You Must Remember This

In order to understand Joan Crawford’s rise to fame, we have to talk about what Joan - born Lucille LeSueur, and called ... Read more

Disney Plus is launching with the stated intention of streaming the entire Disney library... except for "Song of the Sou... Read more

Song of the South co-stars Hattie McDaniel, the first black performer to win an Oscar (for her supporting role as “Mammy... Read more

This season, You Must Remember This will explore the murders committed in the summer of 1969 by followers of Charles Man... Read more

We’ll begin with a look at how Polly Platt’s legacy was appraised when she died in 2011. Then we’ll go back in time to t... Read more

In the aftermath of The Last Picture Show — and the collapse of her second marriage — Polly finds an unlikely ally, and ... Read more

Today we're tracing Charles Manson's life from his birth to a teenage con artist, through multiple stints in reform scho... Read more

In the new book Seduction: Sex, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood, Karina Longworth explores the lives and c... Read more

In this episode we’ll talk about Charlie Manson’s arrival in Los Angeles, discuss Dennis Wilson’s life and the role he p... Read more

The trials of the Manson family became a kind of public theater which a number of current and future filmmakers found th... Read more

Who was Will Hays, and how did he come to put his name on the censorship “Code” that would shape the content of movies m... Read more

We’ll close this half of our Hollywood Babylon season with one of that book’s most famously distorted stories: the tale ... Read more

In the 1940s, Louis B. Mayer was the highest paid man in America, one of the first celebrity CEOs and the figurehead of ... Read more

In the first installment of 'Star Wars' (about the experiences of stars during wartime, not Chewbacca or Mos Eisley), Ka... Read more

After the death of her first husband and creative partner, Polly moves to New York, where she swiftly meets and falls in... Read more

How did the Blacklist come to an end? If you ask Kirk Douglas, the end began with his hiring of Dalton Trumbo to write S... Read more

Before Mia Farrow was an outspoken activist, devoted mother to 14 children, and the famously jilted partner of Woody All... Read more

After the murders, Manson moved his family to the depths of the California desert. There, even before they were finally ... Read more

This season, we explore the most controversial film in the history of Disney Animation.With the launch of Disney Plus, t... Read more

Elizabeth Taylor grew up on the MGM lot, spending 18 years as what she referred to as “MGM chattel.” The last four years... Read more