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Glamour's Golden Age

Toby Stevens

Eleanor Horne

Hermione Norris

Julian Fellowes

Lucy Moore

Lindy Woodhead

Stephen Gundle

Lawrence Napper

Juliet Gardiner

Virginia Nicholson

Glamour's Golden Age: Episode 3: Hooked on Hollywood

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Hooked on Hollywood

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Episode 3: Hooked on Hollywood

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How the American movie industry changed British culture in the 1920s and 30s.

Documentary exploring how the American movie industry changed British culture in the 1920s and 30s, offering cinema audiences a glimpse of a glamorous lifestyle.

Documentary which explores how the American movie industry changed British culture in the 1920s and 30s. The movies, the film stars and the cinemas themselves combined to offer British audiences a glimpse of a glamorous lifestyle and the suggestion that they might achieve it. 

Selling a succession of rags-to-riches fairy tales featuring go-getting women like Clara Bow, Jean Harlow and Katharine Hepburn, American movies also fuelled demand for cosmetics, cigarettes and dieting. It was an era in which Hollywood changed what Britons watched, what Britons wore and what Britons wanted.

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Series looking at the 1920s and 30s, an age that was daring, influential and exciting

Series looking at the 1920s and 30s, which creates a portrait of an age so daring, influential and exciting that it still shapes who we are today

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