Saturday Cinema

Another great listener request idea. Film scores from great serious and comic swashbuckling films. Zorro! The Sea Hawk, Captain Blood, The Crimson Pirate.

Saturday Cinema features music from the films of four great actresses -- Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren and Lauren Bacall -- with host Lynne Warfel.

Rarities from Max Steiner, one of the grand old men of Hollywood's Golden Age of film music, AND the soon-to-be 89 year old John Williams

Steve Seel is the guest host on a show looking back to the famous films people we lost over 2020.

Five year old Emma, from Annapolis, MD, suggested (through Dad) a program of some of the movies' biggest heroes. The usual superheroes, but also Norma Rae, Atticus finch and more. Way to go, Emma!

A look at a few of the best adaptations of the Dickens classic: Alastair Sim, Albert Finney, Michael Caine (and Kermit the Frog!), George C. Scott, Patrick Stewart.

A potpourri of holiday film favorites: Home Alone, Polar Express, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Man Who Invented Christmas and more.

The biggest portion of today's show is a huge suite from "It's a Wonderful Life". A reconstruction of what Dmitri Tiomkin originally intended, only to have most of his score on the cutting room floor.

The Hollywood holiday season begins on Saturday Cinema with some of the best, and lesser-known seasonal films. "Miracle on 34th Street" makes an appearance along with "The Bishop's Wife", "Nightmare Before Christmas" and at least one Grinch.

Artist/animator John Pomeroy discusses his career with Disney under the tutelage of "The Nine Old Men" of Disney animation. Also his time with Sullivan-Bluth Studios and the films he worked both places like, "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, Too", "The Rescuers", "The Fox and the Hound","Land Before Time", "An American Tail", "All Dogs Go to Heaven", ""Pocahontas" and "Fantasia 2000".