The Hollywood Greats

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

How it feels

This series profiles famous Hollywood personalities. The host interviews people who knew these stars. It tells the story of their lives and careers.

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What happens

Hollywood Greats is a BBC Television series, which originally ran from 1977 to 1985. The film critic Barry Norman wrote and narrated a series of in-depth profiles on major Hollywood film personalities, in which he interviewed surviving associates. He was also responsible for a series called British Greats in 1980. A series of books, titled The Hollywood Greats, The Movie Greats and The Film Greats, which were written by Norman, were published. A series with the same title was narrated by Ian McShane in 1999 and presented by Jonathan Ross from 2002 to 2007. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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