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Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood Season 1 Episode 6: Attack of the Small Screens (1950-1960) 2010

Watch Tv Show Series Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood : During the 1950s, with the nation enjoying a new prosperity and television providing fierce competition, the reign of the old moguls began a long decline. The movies needed new ideas that went beyond 3-D, widescreen processes and stereophonic sound. Dore Schary became the new production head at MGM, and by 1951 L. B. Mayer was forced out of his own company. At Warner Bros., a hot new director named Elia Kazan brought earthy realism to the screen with such films as A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and On the Waterfront (1954). An ominous atmosphere was created by the anti-Communist blacklist, poisoning a tough business where reputation was everything. In 1958 Stanley Kramer produced and directed The Defiant Ones, which gave Sidney Poitier above the-title billing and created the first African-American superstar..

Genre: Documentary
Air Date: 2010-12-06
Season Number: 1
Episodes Number: 6
Stars: Christopher Plummer (Narrator) , Paul Israel (Self) , Terry Borton (Self) , Charles Musser (Self) , Leonard Maltin (Self) , Anthony Slide (Self) , Ricky Jay (Self) , James Zukor (Self) , Carla Laemmle (Self) , Susan Fox-Rosellini (Self) , Daniel Selznick (Self) , Steven J. Ross (Self) , Richard Koszarski (Self) , Gregory Orr (Self) , Marc Wanamaker (Self) , Bob Balaban (Self) , Cari Beauchamp (Self) , Robert S. Birchard (Self) , A. Scott Berg (Self) , Samuel Goldwyn Jr. (Self) , Betty Lasky (Self) , Richard Roberts (Self) , Jeanine Basinger (Self) , Jeffrey Vance (Self) , Scott Eyman (Self) , Mollie Gregory (Self) , Tony Maietta (Self) , Molly Haskell (Self) , Donald Bogle (Self) , Peter Bogdanovich (Self) , Richard D. Zanuck (Self) , Robert Osborne (Self) , David Stenn (Self) , Kathleen Sharp (Self) , Chris Trumbo (Self) , Gore Vidal (Self) , Thomas Schatz (Self) , Mark Vieira (Self) , Suzanne Lloyd Hayes (Self) , Marc Norman (Self) , William Wellman Jr. (Self) , Miles Kreuger (Self) , Andrew Bergman (Self) , Gary Giddins (Self) , Aljean Harmetz (Self) , Stanley R. Jaffe (Self) , David Thomson (Self) , George Stevens Jr. (Self) , Marsha Hunt (Self) , Sidney Lumet (Self) , Paul Mazursky (Self) , Roger Corman (Self) , Mark Harris (Self) , Walter Mirisch (Self) , Robert F. Boyle (Self) , David Brown (Self) , Peter Guber (Self) , Robert Benton (Self) , Peter Biskind (Self) , Buck Henry (Self) , Steven J. Ross (Self) , John Sayles (Self)
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