Rarified Heir Podcast

Dec 03 2024 100 ep. 81 mins 41
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Host Josh Mills brings together a wide variety of adult children of celebrities for a fun, funny, bizarre, jaw-dropping, strange and wonderful look behind celebrity, by the people that know them best: their very own children.

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Episode #211: Carrie Mitchum (Christopher Mitchum, Robert Mitchum)

Dec 03 2024 110 mins  
Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Carrie Mitchum, daughter of actor Christopher Mitchum, granddaughter to iconic actor Robert Mitchum and mother to actor Grace Van Dien. And while that’s a lot of actors in your family, we haven’t even mentioned her actor brother, her actor uncle, her great actor or her own acting career! I’m talking actors! That’s quite

Episode #210: Guest Host Daisy Torme (Mel Torme, Janette Scott) & Josh Mills (Edie Adams)

Nov 26 2024 107 mins  
Today on another encore edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking with….host Josh Mills. Yes, on this episode, our 100th, we somehow wrangled guest Daisy Torme, daughter of singer Mel Torme and actress Janette Scott to be a guest host as part of this special episode. In fact, it was because of this podcast that we reconnected with Daisy and her brother James Torme mon

Episode #209: Suzanne Lloyd (Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis) (Part Two)

Nov 19 2024 81 mins  
Today on Part Two of our conversation about silent film stars Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we continue our conversation with Suzanne Lloyd, their granddaughter who was raised as their daughter. Last week we laid the groundwork on the life and legacy of one of the silent era’s greatest comedians. This week, we discuss the life Suzanne led in the fam

Episode #208: Suzanne Lloyd (Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis) (Part One)

Nov 12 2024 89 mins  
Today on another brand new episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we give you part one of our conversation with Suzanne Lloyd, the granddaughter of silent film comedy star & Christmas tree obsessive, Harold Lloyd. Now, if the name (or the image) of Harold Lloyd doesn’t immediately ring a bell like Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin, this is one of the reasons we do this podcast, t

Episode #207: The Ernie Kovacs Award (Devo's Gerald Casale) (Part Two)

Nov 05 2024 68 mins  
Welcome to another bonus edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast. Today we bring you something a little different. Just for fun. On Saturday September 28th and Sunday the 29th, 2024 the good folks at the VideoFest in Dallas presented Devo’s Gerald Casale with the Ernie Kovacs award. Since the 1997, Bart Weiss and the Video Association of Dallas has given out a (semi) annual Ernie Ko

Episode #206: The Ernie Kovacs Award (Devo's Gerald Casale) (Part One)

Oct 29 2024 39 mins  
Welcome to another bonus edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast. Today we bring you something a little different. Just for fun. On Saturday September 28th and Sunday the 29th, 2024 the good folks at the VideoFest in Dallas presented Devo’s Gerald Casale with the Ernie Kovacs award. Since the 1997, Bart Weiss and the Video Association of Dallas has given out a (semi) annual Ernie Ko

Episode #205: JD Lobue Jr. (JD Lobue Sr.)

Oct 22 2024 85 mins  
Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to J.D. Lobue Jr., son of television director & at one time budding sunshine pop musician J.D. Lobue Sr. We reached out to J.D. Jr., after reading an article in a fantastic music magazine called Ugly Things about a band from the 1960s called The Gordian Knot. While reading the article, the name J.D. Lobue came up and host Josh Mill

Episode #204: Peter Ackerman (Elinor Donohue, Harry Ackerman) (Part Two)

Oct 15 2024 61 mins  
Today on Part Two of another encore episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we continue our conversation with guest Peter Ackerman, son of actor Elinor Donahue & television executive Harry Ackerman. We covered a lot of ground on part one but on this episode, we dig deep into things like how insanely loyal Star Trek fans are as we discuss fan conventions and their lasting impact on bo

Episode #203: Peter Ackerman (Elinor Donohue, Harry Ackerman) (Part One)

Oct 08 2024 68 mins  
Today on another encore episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Peter Ackerman, son of actress Elinor Donahue and television executive Harry Ackerman. Ironic isn’t it that just recently we have spoken to David Pressman, son of actor Lawrence Pressman who starred with Elinor in the short-lived TV show Mulligan’s Stew on episode #194 and here we are again discussi

Episode #202: Ron Defore (Don Defore)

Oct 01 2024 85 mins  
Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast we have another encore edition with guest Ron DeFore, whose father Don DeFore was known to classic TV fans as Thorny on the show The Adventures of Ozzy and Harriet. It’s a nice bookend with the recent interview we did with Sam Nelson, Rick Nelson’s son a few months back talking about that iconic 50s show. What’s more, Ron’s mother was sing