Clik here to view.
A Star is Born (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 5)
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. When Polly begins her own on-set affair, the double standard of what men can get away with in Hollywood versus what was expected for women would push her to a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pretty Baby and a Playmate Murder (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 6)
Brooke Sheilds and Susan Sarandon, Pretty Baby, 1978 Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. In an attempt to save her family, Polly transitions to screenwriting and producing, basing the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Terms of Endearment (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 7)
Polly Platt on the phone at her office at Paramount Pictures, 1984 | Photo by Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. Polly’s third marriage falls...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Women of the 80’s (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 8)
Polly Platt with George Miller, 1986 | Photo by Kerry Hayes, Courtesy of Sashy Bogdanovich Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. In the mid-to-late 80s, Polly Platt worked on a number of films...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bottle Rocket, I'll Do Anything and Polly Platt in '90s Hollywood (Polly...
Polly Platt, c. early 1990's | Photo y Mary Ellen Mark Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. Platt collaboration with Brooks hits choppy waters with I’ll Do Anything, which at one point was a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Did It End? (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 10)
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. Polly’s unfinished memoir ends abruptly in 1995. What were the remaining 16 years of her life like? Using interviews with those who knew her, we’ll explore...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Polly Platt: The Invisible Woman Archive
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 and 80s – including Paper Moon, Bad News...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper (Small Town Girl, Episode 1)
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.From the anonymous tips posted on Deux Moi to the streams of annotated paparazzi shots that fill the Daily Mail, today’s celebrity gossip --...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (The First Lady, Episode 2)
Birthday party for WR Hearst, Louella Parsons 2nd from right | Photo from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection via the Los Angeles Public Library Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (The Feud, Episode 3)
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.In 1938, washed-up actress Hedda Hopper is installed as a movie gossip columnist with the express purpose of puncturing the success of Louella and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (War! Episode 4)
Hedda Hopper c. 1946 | Popperfoto/Getty Images Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.World War II begins to reveal the gulf between Louella’s conservative but essentially business-minded...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (The Queer, Female Film...
Harriet Parsons c. 1930s | Photo by George Hurrell Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.Louella’s daughter, Harriet Parsons, became a groundbreaking female film producer at a moment in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (Witch Hunt, Episode 6)
Louella Parsons, 1953 | Photo from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection via the Los Angeles Public Library Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.During an era in which...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (Sex and Shame in the 1950s,...
Hedda Hopper and Ingrid Bergman, 1959 Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.The 1950s were a decade of massive contradictions in terms of national and cultural attitudes towards sex. As...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (Interracial Panic and Confidential, Episode 8)
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.Appalled by rock n’ roll and its racial and sexual implications, Hedda and Louella find themselves in further danger of obsolescence when the gossip...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (The Queens Are Dead, Episode 9)
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.The Hollywood studio system begins to crumble, and Louella and Hedda decline and fall, too. But just as a new generation of filmmakers rises from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gossip Girls: Heddda Hopper & Louella Parsons Archive
From the anonymous tips posted on Deux Moi to the streams of annotated paparazzi shots that fill the Daily Mail, today’s celebrity gossip -- democratized, based on technological surveillance -- looks...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sammy and Dino Episode 1: The Hustle
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.This season, we look at the movies, music and lives of Sammy Davis Jr and Dean Martin. Singers, actors, TV stars and nightclub performers, Davis and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sammy and Dino Episode 2: Martin and Lewis, Sammy and Mickey and Frank
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, 1949 | Ralph Morse Time & Life Pictures Shutterstock Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.Dean Martin meets and begins collaborating with Jerry Lewis....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sammy and Dino Episode 3: Nothing But a Dollar Sign
Sammy Davis Jr. dancing shot by Phil Stern, mid-1950s Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.In the first half of the 1950s, Martin and Lewis mint money as movie stars--and find unique...
View Article