You Must Remember This is a storytelling podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of
Over two episodes, we will explore Hollywood Babylon’s coverage of Confidential Magazine and the two
Jewish gangster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel is frequently credited with corrupting Hollywood’s unions an
The bisexuality of Marlene Dietrich was not exactly a secret in 1930s Hollywood -- in fact, her ambi
Mexican actress Lupe Velez was the victim of one of Anger’s cruelest invented stories. His fabricati
In 1936, actress Mary Astor (who had not yet made her most famous film, The Maltese Falcon) and her
Mae West was the biggest new star in Hollywood in 1933, thanks to two hit films she co-wrote and sta
This Italian pin-up, along with Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot, was emblematic of a brand of post-
The future Lily Munster became a star when producer Walter Wanger cast her in Salome, Where She Danc
A stunning brunette sex symbol married to cinematographer Pev Marley, Darnell thought her affair wit
The child of a silent film actress, Dvorak was so determined to be a star that at first, she wouldn’
Seduction begins at an MGM sponsored orgy at the Ambassador Hotel, as told through the eyes of one o
In the new book Seduction: Sex, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood, Karina Longworth expl
We’ll close this half of our Hollywood Babylon season with one of that book’s most famously distorte
Rudolph Valentino was Hollywood’s first “latin lover.” His shocking death at the age of 31 was attri
Thomas Ince was one of early Hollywood’s most pioneering producers—in fact, some credit him for popu
The Kim Kardashian of her day, Peggy Hopkins Joyce was famous for being rich and famous—and for her
Who was Will Hays, and how did he come to put his name on the censorship “Code” that would shape the
According to Hollywood Babylon, actor Wallace Reid—a morphine addict who died in an asylum at the ag
A frequent co-star of Roscoe Arbuckle’s, Mabel Normand was the definitive female screen comedienne o
The killing of director William Desmond Taylor was the third in a trifecta of scandals which, over t
