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Journey with us through classic Hollywood—from the late 1920s talkies through the vibrant studio era and into the mid-1960s cinematic twilight.
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Notorious - 1946 (opens the original)
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Marty Jencius and Cindy Rotz take on Hitchcock's Notorious, the spy romance in which a government man recruits the woman he loves, hands her to a Nazi, and watches. ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS - Episode: FTC045 | Hosts: Marty Jencius and Cindy Rotz - Director/Producer: Alfred Hitchcock — his first credit as his own producer - Screenplay: Ben Hecht, loosely from John Taintor Foote's "The Song of the Dragon" - Stars: Cary Grant (Devlin), Ingrid Bergman (Alicia), Claude Rains (Sebastian), Leopoldine Konstan
The Day the Earth Stood Still - 1951 (opens the original)
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An alien envoy lands in Washington with a warning for the entire planet, is shot before he can deliver it, and goes to ground as an ordinary boarder named Mr. Carpenter while an eight-foot robot waits at the ship. FILM INFORMATION - Director: Robert Wise - Screenplay: Edmund H. North, from Harry Bates' 1940 story "Farewell to the Master" (Fox paid Bates $500 for the rights) - Stars: Michael Rennie (Klaatu), Patricia Neal (Helen Benson), Hugh Marlowe (Tom Stevens), Sam Jaffe (Prof. Barnhardt), Bi
The Wizard of Oz - 1939 (opens the original)
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A Kansas farm girl swept by a tornado into the magical land of Oz teams up with a Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion to seek help from the Wizard, only to learn she had the power to go home all along. SHOW ESSENTIALS Director:Victor Fleming (uncredited: Cukor, Vidor, Thorpe, Taurog) Stars:Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke,Margaret Hamilton Studio:MGM | Runtime: 101 min | Released: Aug 25, 1939 Format:Sepia B&W (Kansas) / three-strip Technicolor (Oz) A
The Thin Man - 1934 (opens the original)
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When inventor Clyde Wynant vanishes days before hisdaughter's wedding and his secretary turns up murdered, retired detective Nick Charles is pulled back into the case by his unflappable wife Nora — solving it, cocktail in hand, with a dinner-party unmasking and his unbothered terrier Asta in tow. Show Essentials Director: W.S. Van Dyke Stars: William Powell(Nick Charles), Myrna Loy (Nora Charles), Maureen O'Sullivan (Dorothy Wynant) Based on: DashiellHammett's 1934 novel The Thin Man Release: Ma
Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte - 1964 (opens the original)
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Cindy and Marty discuss a 37-year-unsolved decapitation, a decaying Louisiana mansion, and an aging recluse who may — or may not — be losing her grip on reality: Robert Aldrich's follow-up to Baby Jane pits Bette Davis against phantom harpsichords, a scheming cousin, and a plot to have her committed. Essential Elements Director/Producer: Robert Aldrich Stars: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten; with Agnes Moorehead, Mary Astor, Victor Buono, Bruce Dern Screenplay: Henry Farrell & Lu
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