Olympia Kiriakou

Television

“Carole Lombard: The Screwball Queen” interstitial, Turner Classic Movies

Introductions + Q&As

Nothing Sacred (1937) introduction and post-screening Q&A participant, “Screwball Sundays” series, Film Society of Screwball Comedy, May 2025

Twentieth Century (1934) introduction and post-screening Q&A participant, “Screwball Sundays” series, Film Society of Screwball Comedy, May 2024

Twentieth Century (1934) introduction, Vintage Film Festival, October 2022

Co-organizer + presenter, “Genre and Gender, Couples and Culture: the How and Why of Romantic Comedy Research,” The Cinema Museum, November 2014

Podcasts

The Screwball Story (creator and host)

Front Row Classics

• Episode 391: To Be or Not to Be
• Episode 239: Hands Across the Table
• Episode 265: My Man Godfrey
• Episode 231: Nothing Sacred

How Would Lubitsch Do It?

• S5E2 – Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife

Heroine City

• Carole Lombard

Foreign Correspondents: Deeper Into Hitchcock

• Episode 25: “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” (1941) featuring Olympia Kiriakou

Teenage Golden Age

• Carole Lombard: The Screwball Girl (feat. Olympia Kiriakou)

Forgotten Hollywood

• Episode 65: Book Review Becoming Carole Lombard: Stardom, Comedy, and Legacy with Olympia Kiriakou

Fade Out

• Carole Lombard

Sass Mouth Dames

• Satin Rackets
• Betty Compson’s Diamonds
• Mink Syndicate
• Myrna Loy’s Nose
• Hollywood Medusa
• Red Gardenia
• House of the Seven Garbos
• A Star Was Born
• Stenographers
• Mannequins
• Salon Devine

Print Media

Lara Gabrielle, “Five Best: Books on Power Partnerships in Old Hollywood,” The Wall Street Journal, September 9, 2022