You Must Remember This is a storytelling podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of
Arthur Miller considered Elia Kazan a close friend and collaborator, but when Kazan named names to H
Elia Kazan introduced audiences to Warren Beatty, James Dean and Marlon Brando. His films of the 195
Horne's last years at MGM overlapped with the first HUAC hearings. Horne, an outspoken proponent of
Stunning singer/actress Lena Horne was the first black performer to be given the full glamour girl s
Judy Holliday won an Oscar for her first starring film role, and of her eight major film roles betwe
Today we explore one of the more troubling aspects of Howard Hughes’ legacy: the firm hand he played
In advance of next week’s episode dealing with Howard Hughes’ role in the blacklist, we revisit our
The wife of actor Melvyn Douglas (Ninotchka, Being There), Helen Gahagan Douglas transformed herself
The post-war Communist witch hunt had a big impact on Ronald Reagan’s evolution from movie actor to
Picking up where last week’s episode left off, we’ll catch up with Chaplin’s post-The Great Dictator
In 1922, Charlie Chaplin was one of the most beloved men in the world. In 1952, after over a decade
John Garfield was Brando before Brando -- a Method-style actor who repped the New York working class
Barbara Stanwyck’s first marriage helped to inspire A Star is Born. Her second marriage, to heartthr
In the late 1940s, as the country was moving to the right and there was pressure on Hollywood to do
Humphrey Bogart was Warner Brothers' most valuable star in 1947, when he, his wife Lauren Bacall, hi
The New Yorker columnist, poet and celebrated Algonquin Roundtable wit spent years in Hollywood, wor
In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed dozens of Hollywood workers to come t
This episode will trace the roots of both communism and anti-communism in Hollywood, through the Dep
In the 1940s, Louis B. Mayer was the highest paid man in America, one of the first celebrity CEOs an
Elizabeth Taylor grew up on the MGM lot, spending 18 years as what she referred to as “MGM chattel.”
