Tony Maietta

Tony Maietta is the on-camera host for a number of original productions celebrating classic film and television, including CBS Home Video’s award-winning presentations of Lucille Ball’s renowned television series, The Lucy Show, (in which he interviews key players from the series such as Jimmy Garrett, Carole Cooke and Lucie Arnaz) and Here’s Hollywood, an original program produced by here! media in which he discusses classic Hollywood films in the context of gay and lesbian cinema history.  

In addition to participating in lectures, hosting film events (2005’s Greta Garbo Film Festival in Hollywood, 2009’s Douglas Fairbanks Film Festival at MOMA in New York City), he has written and recorded DVD commentaries for Warner Home Video and appeared as an on-camera expert in over two dozen documentaries on classic films. For Turner Classic Movies, he has been an advisor and participated in on-camera interviews for numerous film documentaries including the presentations Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2007), Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008), and Moguls & Movie Stars (2010), the acclaimed six-part Emmy-nominated documentary. Rediscovering John Gilbert, an original documentary which he co-wrote and produced, had its TCM premiere in January of 2010.

His latest project is The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens, a book that he co-wrote with Jerry Torre, the infamous "Marble Faun" from the celebrated 1975 documentary, Grey Gardens.