A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
En avdanket TV-skuespiller og hans stuntmann strever for å gjenoppnå berømmelse og suksess i filmindustrien i løpet av de siste årene av Hollywoods gullalder i 1969 Los Angeles, Hollywood i 1969 – en by i endring. TV-stjernen Rick Dalton og hans stuntmann Cliff Booth prøver å finne sin plass i en bransje de knapt kjenner igjen. Filmen byr på flere handlinger og en stor samling av kjente skuespillere i denne hyllesten til Hollywoods gullalder.
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
En stumfilmstjerne mister sin berømthet og sin rikdom når lydfilmer blir normalen mens den ambisiøse skuespillerinnen han elsker blir en stor Hollywood-stjerne.
HAIL, CAESAR! følger én dag i livet til en studiosjef som har hendene fulle av problemer han må fikse.
Da lydfilmen kom på slutten av 20-tallet, ble tilværelsen en annen for mang en skuespiller. Det populære paret Lina og Don får problemer, for Linas skjærende stemme kan knuse glass.
Private detective Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in an investigation involving a wealthy Californian family after a beautiful blonde hires him to track down her former lover.
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.
A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
The daughter of iconic actor John Barrymore is reunited with her father after a ten year estrangement and engages in his self-destructive lifestyle.
For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a childhood of poverty to global fame, Cary Grant, the ultimate self-made star, explores his own screen image and what it took to create it.
Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession of the loot box of two crooks who tried to rob him.
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in Hollywood about it. The final defeat of the Spanish Republic left an open wound in the hearts of those who sympathized with its cause. The eventful life of screenwriter Alvah Bessie (1904-1985), one of the Hollywood Ten, serves to analyze this sadness, the tragedy of Spain and its consequences.
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
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 Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.
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.
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 story written into the political and artistic history of the 20th century.