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film historian and an appreciator of the films of Mike Nichols

Karina Longworth is writer, researcher and journalist based in Los Angeles. She is the creator/host/producer/editor of You Must Remember This, a storytelling podcast dedicated to the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century. Karina is the author of Hollywood Frame by Frame, a book collecting contact sheets from still photo sessions related to classic movies, due out from Princeton Architectural Press in September 2014.

FROM Karina Longworth

Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Remembering Mike Nichols Broadway and Hollywood director Mike Nichols died today at 83. He was best known for his films The Graduate and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? but was also one of only about a dozen people in the so-called EGOT club: those who’ve won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. We look back at his work and its cultural significance.

8 MIN, 34 SEC Nov 20, 2014

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