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According to Hollywood Babylon, actor Wallace Reid—a morphine addict who died in an asylum at the age of 31—was the first sacrificial lamb of the post-scandal era, and Reid’s wife, a former teen star named Dorothy Davenport, was the ultimate opportunistic hypocrite. What made Rei ...  Show more

Who was Will Hays, and how did he come to put his name on the censorship “Code” that would shape the content of movies more than any other single force from the early 1930s into the 1960s? How much power did Hays really have in 1920s Hollywood, how corrupt was he, and why did it ...  Show more

Mabel Normand (1882-1930) was an iconic actress and director of Hollywood’s silent film era. She popularized the pie in the face. She mentored Charlie Chaplin. . And she became one of the first women in history to have her name on a film production company. For Further Reading: M ...  Show more

Marlene Dietrich cemented her status as a Hollywood legend with a series of iconic performances that flouted traditional women's roles and ignited the screen. But it's her passionate support for the United States, her adopted homeland, and the troops fighting in World War II that ...  Show more

Kate reviews The Cult of The Family on Starz about Australia’s most notorious cult leader Anne Hamilton-Byrne.

Nick Rizzo, Senior Producer of Watch What Happens Live on Bravo helps Kate review HBO’s Murder on Middle Beach, about the unsolved murder of Barbara Ham ...

Kate talks about her fascination with the Netflix docuseries Carmel: Who Killed Maria Marta, which tells the story of a sociologist killed in 2002 and still the killer is yet to be found. The case became one of most controversial criminal cases in Argentinian history.

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