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