Movies: Old hollywood
- 1935
I Live My Life (1935)
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A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist....
- 1935
A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio (1935)
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This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the casting office, then see Busby Berkeley and choreographer Bobby Connolly working with chorus girls on pro...
- 2015
Marilyn Monroe Declassified (2015)
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Declassified FBI and CIA documents help director Paul Davids unravel the puzzle of Marilyn Monroe's demise, which was officially ruled a "probable suicide," while providing detailed evidence supporting the conclusion that Marilyn was murdered....
- 1935
Starlit Days at the Lido (1935)
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Basically this is a commercial for Hollywood's Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The Lido is a large watering hole; we visit one afternoon with an orchestra playing, all sorts of stars and would-be stars sitting at tables near the pool alongs...
- 1933
Lady Killer (1933)
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An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star....
- 1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)
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This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joa...
- 1935
A Dream Comes True (1935)
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A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)....
- 2018
Celluloid Soul (2018)
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Monty meets an actress from a 1939 movie who looks exactly like she did then, complete with a black and white hue, specks of dust and vertical scratches throughout her face and body....
- 1998
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998)
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In a deconstruction of classic Hollywood codes, using repetitive single frame images, the re-editing of teenager movies produces an intense Oedipal drama....
- 2018
Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor (2018)
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This documentary recounts the difficult choice actress Mary Astor had to make after learning her personal, very intimate, diaries had been stolen. The film tells the story of Astor's 1936 child custody case....
- 2024
King Kong: Monster and Myth (2024)
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In 1933, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, two audacious and visionary directors, dared to create a motion picture that eclipsed everything seen until then: when King Kong was released, it was celebrated as an artistic and technical revoluti...
- 2008
The Brothers Warner (2008)
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An intimate portrait and saga of four film pioneers--Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack who rose from immigrant poverty through personal tragedies persevering to create a major studio with a social conscience....
- 1927
Character Studies (1927)
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Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applying makeup and changing the combing of his hair or putting on a wig. When he tilts his head down during each supposed makeover, up pops the actual celeb...
- 1932
Hollywood on Parade No. A-2 (1932)
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"Stuart Erwin acts as master of ceremonies in this variety skit, the second in the series produced by Lewis Llewyn for Paramount release. Erwin introduces Bing Crosby, who engages in some comedy byplay with George Burns and Gracie Allen, after which ...
- 2020
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty (2020)
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The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977) used his talent to serve an ideal of justice and freedom. But his best scenario was his own destiny, a...
- 1958
Too Much, Too Soon (1958)
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The daughter of iconic actor John Barrymore is reunited with her father after a ten year estrangement and engages in his self-destructive lifestyle....
- 2024
Lavenza (2024)
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When Lavenza, a 19th-century noblewoman, overhears her husband complaining about her looks, she turns herself into his ideal wife by thrifting the body parts from all the women he desires....
- 2024
Box Office Poison (2024)
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A has-been actress spends her days performing with her masochistic nurse. Things take a dark turn when their fun pastimes take method acting to the next level....
- 2025
"Greatness" (2025)
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The so called legendary Duke Barret, a "17 year old spy", attempts to turn his totally real and not at all fabricated memoirs into a film for a school English project....
- 2017
Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star (2017)
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Martin Scorsese is among those paying tribute to Gene Tierney, the Academy Award-nominated American actress who was a leading lady in Hollywood throughout the 1940s and '50s....