53: Gimme Shelter: Happy Birthday Molly

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

It’s April 1944 in Illinois. Molly McIntire is gearing up for the big 1-0 when a new arrival comes to town. In book four, Molly gets new roommate— a refugee from London named Emily. Sure, there’s a war on, but that won’t stop Molly from turning life’s lemons into an unwanted lemon cake. Tune in to hear our coverage of Molly’s birthday week and a discussion of twilight birth that no one asked for. Trust us, this Molly mood is a Taurus-de-force.

"Shirley Takes the Cake" Evening Star. April 19, 1936: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1936-04-19/ed-1/seq-90/#date1=1936&index=2&rows=20&words=birthday+cake&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1945&proxtext=%22birthday+cake%22+&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

Birthday Party Descriptions. The Lexington Advertiser. December 22, 1938: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024271/1938-12-22/ed-1/seq-11/#date1=1936&index=12&rows=20&words=birthday+cake&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1945&proxtext=%22birthday+cake%22+&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

Crisco Cake Recipe. Detroit Evening Times. August 19, 1945: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88063294/1945-08-19/ed-1/seq-52/#date1=1936&sort=relevance&rows=20&words=Birthday+BIRTHDAY+CAKE+Cake&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=2&state=&date2=1945&proxtext=%22birthday+cake%22+&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2

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0:00.0	May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get
0:08.0	10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.
0:15.0	Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Popularity. What is it made of? How does a person get to be popular with lots of people and have a few close friends too?
0:37.0	Let's watch and see what makes people like one person and not another.
0:43.0	Welcome everyone.
0:44.0	Welcome everyone to American Girls the podcast. This is the
0:56.3	podcast where we're reliving the American girls series book by book. I'm Mary.
1:01.5	I'm still Allison. Wow, you know, Allison, like we just heard a really wild
1:06.4	excerpt from a, you know, hygiene film from yesteryear about friendship.
1:11.8	Thoughts? I wanted to go deep into the archive to see what
1:15.2	would await Molly in her teen years and then I very quickly turn the car around
1:20.0	because I don't want to live in that space and and question would you be
1:25.8	popular I don't I mean would you you know I'm going to tell you the truth I
1:30.9	don't think I would be popular in 1947. I do think we both look good in a
1:36.2	sweater set. Yes. Yeah. And I still were saddle shoes to this day. So I feel like if that was a requirement I could
1:44.3	meet that but I don't really know that I would be popular in the 1950s.
1:49.5	I do also think Greece being such a big cultural product of our life all of those
1:55.8	men are 40 like I just feel like that you can I've like yeah I can't like
2:01.0	literally the only thing in my life I've ever been told by my parents you may not watch this or like consume this is Greece like if you remember like when Greece had a renaissance at some point it was like some anniversary of it when we were growing up and it was on
2:13.2	VH1 all the time and my parents were like absolutely not you will never watch
2:16.6	Greece because it has a really bad message about a good girl who goes bad to like
2:21.6	get the boy little did my parents know like that was not
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