"Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood" Fade Out, Fade In (2010)

Writer:

Jon Wilkman

TV Series:

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

Original Air Date:

13 December 2010 (Season 1, Episode 7)

Genre:

Documentary | History

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Filmmaking | Acting | Hollywood | Film History | Film Studio

Cast

Christopher Plummer	...	Narrator
Peter Bogdanovich	...	Himself - Director, Film Historian
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bob Balaban	...	Himself
Robert Benton	...	Himself
Peter Biskind	...	Himself - Journalist / Film Historian
Donald Bogle	...	Himself - Interviewee
David Brown	...	Himself
Roger Corman	...	Himself
Scott Eyman	...	Himself
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.	...	Himself
Peter Guber	...	Himself
Mark Harris	...	Himself - Journalist / Film Historian
Molly Haskell	...	Herself - Interviewee
Buck Henry	...	Himself
Leonard Maltin	...	Himself
Walter Mirisch	...	Himself
Maia Newley	...	Herself (archive footage)
Marc Norman	...	Himself
Gregory Orr	...	Himself
Robert Osborne	...	Himself
Steven J. Ross	...	Himself - Film Historian
John Sayles	...	Himself - Writer / Director
Thomas Schatz	...	Himself - Film Historian
Daniel Selznick	...	Himself
Kathleen Sharp	...	Herself - Lew Wasserman Biographer
David Stenn	...	Himself - Clara Bow Biographer
George Stevens Jr.	...	Himself
Christopher Trumbo	...	Himself - Son of Dalton Trumbo
Richard D. Zanuck	...	Himself
Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson	...	Broncho Billy (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charles Aznavour	...	Charlie Kohler / Edouard Saroyan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lauren Bacall	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Warren Beatty	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jean-Paul Belmondo	...	Michel Poiccard (archive footage) (uncredited)
Humphrey Bogart	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Clara Bow	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marlon Brando	...	Terry Malloy (archive footage) (uncredited)
Walter Brooke	...	Mr. McGuire (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Burton	...	George (archive footage) (uncredited)
Julie Christie	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Diane Cilento	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sean Connery	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Francis Ford Coppola	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joan Crawford	...	Blanche Hudson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bette Davis	...	Baby Jane Hudson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nancy Davis	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doris Day	...	Jan Morrow / Carol Templeton (archive footage) (uncredited)
James Dean	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sandy Dennis	...	Honey (archive footage) (uncredited)
Walt Disney	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kirk Douglas	...	Spartacus (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marie Dubois	...	Léna (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bengt Ekerot	...	Death (archive footage) (uncredited)
Peter Fonda	...	Wyatt (archive footage) (uncredited)
Greta Garbo	...	Felicitas von Rhaden (archive footage) (uncredited)
Larry Gates	...	Eric Endicott (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Gilbert	...	Leo von Harden (archive footage) (uncredited)
Samuel Goldwyn	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lee Grant	...	Mrs. Colbert (archive footage) (uncredited)
Juliette Gréco	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Katharine Hepburn	...	Tess Harding / Christina Drayton (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dustin Hoffman	...	Ben Braddock (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bob Hope	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dennis Hopper	...	Billy (archive footage) (uncredited)
Katharine Houghton	...	Joey Drayton (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rock Hudson	...	Brad Allen / Jerry Webster (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hubert H. Humphrey	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
David Janssen	...	George Beckworth (archive footage) (uncredited)
Buster Keaton	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gene Kelly	...	Don Lockwood (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ethel Kennedy	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert F. Kennedy	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Martin Luther King	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Stanley Kubrick	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joan Leslie	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Shirley MacLaine	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marilyn Monroe	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mike Nichols	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jack Nicholson	...	George Hanson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard Nixon	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Peter O'Toole	...	T.E. Lawrence (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sidney Poitier	...	John Prentice / Virgil Tibbs (archive footage) (uncredited)
Anthony Quinn	...	Auda Abu Tayi (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ronald Reagan	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Katharine Ross	...	Elaine Robinson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rosalind Russell	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George C. Scott	...	General Buck Turgidson (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Segal	...	Nick (archive footage) (uncredited)
Peter Sellers	...	President Merkin Muffley (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
David O. Selznick	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Omar Sharif	...	Sherif Ali (archive footage) (uncredited)
Spyros Skouras	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rod Steiger	...	Gillespie (archive footage) (uncredited)
James Stewart	...	Jefferson Smith / Lin McAdam (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gloria Swanson	...	Norma Desmond (archive footage) (uncredited)
Elizabeth Taylor	...	Martha (archive footage) (uncredited)
Spencer Tracy	...	Sam Craig / Matt Drayton (archive footage) (uncredited)
Max von Sydow	...	Antonius Block (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jack L. Warner	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lew Wasserman	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Wayne	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Orson Welles	...	Charles Foster Kane (archive footage) (uncredited)
Natalie Wood	...	Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Malcolm X	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Darryl F. Zanuck	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolph Zukor	...	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

Sound Department
Bryan Parker	....	supervising sound editor

Editorial Department
Lisa Dare	....	post-production intern
Daniel Erickson	....	assistant editor

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

Thanks
Maia Newley	....	grateful thanks

A New Era Of Films Dawns

How one views this episode probably depends upon how one views the 1960s. If you think the decade was bad news, you won't like the glorifying of liberal thought and films and if you thought the '60s were very cool, you'll love this segment.

One emphasis was just the fact that days of moguls were completely done now, Hollywood films being produced by either mega-corporations or by independent filmmakers. They also took a hard look at European films ("New Wave," etc.), played more to the young audiences that were now attending (a majority being 24 years old and younger), watched the rise of power of the film critic....and a lot more. All of these seven episodes were packed with topics and information.

Among the films highlighted were Cleopatra, Dr. Strangelove, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe, Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduation, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, The Green Berets, Night Of The Living Dead and Easy Rider.

All in all, another interesting segment topped by a touching tribute to those old moguls who built Hollywood and the movies to the lofty cultural status and profitable business enterprise (usually) that it became.