You Must Remember This is a storytelling podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of
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
At a boozy party over Labor Day weekend 1921, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, silent Hollywood’s superstar
The first Hollywood scandal to attract international attention was the death-by-poison of Olive Thom
This season will interrogate Kenneth Anger’s controversial and influential gossip collection, Hollyw
Where Bela Lugosi lived his last decade in sad obscurity, Boris Karloff worked until the very end of
Forgotten by Hollywood, struggling with morphine addiction and a dependency on alcohol, at the end o
Lugosi and Karloff, the two stars made by Universal’s monster movies, made eight films together. Tod
After twenty years as a journeyman actor/laborer, Boris Karloff became an instant superstar as the M
With Dracula (1931), Bela Lugosi instantly became the first horror star of sound cinema. It’s not ea
Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff were two middle-aged, foreign, struggling actors who became huge stars
