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You Must Remember This · May 23, 2025 · 40 min

Presenting Cautionary Tales | Lights, Camera, Tax Break

If you like You Must Remember This, you might also enjoy Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford, a podcast about stories of historic human error, catastrophes, and heists, and the lessons we can learn from such mishaps. In this episode of Cautionary Tales, Tim examines what happens when the bright lights of Hollywood collide with the far less glamorous world of tax evasion. When Ernest Borgnine was cast as the lead in the 1955 romantic drama, Marty, he thought it was his big break. But he soon discovered Marty was not exactly a dream gig. Listen to Cautionary Tales every Friday wherever you get your podcasts.

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If you like You Must Remember This, you might also enjoy Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford, a

podcast about stories of historic human error, catastrophes, and heists, and the lessons we can

learn from such mishaps. In this episode of Cautionary Tales, Tim examines what happens when the bright lights of Hollywood collide with the far less glamorous world of tax evasion.

When Ernest Borgnine was cast as the lead in the 1955 romantic drama, Marty, he thought it

was his big break. But he soon discovered Marty was not exactly a dream gig. Listen to

Cautionary Tales every Friday wherever you get your podcasts.


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