HOLLYWOOD: AN EMPIRE OF THEIR OWN

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• Release Year: 1998
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: From Columbia Pictures to Warner Brothers, the studios that gave rise to the Hollywood empire were all founded by innovative Eastern European immigrants and first-generation American Jews.; ; Called 'a lucid, inviting work of social history' (The New York Times), this mesmerizing program tells several dramatic stories, including the rise of American film, the personal sagas of the people who shaped it, and the origins of so-called Hollywood values. Using never-before-seen home videos, film clips, and interviews with everyone from Carl Laemmle, cofounder of what is now Universal Studios, to film critic Leonard Maltin, this is a groundbreaking portrait of how Hollywood first began.; ; A&E® is proud to present a fearless and provocative look at how the founders of 'America's Dream Factory,' while struggling to reinvent themselves as Americans, managed to change the image of the nation itself.
• Cast: Neal Gabler, J. Hoberman, Arthur Tracy, Bernard Avishai, Hasia Diner, Thomas Cripps, Richard Kozarski, Judith Balaban, Cass Warner, Robert Rosen, Bob Thomas, A.C. Lyles, Aljean Harmetz, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Les Friedman, Irene Mayer Holt, Daniel Selznick, Adolph Zukor, Betty Lasky, Betty Warner Sheinbaum, Jim Zukor, Stephen J. Whitfield, Edward Dmytryk, Abraham Polonsky, Walter Bernstein, Bruce Cohn Curtis, R.H. Thomson, Barney Balaban, Lionel Barrymore, Jack Benny, James Cagney, Eddie Cantor, Harry Cohn, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas A. Edison, Dwight D. Eisenhower, William Fox, Clark Gable, Helen Gahagan, Greta Garbo, John Garfield, Judy Garland, John Gilbert, Samuel Goldwyn, Will H. Hays, George Jessel, Eric Johnston, Joseph P. Kennedy, Carl Laemmle, Jesse L. Lasky, Myrna Loy, Aline MacMahon, Louis B. Mayer, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Montgomery, Paul Muni, Richard Nixon, William Powell, Claude Rains, John Rankin, Edward G. Robinson, Mickey Rooney, Rosalind Russell, Norma Shearer, Fulton J. Sheen, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, Robert Taylor, Irving Thalberg, J. Parnell Thomas, Harry S. Truman, Dalton Trumbo, Harry M. Warner, John Wayne, Clifford Worth, Darryl F. Zanuck, Simcha Jacobovici
• Director: Simcha Jacobovici
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: Associated Productions, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Ontario Ltd., A&E Television Networks, New Video
• Media Format: Movie