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GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA (THE SEDUCED, EPISODE 6)
YVONNE DE CARLO (THE SEDUCED, EPISODE 5)
LINDA DARNELL (THE SEDUCED, EPISODE 4)
ANN DVORAK (THE SEDUCED, EPISODE 3)  
THE BACCHANAL OF 1920S HOLLYWOOD, VIA FREDERICA SAGOR MAAS (THE SEDUCED, EPISODE 2)
RUPERT HUGHES'S WOMEN (THE SEDUCED, EPISODE 1)  
CLARA BOW (FAKE NEWS: FACT CHECKING HOLLYWOOD BABYLON EPISODE 11)
RUDOLPH VALENTINO (FAKE NEWS: FACT-CHECKING HOLLYWOOD BABYLON EPISODE 10)
THOMAS INCE AND THE HEARST "COVERUP" (FAKE NEWS: FACT-CHECKING HOLLYWOOD BABYLON EPISODE 9) 
PEGGY HOPKINS JOYCE AND CHARLIE CHAPLIN (FAKE NEWS: FACT-CHECKING HOLLYWOOD BABYLON, EPISODE 8)
WILL HAYS AND "PRE-CODE" HOLLYWOOD (FAKE NEWS: FACT-CHECKING HOLLYWOOD BABYLON EPISODE 7)  
WALLACE REID (FAKE NEWS: FACT CHECKING HOLLYWOOD BABYLON EPISODE 6)
MABEL NORMAND (FAKE NEWS: FACT CHECKING HOLLYWOOD BABYLON EPISODE 5)
WILLIAM DESMOND TAYLOR (FAKE NEWS: FACT CHECKING HOLLYWOOD BABYLON EPISODE 4)
ROSCOE "FATTY" ARBUCKLE AND VIRGINIA RAPPE (FAKE NEWS: FACT CHECKING HOLLYWOOD BABYLON EPISODE 3)
OLIVE THOMAS (FAKE NEWS: FACT CHECKING HOLLYWOOD BABYLON EPISODE 2)
D.W. GRIFFITH, THE GISH SISTERS AND THE ORIGIN OF "HOLLYWOOD BABYLON" (FAKE NEWS: FACT CHECKING HOLLYWOOD BABYLON EPISODE 1)  
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Kirk Douglas, Dalton Trumbo, and Otto Preminger (Breaking the Blacklist, Part 2)
Frank Sinatra and Albert Maltz (Breaking the Blacklist, Part 1)
After the Fall: Arthur Miller (Blacklist Episode #14)
On the Waterfront: Elia Kazan (Blacklist Episode #13)
Lena Horne + Paul Robeson (Blacklist Episode #12)
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Born Yesterday: Judy Holliday (The Blacklist Episode #11)
Salt of the Earth: Howard Hughes + Paul Jarrico (The Blacklist Episode #10)
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She: Richard Nixon + Helen Gahagan Douglas (The Blacklist Episode #9)
Storm Warning: Ronald Reagan, the FBI and HUAC (The Blacklist Episode #8)
Monsieur Verdoux: Charlie Chaplin's Road to Hollywood Exile (The Blacklist Episode #7)
He Ran All The Way: John Garfield (The Blacklist Episode #6)
The Strange Love of Barbara Stanwyck: Robert Taylor (The Blacklist Episode #5)
The African Queen: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn and John Huston (The Blacklist Episode #4)
Dorothy Parker (The Blacklist Episode #3)
CROSSFIRE: THE TRIALS OF THE HOLLYWOOD TEN (THE BLACKLIST EPISODE #2)
Tender Comrades: The Prehistory of the Blacklist (The Blacklist Episode #1)
The End of Louis B. Mayer
Elizabeth Taylor From Michael Wilding to Eddie Fisher
Gloria Grahame
Lana Turner (MGM Stories Part 12)
Jennifer Jones & David O. Selznick
David O. Selznick, The Mayers and Gone With The Wind
Spencer Tracy
Eddie Mannix
Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland
Jean Harlow
William Haines
Greta Garbo & John Gilbert
Buster Keaton
Marion Davies, WR Hearst & Citizen Kane
Louis B. Mayer vs. Irving Thalberg
Manson Family on Trial
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Roman Polanski After Sharon Tate
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Sharon Tate & Roman Polanski
Sharon Tate & Jay Sebring
Kenneth Anger & Bobby Beausoleil
Doris Day & Terry Melcher
Charles Manson, Spahn Ranch, The Beatles & The White Album
Dennis Wilson & The Beach Boys
Charles Manson Finds His Family
What We Talk About When We Talk About The Manson Murders
STAR WARS EPISODE XVI: VAN JOHNSON
STAR WARS EPISODE XV: WHY JOHN WAYNE DIDN’T SIGN UP
STAR WARS EPISODE XIV: FRANK SINATRA THROUGH 1945
YMRT #40: THE YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY ASK US ANYTHING SHOW
STAR WARS EPISODE XIII: WALT DISNEY
STAR WARS EPISODE XII: BOB HOPE VS. BING CROSBY
STAR WARS EPISODE XI: CHARLIE CHAPLIN
STAR WARS EPISODE X: ERROL FLYNN (YMRT #36)
STAR WARS EPISODE IX: JOHN HUSTON AND OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND (YMRT #35), WITH SPECIAL GUEST RIAN JOHNSON
STAR WARS EPISODE VIII: HOW NORMA JEANE BECAME MARILYN MONROE (YMRT: 34)
STAR WARS EPISODE VII: LENA HORNE
STAR WARS EPISODE VI: MARLENE DIETRICH AT WAR (YMRT #32)
STAR WARS EPISODE V: RITA HAYWORTH AND ORSON WELLES (YMRT #31)
STAR WARS EPISODE IV: GENE TIERNEY (OR, THE MANY LOVES OF HOWARD HUGHES, CHAPTER 5)
STAR WARS EPISODE III: HEDY LAMARR (YMRT #29)
STAR WARS EPISODE II: CAROLE LOMBARD AND CLARK GABLE (YMRT #28)
YMRT #27: STAR WARS EPISODE I: BETTE DAVIS AND THE HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN
TALES OF CELEBRITY DRUNKENNESS 2014 {YMRT #26:}
YMRT #25: THE SHORT LIVES OF BRUCE AND BRANDON LEE
YMRT #24: MIA FARROW IN THE 1960S, PART TWO: MIA AND DORY
YMRT #23: MIA FARROW IN THE 1960S, PART 1: MIA & FRANK
YMRT #22: AUDREY HEPBURN: SEX, STYLE AND SABRINA
YMRT #21: THE BIRTH OF BARBRA STREISAND'S A STAR IS BORN
YMRT #20: LIZ <3 MONTY
YMRT #19: RAQUEL WELCH, FROM PIN-UP TO PARIAH
YMRT #18: THE MANY LOVES OF HOWARD HUGHES, CHAPTER 4: JANE RUSSELL
YMRT #17 THEDA BARA, HOLLYWOOD'S FIRST SEX SYMBOL
YMRT #16: MARLON BRANDO, 1971-1973
YMRT #15: MADONNA FROM SEAN TO WARREN, PART TWO
YMRT #14: BACALL AFTER BOGART
YMRT #13: BOGEY, BEFORE BACALL
MADONNA, FROM SEAN PENN TO WARREN BEATTY, PART 1 (YMRT #12)
THE MANY LOVES OF HOWARD HUGHES: KATHARINE HEPBURN, 1938 (YMRT #11)
FOLLIES OF 1938, CHAPTER 2: KAY FRANCIS, PRETTY POISON (YMRT# 10)
THE MANY LOVES OF HOWARD HUGHES, PART 2: THE MANY LOVES OF IDA LUPINO (YMRT #9)
FOLLIES OF 1938, PART 1: HOLLYWOOD'S GREATEST YEAR (YMRT #8)
YMRT #7: THE MANY LOVES OF HOWARD HUGHES, CHAPTER 1
YMRT #6: ISABELLA ROSSELLINI IN THE 1990S
YMRT #5: THE LIVES, DEATHS AND AFTERLIVES OF JUDY GARLAND
YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS EPISODE 4: (THE PRINTING OF) THE LEGEND OF FRANCES FARMER
YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS #3: HAPPY 110TH BIRTHDAY, VAL LEWTON!
YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS EPISODE 2: FRANK SINATRA IN OUTER SPACE

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