I'm just a kid.

I'm proud of you.

Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This.

I'm a podcast dedicated to exploring the secrets and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's

first century.

Part of the Panoply Network.

I'm your host, Kareena Longworth.

A few weeks back, we brought you the first part of a story about the period, starting around

the mid-1980s, in which Madonna was both the biggest female pop star in the world, and

also maybe the universe's highest profile, serious cinephile.

That episode began with the story of how Madonna got her first film role, in desperately

seeking Susan, and continued as she paid tribute to Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Adetric,

Orson Wells, and countless other Hollywood luminaries through her music videos.

It included her tumultuous marriage to Sean Penn, during which Madonna starred in two

disastrous films, Shanghai Surprise, and Who's That Girl.

We talked about that time when Sean Penn allegedly broke into his estranged wife's house,

tied Madonna to a chair, and held her hostage for hours.

We talked about the breakup record, Madonna released a few months after that incident,

like a prayer, and the David Fincher directed music video for Vogue.

In short, we talked about a lot, so if you haven't yet, you may want to go back and

listen to that episode, before you continue with this one.

Part one of this story ended in roughly spring 1990.

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