Hollywood
Season 1, Episode 12: Star Treatment
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Producers discovered the effect of 'star power' on their box office bottom line. Creating Hollywood stars becomes its own industry, resulting in the Hollywood Star System, from which came Clara Bow, Lillian Gish, and John Gilbert, successor to Rudolph Valentino as "The Great Lover". But as easily as they made them, studios could break them.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Pioneers
Episode 2
In the Beginning
Episode 3
Single Beds and Double Standards
Episode 4
Hollywood Goes to War
Episode 5
Hazard of the Game
Episode 6
Swanson and Valentino
Episode 7
The Autocrats
Episode 8
Comedy: A Serious Business
Episode 9
Out West
Episode 10
The Man with the Megaphone
Episode 11
Trick of the Light
Episode 12
Star Treatment
Episode 13
End of an Era