Hollywood Idols

Philadelphia high society beauty, Grace Kelly, headed to New York City to be a model and actress. Within four years, she was an Academy Award winner. The program features clips from High Noon, Dial M for Murder, To Catch a Thief and High Society, plus rare footage of both her royal, fairytale wedding and her funeral. Interviewees include actors James Stewart, Louis Jourdan, and Katy Jurado.

With a winning combination of comic style and leading-man charisma, Cary Grant was the essence of a star. This profile includes clips of Grant's first starring role in She Done Him Wrong. Other film clips include North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief and others. Interviewees include Leslie Caron, Deborah Kerr, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Bellamy, Stanley Donen, Richard Brooks and Stanley Kramer.

Talented and enduring award-winning star, Gregory Peck, tells how it was when the studios ruled and a shy boy from a broken family could rise to become a famous leading man. Featuring clips from The Keys of the Kingdom, To Kill a Mockingbird, Spellbound, MacArthur, and others. Interviews with Jane Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Liza Minnelli, Anthony Quinn, Jack Lemmon, Robert Mulligan, and Peck's son.

Michael Caine was known as one of filmdom's most versatile stars. See clips from his most famous films as Educating Rita, The Man Who Would Be King, Alfie, California Suite, Mona Lisa, and Zulu.  Also included in this program are the recollections of actors Julie Walters, Bob Hoskins, Dyan Cannon, Ben Kingsley, Roger Moore, directors Lewis Gilbert and Sidney J. Furie, and Caine's wife, Shakira.

Audrey Hepburn was one of movies' best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, elegant sophistication, and an aura of youthful innocence. This program features interviews from Billy Wilder, Blake Edwards, Stanley Donen, Henry Mancini, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Hubert de Givenchy and others. Also with scenes from Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Charade, My Fair Lady and more.

Hosted by Broadway star Tommy Tune, this program is a retrospective of Shirley Temple's life. Clips from Little Miss Marker, Bright Eyes, The Little Colonel, Poor Little Rich Girl, Stowaway and The Little Princess reveal the precocious Temple at her heart-stirring best. Interviews with Caesar Romero, Alice Faye and Gloria Stuart, Jane Withers, Darryl Hickman, Dick Moore, and Marcia Jones.

Catapulted to international prominence by Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns, Clint Eastwood leapt from TV lead to world-class movie star. He has produced, directed and starred in such classics as Play Misty for Me, High Plains Drifter, and The Unforgiven. Narrated by Clint himself, this program also includes interviews with Gene Hackman, Forest Whitaker, Frances Fisher, Jessica Walter and others.

Robert Mitchum was raised by a hardworking mother, he hit the rails at twelve and learned the harsh realities of loneliness, insecurity, danger -and says he enjoyed them. This program features clips from The Story Of G.I. Joe, Farewell and others, and interviews with Polly Bergen, Anthony Caruso, Jane Greer, Deborah Kerr, Ali MacGraw, Chris Mitchum, Robert Mitchum, Sydney Pollack, Jane Russell.

No other actor had his looks, his range of talents, his energy, and his capacity to draw others into the spell of his charm. This program includes clips from The King And I, The Ten Commandments, Anastasia, The Magnificent Seven, The Brothers Karamazov, and Westworld, and interviews with wife Doris, children Rock and Victoria, actors Eli Wallach, Rita Moreno, and director John Frankenheimer.

Shirley MacLaine's love of the theater began at a very early age. Her ballet training and long-legged pixie charm led her to rapid success on Broadway in musical comedy. Inevitably, Hollywood called and by 1955 Shirley was cast in Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry. The program includes interviews with Nicolas Cage, Jack Lemmon, John Forsythe, Robert Wise, Herbert Ross and Robert Harling.

Ingrid Bergman possessed a natural and vulnerable persona. Her cinematic contributions included such movie classics as Casablanca and Anastasia. Appearing together for the first time, Ingrid's daughters Pia Lindstrom and Isabella Rossellini take a personal look at their mother's life, telling her story from her childhood in Sweden to her death at age 67 from breast cancer.

Jack Lemmon made over 60 films and received 8 Academy Award nominations and 2 Oscars. His films include Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger, The China Syndrome, and Glengarry Glenn Ross. This profile includes interviews with directors Billy Wilder, Delbert Mann, actors Gregory Peck and Kevin Spacey, and many other Hollywood luminaries.

Four-time Academy Award-nominated Lancaster was acknowledged as one of the greatest stars in Hollywood, starring in films like The Birdman of Alcatraz, From Here to Eternity, The Sweet Smell of Success, and Atlantic City. Interviewees include directors Sydney Pollack, Ted Post, and Delbert Mann, actors Rhonda Fleming, Virginia Mayo, Terry Moore, Peter Reigert, Earl Holliman, and more.

It was Montana-born Gary Cooper's horse-riding skills, countryboy looks and shy hesitancy, which created a unique screen presence. Hia most memorable films include A Farewell to Arms, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Meet John Doe and High Noon. Maria Cooper Janis and actors George C. Scott, Charlton Heston, and Patricia Neal are among those appearing in this profile of one of Hollywood's greatest stars.