Glamour's Golden Age

Name: Glamour's Golden Age
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2009-10-19T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 4
Cast: Hermione Norris

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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Ended

Original Name

Glamour's Golden Age

First Air Date

October 19, 2009

Last Air Date

November 2, 2009

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Production Companies

BBC Scotland

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BBC Four

S01E03

Hooked on Hollywood

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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