History
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12Howard Hawks 1955-1977 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 4)
In the 1960s, many American directors saw their fortunes turn after they notched massive hits. In the case of Howard Hawks –...
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17Featured Excerpt: Realm of Ice and Sky
View of Smeerenberg, Spitzbergen, Norway. A photomechanical print taken between 1890 and 1900. Public Domain. Realm of Ice and Sky by two-time...
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Frank Sinatra in Outer Space — You Must Remember This
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. Welcome to the second episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast devoted to exploring...
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Happy 110th Birthday, Val Lewton! — You Must Remember This
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. A Very Special Halloween Episode! The writer-producer Val Lewton produced and ghost-wrote 11 films in...
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16Featured Excerpt: A Rage to Conquer
The Battle of Actium from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra by Justus van Egmont. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. In A Rage...
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16(The Printing of) The Legend of Frances Farmer — You Must Remember This
And now for a few Show Notes: Farmerology is a tricky field, because each new contributor to the canon seems to make...
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The Lives, Deaths and Afterlives of Judy Garland — You Must Remember This
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. Today we’re commemorating the life and career of Judy Garland, who died 45 years ago...
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The Many Loves of Howard Hughes, Chapter 1 — You Must Remember This
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. The first episode of a multi-part series on the Hollywood romances of Howard Hughes traces...
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Hollywood’s Greatest Year (YMRT #8) — You Must Remember This
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. This micro-episode sets up a topic we’ll be exploring throughout the summer: the films, stars...
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The Many Loves of Ida Lupino (YMRT #9) — You Must Remember This
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. In this second installment of our ongoing series, The Many Loves of Howard Hughes, we...
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Kay Francis, Pretty Poison (YMRT# 10) — You Must Remember This
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. In May 1938, the Independent Theater Owners Association published a full-page paid editorial in The...
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Katharine Hepburn, 1938 (YMRT #11) — You Must Remember This
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. A crossover episode, uniting our two ongoing series, The Many Loves of Howard Hughes and Follies of...
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Madonna, From Sean Penn to Warren Beatty, Part 1 (YMRT #12) — You Must Remember This
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts. The biggest female pop star of the last decades of the monoculture, Madonna was also...
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Bacall After Bogart — You Must Remember This
Show notes! I researched this episode concurrently with last week’s episode, so there’s not much more to report on the sources front,...
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Madonna From Sean to Warren, Part Two — You Must Remember This
Show notes! Side note first: Have you seen Madonna’s Twitter/Instagram? There’s some interesting stuff on it, particularly this image of her and...
