87: Six Degrees of Joan Crawford: Douglas Fairbanks / Lucille LeSueur Goes to Hollywood

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In order to understand Joan Crawford’s rise to fame, we have to talk about what Joan - born Lucille LeSueur, and called “Billie Cassin” for much of her childhood - was like before she got to Hollywood, and what Hollywood was like before she got there. To accomplish the latter, we’ll focus on Douglas Fairbanks: top action star of the silent era, the definition of Hollywood royalty, and the father of Crawford’s first husband. 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	It's just a cute art hack,
0:09.7	but...
0:15.0	Welcome to another season of You Must Remember This, a summer season.
0:36.5	This season is pretty much the opposite of our last season, which was on the Hollywood
0:41.0	Blacklist and which was very long, very serious and very male.
0:48.1	This season is designed to be the You Must Remember This version of a beach read.
0:54.3	Between now and the end of August, we're going to tell six stories about the life and
0:58.8	career of Joan Crawford.
1:02.3	Actually, I think I was just born dancing and that's all I ever wanted to do in life.
1:08.0	I know what you like.
1:09.5	Now why can't you be friendly?
1:10.8	I'm being friendly.
1:11.8	No, I mean it.
1:12.8	Friendship's much more lasting than love.
1:14.5	It's cold, eh?
1:15.8	Let's leave a new work.
1:17.8	Dreams?
1:18.8	Bad dreams?
1:20.8	I don't see how any home can be complete without children.
1:26.7	I'm sorry this had happened.
1:31.7	No, you're going to listen.
1:34.9	Most of these stories will take as their starting or central point a person or event that
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