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You Must Remember Manson

Karina Longworth

From the archives of You Must Remember This, Karina Longworth presents her hugely popular series, “Charles Manson’s Hollywood.” It chronicles the murders committed by followers of Charlie Manson in the summer of 1969, and how the lurid crime and its aftermath were inseparable from the show business milieu in which they occurred. Originally released in 2015. For more great Hollywood stories, subscribe to the You Must Remember This podcast.

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  • Aug 17, 2022 · 5 min

    Welcome to The Sunshine Place

    Once called “the miracle on the beach,” Synanon began in the 1960s as an experimental rehab facility in Santa Monica, California with a radical claim: It could cure heroin addiction. Before long, it would make an even bolder claim: It could cure any of your problems. All you had to do was move in. What started in a house on the beach, soon spread to compounds across the country. The man who made the miracle happen, Charles E. Dederich, aka “Chuck,” would be the one to destroy it all, along with the lives of many of his followers and millions of dollars in assets. The Sunshine Place tells the mind-blowing, true-story of Synanon - one of America’s most cutting edge social experiments, turned into one of its most dangerous and violent cults - as it’s never been told before: by the people who lived it. Executive Produced by Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, and Emily Barclay Ford for Team Downey and C13Originals, together with Josh McLaughlin for Wink Pictures and written, produced, and directed by Peabody-nominated C13Originals, a Cadence13 Studio.

  • S1 · E12
    Nov 20, 2017 · 52 min

    E12: The Manson Family on Trial

    The trials of the Manson family became a kind of public theater which a number of current and future filmmakers found themselves caught up in.

  • S1 · E11
    Nov 20, 2017 · 43 min

    E11: Death Valley ’69

    After the murders, Manson moved his family to the depths of the California desert. There, even before they were finally apprehended by the law, their utopia started to fall apart.

  • S1 · E10
    Nov 20, 2017 · 41 min

    E10: Roman Polanski After Sharon Tate

    Roman Polanski was in London the night his pregnant wife was murdered in their home. He returned to Los Angeles, devastated, to find himself wanted for questioning in a crime which the LAPD, initially, had no idea how to solve.

  • S1 · E9
    Nov 20, 2017 · 47 min

    E9: August 8-10, 1969

    Over the course of a single weekend, half a dozen hippies massacred seven people. This episode includes disturbing details about very violent crimes.

  • S1 · E8
    Nov 20, 2017 · 29 min

    E8: Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski

    While trying to launch her own acting career, Sharon Tate fell in love with, and eventually married, Roman Polanski, the hotshot Polish filmmaker who had his first massive American hit in the summer of 1968, Rosemary’s Baby.

  • S1 · E7
    Nov 20, 2017 · 30 min

    E7: Sharon Tate and Jay Sebring

    In the first of two episodes about the Manson Family’s most famous victim, we’ll trace actress Sharon Tate’s early years, her romance with celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring, and the on-set affair that changed the course of Tate’s life and career.

  • S1 · E6
    Nov 20, 2017 · 47 min

    E6: Kenneth Anger and Bobby Beausoleil

    The first person to go to jail for a Charles Manson-associated murder was Bobby Beausoleil, a charismatic would-be rock star who had put in time as a muse to Kenneth Anger -- child actor-turned-occultist experimental filmmaker and author

  • S1 · E5
    Nov 20, 2017 · 43 min

    E5: Doris Day and Terry Melcher

    Charles Manson became convinced his best chance at rock stardom was impressing Terry Melcher, a record executive who had made stars out of The Byrds, who was also Doris Day's son and Candice Bergen's boyfriend.

  • S1 · E4
    Nov 20, 2017 · 38 min

    E4: Spahn Ranch and the Beatles’ White Album

    After wearing out his welcome at Dennis Wilson’s house, Charlie Manson moves his family to Spahn Ranch, a dilapidated Western movie set where the cult starts preparing for Helter Skelter, Manson's made-up apocalypse inspired by The Beatles.

  • S1 · E3
    Nov 20, 2017 · 45 min

    E3: The Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson, and Charles Manson, Songwriter

    In part three, we’ll talk about Charlie Manson’s arrival in Los Angeles, discuss Dennis Wilson’s life and the role he played in enabling Manson’s rock n’ roll delusions, and explain how The Beach Boys came to record a song written by Charles Manson.

  • S1 · E2
    Nov 20, 2017 · 34 min

    E2: How Manson Found His Family

    In part two, we trace Charlie Manson's life from his birth to a teenage con artist, through multiple stints in reform schools and prisons, and finally to San Francisco circa 1967, where Manson began to try out his guru act on the local hippie kids.

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