139: Mary Astor's Diary (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 13)
In 1936, actress Mary Astor (who had not yet made her most famous film, The Maltese Falcon) and her husband went to court to fight for custody of their four year-old daughter. The trail made internati...
11 Dec 201852min
138: Mae West (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 12)
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 Bab...
4 Dec 201851min
137: Gina Lollobrigida (The Seduced, Episode 6)
This Italian pin-up, along with Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot, was emblematic of a brand of post-war European sexuality that America happily imported. But the Hollywood career of “La Lollo” was del...
20 Nov 201840min
136: Yvonne De Carlo
The future Lily Munster became a star when producer Walter Wanger cast her in Salome, Where She Danced (1945). A curvaceous brunette in her early 20s, De Carlo fit the mold of Howard Hughes’ mid-centu...
13 Nov 201842min
135: Linda Darnell (The Seduced, Episode 4)
A stunning brunette sex symbol married to cinematographer Pev Marley, Darnell thought her affair with Howard Hughes would result in marriage to the aviator. But after Hughes’ near-fatal 1946 plane cra...
6 Nov 201843min
134: Ann Dvorak (The Seduced, Episode 3)
The child of a silent film actress, Dvorak was so determined to be a star that at first, she wouldn’t take no for an answer. Her big break came when she was cast in Howard Hughes’s production of Scarf...
30 Okt 201846min
133: The Bacchanal of 1920s Hollywood, via Frederica Sagor Maas (The Seduced Episode 2)
Seduction begins at an MGM sponsored orgy at the Ambassador Hotel, as told through the eyes of one of the attendees, a young female screenwriter named Frederica Sagor. Sagor would go on to pen one of ...
23 Okt 201837min
Rupert Hughes's Women (The Seduced, Episode 1)
In the new book Seduction: Sex, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood, Karina Longworth explores the lives and careers of over a dozen actresses who were involved, professionally and/or person...
16 Okt 201846min
