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His hands during the war, that was incredibly powerful. >> this is a very proud and a very happy month. >> they had made plans to give him a special oscar and then it turned out the performance was so good that people voted for him for best supporting actor which they couldn't have predicted. so he won two oscars. >> hello, darling. >> hello, daddy. >> hello, daddy. >> how do you like it? >> "it's a wonderful life" wasn't very successful when it came out, which i'm always shocked when i learn that a movie that we revere actually struggled in its initial release. but what a remarkable blend of ...

>> 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 buying televisions. >> biblical expansive epics in the '50s were one of hollywood's first successful answers to the threat of television. that brought people back to the theaters and that just caused hollywood to make more and more of them. >> who shall withstand the pow...

>> watch it. >> get a doctor! >> on the water front is the first time i saw people that i knew that that i was growing up with, the people in my family the people in the streets up there on the screen. the depiction of the lifestyle was very realistic. the tenements were the same. you could put a game on every image and it's beautiful art. >> be careful don't spill no water on the floor. >> the behavior of brando was the break through of the century. >> i remember the first time i saw brando on the screen and it was a revolution. revolutionized the art of acting. > i don't know nothing. >> by ...

There were crooked labor unions that controlled the docks and you had to be in good with the union bosses to get any kind of work. this is about how that system was broken. >> watch it! >> get a doctor! >> "on the waterfront" is the first time i saw people that i knew that that i was growing up with, the people in my family, the people in the streets up there on the screen. the depiction of the lifestyle was very honest and not condescending. the tenements were the same. the roofs were the same. >> hi, terry. >> you could put a frame on every image and it's beautiful art. >> be careful don't s...

Seconds of no music, no dialogue, no nothing, and it really builds the suspense. >> give me a whiskey. >> give me a whiskey, baby. >> greta garbo was full of mystery and beauty and talent. she just didn't try so much. you know what i mean? she was cool. ♪ >> mgm was sort of like the harvard of hollywood. it was the place that every star wanted to graduate to. it had garbo. it had gabel, spencer tracy. it offered to the public a sense of escape into a world of class and refinement. on the other hand, universal pictures was constantly on the financial shoals throughout the 1930s. they couldn't...