Christopher Guest: The Comedy Rebel in the House of Lords
He pioneered chaotic, improvised, deeply human filmmaking where actors invent their lines on the spot. He also holds a hereditary British peerage and spent years as a voting member of the actual House...
23 Jun 20min
Errol Flynn: The Swashbuckling Hero Hollywood Couldn't Contain
A man dies of a heart attack at 50 in a Vancouver apartment, beside a 17-year-old girl, leaving behind a mansion wired with two-way mirrors and trapdoors and months spent embedded with Fidel Castro. Y...
23 Jun 17min
Karl Valentin: The Beer Hall Clown Who Reshaped Theater
Picture a performer hauling a 20-piece one-man band he built from scratch through sweaty Munich beer halls. Now picture that same beer hall clown accidentally helping birth one of the 20th century's m...
23 Jun 20min
Will Rogers: The Cherokee Cowboy Who Became America's Voice
Imagine the biggest movie star in the world who is also the nation's most trusted political commentator, read daily by 40 million people, and the undisputed voice of the common man. That was Will Roge...
23 Jun 19min
Slappy White: From Terrified Chauffeur to White House Headliner
San Francisco, 1951. A restless crowd is turning ugly waiting for blues legend Dinah Washington. She rushes in late, spots her chauffeur, shoves him toward the stage, and tells him to say something fu...
23 Jun 21min
Honus Wagner: The Coal Miner Who Became Baseball's Greatest
It sold for $7.25 million, making it the most expensive piece of cardboard on Earth, yet the man on the card never wanted it printed in the first place. Behind the legendary T206 tobacco card stands H...
23 Jun 17min
Sid Caesar: The Comedy Genius Who Sold America on Television
In 1949 a hit TV show was canceled for the most absurd reason in entertainment history: it was too successful. The sponsor, an appliance company, literally could not build television sets fast enough ...
23 Jun 17min
Curly Howard: The Fragile Man Behind the Bulletproof Stooge
On screen he was the indestructible human cannonball whose head broke saws and hammers. Off screen, Jerome Lester Horwitz was a quiet, deeply insecure man who drank just to feel comfortable in a crowd...
23 Jun 20min
