Nightrate Nights Podcast: Stories from Hollywood’s Cutting Room Floor

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Episode 5: What Happened to Peg Entwistle?

Warning: This episode discusses suicide. Peg Entwistle was a prolific stage actress and aspiring film star--so why did she leap from the top of

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Before Robert Mitchum's preacher terrorized audiences in The Night of the Hunter, there was Harry Powers, the real "Bluebeard of Quiet Dell.

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The Motion Picture Production Code, or Hays Code, was built to keep Hollywood in line. So how did it collapse? In Part II of our

09 Sep 2026

Once upon a time, Hollywood was the Wild West, with almost any subject up for grabs. Well, that didn't sit well with certain

01 Sep 2026 Angela Lansbury Manson Family Los Angeles Hollywood California true crime

Angela Lansbury's career was just hitting its peak when she uprooted her family, fled Los Angeles, and bought a house in County Cork,