Tony Maietta
Tony is the host for a number of productions celebrating classic film and television, including CBS Home Video’s award-winning presentations of Lucille Ball’s television series, The Lucy Show. He interviewed key players from the series, such as Jimmy Garrett, Carole Cooke and Lucie Arnaz) He also hosts Here’s Hollywood, here! media. He discusses classic Hollywood films in the context of gay and lesbian cinema.
In addition to participating in lectures, hosting film events, he's written and recorded commentaries for Warner Home Video and appeared as an expert in over two dozen documentaries on classic films. For TCM, he's been an advisor and participated in interviews for numerous film documentaries. Rediscovering John Gilbert, an original documentary co-wrote and produced, had its TCM premiere in 2010.
Tony also co-wrote a book, The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens with Jerry Torre, the infamous "Marble Faun" from the 1975 documentary, Grey Gardens.