She was a professional con artist. Robbing lonely men of money with the promise of sex. Someone said you should put a bullet through her head. Many people think he is in jail, he is convicted. Im still here, you bastards. A witness in the case thinks he knows who the killer really is. Smoke that let me tell you about hollywood. When something bad has to happen, like a husband or a wife has to be eliminated, or an executive has to be eliminated and believe me, show business, theres a lot of strange things that happen. But the way they happen is like, i would talk to my lawyer, now thats confidential. He talks to somebody else, who talks to somebody else, who talks to somebody else. And then the word comes back to me. Robert, get out of here, with your family. Thats all you have to do. And somehow or other, something happens. And nobody can trace it back to anybody. Thats what hollywood is about. Thats what high end stuff is about. Thats why millionaires never get arrested for anything.
marilyn monroe, blonde bombshell. get out the fire hose. hollywood super star. the late marilyn monroe. tragic victim. the story of marilyn monroe is an authentic tragedy. when we talk about marilyn poor marilyn, this vulnerable passive woman who is being destroyed by hollywood. that s the way the story frames her. after a reckoning in hollywood, it s time to reframe her story. now it can hit pause and roll it back a bit and ask ourselves, okay, what is it that we think we know? she was quite ahead of her time. and she was very much an architect of her own fame. you must think i was born yesterday. her performances are layered. they re funny. they re tender. they re human. they feel modern. bingo. she had a deep inner life. she was an artist. she was a poet. she was a businesswoman. what a power broker she was, renegotiating her contract, creating her own production company, getting films made. it s actually rather frustrating that people can t
And by and the annual Financial Support of hello, im john lithgow. Welcome to american cinema. During the golden age of hollywood, the film studios became incredibly powerful. They controlled production, distribution and exhibitio the mass pduction system that made ford motors a success worked for the lm studios as well. A very Efficient Assembly line was built that enabled a studio to release a film a week. Adventures, comedies, romances, westerns, gangsters, musicals. Ford was famous for one model; thstudios had many. But the genius of the system was although they were factories,s. Individual artists were still able to pursue their vision and create some of the best pictures ever made. Take paramountictures, for example. It was home to billy wder, josef von sternberg, and ernest lubitsch, great artists who left their individual stamp on the films they made. The paramount story is a model of what happened in hollywood over the last 70 years. A rporate giant that suffered with the fall
and he s always chomping on a cigar. this is somebody who has a reputation as being exacting, and sometimes brutal. it s difficult to overstate how patriarchal the hollywood studio system was in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. it was absolutely male dominated. at the top of every one of the big studios is a very powerful, controlling man, the people that we call moguls. louie b. mayer, jack warner, darryl zanuck. they are considered despotic monsters, and tough, tough businessmen, because they knew the things the public wanted were stars and stories. and they ran it like a factory. and they rolled those things out. four or five, six hundred of them a year. there were only a few large studios, and those studios made the movies, period. it was sort of like the mafia,
but if she s going to break out, she will need to impress studio head darryl zanuck. in many ways, darryl zanuck is almost cliche of an old-school movie mogul. he s short. he s aggressive. and he s always chomping on a cigar. this is somebody who has a reputation as being exacting, and sometimes brutal. it s difficult to overstate how patriarchal the hollywood studio system was in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. it was absolutely male dominated. at the top of every one of the big studios is a very powerful, controlling man, the people that we call moguls. louie b. mayer, jack warner, darryl zanuck.