When They Were Making It Podcast Transcripts
Patrick Rankin · 22 episodes with transcripts
The real human stories behind classic Hollywood's greatest films and legends. Marilyn Monroe. Casablanca. Audrey Hepburn. The Wizard of Oz. Charlie Chaplin. Breakfast at Tiffany's. Alfred Hitchcock. Sunset Boulevard. What do they all have in common? They had to make it first.
Spoken has transcripts of 22 When They Were Making It episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 6, 2026.
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Latest When They Were Making It transcripts
King Kong (1933) & Fay Wray: The Making of the Original Scream Queen — RKO, Damsels in Distress, and Hollywood's Impossible Spectacle
October 6, 2026
Patrick Rankin (0:00)
A quick content note before we begin. This episode includes brief discussion of inappropriate behavior toward a minor and suicide. These moments are handled with care, but we want it to give you a heads up. Also, just a reminder that every episode of When They Were Making It is built to bring you into the story from…
Culver City, California, Spring 1932 Inside Stage 12 at RKO Pathé Studios, a jungle has taken over. Fog hangs over a shallow swamp. Artificial rock rises toward the rafters. There's a cave, a ravine crossed by a huge log, tropical trees crowding in from every side. A woman and a man are running through this jungle…
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