Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (Interracial Panic and Confidential, Episode 8)
You Must Remember This
Karina Longworth
4.6 • 15.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Appalled by rock n’ roll and its racial and sexual implications, Hedda and Louella find themselves in further danger of obsolescence when the gossip game is turned upside down by CONFIDENTIAL Magazine.
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| 0:29.9 | Are you happy? |
| 0:37.9 | What are you recording? |
| 0:41.1 | Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring |
| 1:04.1 | the secrets and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century. I'm your host, |
| 1:12.1 | Karina Longworth, and this is another installment of our ongoing series, Gossip Girls. |
| 1:29.1 | At the end of our last episode, we reeled off a number of challenges in the 1950s |
| 1:57.1 | that sent a single message to the film industry. Adapt or die. Some of those challenges included |
| 2:07.1 | the government mandate that the studios sell the movie theaters they had controlled for decades. |
| 2:12.1 | The rise of television which gave people something to do at home instead of go to the movies |
| 2:18.1 | and the empowerment of movie stars and the agents who represented them, who worked together to end restrictive, long term talent contracts |
| 2:28.1 | and forced the studios to share their profits with valued talent. And then there was the scariest challenge of them all, |
| 2:39.1 | Confidential Magazine. We discussed Confidential Magazine in two episodes of this podcast from early 2019. |
| 2:50.1 | Those episodes dealt with the tabloid in the context of two actresses who believed they had been libeled by confidential, |
| 2:57.1 | Maureen O'Hara and Dorothy Dandridge, and the trial orchestrated by the studios which ended confidential so-called Rain of Terror. |
| 3:09.1 | When Confidential Magazine was defanged, the studios and the stars were allowed to temporarily fantasize that they could return to the old way of doing things. |
| 3:20.1 | When stars had a persona for public consumption that, in most cases, allowed them to protect what was really going on in their personal lives. |
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