Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood

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Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood

2010- 2010

1 Seasons

7 Episodes

5.4(7 votes)

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Overview

Each installment focuses on a different era of American movie history, from the invention of the first moving pictures to the revolutionary, cutting-edge films of the 1960s.

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62 members

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Christopher Plummer

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Paul Israel

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Terry Borton

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Charles Musser

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Leonard Maltin

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Anthony Slide

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Ricky Jay

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James Zukor

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Carla Laemmle

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Susan Fox-Rosellini

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Daniel Selznick

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Steven J. Ross

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Richard Koszarski

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Gregory Orr

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Marc Wanamaker

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Bob Balaban

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Cari Beauchamp

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Robert S. Birchard

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A. Scott Berg

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Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

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Betty Lasky

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Richard Roberts

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Jeanine Basinger

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Jeffrey Vance

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Scott Eyman

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Mollie Gregory

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Tony Maietta

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Molly Haskell

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Donald Bogle

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Peter Bogdanovich

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Richard D. Zanuck

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Robert Osborne

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David Stenn

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Kathleen Sharp

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Chris Trumbo

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Gore Vidal

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Thomas Schatz

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Mark Vieira

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Suzanne Lloyd Hayes

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Marc Norman

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William Wellman Jr.

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Miles Kreuger

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Andrew Bergman

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Gary Giddins

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Aljean Harmetz

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Stanley R. Jaffe

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David Thomson

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George Stevens Jr.

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Marsha Hunt

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Sidney Lumet

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Paul Mazursky

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Roger Corman

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Mark Harris

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Walter Mirisch

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Robert F. Boyle

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David Brown

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Peter Guber

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Robert Benton

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Peter Biskind

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Buck Henry

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Steven J. Ross

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John Sayles

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