In the first episode of You Must Remember This, a new podcast devoted to the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century, Karina Longworth and guest Farran Nehme (author of the Self-Styled Siren blog) work back from Kim Novak's appearance at the 2014 Academy Awards to trace the ways in which Novak has always been an outlier amongst Hollywood beauties. Briefly the biggest star in Hollywood, Novak's career has always been defined by the tension between her well-crafted image, and her resistance to being crafted into something she was not. 

**Show Notes**

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

“Let’s Talk About Kim Novak” Farran Nehme, Selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com
http://selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com/2014/03/lets-talk-about-kim-novak.html
“Kim Novak Returning to SF To Share Her Art” 
http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Kim-Novak-returning-to-S-F-to-share-her-art-3625341.php
“Bell, Book and Scandal: Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Jr.” from The Bad and the Beautiful by Sam Kashner and Jennifer MacNair
Kim Novak: Reluctant Goddess by Peter Harry Brown
Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic by Dan Auiler
Spellbound by Beauty: Hitchcock and His Women by Donald Spoto

AUDIO SOURCES:

Hitchcock and Truffaut (and translator!) audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc2s9uSXWKM
Vertigo trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5jvQwwHQNY
Novak speaking to British Film Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Im8wCTSCw4
Picnic:
The Legend of Lylah Clare directed by Robert Aldrich
Picnic directed by Joshua Logan
Yahoo! UK report on the Oscars: https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/oscars-2014--kim-novak-slated-on-twitter-after-rare-appearance-034850030.html

Songs:
“Perfect Neglect in a Field of Statues” by Eluvium
“Mademoiselle Mabry” by Miles Davis
“Life Round Here” by James Blake

You Must Remember This: The Hard Hollywood Life Of Kim Novak

Welcome to the second episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast devoted to exploring the secret and or/forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century. Today, we look back to 1979, when — while the music world was full of punk and post-disco coke rock, and the movie world was making the transition from the “New Hollywood” of the ’70s into the blockbuster age — Frank Sinatra recorded Trilogy: Past, Present and Future, a triple album with one disc each devoted to big band standards (“The Past”); covers from “the rock era” including Billy Joel and Beatles songs and also “Theme from New York, New York” (“The Present”); and, most amazingly, a 40 minute song cycle about life, love, death and visiting outer space (“The Future”). We’ll take a look at how and why “The Future” was made, and theorize as to why it’s fallen into the dustbin of pop cultural history.  
Show notes at youmustrememberthispodcast.com

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In this second installment of our ongoing series, The Many Loves of Howard Hughes, we explore the life, loves and work of Ida Lupino. Hughes dated Lupino when she was a teenage starlet; nearly 20 years later, after Lupino had become the only working female feature director in 1940s Hollywood, Hughes signed his ex-girlfriend’s production company to a deal at RKO. Hughes supported Lupino as a director, but also helped to kill off her second marriage. We’ll explore how Ida’s relationship with Hughes, and other men in her life, alternately enhanced her career and complicated it. Also: haunted houses, HUAC, The Twilight Zone, post-traumatic stress, polio, more shitty pettiness from Harry Cohn, more high-minded anti-Hollywood talk from Robert Rossellini, and much more. Show notes at youmustrememberthispodcast.com

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Creator/writer/narrator of You Must Remember This, a podcast devoted to exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood' first century. I used to be the film critic for the LA Weekly, and I've authored books on George Lucas, Al Pacino and Meryl Streep.

KarinaLongworth

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