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Going Hollywood: The '30s

100 %|Jan 1, 1984|Documentary

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.

Featured Crew

Herb Graff
Associate Producer
Leonard Maltin
Associate Producer
Jeannie Berlin
Creative Consultant
James Kimura
Best Boy Electrician
Brian Ackerman
Production Assistant
Laurie Jones
Production Assistant
Julian Schlossberg
Producer
Anthony Potenza
Editor

Cast

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Robert Preston
Self - Host
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Gracie Allen
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George Arliss
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Jean Arthur
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Fred Astaire
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Mischa Auer
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George Bancroft
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John Barrymore
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Matthew Beard
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Wallace Beery
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Constance Bennett
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Joan Blondell
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Eric Blore
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Humphrey Bogart
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William Boyd
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Charles Boyer
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Joe E. Brown
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George Burns
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Spring Byington
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James Cagney
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John Carradine
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Jack Carson
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Charlie Chaplin
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Maurice Chevalier
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Berton Churchill
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Joe Cobb
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Gary Cooper
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Joan Crawford
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Bing Crosby
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Crown Prince Hohenzollern
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Bette Davis
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Cecil B. DeMille
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Andy Devine
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Marlene Dietrich
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Lee Duncan
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Jimmy Durante
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W.C. Fields
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Larry Fine
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Pat Flaherty
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Henry Fonda
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Clark Gable
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Charley Grapewin
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Oliver Hardy
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Jean Harlow
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Ted Healy
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Samuel S. Hinds
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Tim Holt
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Darla Hood
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Herbert Hoover
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Curly Howard
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Leslie Howard
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Moe Howard
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Walter Huston
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Selmer Jackson
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Chic Johnson
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Al Jolson
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Boris Karloff
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Buster Keaton
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Hedy Lamarr
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Harry Langdon
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Stan Laurel
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Carole Lombard
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Walter Long
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Edmund Lowe
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Bela Lugosi
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Fredric March
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Groucho Marx
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Harpo Marx
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George McFarland
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Donald Meek
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Charles Middleton
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Thomas Mitchell
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Grace Moore
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Alan Mowbray
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Ole Olsen
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Lynne Overman
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Eugene Pallette
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Franklin Pangborn
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Louise Platt
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Dick Powell
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William Powell
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Rin-Tin-Tin
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Ginger Rogers
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Will Rogers
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Babe Ruth
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Sylvia Sidney
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Carl Switzer
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Shirley Temple
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Claire Trevor
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Tom Tyler
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Rudy Vallee
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John Wayne
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Johnny Weissmüller
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Mae West
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