Kirk Douglas, Dalton Trumbo, and Otto Preminger (Breaking the Blacklist, Part 2)
Embed from Getty Images Download this episode, or find on SoundCloud or iTunes.How did the Blacklist come to an end? If you ask Kirk Douglas, the end began with his hiring of Dalton Trumbo to write...
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Six Degrees of Joan Crawford: Douglas Fairbanks / Lucille LeSueur Goes to...
Joan Crawford, 1920's Listen, download this episode, or find on iTunes.In order to understand Joan Crawford’s rise to fame, we have to talk about what Joan -- born Lucille LeSueur, and called “Billie...
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Six Degrees of Joan Crawford: The Flapper and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Joan Crawford, Our Dancing Daughters, 1928 Listen, download this episode, or find on iTunes.Joan Crawford’s early years in Hollywood were like -- well, like a pre-code Joan Crawford movie: a highly...
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Six Degrees of Joan Crawford: Clark Gable, Franchot Tone and Barbara Payton
Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, Chained, 1934 Listen, download this episode, or find on iTunes.By the mid-1930s, Joan Crawford was very, very famous, and negotiating both an affair to Clark Gable (her...
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Six Degrees of Joan Crawford: The Middle Years (Mildred Pierce to Johnny Guitar)
Joan Crawford and Ann Blyth in Mildred Pierce, 1945 Listen, download this episode, or find on iTunes.Joan Crawford struggled through what she called her “middle years,” the period during her 40s...
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Six Degrees of Joan Crawford: Bette Davis and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford publicity shot for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Listen, download this episode, or find on iTunes.Robert Aldrich’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? has done more to...
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Six Degrees of Joan Crawford: Mommie Dearest
Embed from Getty Images Listen, download this episode, or find on iTunes.The year after Joan Crawford died, her estranged, adopted daughter Christina published a tell-all, accusing her late mother of...
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Cass Elliot, Carnie Wilson and Fat-Shaming in Rock and Pop (Make Me Over,...
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. Cass Elliot didn’t die eating a ham sandwich. But the lasting power of that urban legend speaks to a far darker story. Elliot possessed one of the most...
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The Hemingway Curse?: Mariel and Margaux (Make Me Over, Episode 7)
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. A close look at the parallel lives of Margaux and Mariel Hemingway, sisters born with a world-famous last name that stood for both genius and...
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Vanessa Williams, Whitney Houston and Hollywood’s Misogynoir Problem (Make Me...
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. In 1983, Vanessa Williams became the first black woman to win Miss America. In 1984, a few weeks from the end of her reign, she was forced to step down when...
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MAKE ME OVER ARCHIVE
In this companion series to You Must Remember This, Karina Longworth will introduce eight stories about Hollywood’s intersection with the beauty industry. Told by writers/reporters known for their...
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You Must Remember This New Season Coming May 26 - Polly Platt, The Invisible...
Polly Platt -- producer, writer and Oscar-nominated production designer -- lived an epic Hollywood life. And yet, if you know Platt’s name today, it’s probably because in 1970 her husband and creative...
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Polly Platt Sneak Peek
We can hardly wait to share the untold story of Polly Platt, the secret weapon behind some of the most highly acclaimed films of the 1970s, '80s and '90s. Debuting Tuesday, May 26, this season will...
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VIDIOTS FOUNDATION & YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS VIRTUAL FILM SCREENING SERIES
Karina Longworth, film historian, and creator and host of You Must Remember This podcast, and Vidiots Foundation, the iconic L.A. video store-turned-film non-profit, are teaming up for a VIRTUAL FILM...
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“It wasn’t sexism, then” (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 1)
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. As an Oscar-nominated production designer, screenwriter, producer and executive who put her stamp on some of the greatest and most loved films of the 1970s...
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Polly Platt Season Sources
Sources for the full season:It Was Worth It by Polly PlattPolly Platt, Art Directors Guild Oral History, 2002American Film Institute seminars featuring Polly Platt, quoted with permission from...
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Peter Bogdanovich and the Woman Behind the Auteur (Polly Platt, The Invisible...
Peter Bogdanovich and Polly Platt c. 1968 | Photo by Bruce McBroom via mptvimages Listen to this episode Apple Podcasts. After the death of her first husband and creative partner, Polly moves to New...
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TARGETS with Karyn Kusama and new virtual screening series schedule
Due to the very necessary national conversation about race and police brutality that has been happening over the past 10 days, this week we postponed our schedule second installment of our Virtual...
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Last Picture Show Love Triangle: Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman Part 3
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. At Polly’s urging, Peter decides to direct an adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s novel The Last Picture Show. Though credited only as the film’s “designer,” Polly...
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Orson Welles, What’s Up Doc, Paper Moon (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman,...
Polly Platt and Peter Bogdanovich on the set of Paper Moon | Photo courtesy of Sashy Bogdanovich Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. In the aftermath of Picture Show—and the collapse of her...
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