Episode 90 - Robert Lees

Hollywood Crime Scene

Rachel Fisher

True Crime, Comedy

4.7 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In the 1930s and 40s, Robert Lees was one of Hollywood's most sought after comedic screenwriters. By 1951 he was blacklisted.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to Hollywood crime scene. This is Rachel Fisher.
0:02.8	Hi, this is Desi Jettakin.
0:04.4	How's it going, Des?
0:06.2	Good.
0:07.2	You seem flustered.
0:09.0	We just watched Game of Thrones.
0:11.1	We're going to talk about it more on Friday's episode.
0:13.5	Okay.
0:14.5	I'm just fucking exhausted.
0:17.0	Okay.
0:17.7	For everyone who just saw that, what do they call it when it's the second to last episode?
0:21.2	Penultimate. Penultimate episode.
0:23.2	Yeah.
0:24.2	Let's first start off the show by thinking our patrons.
0:28.2	Okay. This week we had Grace, Chris, Teran, Mary, Shannon, Ava, Helena, James, and that's it.
0:41.6	Thank you so much.
0:42.6	Thank you guys.
0:43.8	So the book I read for this case is called Tender Comrades, a backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist.
0:52.1	It's by Patrick McGilligan and Paul Bule.
0:56.4	And it's basically a collection of interviews of several different men and women who were victims
1:03.4	of the Hollywood Blacklist.
1:05.9	But this story we're going to focus on one man in particular who was a victim to the Hollywood
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