About this podcast
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…
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Death on the Lot
About this podcast
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…
Recent episodes
- Bonus Episode: Death on the Lot Roundtable21 Jul 2023 · 1 h 00 min
- The Bomb That Killed John Wayne13 Jul 2023 · 1 h 07 min
- The Swashbuckler6 Jul 2023 · 1 h 00 min
- Change Agent29 Jun 2023 · 56 min
- Faster Than A Speeding Bullet22 Jun 2023 · 57 min
- Blood Alley15 Jun 2023 · 56 min
- The Red-Baiting of a Golden Boy8 Jun 2023 · 53 min
- Willie Bioff & Labor’s Last Stand1 Jun 2023 · 52 min
- Don’t Change That Channel1 Jun 2023 · 42 min
- Introducing: Death on the Lot, from Adam McKay11 May 2023 · 4 min
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