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22: Audrey Hepburn: Sex, Style, and Sabrina
Like Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, it sometimes seems as though Audrey Hepburn’s actual movies have been swallowed up by a superficial image of her as a star. When you think of her, you probably think...
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23: Mia Farrow in the 1960s, Part One: Mia & Frank
Before Mia Farrow was an outspoken activist, devoted mother to 14 children, and the famously jilted partner of Woody Allen, she was … a lot of other things. Today in the first of a two parter, we’ll...
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24: Mia Farrow in the 1960s, Part Two: Mia & Dory
Last time, we learned about Mia Farrow’s transition from Catholic school girl to wife of Frank Sinatra, and her breakout role in Rosemary’s Baby, which cost her her first marriage. This episode, while...
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25: The Short Lives of Bruce and Brandon Lee
A martial arts master on the verge of major movie stardom, Bruce Lee died suddenly in 1973, at the age of 33; the official cause was “death by misadventure.” Twenty years later, Bruce Lee’s son,...
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26: Tales of Celebrity Drunkenness, 2014
In our first annual end-of-year clip show, we’ll listen to some of the booziest excerpts from the 25 episodes of You Must Remember This released thus far. Highlights include day drinking with Judy...
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27: Star Wars Episode I: Bette Davis and the Hollywood Canteen
An analogue to New York’s Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was a night club in Los Angeles where servicemen could meet, dance and drink with Hollywood stars before departing for the Pacific....
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28: Star Wars Episode II: Carole Lombard and Clark Gable
The queen of screwball comedies married the king of Hollywood in 1939, the year he starred in Gone with the Wind. But their idyll was short lived: Lombard died in a plane crash on the way home from a...
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29: Star Wars Episode III: Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr was a pioneer in more ways than one. After inventing the movie sex scene scandal as the Austrian teenage star of the banned film Ecstasy, she gave up acting to become a trophy wife to a...
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30: Star Wars Episode IV: Gene Tierney (Or: The Many Loves of Howard Hughes,...
The luminous star of a number of key film noirs and melodramas of the 1940s, Tierney’s personal life was highly dramatic and heartbreakingly tragic. In the first trimester of her first pregnancy,...
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31: Star Wars Episode V: Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles
Margarita Cansino went to work at age 12, pretending to be her father’s wife so that the pair could get work as a dance team in Mexican nightclubs. Within a decade, chubby, visibly Hispanic wallflower...
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32: Star Wars Episode VI: Marlene Dietrich
One of the most glamorous stars of the 1930s — and also one of the first androgynous sex symbols — Marlene Dietrich was a German actress turned major Hollywood star, thanks to her collaboration with...
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33: Star Wars Episode VII: Lena Horne
Signed to a contract by MGM in 1942, stunning singer/actress Lena Horne was the first black performer to be given the full glamour girl star-making treatment. But as the years went on and her studio...
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34: Star Wars Episode VIII: How Norma Jeane Became Marilyn Monroe
Today’s episode tells the secret, forgotten, and highly disputed story of the making of arguably the most potent Hollywood sex symbol of all time. In the 1950s, Marilyn Monroe embodied a male fantasy...
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35: Star Wars Episode IX: Olivia de Havilland and John Huston, with Special...
She was the raven-haired beauty whose lily white persona was forged by her supporting roles in Gone With the Wind and several Errol Flynn swashbucklers. He was the real-life swashbuckler, the heroic...
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36: Star Wars Episode X: Errol Flynn
Errol Flynn arrived in Hollywood in 1934 and almost immediately became a massive star, his swashbuckler-persona propelling many of the decades biggest action hits, from his debut Captain Blood to his...
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37: Star Wars Episode XI: Charlie Chaplin
The most successful film of Charlie Chaplin’s career was also the most controversial: In The Great Dictator, Chaplin viciously satirized Hitler before the US entered World War II, and the comedy helped...
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38: Star Wars Episode XII: Bob Hope vs. Bing Crosby
Bob Hope is remembered as the 20th century celebrity most devoted to entertaining the troops. Bing Crosby, Hope’s partner on seven Road to… films, sang the song that became an unlikely alternate...
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39: Star Wars Episode XIII: Walt Disney
As the creator of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and, with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the inventor of the sophisticated feature-length animated film feature, Walt Disney changed Hollywood and brought...
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40: The You Must Remember This One Year Anniversary Ask Us Anything Show
You Must Remember This turns one year old this month, and to celebrate, Karina takes questions from listeners. Topics range from book recommendations to the blacklist to baseball to Karina’s abandoned,...
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41: Star Wars Episode XIV: Frank Sinatra Through 1945
Old Blue Eyes was once a young, skinny kid from Hoboken, and his rise to fame coincided almost exactly with the end of the Depression and the run up to and fighting of World War II. Unlike so many...
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