37: Star Wars Episode XI: Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin’s most successful (and controversial) film was The Great Dictator, a vicious satire of Adolf Hitler. We’ll explore the connections between the two men, and explain why most of Hollywoo...
17 Mar 201537min
36: Star Wars Episode X: Errol Flynn
Errol Flynn arrived in Hollywood in 1934 and almost immediately became a massive star, his swashbuckler-persona propelling many of the decades biggest action hits. But his dashing good looks and life-...
10 Mar 201542min
35: Star Wars Episode IX: Olivia de Havilland and John Huston, with Special Guest Rian Johnson
She was the raven-haired beauty whose lily white persona was forged by supporting roles in Gone With the Wind and several Errol Flynn swashbucklers. He was the real-life swashbuckler whose directorial...
3 Mar 201539min
34: Star Wars Episode VIII: How Norma Jeane Became Marilyn Monroe
Today’s episode tells the secret, forgotten, and highly disputed story of the making of Marilyn Monroe, arguably the most potent Hollywood sex symbol of all time.
24 Feb 201542min
33: Star Wars Episode VII: Lena Horne
Stunning singer/actress Lena Horne was the first black performer to be given the full glamour girl star-making treatment. But as the years went on and her studio failed to make much use of her, Horne ...
17 Feb 201559min
32: Star Wars Episode VI: Marlene Dietrich
One of the most glamorous stars of the 1930s -- and also one of the first androgynous sex symbols -- Marlene Dietrich was a German actress turned major Hollywood star, one who essentially became the U...
10 Feb 201535min
31: Star Wars Episode V: Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles
The Citizen Kane boy wonder's second wife was the former Margarita Cansino -- a dancer-turned-actress whose Hispanic heritage Hollywood went to great lengths to obscure.
3 Feb 201542min
30: Star Wars Episode IV: Gene Tierney (Or: The Many Loves of Howard Hughes, Chapter 5)
The luminous star of a number of key film noirs and melodramas of the 1940s, Gene Tierney's personal life was highly dramatic and heartbreakingly tragic.
27 Jan 201537min
