Yesterday and Today (1953)
A Million Dollars Worth of Wonderful Memories, Entertainment and Stars!
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 57M
Director : Abner J. Greshler
Sinopsis
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.
En el Hollywood de los años 50, uno de los grandes estudios pretende hacer una gran superproducción de romanos protagonizada por una gran estrella (Clooney), pero el actor es secuestrado durante el rodaje.
Hollywood, finales de los años treinta. Tod Hackett, un joven pintor que intenta abrirse camino como director artístico en el escabroso mundo de la industria cinematográfica, se enamora de su vecina Faye Greener, una aspirante a actriz que prefiere la vida que Homer Simpson, un solitario contable, puede ofrecerle.
Documental sobre Cary Grant, usando sus propias grabaciones de voz y vídeos privados, en el que cuenta toda su vida desde su infancia en la pobreza hasta su fama global.
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.
The life of Frank Sinatra, as an actor and singer and the steps along the way that led him to become such an icon.
La protagonista se ve involucrada en un enredo donde se las tendrá que ver con abogados, políticos y otras profesiones nada recomendables.
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.
En 1988, el cineasta alemán Volker Schlöndorff se sentó con el legendario director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) en su oficina de Beverly Hills, California, y encendió su cámara para realizar una serie de entrevistas filmadas.
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
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.
Chronicles the life of William Haines, Hollywood's first openly gay movie star, who sacrificed his career to live openly with his lover.
A visit to a Hollywood nightclub, featuring caricatures of, among others, Walter Winchell, Hugh Herbert, W.C. Fields, Katharine Hepburn, Ned Sparks, Johnny Weissmuller, Lupe Velez, John Barrymore, Harpo Marx, George Arliss, Mae West, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Clark Gable, Edna May Oliver, Gary Cooper, The Dionne Quintuplets, Groucho Marx, Helen Morgan, Wallace Beery, Edward G. Robinson and George Raft.
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.
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 celebrity (Keaton, Lloyd, Arbuckle, Valentino, Fairbanks, Coogan) he appears to have been making himself up as.
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 production numbers. Then come some candid shots of several contract stars. Finally we see comedian Hugh Herbert filming a scene for an upcoming release, then the various behind the scenes steps that transition the raw film in the camera into the finished product.
La Guerra Civil española ejerció un fuerte impacto en los artistas de Hollywood. Muchos de ellos apoyaron campañas contra la política de no intervención del gobierno de Estados Unidos, participaron en mítines o pagaron ambulancias para el bando republicano. El documental muestra cómo se utilizó el conflicto en la meca del cine entre 1937 y 1975.
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
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.
Follows reclusive Hollywood legend Evelyn Hugo, who chooses an unknown reporter, Monique Grant, to tell her life story. Evelyn recounts her time in the Golden Age of Hollywood, her rise to fame, and her seven marriages — revealing stunning secrets and lies. But through it all one question remains: Why has she chosen Monique for her final confession?
Johnny Knoxville y el resto del reparto de la serie de televisión "Jackass" realizan las hazañas más escandalosas y divertidas en Japón, donde se disfrazan de pandas y atacan un campo de golf mas intensas que en la TV.