Blacklist Flashback: Frank Sinatra through 1945

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.6 • 15.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Before our episode on Frank Sinatra’s attempt to end the blacklist, we’re going to flashback to an episode from April 2015, on Sinatra’s rise to fame and his experiences during World War II. In the early 1940s, shortly after skyrocketing to fame as a heartthrob crooner, Sinatra was perceived, and from some corners pilloried, as a draft dodger. Today we’ll talk about how Sinatra acquired that reputation, how it impacted his early career, and the early success which, as we’ll see next week, faded, and became something that Sinatra struggled to recapture, and couldn’t bear to let go of once he did so. This episode is brought to you by Audible.com. For a free 30-day trial membership and a free audiobook. Just go to audible.com/REMEMBER This episode is also brought to you by Blue Apron. Check out this week’s menu and get your two meals free with free shipping by going to blueapron.com/REMEMBER

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0:00.0	You must remember this is sponsored by Audible, who has more than 250,000
0:06.5	audiobooks and spoken word audio products. Get a free 30-day trial and free
0:11.7	audiobook at audible.com slash remember and buy Blue Apron, who make incredible
0:19.1	home cooking accessible to everyone. Get two meals free with free shipping by going
0:25.2	to blue apron.com slash remember.
0:56.2	Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to
1:04.2	exploring the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century,
1:10.7	part of the Panoply Network. I'm your host, Karina Longworth, and this is the
1:19.0	final blacklist flashback in which we revisit an episode from the You Must
1:24.5	Remember This Archives in order to prepare you for a new episode the following
1:29.8	week. There are only two episodes left in our blacklist series and both have to
1:38.4	do with attempts made to break the blacklist and allow those who had been out
1:42.2	of work or working in exile or under assumed names to openly write, direct,
1:48.2	produce, and star in major Hollywood movies. Next week's episode deals with
1:54.5	Frank Sinatra, who we've talked about before in the podcast several times. Our
2:00.3	second episode is about a very strange record album Sinatra made in the 1980s
2:05.3	and one of our two episodes about Mia Farrow had to do with her relationship with
2:11.3	Sinatra in the 1960s. But it's our third episode about Frank Sinatra that's
2:17.7	relevant to the blacklist. Whilst writing high as the chairman of the board of
2:22.9	the rat pack, Sinatra made a public statement that he intended to break the
2:27.3	blacklist by hiring a member of the Hollywood 10 to write a movie. That didn't
2:33.9	turn out as planned as we'll discuss next week. First, we're going to flash back
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