Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMae West: The Most Dangerous Woman in Hollywood — Sex, Censorship, and the Star Who Redefined the Movies
Episode 10
Mae West shook up Depression-era Hollywood with a persona unlike anything American audiences had seen before — sexually confident, unapologetically f…
2 months, 1 week ago
Marlon Brando, Part 3: The Final Act — The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris, Apocalypse Now, and the Death of a Legend
Episode 9
By 1970, Hollywood had decided Marlon Brando was finished.
He had gone more than a decade without a major hit. His films lost money. His reputation ha…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Marlon Brando, Part 2: The Wilderness Years — Guys and Dolls, Mutiny on the Bounty, and the Road to The Godfather
Episode 8
By the end of the 1950s, Marlon Brando had everything he had spent his career fighting for. An Oscar. Money. Power. His own production company. And t…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Marlon Brando, Part 1: The Early Years — A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, and the Oscar That Changed Everything
Episode 7
On December 3, 1947, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York, a twenty-three-year-old actor in a torn T-shirt walked onto a Broadway stage — and A…
3 months ago
Lana Turner: The Sweater Girl Who Became MGM's Most Glamorous Star — Scandal, Survival, and a Very Hollywood Murder
Episode 6
On Good Friday, 1958, a man lay dead on a pink bedroom floor in Beverly Hills — a severed aorta, almost no blood, a knife with no fingerprints in the…
3 months, 1 week ago
Audrey Hepburn & Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961): How Hollywood Rewrote Holly Golightly — Truman Capote, Givenchy, and the Making of a Style Icon
Episode 5
By 1958, Truman Capote had written something he knew would cause trouble. A heroine who danced along the edge of prostitution. An ending that refused…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Rudolph Valentino: Hollywood's First Sex Symbol — Desire, Masculinity, and the Myth That Outlived the Man
Episode 4
In August 1926, a man in black lay inside a New York funeral home while a hundred thousand people rioted in the streets to get closer. Windows shatte…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Marilyn Monroe, Part 3: JFK, a Hollywood Comeback, and the Last Summer — The Fight, the Mystery, and the Death of an Icon
Episode 3
This is Part 3 of our three-part series on Marilyn Monroe — marking her centennial on June 1, 2026, what would have been her 100th birthday.
By Januar…
4 months ago
Trailer — This Season on WTWMI
This season on When They Were Making It — Marilyn is just the beginning.
The stars. The classics. The faces history almost forgot.
Elizabeth Taylor. C…
4 months ago
Marilyn Monroe, Part 2: The Playwright, the Prince, and the Misfits — Fame, Control, and the Long Collapse
Episode 2
This is Part 2 of our three-part series on Marilyn Monroe — marking her centennial on June 1, 2026, what would have been her 100th birthday.
By 1956, …
4 months, 1 week ago