Old Hollywood Movies

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

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...

"Stuart Erwin acts as master of ceremonies in this variety skit, the second in the series produced by Lewis Llewyn for Paramount release. Erwin...

When a disenfranchised, world-famous photographer is interviewed by university students and presented with a portfolio of his life's work he is...

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 daughter of iconic actor John Barrymore is reunited with her father after a ten year estrangement and engages in his self-destructive lifestyle.

In 1933, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, two audacious and visionary directors, dared to create a motion picture that eclipsed everything...

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

Peru, 1968. Deep in the jungle, a ragtag film crew is stranded without money, morale, or meaning. Three months behind schedule, they must survive a...

In a deconstruction of classic Hollywood codes, using repetitive single frame images, the re-editing of teenager movies produces an intense Oedipal...

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...

An intimate portrait and saga of four film pioneers--Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack who rose from immigrant poverty through personal tragedies...

A biography about the love affair between 1930s Hollywood superstars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.

Elena, an obsessive artist who dreams of one day appearing on the silver screen in Hollywood, slowly begins to lose her sanity as she waits for the...

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

On June 29, 1967, Jayne Mansfield tragically died at the age of 34. Her stunning blue Buick Electra collided with and was crushed under a...

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

A Detective tracks down a killer of homeless people on the streets of Detroit.

Nearly fifty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains an absolute icon, the image of a superficial and sensual blonde forever etched in the...

This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the...