152: Hollywood’s First Weight Loss Surgery: Molly O’Day (Make Me Over, Episode 1)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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At the age of 18, actress Molly O’Day’s career showed great promise — the only thing holding her back was a bit of pubescent pudge. When diets failed, she became the guinea pig of Hollywood's first highly-publicized weight loss surgery. This was in 1929, and the procedure was, as one fan magazine described it "dangerous... and all in vain." What lead Molly to such desperation? And what happened after the surgery to make her former lover, actor George Raft, declare it “ruined her health, her career and damn near killed her?" 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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0:30.0	Music
0:55.2	Welcome to the day view episode of Make Me Over.
0:59.8	A special presentation of You Must Remember This.
1:03.6	I'm your host, Kareena Longworth.
1:06.4	To create this special eight episode series,
1:09.8	I've invited eight writers to contribute stories
1:13.0	in the You Must Remember This style dedicated to exploring the intersection
1:18.1	of 20th century Hollywood and the beauty industry.
1:22.9	Throughout this series, our storytellers will touch on issues of body image,
1:27.6	race, commercialism, ageism, and more,
1:31.4	while telling stories that span the silent era,
1:34.4	the entire history of classical Hollywood, and into the 1990s.
1:39.5	Our first storyteller is Megan Keester.
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