Introducing Hollywood Exiles
The Bomb
BBC
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
History remembers Charlie Chaplin as Hollywood’s first superstar. At the height of his career, the FBI considered him and other figures from the film industry something else: a threat to the United States. His granddaughter, Oona Chaplin, tells the story of how Hollywood became a battleground for the soul of America. Hollywood Exiles is a story of glamour, duplicity, and the US government’s decades-long campaign to root out communism in Tinseltown. From the BBC World Service and CBC Podcasts. To listen to the full-length story, search for Hollywood Exiles wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Glint Hansley, the producer of The Bomb. You'll be excited to know that we've got a new season coming up. |
| 0:06.0 | We'll let you know about that soon. |
| 0:08.0 | But meanwhile, I've been making another podcast called Hollywood Exiles. |
| 0:12.0 | In that series, I'll host Una Chaplin explores the |
| 0:15.9 | period known as the Red Scare, an ideological battle that implicated some of |
| 0:20.5 | Hollywood's biggest stars, including her own grandfather, one of the most famous men of his age, Charlie Chaplin. |
| 0:28.0 | You can only get episode one here if you want to hear the whole series, search for Hollywood Exiles wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:36.0 | From the BBC World Service and CBC Podcasts, this is Hollywood Exiles. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Una Chaplin. |
| 0:43.0 | What you're about to hear is based on episode one of the Hollywood Exiles podcast, |
| 0:49.0 | a story about politics, celebrity, and what it means to be American. |
| 0:55.0 | I don't know if you've ever walked down the Hollywood Walk of Fame. |
| 1:00.0 | There are more than two and a,500 stars there now. |
| 1:05.0 | It runs for 15 blocks down Hollywood Boulevard |
| 1:08.5 | in front of fast food outlets, museums, hotels, |
| 1:12.0 | and boarded up shops. |
| 1:15.2 | Julie Andrews, Tom Hanks. |
| 1:17.7 | Even Mickey Mouse has a star. |
| 1:19.6 | All the stars of Hollywood, all of them forever commemorated in the city's concrete. |
| 1:26.2 | The idea of honoring the artist who made the city famous with brass plaques was concocted |
| 1:32.4 | by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce in the 1950s. |
| 1:36.6 | 1500 names were chosen. |
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