Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Charlie Chaplin (Fake News: Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon, Episode 8)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Kim Kardashian of her day, Peggy Hopkins Joyce was famous for being rich and famous—and for her marriages and involvements with rich and famous men, including Charlie Chaplin. Did Peggy really ask Chaplin on their first date if he was “hung like a horse?” We’ll investigate this and other claims made about the affair in Hollywood Babylon, and chart how the dalliance with Hopkins Joyce inspired Chaplin’s first dramatic film A Woman of Paris, and explain how a woman of the 1910s-1920s could come from nothing and become internationally famous before ever arriving in Hollywood. 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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0:30.0	To another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring the secrets
0:38.2	and or forgotten stories of Hollywood's first century.
0:43.3	I'm your host, Karina Longworth.
0:47.1	The great films of the silent years.
0:53.1	This isn't news, this is totally unfounded gossip.
0:56.8	It's a long way from Hollywood.
0:58.8	Criticized for dealing too frankly with such themes as sex and nudity.
1:03.6	Hollywood, Babylon.
1:10.4	Over the past few weeks, we talked about the major scandals of the early 1920s, which
1:16.4	motivated Hollywood to lure a member of the Harding Administration, Will Hayes, to come
1:23.0	help them placate their critics by making a show of clamping down on bad behavior on
1:30.1	screen and off, without actually doing anything to seriously hamper their ability to make money.
1:38.0	As we've seen, this tended to involve scapegoating performers who the studios thought they could
1:44.2	live without and who they speculated would do less good for their bottom lines than bad.
1:51.8	Today's subject was one of those scapegoated, although this is the least interesting thing
1:57.8	about her story.
2:00.0	Here, an excerpt from Hollywood Babylon, introducing us to Showgirl, Divorce and some time Charlie
2:09.1	Chaplin girlfriend, Peggy Hopkins Joyce.
2:17.4	Charlie Chaplin did not seek out scandal.
2:20.6	Scandal came to him.
2:22.1	A big woman in Charlie's love life was also one of the richest, the original gold digging
2:27.4	Zigg field girl Peggy Hopkins Joyce.
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