36 min listen
138: Mae West (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 12)
138: Mae West (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 12)
ratings:
Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Dec 4, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Mae West was the biggest new star in Hollywood in 1933, thanks to two hit films she co-wrote and starred in as a sexually implicit, wisecracking broad who romanced a young Cary Grant. In Hollywood Babylon, Anger credits West’s abrupt decline in movies to a coordinated conspiracy organized by William Randolph Hearst and carried out by the Hays Office. Today we’ll explore West’s background, her history of pushing the censors past the limits of legality, and the truth of her lightning-fast rise in Hollywood and somewhat slower descent back to earth.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Released:
Dec 4, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
4: (The Printing of) the Legend of Frances Farmer: During the last year of his life, Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain was obsessed with Frances Farmer, an actress from his hometown of Seattle who died in 1970. Farmer’s beauty and unique screen presence made her a star, but her no-bullshit ballsiness... by You Must Remember This