August 4, 2025 • 12 mins
Guest Host and JLJ Media CEO James Lott Jr talks about Hollywood that is forgotten and why this show exists. Forgotten Hollywood is on Facebook.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Let's go by Forgotten Hollywood. We don't forget Forgotten Hollywood.
You'll remember Forgotten Hollywood where we came from, Forgotten Hollwood. Hello, everyone,
(00:31):
welcome to Forgotten Hollywood. I'm James Lott, junior guest host
this week fill again for Doug Has she's on assignment.
So this is a good one because I got a
question about this and I thought I can answer this.
May one day Doug or answer to have his the
movie Help is his own answer. But I'll tell you
(00:52):
one reasons why we do this podcast because I've been
asked what is Forgotten Hollywood? Like what is that mean?
So for me and kind of I think Doug greues
me on some level. Two, I'm thinking my coffee Forgotten Hollywood.
(01:13):
It's our way of keeping Hollywood in general alive, especially
older Hollywood. There were so many people who were involved
in making our industry what it is today. That this
is a show that every week, twice a week showcases
that through interviews, books, sales or whatever it is. So
(01:39):
they start just to start small Hollywood. Hollywood actually is
not a city. For those who didn't know that, it's
a part of Los Angeles. There is no really Hollywood, California.
If you live in a certain zip code, you could
write Hollywood, California on mail or whatever. But it really
is still Los Ante, California. It's nine point seven square miles.
(02:05):
It's not that big one hundred thousand people, which is
a lot for you guys who are in smaller places,
but for four million people in Los Angeles, it's just
a little chunk, So it's not really that big. What
(02:25):
it is is it's a dream, it's a concept. It's
an area because a lot of Hollywood, and I put
in quotations, is I even filmed in that nine point
seven square miles. Yes, there are some theaters and lots
over there. Yes, But where I live in South Los
(02:46):
Angeles by the airport, we have Sony studios in Couver City.
That's not in Hollywood. We're about we're about ten miles
away from Hollywood is an area called the Valley, which
has university studios. Burgh Bank Studio was when my brother's studios.
They're out in the Valley on the other side of
the hill. There are some studios in East Hollywood, a
(03:07):
Sunset Gower and such Prospect studios in Loose Felix, which
is near Hollywood, like there's there's I mean, there's just
there's others. There's too lower place and now we call Hollywood,
we say it out loud. There's other areas also we
considered it's a small area of Hollywood. It's a myth,
(03:27):
it's a legend. It's a working town. I live in
Los Angeles, I grew up here. I work in Hollywood.
To speak, right, I'm doing this podcast and to come
from my home in Inglewood, another Wood, which actually is
a city. But I you know, when I think about
(03:49):
forgotten Hollywood, I think about all the people today, not
just yesteryear, today who are just no one will know
who they are, and they are here behind the scenes
sometimes in front of the camera and a few movies
or a TV show and no one just ever, don't
(04:10):
one knows who they are unless someone or a show
like this talks about them. There's a great documentary called
The Guy and That Thing they didn't want to call
a follow called The Gallon that Thing, and it follows
like a bunch of character actors. So if you've seen
in a million brillion things and basically say, oh my god,
(04:33):
you're that guy and that thing, but you're that you
know that's basically where it came from. Great documentary. I've
got what channel it's from. There's a great documentary, both
of them, great documentaries. Let's talks about that. To get
any kind of fame in Hollywood, it's just rare. Thousandeople,
thousands thousand people come here every year, millions. I don't
(04:58):
know the things are to make it. So on this
show we'll bring up sometimes our fan favorites of things
that just were not huge hits, or they were hits
a long time ago. Some of you guys know this.
Sometimes some things get passed down generationally, and that's either
(05:22):
through family or culture, and some things don't. I never know.
I can never tell why one doesn't while the other does.
Why does Let's say, for example, that's the we thing
is something for example, for example, Superman that's been passed
(05:44):
down from generation to generation because they continually make movies
and TV shows that keep it going. Clueless, Mean Girls,
Heather's Little Women, All About Eve, Mommy Dearest, Xanadu, Greece,
(06:10):
Star Wars like these things get passed down, they keep
going and get passed down. But there are other hit
films and hit artists in certain time periods and somehow
don't get passed down for you know, it's it's crazy
because they were, they were pretty big and almost every
(06:32):
single person, I would say, almost a person has a story.
There's a story in there, it's a story to tell
in this crazy, mixed up zany business. I got stories.
Everybody has stories. I look back and you know there's
actresses and actors who just the white talks about Louise Brooks,
(06:55):
sat In film star known for Pandora's Box Nice twenty
nine career kind of faded now later she did get
rediscovered by some film scholars later, but no one's talking
about her. Filma Todd comedic actress in the thirties with
the Marx Brothers. Now the Marx brothers, of course, have
(07:16):
been passed down, but not her. William Haynes top box
office draw in the Night nineteen twenties, and it was funny.
He refused to hide his gayness and that led to
his career being cut short, bouncing a lot of my
Gabe brethren today talking about him and what his commishments were.
(07:39):
Peg and Twistle, Broadway actress. She's known for a tragic
gest She jump from the Hollywood side in nineteen thirty two.
We don't hear enough of that story and why it's
a cautionary tale for anybody today trying to make it
in Hollywood. Barbara Payton, do you know that name, Bob
you don't had a promising film career in the fifties,
(08:01):
but life behind the scenes just didn't work out for
her and it cut her short. I mean there's I
mean there's more. I mean there's I mean there's more.
Anime Wong. I just heard about her the other day.
She's the first Chize American movie star in Hollywood. I
know her before, and now I see she's getting some stuff.
(08:25):
Step and fetch it. I heard of him, the first
black action became a millionaire, but his legacy is complicated
because of he stepped in. And I always say, you
stepped in, fetch it. That's it's actually like a verb.
Now it's it's very controversial. He was rich, but no
one's talking about him. It's just it's it's we of
(08:47):
this show. I've been blessed to have people come to
us and say, I'm the nephew, I'm the niece, I'm
the cousin, or I wrote a book of a lot
of stars and somebody stars you have heard of. You
might go, well, James, I see some names like Judy
Garland and I think, well, no, there's also we do.
(09:08):
We do names that are not forgotten, but we usually
have a story about them that may have been forgotten
or not well known. That's what we cut into. We go, okay,
you know this person, did you know this about them?
And we talked about that on this show. We are
(09:30):
devoted into showcasing that, and not just on this show.
We have so muchy classic, which is with Tammi Govea,
I have have you heard of me? We are these
those shows are all designed to showcase and send you
information on parts of Hollywood. And what's interesting is that
(09:53):
I maybe will tell me I didn't knew about that film.
I dodnet knew about that song. I don knew about
that story like and there, and there, and they're check
them out and I'm noticing it from a lot of
younger people. You see, here's the deal. We also know this.
It's very true. You see people's comebacks, an older star
(10:14):
comes back. I did it like reused. They did a
story recently on the pet Chow Boys rediscovering Dusty Springfield
a rediscovered rediscovering you know, oh my God and Elis Manelli.
It takes people who are younger to go what's that?
In music is very common where the sample of the
(10:36):
song and go, well, what's where did that song come from?
And it's from nineteen twenty four by the Shylights or
something like oh my God, and they get they you know,
Rick James for a while was really pushing it, said
we brought the Temptations back. So they hauling outs at
one point and Dared rough and Eddie Kendrick's back. I
mean like, it takes someone younger to go what's that
(10:57):
and they get into it and they find value in it,
and they start to promote it and use it in
their own stuff, and then that original star, whether they're
alive or dad, gets attention. I love that, you know,
Hollywood love to come backstory of someone you know, you
don't hear them for years, all of a sudden they're
working again and having success later in life. I think
(11:21):
it's just it's it's amazing. And that's the thing. We
have all this stuff out there, this footage from the
nineteen hundreds or whatever wherever film started to now millions
probably had billions and billions of just stuff that's part
of the Hollywood legacy. And on this show for the
(11:42):
last but three four years, for how long we've done
the show, we're going to continue to unearth that and
share that with you. So that's what Forgotten Hollywood is.
It's a Forgot Hollywood's a treasure trove of Hollywood history
that we feel you all should know about. It's little tidbits,
and we don't do. Our shows aren't that long. That's
(12:04):
on purpose. They're kept at a certain length, on purpose.
Just give you a little tidbits enough youeded to wet
your whistle and then you can do the further research.
They're out there. If there is any show or movie
or sh movie short or scandal or story or actor, actress, producer, writer, screenwriter,
(12:26):
whoever in Hollywood you think we should look into that,
we should showcase. Let us know. Forgotten Hollywood's on Facebook.
You can message UH Doug over there. He mentions me
at JLJAM Media everywhere too. But Forgotten Hollywood's on Facebook.
Go over and follow that page. UH shouts Doug has
HU Speed Productions for our long standing UH collaboration. We
love this is this this show is a huge hit
(12:47):
for us and we appreciate every day when I see
the numbers I do. I'm James Lott Junior. We here
on Mondays and Thursdays. Talk to you next time.
Let's go by Forgotten Hollywood. We don't forget Forgotten Hollywood.
You'll remember Forgotten Hollywood where we came from, Forgotten Hollwood. Hello, everyone,
(00:31):
welcome to Forgotten Hollywood. I'm James Lott, junior guest host
this week fill again for Doug Has she's on assignment.
So this is a good one because I got a
question about this and I thought I can answer this.
May one day Doug or answer to have his the
movie Help is his own answer. But I'll tell you
(00:52):
one reasons why we do this podcast because I've been
asked what is Forgotten Hollywood? Like what is that mean?
So for me and kind of I think Doug greues
me on some level. Two, I'm thinking my coffee Forgotten Hollywood.
(01:13):
It's our way of keeping Hollywood in general alive, especially
older Hollywood. There were so many people who were involved
in making our industry what it is today. That this
is a show that every week, twice a week showcases
that through interviews, books, sales or whatever it is. So
(01:39):
they start just to start small Hollywood. Hollywood actually is
not a city. For those who didn't know that, it's
a part of Los Angeles. There is no really Hollywood, California.
If you live in a certain zip code, you could
write Hollywood, California on mail or whatever. But it really
is still Los Ante, California. It's nine point seven square miles.
(02:05):
It's not that big one hundred thousand people, which is
a lot for you guys who are in smaller places,
but for four million people in Los Angeles, it's just
a little chunk, So it's not really that big. What
(02:25):
it is is it's a dream, it's a concept. It's
an area because a lot of Hollywood, and I put
in quotations, is I even filmed in that nine point
seven square miles. Yes, there are some theaters and lots
over there. Yes, But where I live in South Los
(02:46):
Angeles by the airport, we have Sony studios in Couver City.
That's not in Hollywood. We're about we're about ten miles
away from Hollywood is an area called the Valley, which
has university studios. Burgh Bank Studio was when my brother's studios.
They're out in the Valley on the other side of
the hill. There are some studios in East Hollywood, a
(03:07):
Sunset Gower and such Prospect studios in Loose Felix, which
is near Hollywood, like there's there's I mean, there's just
there's others. There's too lower place and now we call Hollywood,
we say it out loud. There's other areas also we
considered it's a small area of Hollywood. It's a myth,
(03:27):
it's a legend. It's a working town. I live in
Los Angeles, I grew up here. I work in Hollywood.
To speak, right, I'm doing this podcast and to come
from my home in Inglewood, another Wood, which actually is
a city. But I you know, when I think about
(03:49):
forgotten Hollywood, I think about all the people today, not
just yesteryear, today who are just no one will know
who they are, and they are here behind the scenes
sometimes in front of the camera and a few movies
or a TV show and no one just ever, don't
(04:10):
one knows who they are unless someone or a show
like this talks about them. There's a great documentary called
The Guy and That Thing they didn't want to call
a follow called The Gallon that Thing, and it follows
like a bunch of character actors. So if you've seen
in a million brillion things and basically say, oh my god,
(04:33):
you're that guy and that thing, but you're that you
know that's basically where it came from. Great documentary. I've
got what channel it's from. There's a great documentary, both
of them, great documentaries. Let's talks about that. To get
any kind of fame in Hollywood, it's just rare. Thousandeople,
thousands thousand people come here every year, millions. I don't
(04:58):
know the things are to make it. So on this
show we'll bring up sometimes our fan favorites of things
that just were not huge hits, or they were hits
a long time ago. Some of you guys know this.
Sometimes some things get passed down generationally, and that's either
(05:22):
through family or culture, and some things don't. I never know.
I can never tell why one doesn't while the other does.
Why does Let's say, for example, that's the we thing
is something for example, for example, Superman that's been passed
(05:44):
down from generation to generation because they continually make movies
and TV shows that keep it going. Clueless, Mean Girls,
Heather's Little Women, All About Eve, Mommy Dearest, Xanadu, Greece,
(06:10):
Star Wars like these things get passed down, they keep
going and get passed down. But there are other hit
films and hit artists in certain time periods and somehow
don't get passed down for you know, it's it's crazy
because they were, they were pretty big and almost every
(06:32):
single person, I would say, almost a person has a story.
There's a story in there, it's a story to tell
in this crazy, mixed up zany business. I got stories.
Everybody has stories. I look back and you know there's
actresses and actors who just the white talks about Louise Brooks,
(06:55):
sat In film star known for Pandora's Box Nice twenty
nine career kind of faded now later she did get
rediscovered by some film scholars later, but no one's talking
about her. Filma Todd comedic actress in the thirties with
the Marx Brothers. Now the Marx brothers, of course, have
(07:16):
been passed down, but not her. William Haynes top box
office draw in the Night nineteen twenties, and it was funny.
He refused to hide his gayness and that led to
his career being cut short, bouncing a lot of my
Gabe brethren today talking about him and what his commishments were.
(07:39):
Peg and Twistle, Broadway actress. She's known for a tragic
gest She jump from the Hollywood side in nineteen thirty two.
We don't hear enough of that story and why it's
a cautionary tale for anybody today trying to make it
in Hollywood. Barbara Payton, do you know that name, Bob
you don't had a promising film career in the fifties,
(08:01):
but life behind the scenes just didn't work out for
her and it cut her short. I mean there's I
mean there's more. I mean there's I mean there's more.
Anime Wong. I just heard about her the other day.
She's the first Chize American movie star in Hollywood. I
know her before, and now I see she's getting some stuff.
(08:25):
Step and fetch it. I heard of him, the first
black action became a millionaire, but his legacy is complicated
because of he stepped in. And I always say, you
stepped in, fetch it. That's it's actually like a verb.
Now it's it's very controversial. He was rich, but no
one's talking about him. It's just it's it's we of
(08:47):
this show. I've been blessed to have people come to
us and say, I'm the nephew, I'm the niece, I'm
the cousin, or I wrote a book of a lot
of stars and somebody stars you have heard of. You
might go, well, James, I see some names like Judy
Garland and I think, well, no, there's also we do.
(09:08):
We do names that are not forgotten, but we usually
have a story about them that may have been forgotten
or not well known. That's what we cut into. We go, okay,
you know this person, did you know this about them?
And we talked about that on this show. We are
(09:30):
devoted into showcasing that, and not just on this show.
We have so muchy classic, which is with Tammi Govea,
I have have you heard of me? We are these
those shows are all designed to showcase and send you
information on parts of Hollywood. And what's interesting is that
(09:53):
I maybe will tell me I didn't knew about that film.
I dodnet knew about that song. I don knew about
that story like and there, and there, and they're check
them out and I'm noticing it from a lot of
younger people. You see, here's the deal. We also know this.
It's very true. You see people's comebacks, an older star
(10:14):
comes back. I did it like reused. They did a
story recently on the pet Chow Boys rediscovering Dusty Springfield
a rediscovered rediscovering you know, oh my God and Elis Manelli.
It takes people who are younger to go what's that?
In music is very common where the sample of the
(10:36):
song and go, well, what's where did that song come from?
And it's from nineteen twenty four by the Shylights or
something like oh my God, and they get they you know,
Rick James for a while was really pushing it, said
we brought the Temptations back. So they hauling outs at
one point and Dared rough and Eddie Kendrick's back. I
mean like, it takes someone younger to go what's that
(10:57):
and they get into it and they find value in it,
and they start to promote it and use it in
their own stuff, and then that original star, whether they're
alive or dad, gets attention. I love that, you know,
Hollywood love to come backstory of someone you know, you
don't hear them for years, all of a sudden they're
working again and having success later in life. I think
(11:21):
it's just it's it's amazing. And that's the thing. We
have all this stuff out there, this footage from the
nineteen hundreds or whatever wherever film started to now millions
probably had billions and billions of just stuff that's part
of the Hollywood legacy. And on this show for the
(11:42):
last but three four years, for how long we've done
the show, we're going to continue to unearth that and
share that with you. So that's what Forgotten Hollywood is.
It's a Forgot Hollywood's a treasure trove of Hollywood history
that we feel you all should know about. It's little tidbits,
and we don't do. Our shows aren't that long. That's
(12:04):
on purpose. They're kept at a certain length, on purpose.
Just give you a little tidbits enough youeded to wet
your whistle and then you can do the further research.
They're out there. If there is any show or movie
or sh movie short or scandal or story or actor, actress, producer, writer, screenwriter,
(12:26):
whoever in Hollywood you think we should look into that,
we should showcase. Let us know. Forgotten Hollywood's on Facebook.
You can message UH Doug over there. He mentions me
at JLJAM Media everywhere too. But Forgotten Hollywood's on Facebook.
Go over and follow that page. UH shouts Doug has
HU Speed Productions for our long standing UH collaboration. We
love this is this this show is a huge hit
(12:47):
for us and we appreciate every day when I see
the numbers I do. I'm James Lott Junior. We here
on Mondays and Thursdays. Talk to you next time.
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