Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010– )

The history of Hollywood film from the medium's invention to the birth of the New Hollywood in 1970.

Stars:

Christopher Plummer, Daniel Selznick, Gregory Orr

Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Christopher Plummer	...	Narrator (7 episodes, 2010)
Daniel Selznick	...	Himself - Grandson of Louis B. Mayer (7 episodes, 2010)
Gregory Orr	...	Himself - Grandson of Jack Warner (6 episodes, 2010)
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.	...	Himself (6 episodes, 2010)
A. Scott Berg	...	Himself - Interviewee (6 episodes, 2010)
Steven J. Ross	...	Himself - Film Historian (5 episodes, 2010)
Leonard Maltin	...	Himself (5 episodes, 2010)
Cari Beauchamp	...	Herself - Interviewee (5 episodes, 2010)
Richard D. Zanuck	...	Himself - Producer (5 episodes, 2010)
Robert Osborne	...	Himself (5 episodes, 2010)
Tony Maietta	...	Himself - Interviewee (5 episodes, 2010)
Jeffrey Vance	...	Himself - Interviewee (5 episodes, 2010)
Marc Norman	...	Himself - Screenwriter (5 episodes, 2010)
Donald Bogle	...	Himself - Interviewee (5 episodes, 2010)
Thomas Schatz	...	Himself - Film Historian (4 episodes, 2010)
Peter Bogdanovich	...	Himself - Director, Film Historian (4 episodes, 2010)
Carla Laemmle	...	Herself - Niece of Carl Laemmle (4 episodes, 2010)
David Stenn	...	Himself (4 episodes, 2010)
Bob Balaban	...	Director (4 episodes, 2010)
Jeanine Basinger	...	Herself - Interviewee (4 episodes, 2010)
Scott Eyman	...	Himself (4 episodes, 2010)
Molly Haskell	...	Herself - Interviewee (4 episodes, 2010)
Anthony Slide	...	Himself - Film Historian (3 episodes, 2010)
Marc Wanamaker	...	Himself - Film Historian and Photo Archivist (3 episodes, 2010)
Gore Vidal	...	Himself - Author (3 episodes, 2010)
Jim Zukor	...	Himself - Grandson of Adolph Zukor (3 episodes, 2010)
Andrew Bergman	...	Himself - Interviewee (3 episodes, 2010)
Kathleen Sharp	...	Herself - Lew Wasserman Biographer (3 episodes, 2010)
George Stevens Jr.	...	Himself (3 episodes, 2010)
David Thomson	...	Himself - Film Historian (3 episodes, 2010)

Storyline

The history of Hollywood film from the medium's invention to the birth of the New Hollywood in 1970.

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Plot Keywords:

filmmaking | acting | hollywood | film history | film studio | 

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Genres:

Documentary | History

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Details

Official Sites:

TCM [us]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 November 2010 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Ostar Productions, Turner Classic Movies (TCM)

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Black and White Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Himself - Narrator: Dress British, think yiddish.

User Reviews

Alliterative History

This series of documentary shows which has been running on the Turner Classic Movies cable station in the United States, gives a very good if standard view of the history of motion pictures -- anyone who has read a lot on the subject will find many 'facts' offered which he or she 'knows' to be false.

Nonetheless, this is a very good introduction to the history of the movies and will give people just discovering old films a good idea of the general thrust of their evolution. Filled with sound bites from experts as well as clips and images, it shows, first that movies did no arise from nowhere, but grew out of half a millennium of technical evolution and the peculiar combination of events that led diverse people to become the leaders in what was the major entertainment industry for a good part of the 20th century.