4. Brother, Can You Spare A Dream? (1929-1941) (2010)
The movies broke their silence in 1927, as Warner Bros. introduced the first major synchronized sound film, The Jazz Singer. Stage-trained actors were suddenly in demand, and among those to break though in the early sound era were James Cagney, Bette Davis, Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn and Edward G. Robinson. For the most part, the movies were able to ride the storm of the Great Depression, as crowds flocked to escapist Astaire/Ginger Rogers musicals. Most of the moguls toughed out the hard times, though some tumbled.
Release date: 2010-11-22
Season number: 1
Episode number: 4
Runtime: 60 minutes
Cast
Christopher Plummer
as Narrator
Leonard Maltin
as Self
Ricky Jay
as Self
Carla Laemmle
as Self
Daniel Selznick
as Self
Gregory Orr
as Self
Marc Wanamaker
as Self
Bob Balaban
as Self
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
as Self
Tony Maietta
as Self
Molly Haskell
as Self
Donald Bogle
as Self
Peter Bogdanovich
as Self
Richard D. Zanuck
as Self
Robert Osborne
as Self
Gore Vidal
as Self
William Wellman Jr.
as Self
Andrew Bergman
as Self
Marsha Hunt
as Self
Sidney Lumet
as Self
Paul Mazursky
as Self
Roger Corman
as Self
Mark Harris
as Self
Walter Mirisch
as Self
David Brown
as Self
Peter Guber
as Self
Robert Benton
as Self
Buck Henry
as Self
John Sayles
as Self
Rest of the cast - click here to expand
Paul Israel - Self, Terry Borton - Self, Charles Musser - Self, Anthony Slide - Self, James Zukor - Self, Susan Fox-Rosellini - Self, Steven J. Ross - Self, Richard Koszarski - Self, Cari Beauchamp - Self, Robert S. Birchard - Self, A. Scott Berg - Self, Betty Lasky - Self, Richard Roberts - Self, Jeanine Basinger - Self, Jeffrey Vance - Self, Scott Eyman - Self, Mollie Gregory - Self, David Stenn - Self, Kathleen Sharp - Self, Chris Trumbo - Self, Thomas Schatz - Self, Mark Vieira - Self, Suzanne Lloyd Hayes - Self, Marc Norman - Self, Miles Kreuger - Self, Gary Giddins - Self, Aljean Harmetz - Self, Stanley R. Jaffe - Self, David Thomson - Self, George Stevens Jr. - Self, Robert F. Boyle - Self, Peter Biskind - Self, Steven J. Ross - Self