Dirt on Old Hollywood

Beginning with the Silent Film era and working through profiles of Jean Harlow, Gable and Lombard, Bogie and Bacall, Judy Garland, Dorothy Dandridge, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando and James Dean, it’s sobering to realize just how many of these lives ended tragically. As Roxie Hart chirps in Chicago, the audience needs the actor and the actor needs the audience “because none of us got enough love in our childhood. And that’s showbiz, kid.”