Moguls and Movie Stars

Moguls and Movie Stars is a 2010 TCM 7-part documentary which took 3 years to make. The documentary was released on November 1, 2010 and tells the history of Hollywood pioneers making what is called the movies. This documentary features living relatives of moguls and film historians talking about the history of movies. The relatives of the moguls in the documentary include Samuel Goldwyn Jr., son of Samuel Goldwyn, Carla Laemmle, niece of Carl Laemmle, owner of Universal Pictures. This documentary tells the story of Hollywood from the late 19th century-the early 1970s. It starts off as telling the story of the early movie pioneers who came to America and would make a future making movies, the coming of sound movies, World War II, censorship, and Hollywood changing in the 1960s.

The series was narrated by Christopher Plummer.

Some of the movies used in documentary

The Great Train Robbery (1903)

The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Orphans of the Storm (1921)

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

The Jazz Singer (1927)

It (1927)

Coquette (1929)

Little Caesar (1931)

The Public Enemy (1931)

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

Footlight Parade (1933)

Dames (1934)

Top Hat (1935)

Gone with the Wind (1939)

The Great Dictator (1941)

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Blackboard Jungle (1955)

The Defiant Ones (1958)

Cleopatra (1963)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

1910s

Charles Chaplin – actor, famous from 1914–early 1940s

Douglas Fairbanks – actor, famous from mid 1910s–late 1920s

Francis X. Bushman – actor, famous from early 1910s–late 1920s

Mabel Normand – actor, famous from early 1910s–early 1920s

Fatty Arbuckle – actor, famous from early 1910s–early 1920s

Gloria Swanson – actor, famous from early 1910s–1920s

Cecil B. Demille – producer, famous from late 1910s–late 1950s

Lillian Gish – actor, famous from early 1910s–early 1930s

1920s

Rudolph Valentino – actor, famous from 1921–until his death in 1926

Buster Keaton – actor, famous from 1920–early 1930s

Claudette Colbert – actor, famous from late 1920s–late 1940s

Norma Shearer – actress, famous from mid-1920s–1942, when she retired

Greta Garbo – actress, famous from late 1920s–1941, when she retired

1930s

Jean Harlow –

Bing Crosby –

Al Jolson –

Ruby Keeler –

Joan Blondell –

Melvyn Douglas –

Fred MacMurray – actor, famous from late 1930s–late 1960s

Cary Grant – actor, famous from late 1930s–1966, when retired

Clark Gable – actor, famous from early 1930s–his death in 1960

John Wayne – actor, famous from 1939–his death in 1979

Spencer Tracy – actor, famous from 1930s–his death in 1967

Frank Capra – producer, famous from early 1930s–late 1950s

Edward G. Robinson –

James Cagney –

William Holden

1940s

Gene Tierney – actress, famous from early 1940s–mid-1950s

Natalie Wood – actress, famous from late 1940s–her death in 1981

Humphrey Bogart – actor, famous from 1941–his death in 1957

Lauren Bacall – actress, famous from 1944–1960s

William Holden – actor, famous from 1939–mid-1970s

Elizabeth Taylor – actress, famous from late 1940s–early 1970s

Lana Turner – actress, famous from early 1940s–late 1960s

Vincent Price – actor, famous from early 1940s–late 1950s

Cyd Charisse – actress, famous from late 1940s–early 1960s

Gregory Peck – actor, famous from mid-1940s–early 1970s

Cornel Wilde – actor, famous from early 1940s–late 1950s

Lucille Ball – actress, famous from mid-1940s–early 1970s

1950s

Marilyn Monroe – actress, famous from early 1950s–her death in 1962

Debbie Reynolds – actress, famous from early 1950s–early 1980s

Shirley MacLaine – actress, famous from 1950s–and still appears today in movies

James Dean – actor, famous from 1953–until his death in 1955

Audrey Hepburn – actress, famous from early 1950s–late 1970s

Jane Russell, actress, famous from late 1940s–late 1950s

Jack Lemmon, actor, famous from early 1950s–early 1990s

1960s

Dustin Hoffman – actor, famous from late 1960s–early 1990s

Robert Redford – actor, famous from late 1960s–early 1990s

Peter Sellers – actor, famous from early 1960s–until his death in 1980

Anne Bancroft – actress, famous in the 1960s–1970s

Warren Beatty – actor, famous from late 1960s–early 1990s

1970s

Jack Nicholson – actor

Episodes

Peepshow Pioneers (November 1, 2010)

The Birth of Hollywood (November 8, 2010)

The Dream Merchants (November 15, 2010)

Brother, Can You Spare A Dream? (November 22, 2010)

Warriors and Peacemakers (November 29, 2010)

Attack of the Small Screens (December 6, 2010)

Fade Out, Fade In (December 13, 2010)

Awards

The mini-series was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Nonfiction Series, Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming, and Outstanding Voice-over Performance for Christopher Plummer's narration.

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