Movies: Old hollywood

  • 1935
    I Live My Life

    I Live My Life (1935)

    I Live My Life

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    A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist....

    I Live My Life
  • 1935
    A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio

    A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio (1935)

    A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio

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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...

    A Trip Thru a Hollywood Studio
  • 2015
    Marilyn Monroe Declassified

    Marilyn Monroe Declassified (2015)

    Marilyn Monroe Declassified

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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....

    Marilyn Monroe Declassified
  • 1935
    Starlit Days at the Lido

    Starlit Days at the Lido (1935)

    Starlit Days at the Lido

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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...

    Starlit Days at the Lido
  • 1933
    Lady Killer

    Lady Killer (1933)

    Lady Killer

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    An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star....

    Lady Killer
  • 1940
    Hollywood: Style Center of the World

    Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)

    Hollywood: Style Center of the World

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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...

    Hollywood: Style Center of the World
  • 1935
    A Dream Comes True

    A Dream Comes True (1935)

    A Dream Comes True

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    A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)....

    A Dream Comes True
  • 2018
    Celluloid Soul

    Celluloid Soul (2018)

    Celluloid Soul

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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....

    Celluloid Soul
  • 1998
    Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy

    Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998)

    Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy

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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....

    Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
  • 2018
    Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor

    Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor (2018)

    Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor

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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....

    Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
  • 2024
    King Kong: Monster and Myth

    King Kong: Monster and Myth (2024)

    King Kong: Monster and Myth

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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...

    King Kong: Monster and Myth
  • 2008
    The Brothers Warner

    The Brothers Warner (2008)

    The Brothers Warner

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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....

    The Brothers Warner
  • 1927
    Character Studies

    Character Studies (1927)

    Character Studies

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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...

    Character Studies
  • 1932
    Hollywood on Parade No. A-2

    Hollywood on Parade No. A-2 (1932)

    Hollywood on Parade No. A-2

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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 ...

    Hollywood on Parade No. A-2
  • 2020
    Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty

    Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty (2020)

    Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty

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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...

    Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
  • 1958
    Too Much, Too Soon

    Too Much, Too Soon (1958)

    Too Much, Too Soon

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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....

    Too Much, Too Soon
  • 2024
    Lavenza

    Lavenza (2024)

    Lavenza

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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....

    Lavenza
  • 2024
    Box Office Poison

    Box Office Poison (2024)

    Box Office Poison

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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....

    Box Office Poison
  • 2025

    "Greatness" (2025)

    "Greatness"

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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

    Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star (2017)

    Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star

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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....

    Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star