What a Creep <br />Season 31, Episode 4<br />Artie Shaw<br /><br />The lovely and fantastic Simone O. Elias, author of “Old Films, Young Eyes: A Teenage Take on Hollywood's Golden Age,” joins host Sonia Mansfield to talk about Artie Shaw.<br /><br />Artie Shaw played the jazz clarinet and was a big-band leader who reigned supreme as one of the kings of swing with his recordings of "Begin the Beguine," "Lady Be Good," and "Star Dust" in the late 1930s and 40s. He was also an abusive husband, who was married 8 times, ANNNND, he dropped some names at the House of Un-American Activities in the 1950s. What a creep.<br /><br />Sources for this episode<b><br /></b><ul><li><a href="https://artieshaw.com/wives-of-artie-shaw/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ArtieShaw.com</a></li><li><a href="https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/artie-shaw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ebsco.com</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jan/01/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Guardian</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/06/billie-holiday-documentary-lost-tapes-racism-in-united-states" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Guardian</a></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/the-hairpin/scandals-of-classic-hollywood-ava-gardner-the-second-look-girl-eb9d97842c02" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Hairpin</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/arts/music/artie-shaw-big-band-leader-dies-at-94.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">New York Times</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/books/review/Gates-t.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">New York Times</a></li><li><a href="https://www.npr.org/2011/04/04/95550189/artie-shaw-the-reluctant-jazz-star" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NPR</a></li><li><a href="https://swingandbeyond.com/2020/05/14/innuendo-1949-artie-shaw-and-johnny-mandel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Swing and Beyond</a></li><li><a href="https://time.com/archive/6601302/people-people-aug-16-1948/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Time</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Shaw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wikipedia</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._S._Kraft" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wikipedia</a></li></ul><b><br /></b>Be sure to follow us on social media. But don’t follow us too closely … don’t be a creep about it!<b><br /></b><ul><li>Subscribe to us on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-a-creep/id1460298336" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple Podcasts</a></li><li>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/785355681984504" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Join the private group</a></li><li><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/whatacreep.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">BlueSky</a> </li><li>Instagram @WhatACreepPodcast</li><li>Visit our Patreon page: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/whatacreep" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.patreon.com/whatacreep</a></li><li>Email: [email protected] </li><li>We’ve got merch here! <a href="https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/#</a></li><li>Our website is <a href="http://www.whatacreeppodcast.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.whatacreeppodcast.com</a></li></ul>
