138: Mae West (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 12)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Mae West was the biggest new star in Hollywood in 1933, thanks to two hit films she co-wrote and starred in as a sexually implicit, wisecracking broad who romanced a young Cary Grant. In Hollywood Babylon, Anger credits West’s abrupt decline in movies to a coordinated conspiracy organized by William Randolph Hearst and carried out by the Hays Office. Today we’ll explore West’s background, her history of pushing the censors past the limits of legality, and the truth of her lightning-fast rise in Hollywood and somewhat slower descent back to earth. 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	here attendees, come and sit here
0:03.4	and enjoy Asp
0:20.8	Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring
0:36.2	the secrets and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century.
0:43.6	I'm your host, Karina Longworth.
0:47.2	And today we begin part two of our season, fake news, fact checking Hollywood Babylon.
0:58.3	This isn't news, this is totally unfounded gossip.
1:08.5	It's a long way from Hollywood, criticized for dealing too fritely with such themes
1:13.2	as sex annuity.
1:15.2	Hollywood Babylon.
1:24.8	If you haven't listened to part one of this series, you should go back and do so.
1:31.5	But here's the gist.
1:34.2	Hollywood Babylon is a book published by Kenneth Enger, a child actor turned experimental
1:39.7	filmmaker, turned pioneer in a form of Hollywood gossip that verges on conspiracy theory.
1:50.9	Enger spent the 1940s and 1950s drifting between various inner circles and marginalized subgroups
1:58.0	in and around Hollywood.
2:00.2	And as such, he came to hear a lot of versions of scandalous Hollywood stories that ran counter
2:07.2	two or went further than the accepted narratives of these events.
2:12.7	By the late 1950s, Enger was living in Paris and in need of money.
2:18.1	He started writing up for Kayet de Cinema magazine, some of the stories that he had heard
2:23.2	through what amounted to, a Hollywood party game of telephone.
2:28.0	Enger eventually compiled these articles into a book, which paired usually partially fantasized
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