You Must Remember This

You Must Remember This is a storytelling podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of

Episodes

Total: 238

152: Hollywood’s First Weight Loss Surgery: Molly O’Day (Make Me Over, Episode 1)
2020/1/21

At the age of 18, actress Molly O’Day’s career showed great promise — the only thing holding her bac

Sneak Peek: Make Me Over
2020/1/14

In this companion series to You Must Remember This, Karina Longworth will introduce eight stories ab

151: Splash Mountain (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 6)
2019/11/26

After two more successful theatrical releases, in 1980 and 1986, Disney decided to put Song of the S

150: Blaxploitation and the White Backlash (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 5)
2019/11/19

Song of the South’s most successful re-release came in 1972 at a time when Hollywood was dealing wit

149: White Allies and the Blacklist: Maurice Rapf (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 4)
2019/11/12

Concerned that his movie about a former slave devoting his life to a white child’s emotional needs m

148: “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah,” Minstrels in Hollywood and The Oscars (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 3)
2019/11/5

Song of the South’s most famous element is “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah,” a song written for the movie but rem

147: Hattie McDaniel (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 2)
2019/10/29

Song of the South co-stars Hattie McDaniel, the first black performer to win an Oscar (for her suppo

146: Disney’s Most Controversial Film (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 1)
2019/10/22

Disney Plus is launching with the stated intention of streaming the entire Disney library... except

Sneak Peek: Six Degrees of "Song of the South"
2019/10/16

This season, we explore the most controversial film in the history of Disney Animation. With the l

145: Ramon Novarro (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 19)
2019/1/29

Ramon Novarro was a Mexican actor and singer whose stardom at MGM in the 1920s and 30s was not imped

144: The Trials of Confidential Magazine: Maureen O'Hara (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 18)
2019/1/22

In part two of our two-parter on the demise of the biggest and most pernicious tabloid of the 1950s,

143: The Trials of Confidential Magazine: Dorothy Dandridge (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 17)
2019/1/15

Over two episodes, we will explore Hollywood Babylon’s coverage of Confidential Magazine and the two

142: Bugsy Siegel (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 16)
2019/1/8

Jewish gangster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel is frequently credited with corrupting Hollywood’s unions an

141: Marlene Dietrich, Claudette Colbert, and the “sewing circle” (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 15)
2018/12/25

The bisexuality of Marlene Dietrich was not exactly a secret in 1930s Hollywood -- in fact, her ambi

140: Lupe Velez (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 14)
2018/12/18

Mexican actress Lupe Velez was the victim of one of Anger’s cruelest invented stories. His fabricati

139: Mary Astor's Diary (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 13)
2018/12/11

In 1936, actress Mary Astor (who had not yet made her most famous film, The Maltese Falcon) and her

138: Mae West (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 12)
2018/12/4

Mae West was the biggest new star in Hollywood in 1933, thanks to two hit films she co-wrote and sta

137: Gina Lollobrigida (The Seduced, Episode 6)
2018/11/20

This Italian pin-up, along with Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot, was emblematic of a brand of post-

136: Yvonne De Carlo
2018/11/13

The future Lily Munster became a star when producer Walter Wanger cast her in Salome, Where She Danc

135: Linda Darnell (The Seduced, Episode 4)
2018/11/6

A stunning brunette sex symbol married to cinematographer Pev Marley, Darnell thought her affair wit