You Must Remember This

You Must Remember This

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You Must Remember This is a storytelling podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century. It’s the brainchild and passion project of Karina Longworth (founder of Cinematical.com, former film critic for LA Weekly), who writes, narrates, records and edits each episode. It is a heavily-researched work of creative nonfiction: navigating through conflicting reports, mythology, and institutionalized spin, Karina tries to sort out what really happened behind the films, stars and scandals of the 20th century.

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145: Ramon Novarro (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 19)

Ramon Novarro was a Mexican actor and singer whose stardom at MGM in the 1920s and 30s was not impeded by his offscreen life as a gay man. In Hollywood Babylon, Anger focuses only on Novarro’s grisly murder in 1968 -- which outed Novarro to a public that had largely forgotten him--and needlessly embellishes a crime scene that was already pretty horrible. Today, in our final episode of Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon, we will explore the life which Anger left out of Hollywood Babylon, and correct that book’s version of Novarro’s death.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

145: Ramon Novarro (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 19)

2019-01-2900:52:0010

144: The Trials of Confidential Magazine: Maureen O'Hara (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 18)

In part two of our two-parter on the demise of the biggest and most pernicious tabloid of the 1950s, we’ll explore what happened after the magazine’s claim that redheaded star Maureen O’Hara was caught having sex at Grauman’s Chinese Theater. O’Hara positioned herself the “Joan of Arc” of Hollywood, single-handedly defending a cowardly industry against the existential threat posed by Confidential. As we’ll see, this is one story where the Kenneth Anger version is more credible than the version related by one of the subjects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

144: The Trials of Confidential Magazine: Maureen O'Hara (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 18)

2019-01-2200:35:375

143: The Trials of Confidential Magazine: Dorothy Dandridge (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 17)

Over two episodes, we will explore Hollywood Babylon’s coverage of Confidential Magazine and the two celebrities who testified against the scandal rag in the 1957 trial that helped end what Anger rightfully refers to as its “reign of terror.” We’ll begin with Dorothy Dandridge, the first black actress to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. Dandridge’s testimony against Confidential reveals the publication’s racist agenda, as well as the double standards that governed her real private and public lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

143: The Trials of Confidential Magazine: Dorothy Dandridge (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 17)

2019-01-1500:45:573

142: Bugsy Siegel (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 16)

Jewish gangster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel is frequently credited with corrupting Hollywood’s unions and “inventing” Las Vegas. Siegel did have movie star friends, but the true story of his involvement with the Flamingo casino is also the story of a much bigger movieland player: Hollywood Reporter founder/publisher/columnist Billy Wilkerson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

142: Bugsy Siegel (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 16)

2019-01-0800:38:163

141: Marlene Dietrich, Claudette Colbert, and the “sewing circle” (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 15)

The bisexuality of Marlene Dietrich was not exactly a secret in 1930s Hollywood -- in fact, her ambiguous sexuality was part of her on-screen brand. But there is some debate as to who Dietrich counted among her lovers, and which of her fellow stars participated in what has been called the “sewing circle” of female intimacy. Anger alleges that Dietrich had a “passionate affair” with Claudette Colbert, an Oscar-winning actress with an extremely heteronormative persona. We’ll explore what was going on in Dietrich’s life and career around the time when this affair could have taken place, and then delve into Colbert’s image as a very different kind of on-screen sex symbol, and her complicated off-screen personal life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

141: Marlene Dietrich, Claudette Colbert, and the “sewing circle” (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 15)

2018-12-2500:44:025

140: Lupe Velez (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 14)

Mexican actress Lupe Velez was the victim of one of Anger’s cruelest invented stories. His fabrication of her manner of death lays bare a vicious racism in addition to Hollywood Babylon’s usual sexism. Today we will sort out the fact of Velez’s life from Anger’s fiction and consider the star of the Mexican Spitfire series as a comedienne ahead of her time.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

140: Lupe Velez (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 14)

2018-12-1800:48:493

139: Mary Astor's Diary (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 13)

In 1936, actress Mary Astor (who had not yet made her most famous film, The Maltese Falcon) and her husband went to court to fight for custody of their four year-old daughter. The trail made international news thanks to both sides’ use of Astor’s diary, in which she had recorded details of her affair with playwright George S. Kaufman. How much did Astor truly reveal in her diary, and what role did the scandal play in her life and career?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

139: Mary Astor's Diary (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 13)

2018-12-1100:54:281

138: Mae West (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 12)

Mae West was the biggest new star in Hollywood in 1933, thanks to two hit films she co-wrote and starred in as a sexually implicit, wisecracking broad who romanced a young Cary Grant. In Hollywood Babylon, Anger credits West’s abrupt decline in movies to a coordinated conspiracy organized by William Randolph Hearst and carried out by the Hays Office. Today we’ll explore West’s background, her history of pushing the censors past the limits of legality, and the truth of her lightning-fast rise in Hollywood and somewhat slower descent back to earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

138: Mae West (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 12)

2018-12-0400:55:363

137: Gina Lollobrigida (The Seduced, Episode 6)

This Italian pin-up, along with Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot, was emblematic of a brand of post-war European sexuality that America happily imported. But the Hollywood career of “La Lollo” was delayed, thanks to Howard Hughes, whose obsession with Lollobrigida led him to keep her virtually imprisoned in a Los Angeles hotel and sign her to a contract that essentially made it impossible for her to work for any other U.S. producer.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

137: Gina Lollobrigida (The Seduced, Episode 6)

2018-11-2000:41:402

136: Yvonne De Carlo

The future Lily Munster became a star when producer Walter Wanger cast her in Salome, Where She Danced (1945). A curvaceous brunette in her early 20s, De Carlo fit the mold of Howard Hughes’ mid-century girlfriends to a T. But that relationship would be brief, and De Carlo would go on to distinguish herself in movies, television, and as a star of the original production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

136: Yvonne De Carlo

2018-11-1300:43:334

Comments (43)

Caoimhin James

I miss this show

Feb 15th

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Athena&TheOwl

Very unsurprising that Karina is going on 'Indefinite hiatus'. The quality of the podcast has nosedived and it's obvious her heart isn't in it anymore. listen to the episodes on the Blacklist and the current 'Angerbot' ones. A very clear comparison of when the show was great and the phoned-in mess it has become. if you want classic movie stories told with passion, care and great audio, listen to Adam Roches 'Secret History of Hollywood'.

Jan 30th

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Kristin McCarthy

one of your best ever! I will miss you-have a good hiatus!

Jan 30th

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Jerry Merry

👍

Jan 30th

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Keith Plane

anyone else get the impression that Karina is done with the podcast?

Jan 30th

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Athena&TheOwl

Keith Plane 100%

Jan 31st

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Misty_Lake

Oh no! Please come back...😔 I absolutely love your podcast. I hope you will come back one day. ❤

Jan 29th

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Ishmael

You are mad at another woman in O’Hara for finding gay sex disgusting? It is disgusting. You're such a bias reader.

Jan 28th

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Keith Plane

Ishmael no you are not. and now blocked

Feb 3rd

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Ishmael

Keith Plane Not so bright. lol.

Feb 3rd

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Nakeyae Street

love the material and I am a huge fan. The only problem is the announcer's voice. She is trying to sound sulter and sexy.

Jan 27th

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Dan M

That's Hedley!

Jan 23rd

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Kristin McCarthy

why are you narrating so dramatically? you aren't in an elocution class and it is so distracting

Jan 16th

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Tiago Santos

Somehow you sound muffled in the commercials.

Jan 10th

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Liz Weir

her over dramatic narration killed it for me.

Jan 3rd

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ApostleArose

just because you disagree with and are able to see clearly the degradation of a lifestyle and able to share that in a matter-of-fact way does not make you a homophobic

Jan 1st

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Alex Haider-Winnett

ApostleArose that's pretty much the definition of homophobia.

Feb 14th

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Faé

ApostleArose pick your battles better she literally called gays disgusting and harmful like there's no excuses for her lmao

Feb 12th

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Kristin McCarthy

please no more bots!

Dec 26th

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Bekah

Can't stand that computer voice!

Dec 22nd

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Laura Bell

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Dec 18th

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Angie Bee

Please stop with the auto-voice, or at least tell me when to skip to. Just paraphrase it?

Dec 12th

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Sandra Seyfried Grubb

stop the dramatic voice. it doesn't become you. your normal voice is ok

Dec 7th

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Angie Bee

While I am a big fan of the series (!!!), I absolutely hate the use of auto-generated narration.

Dec 6th

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J S

is this podcast a high school communication project? terrible narration. try to be more conversational and less reading from the script.

Dec 3rd

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