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Sharon Tate Pt 1: Dangerous Company
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In this episode
Sharon Tate was a sophisticated beauty who literally stopped traffic when she walked down the street. She began her movie career when America was becoming sexually liberated, and despite the ease with which she was made a sex symbol, she aspired to be respected as a serious actress. Decades later, however, she is perhaps best-remembered as one of the victims found brutally murdered at her Cielo Drive home, the one she shared with her husband, director Roman Polanski. Sharon and Roman welcomed regular guests to that home, including Sharon’s friend, Mama Cass Elliot, who was at the center of the Manson murders and whose actions may be why the motive for the murders that America has come to accept as fact, is actually false.
This is a crossover episode with DISGRACELAND Mama Cass (Part 1)
Sources
Sharon Tate and ‘Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood’: What Actually Happened? (NY Times)
Bright Starlet (NY Times)
Polanskis Were at Center of a Rootless Way of Life (NY Times)
Sharon Tate (Texas Monthly)
Housewarming Party from Hell (Medium)
On Sharon Tate, the Actress (Ringer)
Who Wants Sharon Tate’s Stuff? (NY Times)
Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders, by Greg King
Sharon Tate in Rome on October 10, 1967 (Imago)
Inside Manson victim Sharon Tate’s life – Polanski marriage to public decency arrests (The Star)
History of the Birth Control Pill (Planned Parenthood)
How Roman Polanski forced wife Sharon Tate to have threesomes and make home sex videos for friends (Daily Mail)
What's It All About?, by Michael Caine
Credits
Hosted by Jake Brennan.
Written by Zeth Lundy and Jake Brennan.
Copy edited by Pat Healy.
Scored and mixed by Matt Beaudoin.
Additional music and score elements by Ryan Spraker.
*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak