85: The Blacklist Part 15: Frank Sinatra and Albert Maltz (Breaking The Blacklist, Part 1)
You Must Remember This
Karina Longworth
4.6 • 15.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In the first of two episodes about major stars attempting to end the Blacklist, we’ll look at Frank Sinatra’s efforts to hire Hollywood Ten member Albert Maltz. Timing got in the way of Sinatra’s good intentions: this was the exact moment when Sinatra had become the coolest middle-aged man in America as “chairman of the board” of the newly-formed Vegas act now known as the Rat Pack. It was also the moment when Sinatra thought he was on the verge of acquiring real political power through his proximity to presidential candidate John F. Kennedy.
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| 0:30.0 | Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This. |
| 0:57.6 | The podcast dedicated to exploring the secrets and or forgotten histories of |
| 1:04.0 | Hollywood's first century part of the Panoply Network. |
| 1:08.8 | I'm your host, Karine Longworth. |
| 1:11.3 | And this is another installment in our ongoing series, The Blacklist. |
| 1:18.0 | Now you remember the Communist Party or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? |
| 1:22.1 | It's far and keen as necessary to keep it in some inspectory way. |
| 1:25.4 | Take an advocate, abuse, express. |
| 1:27.3 | I had my way about it. |
| 1:29.0 | They don't resent back to right here. |
| 1:39.1 | Today we're going to examine an effort by a major star to bring an end to the Blacklist. |
| 1:45.9 | By hiring a member of the Hollywood 10 to write a high profile controversial movie. |
| 1:52.6 | This episode has everything. |
| 1:54.8 | Gangsters, politicians, possible hookers, the rise of JFK, the formation of the rat pack, |
| 2:02.7 | and why Frank Sinatra never called it that. |
| 2:05.6 | And of course, it's the story of a writer who had been denied work due to his political beliefs, |
| 2:10.9 | and a political climate in which a movie and singing star could have the appearance of being |
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