You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

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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Episodes

The Hard Hollywood Life of Kim Novak — 10th anniversary restoration
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The first episode of You Must Remember This tells the story of actress Kim Novak -- a top box office draw of the late 1950s and the iconic star of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo -- and her painful struggle
Apr 2, 2024
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Introducing: Talking Pictures from TCM and Max
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Our first guest on Talking Pictures is writer director Nancy Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give, It’s Complicated, The Holiday). Recorded at her home, host Ben Mankiewicz talks with Meyers about castin
Jan 16, 2024
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Eyes Wide Shut, Part 2, and the Sexiest Man Alive in 1999 (Erotic 90s, Part 21)
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In part 2 of the Eyes Wide Shut story, the movie is finally unveiled, and critics are divided on its quality, and the use of digital effects to evade an NC-17 rating. Where could Hollywood eroticism go
Oct 24, 2023
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Eyes Wide Shut, Part 1 (Erotic 90’s, Part 20)
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At the peak of their careers, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman left Hollywood for two years to collaborate with legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick on an erotic drama that the media speculated would pull b
Oct 17, 2023
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90s Lolitas Volume 3: Wild Things, Cruel Intentions and Britney Spears (Erotic 90’s, Part 19)
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If Adrian Lyne’s Lolita became a case study of what Hollywood and America didn’t want to acknowledge about its sexualization of young girls, as the 90s came to a close the culture was full of “ac
Oct 10, 2023
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90’s Lolitas Volume 2: Adrian Lyne’s Lolita (Erotic 90’s, Part 18)
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In the previous decade, Adrian Lyne had made two movies (Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal) that had grossed over $100 million in the US alone. With carte blanche to do whatever he wanted, he made
Oct 3, 2023
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The Lynch Family: Boxing Helena & Lost Highway (Erotic 90’s, Part 17)
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One of the most notorious – and least seen – erotic narrative films of the 90s, Boxing Helena was the misbegotten passion project of Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David Lynch. Four years after Boxing
Sep 26, 2023
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Crash and David Cronenberg (Erotic 90’s, Part 16)
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One of the only high-profile NC-17 releases post-Showgirls, David Cronenberg’s Crash was the kind of dark adult art film that the rating was supposedly created to support. We’ll talk about how Cras
Sep 19, 2023
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1h 27m
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“Lesbian Chic”: Bound and Anne Heche in Wild Side (Erotic 90’s, Part 15)
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At the beginning of the 90s, lesbians were a punchline for a male-gaze-oriented media, an easy target for expressing the anxiety that women might not need men after all. By the middle of the decade, wo
Sep 12, 2023
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Introducing: Glitter & Might
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In Glitter & Might, a new series exploring the intersection of show business and politics, bestselling author Shawn Levy unpacks the story of Lew Wasserman, the shadowy legend who lorded over Hollywood
Aug 25, 2023
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Showgirls, Jade, and the fall of Joe Eszterhas. (Erotic 90’s, Part 14)
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Joe Eszterhas’s tenure as the hottest screenwriter in town ended with two notorious 1995 flops: the NC-17 rated Showgirls (directed, like Basic Instinct, by Paul Verhoeven) and Jade (produced, like S
Jun 27, 2023
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The Last Seduction, Disclosure, & Fear of the Female Boss (Erotic 90’s, Part 13)
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The 90s were obsessed with what magazine writer Tad Friend would describe as “do me feminism” – and the attendant fear that men could be victims of female sexual aggression. Two films from 1994 m
Jun 20, 2023
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1h 16m
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Sliver and Sharon Stone as Superstar (Erotic 90’s, Part 12)
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Sharon Stone and Joe Eszterhas’s post-Basic Instinct reunion film was one of the most troubled productions of the 90s. A post-Hitchcock tale of sexual surveillance given a technological update for th
Jun 13, 2023
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Indecent Proposal (Erotic 90’s, Part 11)
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Are men okay? Several films from 1993 answered that question with a resounding no. One of the highest grossing movies of its year, Adrian Lyne’s Indecent Proposal was misunderstood as a gimmick, and
Jun 6, 2023
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1h 31m
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Sex, Erotica and Body of Evidence (Erotic 90’s, Part 10)
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In the early 90s, Madonna was the biggest pop star in the world, and she used – and in the minds of some, squandered – her star capital to launch a multi-media exploration of sexuality: the album E
May 30, 2023
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Red Shoe Diaries and sex on TV in the 90s. (Erotic 90’s, Part 9)
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While the MPAA’s confusing and hypocritical ratings decisions were leaving filmmakers flummoxed in the early 90s, cable TV was opening up new possibilities for erotic content. Today we will offer a b
May 23, 2023
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90s Lolitas, volume 1: Drew Barrymore, Amy Fisher and Alicia Silverstone (Erotic 90’s, Part 8)
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Culture in the 90s was obsessed with the sex lives of teenagers. This is a theme we will come back to several times throughout the season. In this episode, we’ll talk about Drew Barrymore, who became
May 16, 2023
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1h 27m
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Murphy Brown, Dan Quayle and Damage (Erotic 90’s, Part 7)
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In the early 90s, one of the biggest scripted shows on TV was Murphy Brown, starring 40-something Candice Bergen as a product of the 60s whose high-powered career precluded marriage and family. When th
May 9, 2023
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Basic Instinct (Erotic 90’s, Part 6)
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One of the biggest hits of 1992, Basic Instinct was sold as Michael Douglas’s return to Fatal Attraction territory, but its success owed to an alchemy of three other creatives: a writer (Joe Eszterha
May 2, 2023
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1h 28m
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The Blanks From Hell: Fatal Attraction’s Children (Erotic 90’s, Part 5)
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In the five years after the release of Fatal Attraction, Hollywood scrambled to make one movie after another about homes and workplaces invaded and threatened by sexy outsiders. Today we’ll talk abou
Apr 25, 2023
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