You Must Remember This is a storytelling podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of
Gloria Grahame arrived in Hollywood in 1944, after Louis B. Mayer personally plucked her from the Ne
The legendary "Sweater Girl" was one of MGM’s prized contract players, the epitome of the mid-centur
In 1941, Selznick signed a young actress named Phylis, who was then married to actor Robert Walker.
In 1930, after putting in time at MGM and RKO, Paramount executive David O. Selznick married Irene M
When Spencer Tracy signed with MGM, he was a character actor better known for his problem drinking (
In the new Hollywood satire from the Coen Brothers, Josh Brolin plays a studio "fixer" named Eddie M
After Irving Thalberg’s death in 1936, Louis B. Mayer doubled down on "family entertainment" at MGM.
As part of the publicity campaign for his film Hell’s Angels, Howard Hughes made Jean Harlow a star,
The rare silent star who made a relatively smooth transition to sound films, William “Billy” Haines
Rising romantic lead John Gilbert signed with MGM in 1924 and the next year he starred in King Vidor
In 1928, silent comedy star Buster Keaton made what he would later call “the worst mistake of my car
Marion Davies is enshrined in memory as the gorgeous but questionably talented mistress of publishin
This season we're going to tell 15 stories about different people who worked at the same movie studi
The trials of the Manson family became a kind of public theater which a number of current and future
After the murders, Manson moved his family to the depths of the California desert. There, even befor
Roman Polanski was in London the night his pregnant wife was murdered in their home. He returned to
Over the course of a single weekend, half a dozen hippies massacred seven people. This episode inclu
While trying to launch her own acting career, Sharon Tate fell in love with, and eventually married,
In the first of two episodes about the Manson Family’s most famous victim, we’ll trace actress Sharo
The first person to go to jail for a Charles Manson-associated murder was Bobby Beausoleil, a charis
