Sammy and Dino Episode 6: The Rat Pack
In the early 40s, both Dean and Sammy idolized Frank Sinatra. 20 years later, they became Sinatra’s cohorts in the Rat Pack, and, through Vegas gigs and increasingly disposable movies, the trio set a ...
30 Nov 20211h 3min
Sammy and Dino Episode 5: A Serious Man
After the breakup of Martin and Lewis, Dino has to figure out how to stand on his own as a solo act. He ends up developing an on-stage persona as a happy drunk, while at the same time, developing a re...
23 Nov 202153min
Sammy and Dino Episode 4: Mr. Wonderful
Sammy tests the power of his new celebrity, on Broadway and in Hollywood, where he stars in the most controversial movie musical with an all-Black cast of all time -- a movie which is still being supp...
16 Nov 202151min
Sammy and Dino Episode 3: Nothing But a Dollar Sign
In the first half of the 1950s, Martin and Lewis mint money as movie stars--and find unique ways to make their access to gangsters payoff--but stardom tears them apart. During this period, Sammy tries...
9 Nov 202158min
Sammy and Dino Episode 2: Martin and Lewis, Sammy and Mickey and Frank
Dean Martin meets and begins collaborating with Jerry Lewis. Martin and Lewis — an Italian and a Jew — become the most successful nightclub act in the country, and transition to Hollywood. Meanwhile, ...
2 Nov 20211h 2min
Sammy and Dino Episode 1: The Hustle
Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin would become icons for how immigrants and people of color could access the American Dream in the 20th Century. Both grew up in marginalized communities where they learn...
26 Okt 20211h 3min
Introducing Love is a Crime
When Hollywood mogul Walter Wanger (Jon Hamm) shot an agent he suspected was having an affair with his actress wife, Joan Bennett (Zooey Deschanel) — one of the key femme fatales of 1940s film noir — ...
17 Aug 20214min
Gossip Girls: Louella Parsons And Hedda Hopper (The Queens Are Dead, Episode 9)
The Hollywood studio system begins to crumble, and Louella and Hedda decline and fall, too. But just as a new generation of filmmakers rises from the ashes and reinvents the movie business, so too doe...
29 Jun 20211h 6min
