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You Must Remember This

133: The Bacchanal of 1920s Hollywood, via Frederica Sagor Maas (The Seduced Episode 2)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.715.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Seduction begins at an MGM sponsored orgy at the Ambassador Hotel, as told through the eyes of one of the attendees, a young female screenwriter named Frederica Sagor. Sagor would go on to pen one of the frankest memoirs of 1920s Hollywood, revealing the systematic sexual exploitation of women in the film industry by men like Marshall Neilan--one of Howard Hughes’ early mentors. Frederica’s story also details how tough it was for a woman to hold on to power behind the scenes in the film industry as Hollywood evolved. 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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Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring

1:35.6

the secrets and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century. I'm your host,

1:43.5

Karina Longworth. And today we bring you another story from The Seduced, a miniseries related

1:52.4

to my new book, Seduction, Sex, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood.

2:00.8

This book will be released on November 13th, but you can pre-order it now from your local bookstore

2:10.2

or amazon.com. Seduction begins with a prologue set at the Ambassador Hotel in 1925. The Ambassador Hotel

2:20.4

was where Howard Hughes first settled in Los Angeles as an adult, and 1925 was the year he did it in.

2:30.8

But the story I chose to set the scene of the book doesn't directly involve Hughes.

2:37.2

I was looking for something that would set the scene and help explain the environment Hughes was

2:43.1

deliberately fleeing Houston and running towards. I stumbled on the memoirs of a woman I had never

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