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>> has the war started? >> if you're going to tell that story, you have to have black people as slaves. >> ms. scarlet, what we are going to do with nothing to feed those sick folks and that child? >> i don't know. i don't know. >> the black characters played by haddie mcdonnell and butterfly mcqueen are really the best characters in the movie. they're the only, in a weird way, moral characters. rhett essentially rapes his wife. scarlet is a disaster. ashley wilkes is just the weakling. melanie is a door mat and then mamie in the center of all of this. >> it's mr. rhett i'm worried about. >> u...

Ostensibly a detective story but the plot revolves around all these crazy characters looking for the black bird and how sam spade plays these characters off each other. >> you're good. you're very good. >> what did he say? >> about what? >> about me. >> nothing. >> what did you talk about then? >> he offered me $5,000 for the black bird. >> my father was not that big a fan of actors. if you watch his movies, he's more interested in character. i think this was why he loved humphrey bogart so much. >> thanks, darling. there's a kind of directness and honesty about him that we're not used to. >> ...

To going to a movie like ben hur. it was just not the kind of thing that anybody had seen at that time. >> movies had to get off their lawyers not lays around and let's make going to the cinema an even more extraordinary experience. then after television comes along, some of the great musicals of all time come along as a result of that. ♪ good morning, good morning it's great to stay up late good morning good morning to you. ♪. >> singing in the rain is the perfect movie. it's fun and it's beautiful and it's colorful and the songs are brilliant. i didn't realize at the time that they were ...

Bette davis. however the winner was judy holliday who had just risen to overnight fame in "born yesterday." >> what did you say it for? >> i don't know. how old are you? >> 29. >> it's entertainment in your own living room and all over the country movie audiences of all ages sit glued to their television sets. the picture may be small but it's free. >> probably the most serious threat to movies came in the 1950s when people were ooh buying televisions. biblical exspansive epics in the '50s were one of hollywood's first successful answers to the threat of television. that brought people back to...

With singing in the rain? i said it will be raining and i'll be singing. you know. and that was it. so it wasn't very hard really to compose it. >> the moment of splashing the water. >> that part was fun. ♪ clang, clang clang went the trolley ♪ ♪ ding, ding, ding went the bell ♪ >> when you come along with vincent minnelli making "meet me in st. louis" and "american in paris" and "the bandwagon," you have such originality, such joy and such works that stand the test of time. ♪ you want to have bells that will ring ♪ ♪ you want to have songs that will sing ♪ >> in 1954 george cu...