John Huston, Part One: 1966-1974 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 14)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This series began with the story of a director who wrote his autobiography to secure his place in history after his career had gone down the drain. It ends with the story of a man who wrote his autobiography as a “dead man walking”...and then continued to make movies for another half a decade, until the literal last breath left his body. Hollywood’s original “nepo baby” director, John Huston was never a conventional studio system stalwart, and in some respects he was able to go with the flow of changing times a lot better than some of his contemporaries. In part one of our two-part season finale we’ll talk about his flight from Hollywood to Ireland, literally playing God, Huston’s long fallow period in the late 60s, Anjelica Huston’s misbegotten film debut, Huston’s reinvention in the New Hollywood era and the health crisis that almost ended it all. 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	You must be a little
0:07.0	Akees are just a kid
0:11.0	A tribe of the cave Welcome to another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century.
0:43.2	I'm your host, Karina Longworth.
0:46.2	And this is another episode of our ongoing series.
0:51.6	The Old Man is still alive. Is Hollywood dead? No, I don't think so. Many years ago,
1:01.0	when I first started making pictures, being in a film business was a little bit disreputable.
1:05.7	I hate wild in pictures, just as much as I do, sex and incest. Old stories I've forgotten mercifully.
1:12.7	I've had such a good time in my life.
1:14.7	It wouldn't bother me a bit if I died at any time.
1:17.0	I think it's up to you, younger fellas, right now.
1:19.1	There's one thing that I hate more than not being taken seriously
1:22.6	is to be taken too seriously.
1:24.5	They're being sued by women's lip.
1:26.4	And I'm still alive to tell the tale.
1:28.3	I teased this episode as being about one of Hollywood's greatest nepo babies.
1:41.8	But John Houston is more accurately described as a spoke in the wheel of a Hollywood
1:47.4	dynasty. His mother, Ria, was a pioneering sports journalist, and his father, Walter, was a vaudeville
1:54.5	actor, who would become a movie star when his son was in his 20s. There was not a lot of money at the time in either profession,
2:03.2	but as a young man, John had enough privilege to pursue pleasure and adventure, always with the
2:09.0	faith that there would be enough to pay for it down the line. By the time he started having children
2:15.1	in his mid-40s, including actor-filmmakers, Danny and Angelica Houston,
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