This is our 17th episode, it's Season 2 Episode 4. “Red Herrings and Scandal”.
We have a different format for you this time. We sat down with our friend Amoreena to chat about another famous person who was charged with the Mann Act, aka White Slavery Act. This is the charge that basically brought down Kid Cann in the 1960s.
Amoreena is the friend who has done some wonderful artwork for us and when I asked her to do the artwork for the Marilyn Tollefson episode, she said, “Oh the Mann Act, that’s what they tried to get Charlie Chaplin for!” It sounded like an interesting story so I asked her to join us for an episode to tell us what she knows. What resulted was a fun discussion about old Hollywood and the gossip machine. By the way, the woman who was at the center of the charge was Joan Barry.
Volsteadland is a podcast about the seedy underworld of the 1920s and 30s and even beyond, in Minneapolis (and also beyond…Hollywood, this time). In each episode, we chose a story from that era to present to you.
Credits:
Hosts: Amy and Heather
Guest: Amoreena
Theme Music: "The Last Prayer (to Isadore Blumenfeld)" by Paolo For Lee
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvxy2QNc1fvaFTeASVuM-rA
Background Music: "The Velvets" (instrumental version) by Cannelle
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Artwork: Amoreena
If you or your parents, grandparents, etc. have any stories, folklore, or anything really, on the gangster mobster life in Minneapolis in the 1920s through 1960s, please let me know. We’d love to get in touch and chat about it or use your story in the podcast. Anonymous of course, unless you want credit!
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Extra Links:
Movies:
Trailer: The Cat’s Meow (2001) https://youtu.be/jy9SS59oQFQ
The Great Dictator (1940) https://youtu.be/2vOacn2ZcOs
Trailer: Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018) https://youtu.be/1qn6HxTJp0k
Whole movie: Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018) https://amzn.to/3OpWlcb
Chaplin (1992) https://amzn.to/3vz5IO6
Trailer: Chaplin (1992) https://youtu.be/8UAy9ynS-l4
The Kid (1921) https://youtu.be/LQE0c1Zugx8
Books:
Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars
Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger https://amzn.to/3L6qJ9t
My Autobiography by Charlie Chaplin https://amzn.to/3L6rvTV
Other:
Joan Barry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Barry_(American_actress)
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Contact:
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Volsteadland is produced by me, Amy, at Collected Sounds Media and is part of the Collected Sounds Indie Podcast Network.
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