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6/8/20262 min
This season on When They Were Making It — Marilyn is just the beginning.
The stars. The classics. The faces history almost forgot.
Elizabeth Taylor. Rudolph Valentino. Marlon Brando. Anna May Wong. Alfred Hitchcock. Audrey Hepburn. The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy Dandridge. Charlie Chaplin. Casablanca. Grace Kelly. Bette Davis. Lana Turner. Gone with the Wind. Clara Bow. Citizen Kane. Mary Pickford. James Dean. Greta Garbo. Judy Garland.
And so many more.
The lives underneath the legends. Each one a story all its own.
When They Were Making It is written, hosted, and produced by Patrick Rankin. Original cover art by Simone Beech. Original music by Lionel Ziblat.
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsPatrick Rankin· Host0:00
[mysterious music] Hollywood has always known how to tell a story. The glamour, the scandal, the myth. But behind every name is the life Hollywood left out, and Marilyn is just the beginning. Every week, we take one Hollywood legend and tell the story behind the image. Elizabeth Taylor, the child the studio system raised, the star the press tried to consume, and the woman neither one managed to break. Rudolph Valentino, the Italian immigrant who became Hollywood's first male sex symbol, and whose death at 31 upended America and changed celebrity culture forever. The stars, Marlon Brando, Audrey Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock. The classics, The Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, Gone With the Wind. And the faces history almost forgot, Anna May Wong, Dorothy Dandridge, Clara Bow. And we're just getting started. [upbeat jazzy music] This is When They Were Making It, the lives underneath the legends, and each one a story