56: MGM Stories Part 1: Louis B. Mayer vs. Irving Thalberg

56: MGM Stories Part 1: Louis B. Mayer vs. Irving Thalberg

This season we're going to tell 15 stories about different people who worked at the same movie studio over the course of five decades, as the movie industry transitioned from silents to sound, into its Golden Era and finally into its television and counter-culture-hastened decline. Established in 1924, MGM was the product of a merger of three early Hollywood entities, but the only person working there who got to have his name in the title was studio chief Louis B. Mayer. For the first dozen years of its existence, Mayer’s influence over the company would be at least matched by that of producer Irving Thalberg, who was perceived as the creative genius to Mayer’s bureaucrat. This episode will trace the rise of MGM through the 1920s and early-mid 30s, covering Mayer’s long-evolving working relationship with Thalberg, the creation of the MGM “star factory” identity and unique power within the community of Hollywood, and the in-fighting which would end with Mayer poised to seize his crown as the most powerful man in Hollywood. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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John Ford 1962-1972 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 3)

John Ford 1962-1972 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 3)

Born in the 19th century, his career forged in the silent era, John Ford helped to invent the genre of the Western and still holds the record for the most Best Director Oscar wins of all time. Though ...

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Flashback: Peter Bogdanovich and the Woman Behind the Auteur

Flashback: Peter Bogdanovich and the Woman Behind the Auteur

This episode was originally released on June 3, 2020. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. After the death of her first husband and creative partner,...

24 Jan 20251h 10min

Fritz Lang 1959-1970 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 2)

Fritz Lang 1959-1970 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 2)

In the mid-1930s, Fritz Lang fled Hitler and left a successful film career in Germany behind to come to America. After a 20 year career in Hollywood, Lang went back to a much-changed Germany to make t...

21 Jan 20251h 20min

Frank Capra 1959-1971 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 1)

Frank Capra 1959-1971 (The Old Man is Still Alive, Part 1)

The director of It’s a Wonderful Life, who won five Oscars in the 1930s for films that embodied the pre-World War II notion of American exceptionalism, was pushed into semi-retirement by the early 50s...

14 Jan 20251h 20min

Flashback: The Blacklist, Part 4: The African Queen, Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn

Flashback: The Blacklist, Part 4: The African Queen, Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn

This episode was originally released on March 1, 2016. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season,The Old Man is Still Alive. In the late 1940s, as the country was moving to the right ...

10 Jan 202553min

Introducing: The Old Man Is Still Alive

Introducing: The Old Man Is Still Alive

A preview of the new season of You Must Remember This, which covers the late careers of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Vincente Minnelli and ten other directors who began their careers in ...

10 Dec 202427min

SPECIAL PRESENTATION: THE MEMORY PALACE

SPECIAL PRESENTATION: THE MEMORY PALACE

A new season of You Must Remember This is just over a month away, but to tide you over, have a listen to a special presentation: an episode of Nate DiMeo's wonderful podcast "The Memory Palace." This ...

4 Dec 202412min

Listen Now: Talking Pictures from TCM and Max

Listen Now: Talking Pictures from TCM and Max

If you're enjoying You Must Remember This, you may also like Talking Pictures, a movie memories podcast. On this episode of Talking Pictures, you'll hear Ben Mankiewicz in conversation with Carol Burn...

4 Dec 202455min

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