You Must Remember This is the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century. The podcast was created and is written, produced and narrated by Karina Longworth. Our research and production assistant is Lindsey D. Schoenholtz, and our social media assistant is Brendan Whalen. Our logo was designed by Teddy Blanks.
Guest stars have included actors and comedians John Mulaney, Fred Savage, Patton Oswalt, Taran Killam, Dana Carvey, Adam Goldberg, Steve Zissis, Noah Segan, Wiley Wiggins and Nora Zehetner, journalists Max Linsky, Mark Olsen, Anne Helen Petersen and Farran Nehme Smith, screenwriters Kelly Marcel and Craig Mazin, producer Ram Bergman, the internet's own Wil Wheaton, and more.
Since launching as a passion project in April 2014, You Must Remember This has become one of the top film podcasts around. This podcast is a heavily-researched work of creative nonfiction. Every reasonable attempt is made at accuracy, but quite often when it comes to the kinds of stories we explore here, between conflicting reports, conscious and unconscious mythologizing and institutionalized spin, the truth is murky at best. That’s kind of what the podcast is, ultimately, about.
Longworth began her career as a film journalist as the co-founder of the pioneering film blog Cinematical, and went on to serve as a staff critic at the Village Voice and the film editor at the LA Weekly. She has also contributed to Grantland, Slate, Vanity Fair and many other print and online publications. She is the author of books on George Lucas, Al Pacino and Meryl Streep, and she has lectured at the undergraduate and graduate level, most recently at Chapman University. Her latest book, Seduction: Sex, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood, was released by Custom House in November 2018. In 2021, Karina co-wrote, co-hosted and co-produced Love is a Crime, a limited series for Vanity Fair which was named one of the best podcasts of 2021 by Entertainment Weekly. For more information about Karina and her work, go here.
2021 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards Winner, TV & Film
Best Podcast of 2020 & 2021: Esquire, MASHABLE, TIME, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, IndieWire, Vulture
“The golden age of Hollywood had an almost unbearably dark underbelly and writer Karina Longworth tears it wide open.” — The Guardian
"MS. LONGWORTH HAS HIT ON A PECULIAR SWEET SPOT, WHERE HIPSTERDOM MEETS TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES!" — NEW YORK TIMES
"UNVEILS HOLLYWOOD ICONS AS THE RAW AND RELATABLE ICONS THEY TRULY WERE!" — ELLE MAGAZINE
"THIS PODCAST WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT MOVIES" — ESQUIRE MAGAZINE
Longworth has proven herself to be a definitive source on Hollywood lore, from the abuses of MGM’s studio system to the politics of the Rat Pack. —Rolling Stone
"DEEP RESEARCH, DELICIOUS TIDBITS & EYEBROW ARCHED NARRATION!" — FLAVORWIRE
"A CAPTIVATING PODCAST!" — ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“KNOWLEDGABLE AND LACERATINGLY FUNNY!" — WASHINGTON POST
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NEW YORK TIMES + VANITY FAIR + LOS ANGELES TIMES + HARPER'S BAZAAR + VARIETY + JEZEBEL + AV CLUB
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"Karina Longworth achieves the unimaginable: she makes the Manson family murders of 1969 genuinely horrifying again.” — The Guardian
"Longworth [has] deep pathos for what it means to be a person, not just a star, in Hollywood...These stories are worth remembering and Longworth makes a compelling case for each of them.” — The AV Club
"A mandatory listen for anyone who enjoys thoroughly researched and brilliantly written storytelling.” — RogerEbert.com
"An intersection of Kenneth Anger and Robert Osborne, made of equal parts reverence for dream factory self-mythology and kill-yr-idols self-awareness.”—The Stranger