Sammy and Dino Episode 1: The Hustle
You Must Remember This
Karina Longworth
4.6 • 15.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin would become icons for how immigrants and people of color could access the American Dream in the 20th Century. Both grew up in marginalized communities where they learned an ethos of success based on hustle. Today we’ll track both Dean and Sammy to major coming-of-age moments in the middle of World War II. Coming up in industrial Ohio as both a card dealer and a nightclub singer, Dean learns how and why the house always wins. As a child, Sammy joins his father’s touring dance act, and eventually becomes the main attraction, before the war forces him to encounter racism at a level he’d never experienced before.
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| 0:56.6 | Welcome to a new season of You Must Remember This, |
| 1:01.6 | the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century. |
| 1:11.1 | I'm your host, Carina Longworth. |
| 1:17.7 | I came up with that branding phrase, the secret and or forgotten histories seven years ago. |
| 1:25.4 | And as this show has evolved, every time I've approached producing a new season, |
| 1:31.9 | I've been careful to ask myself again what that phrase means, and how it applies to what I'm doing. |
| 1:39.5 | The last few seasons of this podcast have been about women whose names you may have heard of, |
| 1:45.2 | but may not have known a ton about. |
| 1:48.2 | Polly Platt, head of Hopper, Lula Parsons. |
| 1:51.3 | These are names familiar to some people who are already knowledgeable about the history of Hollywood, |
| 1:56.7 | and basically unknown nowadays to everyone else. |
| 2:01.4 | So these would be forgotten histories or never known histories. |
| 2:06.8 | But in a sense, those podcast seasons also revealed secret histories, |
| 2:13.2 | because I was able to tell the stories of those women through a different lens |
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