102: Barbara Payton (Dead Blondes Part 10)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In our Joan Crawford series, we talked about Barbara Payton as the young, troubled third wife of Crawford’s ex Franchot Tone, whose inability to choose between Tone and another actor brought all three of them down into tabloid Hell. Today, we revisit Payton’s story, and expand it, to explore her rise to quasi-fame, and the slippery slope that reduced her from “most likely to succeed” to informal prostitution, to formal prostitution, and finally to a way-too-early grave. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Aratalam University
0:26.4	Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring
0:37.4	the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century, part of the Paneple
0:45.2	Network.
0:46.2	I'm your host, Karina Longworth, and this is another installment in our ongoing series,
0:55.2	The Dead Blonds.
0:57.2	Where are you going?
0:59.2	To Hollywood.
1:01.2	Hollywood.
1:02.2	You come here for excitement.
1:05.2	I'm better than a human woman.
1:10.2	Do you rather be a brunette?
1:18.2	My dress.
1:19.2	Do you like it?
1:20.2	I don't know.
1:23.2	I'm so low, I'm so low.
1:30.2	Oh, no.
1:37.2	Today we're going to go back in time a bit, in more ways than one.
1:43.2	We're going to rewind in history to before the ascendancy of Marilyn Monroe, to talk about
1:49.1	an actress who went looking for Stardom around the same time as Marilyn, and whose blonde
1:54.8	bombshell gifts should perhaps have made her equally eligible as the former Norma
2:00.9	Jean to become the top blonde of the 1950s.
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