Double Take: critical, sometimes confrontational podcast conversations about movies.
A Cinema Classics production hosted by John DeSando, Double Take is listed by Feedspot in the top 10 NPR movie podcasts.
Producer John DeSando is a Los Angeles Press Club national entertainment broadcast winner and also hosts NPR’s It’s Movie Time for WCBE and podcast Back Talk.
Contact at JohnDeSando52@gmail.com.
Guest producer and host Mary Yerina is a community volunteer serving on the board of The Sphinx Alumni Society of Ohio State and the executive committee of The ProMusica Sustaining Board.
Guest David Weaver is retired executive director of of The Ohioana Library and author of Ruby Eizy, The Black Diva of the '30's.
Show Notes for Carmen Jones:
Trailer for Carmen Jones (1954)
Several biographies have been written about Dorothy Dandridge including Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography by Donald Bogle (2021); Everything and Nothing: The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy by Dorothy Dandridge and Earl Conrad (1970); and Dorothy Dandridge: The Life and Legacy of One of Hollywood's First Successful Black Actresses by Charles River Editors (2020).
Dorothy Dandridge, along with Clark Gable and Paul Newman, was named a Legendary Ohioan in 2025.
Learn more about Ohio Goes to the Movies and all that celebrates Ohio in the history of cinema as America celebrates 250 years of freedom and democracy this year.
