You Must Remember This

Your Next Listen: Talking Pictures

28 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

If you're a fan of You Must Remember This, we think you'll also enjoy Talking Pictures, a podcast from TCM and HBO Max. On this episode, Oscar-nomi...

Presenting Cautionary Tales | Lights, Camera, Tax Break

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you like You Must Remember This, you might also enjoy Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford, a podcast about stories of historic human error, catastro...

Welcome to Hollywoodland: John Waters: Subversion, Shock, and the Ultimate Outsider

02 May 2025

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If you’ve finished all episodes of The Old Man is Still Alive, I’ve got another treat for you from Jake Brennan at Hollywoodland.  Have a listen ...

John Huston, Part Two: 1975-1987 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 15)

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In part two of our season finale, we explore the final decade of John Huston’s life and career. As he was slowly dying of emphysema and undergoing m...

John Huston, Part One: 1966-1974 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 14)

22 Apr 2025

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This series began with the story of a director who wrote his autobiography to secure his place in history after his career had gone down the drain. It...

Flashback: John Huston and Olivia de Havilland

15 Apr 2025

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This episode was originally released on March 3, 2015. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. She wa...

Stanley Donen 1967-1984 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 13)

08 Apr 2025

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How does an artist once perceived to be ahead of his time fall behind the times? The choreographer/director of Golden Age classics like Singin’ the ...

Flashback: The End of Louis B. Mayer

04 Apr 2025

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This episode was originally released on December 22, 2015. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. In...

George Cukor 1960-1981 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 12)

01 Apr 2025

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George Cukor had always experimented within his relatively broad lane, often finding nuanced ways to explore women’s lives, including their sex live...

Flashback: Marilyn Monroe – The End

28 Mar 2025

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This episode was originally released on March 21, 2017. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. How d...

Henry Hathaway (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 11)

25 Mar 2025

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Henry Hathaway started directing in the early 1930s and though he made movies of all genres, he was particularly associated with Westerns. This allowe...

William Wyler 1965-1971 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 10)

18 Mar 2025

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For over 40 years, William Wyler was one of Hollywood’s most dependable classicists, culminating in 1968 with the ultimate New Hollywood-era throwba...

Flashback: Bette Davis and the Hollywood Canteen

14 Mar 2025

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This episode was originally released on January 6, 2015. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. This ...

Billy Wilder 1961-1981 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 9)

11 Mar 2025

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Hollywood’s 1960s began with Billy Wilder winning three Oscars for The Apartment. But Wilder’s biggest success would also prove to be his last fil...

Flashback: Sammy and Dino — Generation Gap

07 Mar 2025

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This episode was originally released on December 14, 2021. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. In ...

George Stevens 1958-1970 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 8)

04 Mar 2025

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As a cameraman during World War II, George Stevens shot footage of the liberation of Dachau that showed the world the horrors of the Holocaust – and...

Flashback: LIZ <3 MONTY

28 Feb 2025

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This episode was originally released on October 28, 2014. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. Eliz...

Otto Preminger 1960-1979 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 7)

25 Feb 2025

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Long an antagonist to Hollywood’s norms (not to mention its actresses), Preminger began the 1960s by directing a massive blockbuster (Exodus) and ea...

Flashback: Jean Seberg and Otto Preminger

21 Feb 2025

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This episode was originally released on July 4, 2017. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. Jean Seb...

Alfred Hitchcock 1966-1980 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 6)

18 Feb 2025

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Hitch’s most iconic decade – a decade of Technicolor grandeur and peril inflicted on famous blondes – came to an end in 1964 with Marnie, a crit...

Flashback: Grace Kelly

14 Feb 2025

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This episode was originally released on April 11, 2017. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. The qu...

Vincente Minnelli 1962-1976 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 5)

11 Feb 2025

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Vincente Minnelli was the ultimate creature of the studio system, spending twenty years working for MGM and perfecting a distinct brand of big-budget,...

Flashback: Lana Turner

07 Feb 2025

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This episode was originally released on December 1, 2015. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. Lana...

Howard Hawks 1955-1977 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 4)

04 Feb 2025

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In the 1960s, many American directors saw their fortunes turn after they notched massive hits. In the case of Howard Hawks – a director who had thri...

Flashback: Bogey, Before Bacall

31 Jan 2025

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This episode was originally released on September 9, 2014. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. Hum...

John Ford 1962-1972 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 3)

28 Jan 2025

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Born in the 19th century, his career forged in the silent era, John Ford helped to invent the genre of the Western and still holds the record for the ...

Flashback: Peter Bogdanovich and the Woman Behind the Auteur

24 Jan 2025

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This episode was originally released on June 3, 2020. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. After th...

Fritz Lang 1959-1970 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 2)

21 Jan 2025

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In the mid-1930s, Fritz Lang fled Hitler and left a successful film career in Germany behind to come to America. After a 20 year career in Hollywood, ...

Frank Capra 1959-1971 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 1)

14 Jan 2025

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The director of It’s a Wonderful Life, who won five Oscars in the 1930s for films that embodied the pre-World War II notion of American exceptionali...

Flashback: The Blacklist, Part 4: The African Queen, Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn

10 Jan 2025

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This episode was originally released on March 1, 2016. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season,The Old Man is Still Alive. In the ...

Introducing: The Old Man Is Still Alive

10 Dec 2024

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A preview of the new season of You Must Remember This, which covers the late careers of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Vincente Minnelli a...

SPECIAL PRESENTATION: THE MEMORY PALACE

04 Dec 2024

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A new season of You Must Remember This is just over a month away, but to tide you over, have a listen to a special presentation: an episode of Nate Di...

Listen Now: Talking Pictures from TCM and Max

04 Dec 2024

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If you're enjoying You Must Remember This, you may also like Talking Pictures, a movie memories podcast. On this episode of Talking Pictures, you'll h...

The Hard Hollywood Life of Kim Novak — 10th anniversary restoration

02 Apr 2024

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The first episode of You Must Remember This tells the story of actress Kim Novak -- a top box office draw of the late 1950s and the iconic star of Alf...

Introducing: Talking Pictures from TCM and Max

16 Jan 2024

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Our first guest on Talking Pictures is writer director Nancy Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give, It’s Complicated, The Holiday). Recorded at her h...

Eyes Wide Shut, Part 2, and the Sexiest Man Alive in 1999 (Erotic 90s, Part 21)

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In part 2 of the Eyes Wide Shut story, the movie is finally unveiled, and critics are divided on its quality, and the use of digital effects to evade ...

Eyes Wide Shut, Part 1 (Erotic 90’s, Part 20)

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

At the peak of their careers, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman left Hollywood for two years to collaborate with legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick on an ...

90s Lolitas Volume 3: Wild Things, Cruel Intentions and Britney Spears (Erotic 90’s, Part 19)

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If Adrian Lyne’s Lolita became a case study of what Hollywood and America didn’t want to acknowledge about its sexualization of young girls, as ...

90’s Lolitas Volume 2: Adrian Lyne’s Lolita (Erotic 90’s, Part 18)

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the previous decade, Adrian Lyne had made two movies (Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal) that had grossed over $100 million in the US alone. W...

The Lynch Family: Boxing Helena & Lost Highway (Erotic 90’s, Part 17)

26 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most notorious – and least seen – erotic narrative films of the 90s, Boxing Helena was the misbegotten passion project of Jennifer Ly...

Crash and David Cronenberg (Erotic 90’s, Part 16)

19 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One of the only high-profile NC-17 releases post-Showgirls, David Cronenberg’s Crash was the kind of dark adult art film that the rating was suppo...

“Lesbian Chic”: Bound and Anne Heche in Wild Side (Erotic 90’s, Part 15)

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

At the beginning of the 90s, lesbians were a punchline for a male-gaze-oriented media, an easy target for expressing the anxiety that women might not ...

Introducing: Glitter & Might

25 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Glitter & Might, a new series exploring the intersection of show business and politics, bestselling author Shawn Levy unpacks the story of Lew Wass...

Showgirls, Jade, and the fall of Joe Eszterhas. (Erotic 90’s, Part 14)

27 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Eszterhas’s tenure as the hottest screenwriter in town ended with two notorious 1995 flops: the NC-17 rated Showgirls (directed, like Basic Inst...

The Last Seduction, Disclosure, & Fear of the Female Boss (Erotic 90’s, Part 13)

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The 90s were obsessed with what magazine writer Tad Friend would describe as “do me feminism” – and the attendant fear that men could be victims...

Sliver and Sharon Stone as Superstar (Erotic 90’s, Part 12)

13 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sharon Stone and Joe Eszterhas’s post-Basic Instinct reunion film was one of the most troubled productions of the 90s. A post-Hitchcock tale of sexu...

Indecent Proposal (Erotic 90’s, Part 11)

06 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are men okay? Several films from 1993 answered that question with a resounding no. One of the highest grossing movies of its year, Adrian Lyne’s Ind...

Sex, Erotica and Body of Evidence (Erotic 90’s, Part 10)

30 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the early 90s, Madonna was the biggest pop star in the world, and she used – and in the minds of some, squandered – her star capital to launch ...

Red Shoe Diaries and sex on TV in the 90s. (Erotic 90’s, Part 9)

23 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

While the MPAA’s confusing and hypocritical ratings decisions were leaving filmmakers flummoxed in the early 90s, cable TV was opening up new possib...

90s Lolitas, volume 1: Drew Barrymore, Amy Fisher and Alicia Silverstone (Erotic 90’s, Part 8)

16 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Culture in the 90s was obsessed with the sex lives of teenagers. This is a theme we will come back to several times throughout the season. In this epi...

Murphy Brown, Dan Quayle and Damage (Erotic 90’s, Part 7)

09 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the early 90s, one of the biggest scripted shows on TV was Murphy Brown, starring 40-something Candice Bergen as a product of the 60s whose high-po...

Basic Instinct (Erotic 90’s, Part 6)

02 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One of the biggest hits of 1992, Basic Instinct was sold as Michael Douglas’s return to Fatal Attraction territory, but its success owed to an alche...

The Blanks From Hell: Fatal Attraction’s Children (Erotic 90’s, Part 5)

25 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the five years after the release of Fatal Attraction, Hollywood scrambled to make one movie after another about homes and workplaces invaded and th...

Thelma & Louise (Erotic 90’s, Part 4)

18 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most controversial movies of the 1990s, Thelma & Louise pushed every hot button of the new decade: date rape, sexual harassment, the failur...

Introducing This Little Light with Flea

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hosted by Flea, founding member and bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, This Little Light is a podcast about falling in love with music. Flea interv...

“The actress everybody wants to fuck”: Theresa Russell and Sondra Locke (Erotic 90’s, Part 3)

11 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

An enigmatic sex symbol dating back to the 70s, Theresa Russell made a play for Hollywood stardom in the late 80s and early 90s, making a number of fi...

Pretty Woman, Sleeping with the Enemy and Julia Roberts in the early 90s (Erotic 90’s, Part 2)

04 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The first blockbuster about sex of the 90s, Pretty Woman both reinvigorated Richard Gere’s career, and turned Julia Roberts into the biggest female ...

Prologue: Porn, Feminism & the folly of NC-17 (Erotic 90’s, Part 1)

28 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Erotic 80s began with a prologue about the short lived heyday of the X rating, pornography, and feminism. Erotic 90s begins with a prologue about the ...

1989: sex, lies and videotape: Rob Lowe and James Spader (Erotic 80s Part 12)

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

American independent film is launched into the mainstream by Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies and videotape, starring James Spader as an impotent man w...

1988: Kevin Costner, Sean Young, No Way Out & Bull Durham (Erotic 80s Part 11)

14 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The 1988 baseball blockbuster Bull Durham confirms Kevin Costner as the ultimate squeaky-clean, all-American heartthrob, building on a sexual persona ...

1987: Fatal Attraction and Dirty Dancing (Erotic 80s Part 10)

07 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The erotic thriller goes commercially mainstream with Fatal Attraction, a film which starts a national conversation about whether or not women can “...

1986: 9 ½ Weeks, Mickey Rourke & Zalman King (Erotic 80s Part 9)

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Billed as the hottest Hollywood film since Last Tango, 9 ½ Weeks was considered to have missed the mark by everyone who made it – including directo...

1985: Fear Sex. Jagged Edge & AIDS (Erotic 80s Part 8)

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Just as the AIDS-related death of Rock Hudson was finally forcing straight people – and Hollywood – to acknowledge that epidemic, a film was relea...

1984: "Vioporn," Body Double and Crimes of Passion (Erotic 80s Part 7)

17 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In a time of bombastic blockbusters (and Reagan’s re-election), two auteurs defy the norms by releases violent films about sexual obsession, sparkin...

1983: MTV Aesthetics, Flashdance and Risky Business (Erotic 80s Part 6)

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

While the music video was still in its infancy as a cultural phenomenon, two films were released that were accused of aping the “MTV aesthetic”: A...

1982: Teen Sexploitation, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Porky's and The Blue Lagoon (Erotic 80s Part 5)

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

1982 saw the release of three hit high school-set comedies about sex: Porky’s, The Last American Virgin and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. The only o...

1981: Neonoir, Body Heat and Postman Always Rings Twice (Erotic 80s Part 4)

26 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The New Hollywood directors of the late 1960s and 70s were the first generation of Hollywood filmmakers to grow up studying Hollywood movies as art. I...

1980: Richard Gere and American Gigolo (Erotic 80s Part 3)

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most aesthetically influential movies of the ‘80s, Paul Schrader’s American Gigolo sets a template for much of what we’re going to di...

1979: Bo Derek and 10 (Erotic 80s Part 2)

12 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The sleeper hit of late 1979 was Blake Edwards’s sex farce 10, a comedic vivisection of a male midlife crisis, which turned 23 year-old California g...

Porno Chic and The Brief Heyday of X Ratings (Erotic 80s Part 1)

05 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 1968, the Production Code gave way to the ratings system, and the brief legitimacy of the X-rated movie. Today we’ll focus on two massive, X-rate...

Sammy and Dino Episode 9: Is That All There Is?

21 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Desperate to be seen as cool and not a relic of an earlier age in 70s America, Sammy gets into porn and drugs. A Rat Pack reunion gives him renewed p...

Sammy and Dino Episode 8: Generation Gap

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the mid-1960s, 47 year-old Dean Martin proves he's still got it by knocking the Beatles off the top of the pop charts, and by launching his long-ru...

Sammy and Dino Episode 7: Yes I Can

07 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Released in 1965, Sammy Davis Jr.'s autobiography became an instant classic, one of the most dynamic celebrity memoirs ever published and a testament ...

Sammy and Dino Episode 6: The Rat Pack

30 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the early 40s, both Dean and Sammy idolized Frank Sinatra. 20 years later, they became Sinatra’s cohorts in the Rat Pack, and, through Vegas gigs...

Sammy and Dino Episode 5: A Serious Man

23 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After the breakup of Martin and Lewis, Dino has to figure out how to stand on his own as a solo act. He ends up developing an on-stage persona as a ha...

Sammy and Dino Episode 4: Mr. Wonderful

16 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sammy tests the power of his new celebrity, on Broadway and in Hollywood, where he stars in the most controversial movie musical with an all-Black cas...

Sammy and Dino Episode 3: Nothing But a Dollar Sign

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the 1950s, Martin and Lewis mint money as movie stars--and find unique ways to make their access to gangsters payoff--but stardom...

Sammy and Dino Episode 2: Martin and Lewis, Sammy and Mickey and Frank

02 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dean Martin meets and begins collaborating with Jerry Lewis. Martin and Lewis — an Italian and a Jew — become the most successful nightclub act in...

Sammy and Dino Episode 1: The Hustle

26 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin would become icons for how immigrants and people of color could access the American Dream in the 20th Century. Both gr...

Introducing Love is a Crime

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When Hollywood mogul Walter Wanger (Jon Hamm) shot an agent he suspected was having an affair with his actress wife, Joan Bennett (Zooey Deschanel) —...

Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (The Queens Are Dead, Episode 9)

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Hollywood studio system begins to crumble, and Louella and Hedda decline and fall, too. But just as a new generation of filmmakers rises from the ...

Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (Interracial Panic and Confidential, Episode 8)

22 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Appalled by rock n’ roll and its racial and sexual implications, Hedda and Louella find themselves in further danger of obsolescence when the gossip...

Presenting: No Place Like Home

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Do you remember the first time you watched The Wizard of Oz? Those famous red ruby slippers are some of the most iconic objects in Hollywood history t...

Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (Sex and Shame in the 1950s, Episode 7)

15 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The 1950s were a decade of massive contradictions in terms of national and cultural attitudes towards sex. As Louella Parsons struggled to keep up wit...

Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (Witch Hunt, Episode 6)

08 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

During an era in which Hollywood and Washington are shakily aligned in the witch hunting of actual and reputed socialists, Louella struggles to mainta...

Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (The Queer, Female Film Producer You’ve Never Heard Of, Episode 5)

01 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Louella’s daughter, Harriet Parsons, became a groundbreaking female film producer at a moment in history in which virtually all mainstream filmmaker...

Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (War! Episode 4)

25 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

World War II begins to reveal the gulf between Louella’s conservative but essentially business-minded politics, and Hedda Hopper’s virulent right-...

Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (The Feud, Episode 3)

18 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 1938, washed-up actress Hedda Hopper is installed as a movie gossip columnist with the express purpose of puncturing the success of Louella and Hea...

Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (The First Lady, Episode 2)

11 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 1923, Louella Parsons signed a contract with William Randolph Hearst for nationwide syndication of the first major Hollywood gossip column. Parsons...

Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper (Small Town Girl, Episode 1)

04 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Both Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper worked for papers created by charismatic barons whose publications were nakedly corrupt, totally biased -- and a...

"Competition is idiots." Sneak Preview of David Fincher's MANK

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You Must Remember This presents an exclusive first listen of the audio trailer for Mank, a David Fincher film about the screenwriter of Citizen Kane...

How Did It End? (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 10)

28 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Polly Platt’s unfinished memoir ends abruptly in 1995. What were the remaining 16 years of her life like? Using interviews with those who knew her, ...

Bottle Rocket, I'll Do Anything and Polly Platt in '90s Hollywood (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 9)

21 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Polly Platt's collaboration with James L. Brooks hits choppy waters with I’ll Do Anything, which at one point was a musical with songs by Prince, ...

Women of the 80’s (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 8)

14 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In the mid-to-late 80s, Polly Platt worked on a number of films that defined and reflected that decade’s ideas about female power. With an Oscar nom...

Terms of Endearment (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 7)

07 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Polly’s third marriage falls apart, and she enters more than one destructive affair. During these tumultuous times, Polly establishes a new collabor...

Pretty Baby and a Playmate Murder (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 6)

30 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In an attempt to save her family, Polly transitions to screenwriting and producing, basing the prostitution drama Pretty Baby, starring a pre-teen Bro...

A Star is Born (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 5)

23 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When Polly begins her own on-set affair, the double standard of what men can get away with in Hollywood versus what was expected for women would push ...

Orson Welles, What’s Up Doc, Paper Moon (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 4)

16 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In the aftermath of The Last Picture Show — and the collapse of her second marriage — Polly finds an unlikely ally, and a new job, in Orson Welles...

Last Picture Show Love Triangle (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 3)

09 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

At Polly’s urging, Peter decides to direct an adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s novel The Last Picture Show. Though credited only as the film’s “...

Peter Bogdanovich and the Woman Behind the Auteur (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 2)

03 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After the death of her first husband and creative partner, Polly moves to New York, where she swiftly meets and falls in love with Peter Bogdanovich. ...