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Writers:
Ralph Ellison (novel) (segment 6)
Alex Gibney (writer)
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Release Date:
30 November 1997 (USA) more
Genre:
Documentary | History more
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User Comments:
"Happy Days", it's not! more (3 total)

Cast

  (Series Credited cast)

Edward Herrmann ... Narrator (voice)
Cynthia Dale ... Grace Metalious (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jack Anderson ... Himself (journalist)
John Chancellor ... Himself (journalist)
Jules Feiffer ... Himself - cartoonist (segment "The Fear and the Dream")
John Kenneth Galbraith ... Himself
Allen Ginsberg ... Himself (poet) (also archive footage)
David Halberstam ... Himself (author)
Pete Hamill ... Himself - writer (segment "The Fear and the Dream")
B.B. King ... Himself
Alfred Leslie ... Himself (painter, filmmaker)
Richard Rhodes ... Himself - author "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb" (segment "The Fear and the Dream")
Richard Rhodes ... Himself (segment "The Fear and the Dream")
Stuart Samuels ... Himself (filmmaker)
Robert Serber ... Himself (nuclear physicist)
John Service ... Himself (US Foreign Service, persecuted by McCarthy) (also archive footage)

Dinah Shore ... Herself - Blows Kiss (archive footage)
Mickey Spillane ... Himself
Fisher Stevens ... Jack Kerouac (Readings from On The Road)
Edward Teller ... Himself - nuclear physicist (also archive footage)

Tracey Ullman ... Herself (voice)
Guy Williams ... (archive footage)
Sloan Wilson ... Himself (author) (also archive footage)
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Additional Details

Country:
Canada | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Filming Locations:
Chicago, Illinois, USA more
Company:
Alliance Equicap Corporation more

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Features "Peyton Place" (1964) more

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7 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
"Happy Days", it's not!, 28 November 2001
10/10
Author: super marauder

This is a fascinating look at what we think of as America's moment in the sun. Everybody thinks of the 1950's as the era of back yard barbecues, dad goes to work, and mom stays home with the kids. Opportunity was everywhere! The future seemed bright. What's forgotten about, is how the 50's laid the ground work for the 60's. This program is based on David Halberstam's book 'The Fifties', and deals with what we forgot, or for us who weren't there, it dispels the myth of what we thought the fifties were. If you want Richie, and Potsie, you're going to be disappointed! It deals with the narrow mindedness, McCarthyism, and the lives that were destroyed by it, and Cold War politics. A great history lesson for all ages because it is an honest look at the decade that we romanticize as the "The Good Neighbor Era".

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