"Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood" The Attack of the Small Screens: 1950-1960 (2010)

Writer:

Jon Wilkman

TV Series:

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

Original Air Date:

6 December 2010 (Season 1, Episode 6)

Genre:

Documentary | History

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Filmmaking | Acting | Hollywood | Film History | Film Studio

Cast

Christopher Plummer	...	Narrator
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
A. Scott Berg	...	Himself
Andrew Bergman	...	Himself - Writer / Director
Peter Bogdanovich	...	Himself - Director, Film Historian
Donald Bogle	...	Himself - Film Director
Robert F. Boyle	...	Himself - Art Director
Roger Corman	...	Himself
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.	...	Himself
Mark Harris	...	Himself - Journalist / Film Historian
Molly Haskell	...	Herself
Marsha Hunt	...	Herself - Actress
Miles Kreuger	...	Himself - Film Historian
Betty Lasky	...	Herself
Jesse L. Lasky	...	Himself (archive footage)
Sidney Lumet	...	Himself - Director
Tony Maietta	...	Himself
Leonard Maltin	...	Himself
Paul Mazursky	...	Himself - Writer / Director / Producer
Walter Mirisch	...	Himself - Producer
Marc Norman	...	Himself
Gregory Orr	...	Himself - Grandson of Jack Warner
Robert Osborne	...	Himself
Thomas Schatz	...	Himself - Film Historian
Daniel Selznick	...	Himself - Grandson of Louis B. Mayer (as Daniel Mayer Selznick)
Kathleen Sharp	...	Herself - Lew Wasserman Biographer
David Stenn	...	Himself
George Stevens Jr.	...	Himself
David Thomson	...	Himself - Film Historian
Jeffrey Vance	...	Himself
Gore Vidal	...	Himself
Richard D. Zanuck	...	Himself - Producer (as Richard Zanuck)
Lucille Ball	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Betsy Blair	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ernest Borgnine	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marlon Brando	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
James Dean	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Judy Garland	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jerry Giesler	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Coretta Scott King	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Martin Luther King	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marilyn Monroe	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Debbie Reynolds	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gloria Swanson	...	Norma Desmond (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dalton Trumbo	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lew Wasserman	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Billy Wilder	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Darryl F. Zanuck	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Jon Wilkman

Produced by
Stephon J. Litwinczuk	....	associate producer
Jon Wilkman	....	producer

Production Management
Hadley Gwin	....	director of production: Turner Classic Movies

Sound Department
Conner Moore	....	sound re-recording mixer
Bryan Parker	....	supervising sound editor

Editorial Department
Daniel Erickson	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Christopher L. Perez	....	clearance counsel

Goofs:

Factual errors: A photograph purported to be of American International Pictures' 'James H. Nicholson (I)' and 'Samuel Z. Arkoff' is actually that of Tony Sandler and Ralph Young of the vocal duo Sandler and Young.

Soundtrack:

Singin' in the Rain

A History of Hollywood

Moguls & Movie Stars: Attack of the Small Screen (2010)

*** (out of 4)

After Congress said that the studios couldn't own their own theaters, the moguls ran into more trouble when TV came into play. For many there wasn't a need to go out to the movies when you could stay home and watch this box for free so the studios had to come up with something to get these folks back. The plan was to make movies in widescreen, in color and even a few in 3D. As the 1950s wore on a new crowd were watching movies and that was teens who idolized the likes of James Dean and Marlon Brando. As the decade wore on many of the moguls who started these major studios were dying and a new generation was about to be born. After a slow start to the series things have finally picked up over the last two episodes and continued with this one. Once again we're treated to some nice footage from back in the day as we get to look at some theaters back then and the adjustments that had to be made for widescreen movies to be shown. We get a good idea of what type of numbers TV took away from the movies before the studios realized they could use this new enemy as a way to promote their own films. Roger Corman, Leonard Maltin, Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. and Robert Osborne are just a few of the people interviewed here.