Noshing With Tom Zimmerman – July 14, 2022

This week, Ira spoke with Tom Zimmerman, author of The Queen of Technicolor, Maria Montez in Hollywood (published by The University Press of Kentucky). In this silver screen episode of Ira’s Everything Bagel, Tom talks about how he discovered Maria Montez and realized that he had to write about her; why she became a movie star despite not being able to act, sing, or dance; how technicolor (“assaultively colorful”) and Montez were made for each other; why the “Good Neighbor” policy of the federal government worked in her favor; and how she supported the allied war effort during World War II.