You Must Remember This
by Karina Longworth
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Everyone Dies (The Bisexuals, Part 8)
Everyone Dies (The Bisexuals, Part 8)
About this podcast
You Must Remember This is a storytelling podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century. It’s the brainchild and passion project of Karina Longworth (founder of Cinematical.com, former film critic for LA Weekly), who writes, narrates, records and edits each episode. It is a heavily-researched work of creative nonfiction: navigating through conflicting reports, mythology, and institutionalized spin, Karina tries to sort out what really happened behind the films, stars and scandals of the 20th century.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 277 episodes
- Everyone Dies (The Bisexuals, Part 8) · 1 h 10 min · Season 21 Episode 256Everyone who is left alive dies. Monty’s downward spiral is hastened by the traumatic experience of starring in a Freud movie for John Huston. Libby, desperately unhappy in her…
- Lonelyhearts and Misfits (The Bisexuals, Part 7) · 1 h 7 min · Season 21 Episode 255Monty’s cataclysmic car accident throws a wrench in his stardom, his mental and physical health, and his relationship with Libby, who begins to see Monty’s other beloved female…
- Monty and Libby in Love (The Bisexuals, Part 6) · 1 h 1 min · Season 21 Episode 254Monty’s arc as a tragic romantic figure continues with I Confess and Terminal Station – even as his relationship with Libby becomes all consuming, in the decadent party scene at…
- Was Libby Holman the Real Norma Desmond? (The Bisexuals, Part 5) · 1 h 11 min · Season 21 Episode 253With Red River, Montgomery Clift becomes a new kind of movie star, projecting a new kind of sexuality – while still figuring out how he wants to express his own sexuality…
- Integrating Music and Queering Hollywood (The Bisexuals, Part 4) · 1 h 8 min · Season 21 Episode 252Montgomery Clift enters the chat as a teenage acting prodigy who immediately attracts 34 year-old Libby’s attention. Through her sometime-lover Nicholas Ray, Libby starts…
- Starring Jean Harlow as Libby Holman (The Bisexuals, Part 3) · 1 h 21 min · Season 21 Episode 251While the racist, antisemitic Southern authorities try to indict a pregnant Libby for the murder of her husband, the national media effectively puts her on trial. When Libby…
- A Yankee Jewess in the Deep South (The Bisexuals, Part 2) · 1 h 6 min · Season 21 Episode 250While riding a crest of Broadway stardom – and in a serious romance with a woman – Libby is pursued by Zachary Smith Reynolds, the reckless, emotional teenage heir to the Camel…
- Broadway Blackface & Harlem Sex Tourism (The Bisexuals, Part 1) · 1 h 12 min · Season 21 Episode 249Libby Holman, a Jewish girl from Cincinnati, arrives in Manhattan in 1925 and begins to make a name for herself as a torch singer, trading on her racially-ambiguous skin tone and…
- Trailer: The Bisexuals · 1 min · Season 21Listen to a trailer for The Bisexuals, the new season of You Must Remember This, coming September 15.A sultry, racially-ambiguous singer who became a sensation on Broadway in the…
- Your Next Listen: Talking Pictures · 60 minIf 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-nominated actress Rosie Perez sits…
- Presenting Cautionary Tales | Lights, Camera, Tax Break · 40 min · Season 20If you like You Must Remember This, you might also enjoy Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford, a podcast about stories of historic human error, catastrophes, and heists, and the…
- Welcome to Hollywoodland: John Waters: Subversion, Shock, and the Ultimate Outsider · 35 min · Season 20If 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 to this episode of Hollywoodland…
- John Huston, Part Two: 1975-1987 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 15) · 53 min · Season 20 Episode 248In 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 massive turmoil in his personal…
- John Huston, Part One: 1966-1974 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 14) · 49 min · Season 20 Episode 247This 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 ends with the story of a…
- Flashback: John Huston and Olivia de Havilland · 42 min · Season 20 Episode 246This 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 was the raven-haired beauty…
- Stanley Donen 1967-1984 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 13) · 1 h 15 min · Season 20 Episode 245How 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 Rain and Funny Face left…
- Flashback: The End of Louis B. Mayer · 51 min · Season 20 Episode 244This 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 the 1940s, Louis B. Mayer was…
- George Cukor 1960-1981 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 12) · 1 h 10 min · Season 20 Episode 243George Cukor had always experimented within his relatively broad lane, often finding nuanced ways to explore women’s lives, including their sex lives, under the constraints of…
- Flashback: Marilyn Monroe – The End · 48 min · Season 20 Episode 242This 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 did a star whose persona seemed…
- Henry Hathaway (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 11) · 1 h 12 min · Season 20 Episode 241Henry Hathaway started directing in the early 1930s and though he made movies of all genres, he was particularly associated with Westerns. This allowed him to ride out the 1960s…
- William Wyler 1965-1971 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 10) · 1 h 3 min · Season 20 Episode 240For over 40 years, William Wyler was one of Hollywood’s most dependable classicists, culminating in 1968 with the ultimate New Hollywood-era throwback to Old Hollywood, Funny…
- Flashback: Bette Davis and the Hollywood Canteen · 49 min · Season 20 Episode 239This 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 is the story of how Bette…
- Billy Wilder 1961-1981 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 9) · 1 h 3 min · Season 20 Episode 238Hollywood’s 1960s began with Billy Wilder winning three Oscars for The Apartment. But Wilder’s biggest success would also prove to be his last film to be afforded such…
- Flashback: Sammy and Dino — Generation Gap · 1 h 20 min · Season 20 Episode 237This 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 the mid-1960s, 47 year-old…
- George Stevens 1958-1970 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 8) · 1 h 8 min · Season 20 Episode 236As 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 scarred Stevens himself for…
- Flashback: LIZ · 38 min · Season 20 Episode 235This 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.Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery…
- Otto Preminger 1960-1979 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 7) · 1 h 6 min · Season 20 Episode 234Long an antagonist to Hollywood’s norms (not to mention its actresses), Preminger began the 1960s by directing a massive blockbuster (Exodus) and earning his second Oscar…
- Flashback: Jean Seberg and Otto Preminger · 57 min · Season 20 Episode 233This 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 Seberg made her first two films…
- Alfred Hitchcock 1966-1980 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 6) · 1 h 5 min · Season 20 Episode 232Hitch’s most iconic decade – a decade of Technicolor grandeur and peril inflicted on famous blondes – came to an end in 1964 with Marnie, a critical and box office flop which…
- Flashback: Grace Kelly · 52 min · Season 20 Episode 231This 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 quintessential “Hitchcock…
- Vincente Minnelli 1962-1976 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 5) · 1 h 11 min · Season 20 Episode 230Vincente Minnelli was the ultimate creature of the studio system, spending twenty years working for MGM and perfecting a distinct brand of big-budget, beautifully designed, often…
- Flashback: Lana Turner · 46 min · Season 20 Episode 229This 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 Turner, the legendary…
- Howard Hawks 1955-1977 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 4) · 1 h 14 min · Season 20 Episode 228In the 1960s, many American directors saw their fortunes turn after they notched massive hits. In the case of Howard Hawks – a director who had thrived in virtually every…
- Flashback: Bogey, Before Bacall · 36 min · Season 20 Episode 227This 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.Humphrey Bogart is perhaps the…
- John Ford 1962-1972 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 3) · 1 h 14 min · Season 20 Episode 226Born 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 most Best Director Oscar…
- Flashback: Peter Bogdanovich and the Woman Behind the Auteur · 1 h 6 min · Season 20 Episode 225This 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 the death of her first husband…
- Fritz Lang 1959-1970 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 2) · 1 h 16 min · Season 20 Episode 224In 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, Lang went back to a…
- Frank Capra 1959-1971 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 1) · 1 h 16 min · Season 20 Episode 223The 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 exceptionalism, was pushed into…
- Flashback: The Blacklist, Part 4: The African Queen, Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn · 49 min · Season 20 Episode 222This 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 late 1940s, as the country was…
- Introducing: The Old Man Is Still Alive · 25 min · Season 20 Episode 221A preview of the new season of You Must Remember This, which covers the late careers of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Vincente Minnelli and ten other directors who…
- SPECIAL PRESENTATION: THE MEMORY PALACE · 12 min · Season 20A 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 DiMeo's wonderful podcast "The…
- Listen Now: Talking Pictures from TCM and Max · 55 min · Season 20If 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 hear Ben Mankiewicz in…
- The Hard Hollywood Life of Kim Novak — 10th anniversary restoration · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 1The 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 Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo…
- Introducing: Talking Pictures from TCM and Max · 50 minOur first guest on Talking Pictures is writer director Nancy Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give, It’s Complicated, The Holiday). Recorded at her home, host Ben Mankiewicz talks with…
- Eyes Wide Shut, Part 2, and the Sexiest Man Alive in 1999 (Erotic 90s, Part 21) · 1 h 25 min · Season 19 Episode 220In 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 an NC-17 rating. Where could…
- Eyes Wide Shut, Part 1 (Erotic 90’s, Part 20) · 1 h 24 min · Season 19 Episode 219At the peak of their careers, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman left Hollywood for two years to collaborate with legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick on an erotic drama that the media…
- 90s Lolitas Volume 3: Wild Things, Cruel Intentions and Britney Spears (Erotic 90’s, Part 19) · 1 h 9 min · Season 19 Episode 218If 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 the 90s came to a close the…
- 90’s Lolitas Volume 2: Adrian Lyne’s Lolita (Erotic 90’s, Part 18) · 1 h 11 min · Season 19 Episode 217In the previous decade, Adrian Lyne had made two movies (Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal) that had grossed over $100 million in the US alone. With carte blanche to do…
- The Lynch Family: Boxing Helena & Lost Highway (Erotic 90’s, Part 17) · 1 h 17 min · Season 19 Episode 216One of the most notorious – and least seen – erotic narrative films of the 90s, Boxing Helena was the misbegotten passion project of Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David Lynch. Four…
- Crash and David Cronenberg (Erotic 90’s, Part 16) · 1 h 23 min · Season 19 Episode 215One 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 supposedly created to support. We’ll…
