a beloved and iconic film that took three directors and an army of screenwriters (18!) to get Dorothy to Oz. You’ll even find out how many pairs of ruby slippers still exist… To learn more about this episode and others, visit the official Cinema Sounds & Secrets website!

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01:16:05

Episode 31: Move It Like You Mean It

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/05/30

Damn Yankees (1958), Oklahoma (1955), and Chicago (2002). This week, Janet, John, (and Pen) explore three groundbreaking Broadway musicals to movies with a song in their hearts; One gave birth to the modern musical, another launched the greatest choreographer ever into the stratosphere and the other is the longest running musical ever on Broadway! To learn more about this episode and others, visit the official Cinema Sounds & Secrets website!

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32:08

Encore! - Tribute 45: Norman Lear

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/05/23

Encore! Today we're revisiting our tribute episode for Norman Lear– a truly incredible screenwriter and producer who created or developed over 100 shows including All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, and Good Times.

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02:12

Hollywood Loves An Encore - Gene Kelly Style!

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/05/23

He's always singin' and dancing... in the rain!

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55:02

Saturday Matinee With David Madden

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/05/16

Welcome to another Saturday Matinee With Friends episode! This week Janet, John, (and Pen) sit down for a discussion with American media executive David Madden! After graduating from Harvard, Madden took part in theater before exploring the film industry and eventually becoming president of Fox Television Studios and executive at Paramount Pictures. A few of his legendary production credits include Runaway Bride (1999), The Shield (2002), Something the Lord Made (2004), The Shield (2002), The

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33:22

Tribute 68: Roger Corman

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/05/09

Welcome to another Cinema Sounds & Secrets Tribute episode! This week Janet, John, (and Pen) discuss the life and career of an incredible American film director, producer, and actor. Once called “The Pope of Pop Cinema” and “The King of Cult” this massive talent also assisted in jumpstarting many careers of the actors and directors we know and love… It's Roger Corman! While he was an innovator and pioneer in the world of independent film, Corman actually studied engineering at Stanford before

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50:15

Tribute 67: David Lynch

Cinema Sounds & Secrets ·

2025/05/02

In this week's tribute, Janet, John, (and Pen) celebrate the life and career of a truly legendary artist, director, and filmmaker. He turned suburbia, teen angst, and small town life into objects of horror, admiration, and pity. Genius, artist, and madman… It’s David Lynch! While Lynch had little interest in schoolwork growing up, a love for painting brought him to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He would later shock the movie business with a student film in response to the madness

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