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Step into the Dark Side of Hollywood: Experience Death on The Lot

Step into the Dark Side of Hollywood: Experience Death on The Lot

FromSpectacle: True Crime


Step into the Dark Side of Hollywood: Experience Death on The Lot

FromSpectacle: True Crime

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Length:
3 minutes
Released:
Jun 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This season, we’re getting into 1950s Hollywood, ground zero for a cultural transformation that would upend every aspect of Americans’ lives. A movie theater in every city, a TV in every living room, and a Post-war America determined to be happy at any cost. Also, during this period… a slew of untimely Hollywood deaths.



The rules of the road for the next seventy years were being written in real-time, and not everyone would make it out alive. This is the story of how Hollywood sold us on a new American Dream, and left a few unlucky stars holding the bag.



Hosted by Adam McKay (The Big Short, Vice, Succession), DEATH ON THE LOT arrives June 1st.
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Released:
Jun 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (45)

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