You Must Remember This

Podcast exploring secret and forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century AI summary

Karina Longworth Visit website › TV & Film · EN · 277 episodes · latest 2026-11-03 · explicit

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You Must Remember This is a storytelling podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century. It’s the brainchild and passion project of Karina Longworth (founder of Cinematical.com, former film critic for LA Weekly), who writes, narrates, records and edits each episode. It is a heavily-researched work of creative nonfiction: navigating through conflicting reports, mythology, and institutionalized spin, Karina tries to sort out what really happened behind the films, stars and scandals of the 20th century.

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2020 Karina Longworth

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Everyone Dies (The Bisexuals, Part 8) E

2026-11-03 · 1 hr 11 min · Season 21, episode 256

Everyone who is left alive dies. Monty’s downward spiral is hastened by the traumatic experience of starring in a Freud movie for John Huston. Libby, desperately unhappy in her third marriage, reckons with her…
Lonelyhearts and Misfits (The Bisexuals, Part 7) E

2026-10-27 · 1 hr 7 min · Season 21, episode 255

Monty’s cataclysmic car accident throws a wrench in his stardom, his mental and physical health, and his relationship with Libby, who begins to see Monty’s other beloved female friend, Elizabeth Taylor, as an enemy.…
Monty and Libby in Love (The Bisexuals, Part 6) E

2026-10-20 · 1 hr 2 min · Season 21, episode 254

Monty’s arc as a tragic romantic figure continues with I Confess and Terminal Station – even as his relationship with Libby becomes all consuming, in the decadent party scene at her secluded estate. Meanwhile, Libby…
Was Libby Holman the Real Norma Desmond? (The Bisexuals, Part 5) E

2026-10-13 · 1 hr 11 min · Season 21, episode 253

With Red River, Montgomery Clift becomes a new kind of movie star, projecting a new kind of sexuality – while still figuring out how he wants to express his own sexuality. Meanwhile, Libby becomes entangled with…
Integrating Music and Queering Hollywood (The Bisexuals, Part 4) E

2026-10-06 · 1 hr 9 min · Season 21, episode 252

Montgomery Clift enters the chat as a teenage acting prodigy who immediately attracts 34 year-old Libby’s attention. Through her sometime-lover Nicholas Ray, Libby starts exploring Black folk music, launching a new…
Starring Jean Harlow as Libby Holman (The Bisexuals, Part 3) E

2026-09-29 · 1 hr 22 min · Season 21, episode 251

While the racist, antisemitic Southern authorities try to indict a pregnant Libby for the murder of her husband, the national media effectively puts her on trial. When Libby gives birth to a new Reynolds heir, the…
A Yankee Jewess in the Deep South (The Bisexuals, Part 2) E

2026-09-22 · 1 hr 7 min · Season 21, episode 250

While riding a crest of Broadway stardom – and in a serious romance with a woman – Libby is pursued by Zachary Smith Reynolds, the reckless, emotional teenage heir to the Camel tobacco fortune. Just months after their…
Broadway Blackface & Harlem Sex Tourism (The Bisexuals, Part 1) E

2026-09-15 · 1 hr 13 min · Season 21, episode 249

Libby Holman, a Jewish girl from Cincinnati, arrives in Manhattan in 1925 and begins to make a name for herself as a torch singer, trading on her racially-ambiguous skin tone and deep voice at a time when white hipsters…
Trailer: The Bisexuals

2026-09-11 · 1 min

Listen to a trailer for The Bisexuals, the new season of You Must Remember This, coming September 15.A sultry, racially-ambiguous singer who became a sensation on Broadway in the late 1920s and 30s, Libby Holman…
Your Next Listen: Talking Pictures

2026-05-28 · 1 hr 0 min

If you're a fan of You Must Remember This, we think you'll also enjoy Talking Pictures, a podcast from TCM and HBO Max. On this episode, Oscar-nominated actress Rosie Perez sits down with host Ben Mankiewicz to discuss…

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Oldest episode in feed: 04/2014 · over 12 years
Typical length: 50 min
Format: Serial Meant to be heard in order

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