Paul Merton's Birth of Hollywood

  • :
  • : 3
  • : 1
  • BBC Two
  • 21
  • Documentary

:

.

1
1x1
Episode 1
Episode overview
Hollywood is still a sleepy California backwater of orange groves about to be transformed by filmmakers from the East Coast in search of sunny locations and wide open spaces. During this .. show full overview
1x2
Episode 2
Episode overview
Paul Merton's journey through early Hollywood reaches the 1920s when in prohibition America the cinema industry was on a collision course with its public because of a run of drink, drugs .. show full overview
1x3
Episode 3
Episode overview
Paul Merton traces the rise of the studios through the story of MGM - the biggest dream factory of them all, which boasted of 'more stars than the heavens'. Metro Goldwyn Mayer's studio .. show full overview

Characters