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Introducing Hollywood in Color Mar 26, 2018

Hollywood in Color is a new podcast telling the stories of the stars usually left out of entertainment history — the people of color in front of and behind the camera who have been representing for over a century. Host Diana Martinez has a PhD in film and media studies and has written for Slate, The Atlantic, and Women in Hollywood.

Every season of Hollywood in Color focuses on a certain star or set of stars that have something in common — maybe they were rivals, maybe they were friends, or maybe their lives echo one another from disparate points in time. By looking closely at the careers of successful people of color in Hollywood we can learn more about the industry, and how that industry shapes the way we think about race and ethnicity today.

Season 1 begins April 17. New episodes every Tuesday.

Music used in this episode:

Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon

Cuban Sandwich by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring

Las Reinas of Los Angeles: The Beginning Apr 17, 2018

All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:

The Mexican Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (book) by Alan Knight

Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression (book) by Douglas Monroy

Dolores Del Río: Beauty in Light and Shade (book) by Linda B. Hall

The Invention of Dolores Del Río (book) by Joanne Herschfield

Dance and the Hollywood Latina (book) by Priscilla Ovalle

Lupe Vélez: The Life and Career of Hollywood's Mexican Spitfire (book) by Michelle Vogel

Lupe Vélez Before Hollywood: Mexico's First Iconic 'Modern Girl' (in the book Latin American Icons: Fame Across Borders) by Kristy Rawson

Lupe Vélez: Queen of the Bs (in the book From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture) by Rosa Linda Fregoso

Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):

Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)

As I Figure by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Dark Hallway by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

All the Answers by Lee Rosevere (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Aunt Tagonist by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Reacher (Instrumental) by Drae Slapz (marmosetmusic.com)

Laid Back Guitars by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Sonatina by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Friends, 2068 by Komiku (freemusicarchive.org) — Public Domain

Bad Ideas (clean) by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Malagueña by Ernesto Lecuona / performed by Claudia Schmitz (musopen.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Bumba Crossing by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring

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Las Reinas of Los Angeles: Dolores Makes it Big Apr 24, 2018

All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:

Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression (book) by Douglas Monroy

Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles (book) by William Deverell

Filming Pancho Villa: How Hollywood Shaped the Mexican Revolution (book) by Margarita de Orellana

Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age (book) by Laura Isabel Serna

Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles Before World War II (book) by Colin Gunckel

Southern California: An Island on the Land (book) by Carey McWilliams

Dolores Del Río: Beauty in Light and Shade (book) by Linda B. Hall

The Invention of Dolores Del Río (book) by Joanne Herschfield

Dance and the Hollywood Latina (book) by Priscilla Ovalle

From Hollywood and Back: Dolores Del Rio, A Transnational Star (article) by Ana M. Lopez

Spitfire: Lupe Velez and the Ambivalent Pleasures of Ethnic Masquerade (article) by Victoria Sturtevant

Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):

Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)

Bushwick Tarantella by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Get Ready by Komiku (freemusicarchive.org) — Public Domain

Cumbia Del Olvido (Instrumental) by Nicola Cruz (marmosetmusic.com)

Laendler in C Minor (Hess 68) by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

In the Lap by Drake Stafford (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Trio for Piano, Violin, and Viola by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Waltz (Tchaikovsky Op. 40) by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Tumult by Kai Engel (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Awkward Silences (version b) by Lee Rosevere (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Slow Heat by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Ramona (theme) performed by Dolores Del Rio (youtube.com)

Infados by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Forever Instrumenta (Instrumental) by Bonnie Montgomery (marmosetmusic.com)

Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring

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Las Reinas of Los Angeles: Lupe Finds Fame May 01, 2018

All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:

Lupe Velez: The Life and Career of Hollywood's Mexican Spitfire (book) by Michelle Vogel

A Trans-American Dream: Lupe Velez and the Performance of Transculturation (dissertation) by Kristy A. Rawson

Scandals of Classic Hollywood (book) by Anne Helen Petersen

Gary Cooper: An Intimate Biography (book) by Hector Arce

Dance and the Hollywood Latina (book) by Priscilla Ovalle

Spitfire: Lupe Velez and the Ambivalent Pleasures of Ethnic Masquerade (article) by Victoria Sturtevant

"You Don't Say That in English!": The Scandal of Lupe Velez (book chapter) by Henry Jenkins

All archival materials referenced were found on mediahistoryproject.org

Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):

Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)

Ghostpocalypse - 8 Epilog by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

No Frills Cumbia by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Anamalie by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Comic Plodding by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Modern Jazz Samba by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Relaxing Piano Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

In Your Arms by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Lift Motif by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Palios Karsilamas (Instrumental) by Ryan Francesconi (marmosetmusic.com)

Earnest by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring

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Las Reinas of Los Angeles: An Ominous Transition May 08, 2018

All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:

Dolores Del Rio: Beauty in Light and Shade (book) by Linda B Hall

Dance and the Hollywood Latina (book) by Priscilla Ovalle

The Invention of Dolores Del Rio (book) by Joanne Herschfield

Dolores Del Rio, the First “Latin Invasion,” and Hollywood’s Transition to Sound (article) by Mary Beltrán

Spitfire: Lupe Velez and the Ambivalent Pleasures of Ethnic Masquerade (article) by Victoria Sturtevant

"Cinema at its Source": Synchronizing Race and Sound in the Early Talkies (article) by Alice Maurice

All archival materials referenced were found on mediahistoryproject.org

Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):

Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)

Excerpts from The Jazz Singer (youtube.com)

Bleu by Kumiko (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Someday I'll Like You But Before Let Me Rest In My Solitude (Lonely Character's Theme) by Kumiko (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Frozen Jungle by Kumiko (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Laid Back Guitars by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

La Citadelle by Kumiko (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Excerpt from Ramona soundtrack (youtube.com)

Polen (Instrumental) by Animal Chuki (marmosetmusic.com)

Quasi Motion by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Night Cave by Kumiko (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring

Follow Hollywood in Color on all social media @hwoodincolor and visit the show at hollywoodincolor.org

Las Reinas of Los Angeles: The End May 15, 2018

All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:

Dolores Del Rio: Beauty in Light and Shade (book) by Linda B Hall

Lupe Vélez: The Life and Career of Hollywood's Mexican Spitfire (book) by Michelle Vogel

Lupe Vélez: Queen of the Bs (in the book From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture) by Rosa Linda Fregoso

Spitfire: Lupe Velez and the Ambivalent Pleasures of Ethnic Masquerade (article) by Victoria Sturtevant

"You Don't Say That in English!": The Scandal of Lupe Velez (book chapter) by Henry Jenkins

The Assumption of Lupe Velez (thesis) by Rita Gonzalez

Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s (book) by Francisco E. Balderrama

The Rise of Spanish-Language Filmmaking: Out from Hollywood's Shadow, 1929-1939 (book) by Lisa Jarvinen

Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age (book) by Laura Isabel Serna

Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles Before World War II (book) by Colin Gunckel

Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles (book) by William Deverell

The History of Sound at the Movies (youtube.com) by Filmmaker IQ

SB-670 Chapter 663 Mexican Repatriation Program of the 1930s ( leginfo.legislature.ca.gov)

Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):

Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)

Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

No Disclaimer by Jesse Spillane (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Lonesome Liar Dancing Up in the Trees by We Is Shore Dedicated (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Get Ready by Kumiko (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Assignment 1 by Drake Stafford (freemusicarchive.org) — Modified and looped from original — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

July by Kai Engel (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Tumult by Kai Engel (freemusicarchive.org) — Modified and looped from original — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Remember the Time We Use To Play by Komiku (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Accralate by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

On the Passing of Time by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

No soy de aqui, ni soy de alla by Chavela Vargas — Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research

Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring

Follow Hollywood in Color on all social media @hwoodincolor and visit the show at hollywoodincolor.org

Hattie McDaniel: The Beginning Jun 19, 2018

All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:

Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood (book) by Jill Watts

Hattie: The Life of Hattie McDaniel (book) by Carlton Jackson

Hattie McDaniel and the Culture of Dissemblance (article) by Victoria Sturtevant

African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900-1960 (book) by Charlene B. Regester

Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in 20th Century America (book) by Micki McElya

This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927 (book) by Brent M.S. Campney

Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):

Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)

Danse Morialta by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Ave Marimba by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Small Daffs by Axletree (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Hyperfun by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Ave Marimba by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Nostalgic Piano by Rafael Krux (freepd.com) — Public domain

Impromptu in Quarter Comma Meantone by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Cheap Arp Guitar by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Media Cited:

Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove (2004) by Rita Dove

I Wish I Had Somebody (1926) by Hattie McDaniel

Boo Hoo Blues (1926) by Hattie McDaniel

Any Kind of Man Would Be Better Than You (1929) by Hattie McDaniel

That New Love Maker of Mine (1929) by Hattie McDaniel

*Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research

Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring

Follow Hollywood in Color on all social media @hwoodincolor and visit the show at hollywoodincolor.org

Hattie McDaniel: Winning and Losing Jun 28, 2018

All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:

Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood (book) by Jill Watts

Hattie: The Life of Hattie McDaniel (book) by Carlton Jackson

Scarlett, Rhett, and A Cast of Thousands: The filming of Gone with the Wind (book) by Roland Flamini

Memo from David O. Selznick (book) by David O. Selznick

White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the KKK (book) by Tom Rice

Gone with the Wind: Black and White in Technicolor (article) by Ruth Elizabeth Burks

The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan Right-Wing Movements and National Politics by Rory McVeigh

Race and the Cloud of Unknowing in Gone with the Wind (article) by Patricia Yeager

The Black Reaction to Gone with the Wind (article) by JD Stevens

The African American Press' Reception of Gone with the Wind (article) by James Tracy

Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):

Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)

The Wait by how the night came (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Pepper's Theme (full mix) by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Caught the Feeling (Instrumental) by SNVRS (marmosetmusic.com)

Anamalie by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Reflection by how the night came (freemusicarchive.org) — Looped — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Ghostpocalypse 8 Epilog by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Poppers and Prosecco by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

To Move An Inch by Steve Combs (freemusicarchive.org) — Looped — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

July by Kai Engel (freemusicarchive.org) — Looped — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Danse Morialta by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Media Cited:

"Banning Gone with the Wind" September 2017, The View

Interview with Lennie Bluett, "Race and Hollywood," May 2006 by Turner Classic Movies

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Hattie McDaniel Winning Best Supporting Actress (1940)

Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring

Follow Hollywood in Color on all social media @hwoodincolor and visit the show at hollywoodincolor.org

Hattie McDaniel: The End Jul 04, 2018

All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:

Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood (book) by Jill Watts

Hattie: The Life of Hattie McDaniel (book) by Carlton Jackson

Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era (book) by Ellen Scott

Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from WWII to the Civil Rights Era (book) by Thomas Cripps

Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era (book) by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff

Beulah and the Moynihan Report (article) by Gerald R. Butters

From Blackface to Beulah: Subtle Subversion in Early Black Sitcoms (article) by Mack Scott

Race, Class, and Gender in Beulah and Bernie Mac (article) by Angela Nelson

Star Dances: African-American Constructions of Stardom, 1925-1960 (book chapter) by Arthur Knight

Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films (books) by Donald Bogle

Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):

Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)

Bummin on Tremolo by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Love Her by Loyalty Freak Music (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Comic Plodding by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Nostalgic Piano by Rafael Krux (freepd.com) — Public Domain

Remember the Time We Used to Play by Kumiko (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Ave Marimba by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

The Boats We've Been On by smallertide (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Danse Morialta by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Porch Blues by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Pepper's Theme (full mix) by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Steps by Sunne (marmosetmusic.com)

Media Cited:

Clips from various Academy Award speeches (youtube.com)

Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring

Follow Hollywood in Color on all social media @hwoodincolor and visit the show at hollywoodincolor.org

Sonic Cinema: The Making of Selena Sep 26, 2018

All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:

Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory by Deborah Paredez (book)

Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom by Priscilla Ovalle (book)

Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda (Chapter 5: Giving us that Brown Soul) by Deborah Vargas (book)

From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Film and Popular Culture (Chapter 7: The New Wave of Border Crossing) by Tara Lockhart (book)

Selena's Good Buy: Texas Mexicans, History, and Selena Meet Transnational Capitalism by Raul Coronado Jr. (article)

Jennifer as Selena: Rethinking Latinidad in Media and Popular Culture by Frances R. Aparicio (article)

The Chicana/Latina Dyad, or Identity and Perception by Alicia Gaspar de Alba (article)

Jennifer's Butt by Frances Negron-Muntaner (article)

Brain, Brow, and Booty: Latina Iconicity in U.S. Popular Culture by Isabel Molina Guzman and Angharad N. Valdivia (article)

Meet Danielle Camastra, the Woman Who Almost Played Selena Quintanilla by Kiko Martinez (remezcla.com)

Anything for Selenas: How a Teenage Fan Convinced her Dad to Make the Selena Movie by Vanessa Erazo (remezcla.com)

Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):

Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)

Amarilla Maracuyá by Animal Chuki (marmosetmusic.com)

Guiton Sketch by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Guitare 1 by Monplaisir (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Maree by Kai Engel (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Accralate by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Sancho Panza Gets a Latte by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Media Cited:

Selena National Casting Call, San Antonio — Raw footage (1996) by Fred Miller (texasarchive.org)

Cumbia beats taken from Latin Beats: The Cumbia Style on Drums I Reverb Drum Lesson with Daniel Villarreal by Reverb.com (youtube.com)

Techno Cumbia (album version) & Techno Cumbia (remix) by Selena

Eva Longoria at the Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony by Variety.com (youtube.com)

Archival news footage from Channel 6 News uploaded by Joseph97 (youtube.com)

Archival new footage from CBS 4 News Rio Grande Valley uploaded by author (youtube.com)

clip from Selena (1997)

Amor Prohibido (album version) by Selena

Selena Amor Prohibido (Acapella) published by TheAcapellas (youtube.com)

Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring

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Sonic Cinema: The Making of The Bodyguard Jan 18, 2019

This is episode 2 of Sonic Cinema: a series looking at a few starring history’s most iconic musicians. Today — The Making of The Bodyguard.

All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:

Whitney directed by Kevin Macdonald (documentary)

Whitney: "Can I Be Me?" directed by Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal (documentary)

Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 by Alex Lubin (book)

Interracial Romance as a Staged Spectacle in "Made in America," "Bringing Down the House" and "Guess Who" by Helene Charlery (article)

Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema (Chapter 8: Music, Video, Cinema: Singers and Movie Stars) by Yvonne Tasker

Whitney Houston 1963-2012 by Robin Roberts (article)

Nationality, Race, and Gender on the American Pop Charts: What happened in the '90s? by Alan Wells (article)

Whitney is Every Woman: Cultural Politics and the Pop Star by Marla Shelton (article)

Divafication: The deification of modern female pop stars by Linda Lister (article)

A Vision of Love: An Etiquette of Vocal Ornamentation in African-American Popular Ballads of the Early 1990s by Richard Rischar (article)

‘Not black enough’: the identity crisis that haunted Whitney Houston by Steve Rose (TheGuardian.com)

Remember When Whitney Houston Got Booed for Being Too White? by Rich Juzwiak (Gawker.com)

The Two Voices of Whitney Houston by Doreen St. Félix (NewYorker.com)

The Complexities of Whitney Houston in “Whitney” by Michael Schulman (NewYorker.com)

The Soul of Whitney by Joy Duckett Cain (Essence Magazine, December 1990) transcribed by ClassicWhitney.com

Whitney Houston talks about the men in her life — and the Rumors, Lies and Insults that are the High Price of Fame by Lynn Norment (Ebony Magazine, May 1991) archived by Google Books

Sing to Me: My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who's Next by LA Reid (book)

Diana Ross: A Biography by J. Randy Taraborrelli (book)

Erased Onscreen: Where Are All the Interracial Couples? by Kevin Noble Maillard (NYTimes.com)

Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):

Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)

Waltz Opus Posthume by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

Toothless Slope by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

In the Back Room by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

Spins and Never Falls by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

Tyrano Theme by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

White Limit by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

Faster Faster Brighter by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

Sunday Lights by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

Destiny Awaits (Instrumental) by Pat Daugherty (marmosetmusic.com)

Media Cited:

clip from Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967) directed by Stanley Kramer

You Give Good Love by Whitney Houston

Saving All My Love For You by Whitney Houston

How Will I Know by Whitney Houston

Greatest Love of All by Whitney Houston

I Wanna Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston

Didn’t We Almost Have it All by Whitney Houston

So Emotional by Whitney Houston

Where Do Broken Hearts Go by Whitney Houston

Best Female Single '89 from Soul Train Awards uploaded by beyonceitis (youtube.com)

Interlude: Pledge by Janet Jackson

Rhythm Nation by Janet Jackson

Rhythmless Nation from In Living Color uploaded by Mr. Wonder (youtube.com)

I'm Your Baby Tonight by Whitney Houston

Arsenio Hall interviews Whitney Houston from The Arsenio Hall Show [aired January 4, 1991] uploaded by ZanDTV (youtube.com)

The Bodyguard (1992) - Interview - Part 1 from MTV's The Big Picture uploaded by mariah (youtube.com)

I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston

David Foster Story behind Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You from ABC News Nightline [aired February 2012] uploaded by vSpirit2 (youtube.com)

clip from The Bodyguard (1992)

Hollywood in Color artwork designed by Shelby Moring

Follow Hollywood in Color on all social media @hwoodincolor and visit the show at hollywoodincolor.org

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