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1 :01x01 - Lana Turner
The story of Lana Turner that focuses on the 1958 scandal when Turner's daughter Cheryl stabbed her mother's mobster lover, Johnny Stompanato, to death.
2 :01x02 - George Reeves
Television's Superman, George Reeves, died a mysterious death. Was it suicide or murder?
3 :01x03 - Marilyn Monroe
Another retelling of the tragic life of sex symbol Marilyn Monroe.
4 :01x04 - James Dean
James Dean was a virtually unknown actor who became a screen icon after his tragic death in an automobile accident in September of 1955.
5 :01x05 - Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield was yet another 1950's bombshell who came to a tragic end when she died in a car crash in June of 1967. Mansfield's life is recounted in this episode.
6 :01x06 - Fatty Arbuckle
Fatty Arbuckle was the king of silent film comedy who saw his career come to an end when he was charged with manslaughter after a wild party in San Francisco.
7 :01x07 - Thelma Todd
Actress/comedienne Thelma Todd was found dead in her garage in 1933. Was it an accident, suicide. or murder?
8 :01x08 - Bugsy Siegel
Guest star: Paul Sampson (Bugsy Siegel), Mike Kimmel (Moe Sedway), Rose Marie (Herself)
Gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was one of the first to see the potential of Las Vegas being a cash cow for organized crime but internal strife with others in the crime syndicate led to his being bumped off before the growth of Las Vegas became a reality.
9 :01x09 - Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift was one of Hollywood's most popular leading men in the 1940's and 50's but his personal life was troubled and contained a dark secret that would have destroyed his career had it been made public.
10 :01x10 - Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow, the platinum blonde bombshell, was the Marilyn Monroe of her day in the 1930's but her life was tragically cut short by illness right when she appeared to have found personal happiness with actor William Powell.
11 :01x11 - Charlie Chaplin
The scandalous personal life of silent film comedian Charlie Chaplin is recounted in this episode.
12 :01x12 - Peg Entwistle
Peg Entwistle found fame in death that she never received in her short life. Despondent over her stalled acting career, she committed suicide by jumping off the top of the Hollywood sign in the hills above Tinseltown.
13 :01x13 - Bela Lugosi
Horror icon Bela Lugosi was never able to escape his role as Dracula and he died in poverty in 1956 only to be rediscovered years later by a new generation of horror fans.
14 :01x14 - William Desmond Taylor
The murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor was one of the first great scandals of Tinseltown. Despite numerous suspects, some of them famous, the case was never solved. Or was it?
15 :01x15 - The Black Dahlia
Elizabeth Short, a Hollywood hanger-on and sometime prostitute, liked to dress in black and was nicknamed "the Black Dahlia." She was found brutally murdered with her body being nearly severed in half. The case remains unsolved until this day although numerous theories about the culprit abound.
16 :01x16 - Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Dandridge was one of the first Afro-American actresses to achieve stardom in Hollywood but drug addiction brought her career to a premature and tragic end.
17 :01x17 - Errol Flynn
Errol Flynn lived a swashbuckling life just like many of the characters he portrayed on film. He was a heavy drinker and womanizer as well as a rumored Nazi spy.
18 :01x18 - Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes was a billionaire oilman, aviator, and film producer who ended his life as a drug-addicted recluse kept as a virtual prisoner by his employees.
19 :01x19 - The Quiz Show Scandals
Quiz shows were all the rage on television back in the 1950's. Unfortunately, some of them happened to be fixed and a nationwide scandal was the result.
20 :01x20 - Judy Garland
Judy Garland became a sensation when she was cast as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz but her life didn't have the happy ending as it did in the movie.
21 :01x21 - Billie Holiday
Billie Holliday could sing the blues but she also lived them. Her life story is recounted here.
22 :01x22 - Buddy Holly
Rocker Buddy Holley, his career, and "the Day the Music Died."
23 :01x23 - William Randolph Hearst
In one of Hollywood's greatest early scandals, pioneer movie producer Thomas Ince died under mysterious circumstances onboard the yacht of powerful newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. For years, rumors persisted that Hearst had shot Ince after mistaking him for Charlie Chaplin who had been having an affair with Hearst's mistress, Marion Davies.
24 :01x24 - Ramon Novarro
Cinema's original Ben Hur was Mexican actor Ramon Novarro who replaced Rudolph Valentino as Hollywood's archetypical Latin lover. Years later, the once handsome Novarro met with a shocking and tragic end when he was murdered in his home by two male prostitutes.
25 :01x25 - Hank Williams
Nobody ever wrote 'em and sung 'em like Hank Williams, the first superstar of country music. Williams died young at the age of 29 but his legacy lives on today.
26 :01x26 - Clara Bow
Clara Bow was the "It Girl" of the silent screen but personal problems ended up ruining her career.
27 :01x27 - Allah Nazimova
Stage and early silent screen actress Allah Nazimova is profiled in this episode.
28 :01x28 - Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley was one of the top Hollywood directors of the 1930's, famous for his spectacular musicals. Then, a hit-and-run accident wrecked his career.
29 :01x29 - F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda
F. Scott Fitzgerald was known as the chronicler of the Jazz Age. He and his wife Zelda were that era's golden couple but the good times didn't last forever.
30 :01x30 - Frances Farmer
Frances Farmer was a promising Hollywood actress from a troubled background who saw her career go down the tubes because of mental illness.
31 :01x31 - James Whale
Director James Whale directed such horror classics as Frankenstein and The Invisible Man but years after his career had dried up he was found dead in his swimming pool. Was it an accident, suicide, or murder?
32 :01x32 - Harry Houdini
The life of magician and escape artist Ehrich Weiss, aka Harry Houdini, is profiled.
33 :01x33 - Spencer Tracy
For nearly four decades, Spencer Tracy was one of the giants of Hollywood and the first actor to win back-to-back Academy Awards. His career and long love affair with co-star Katherine Hepburn are recounted.
34 :01x34 - Joan Crawford
Mommie Dearest herself, better known as Joan Crawford, is the subject of this episode.
35 :01x35 - Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks was one of the legends of the silent screen. Her story is told here.
36 :01x36 - Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard and hubby Clark Gable were Hollywood's reigning King and Queen but it all came to a tragic end when Lombard was killed in a 1942 plane crash.
37 :01x37 - Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth was a World War II pin-up queen who enjoyed a long career in Hollywood and suffered through a stormy marriage to Orson Welles.
38 :01x38 - Vivien Leigh
British actress Vivien Leigh won the greatest casting search in Hollywood history when she got the role of Scarlet O'Hara in the classic 1939 film Gone With the Wind. Though she won an Oscar for her role in the movie, her life afterwards was marked by poor health, mental illness, and a stormy marriage to Laurence Olivier.
39 :01x39 - John Barrymore
John Barrymore, nicknamed "the Great Profile", was a Broadway and silent screen idol but alcohol would later take a toll on his looks and career.
40 :01x40 - Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby was America's favorite crooner but he had a cold and distant relationship with his four sons from his first marriage.
41 :01x41 - Lenny Bruce
Comic Lenny Bruce helped pave the way for the likes of Richard Pryor and George Carlin but his own life ended in death from a drug overdose.
42 :01x42 - Alfalfa and Our Gang
The premature death of Carl Swizer, better known as Alfalfa from the Our Gang comedies.
43 :01x43 - Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was an author who lived a life that was every bit as exciting as the novels he wrote but it all ended prematurely and tragically.
44 :01x44 - The Hillside Stranglers
Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi were a pair of serial killers who strangled a series of female victims in Los Angeles during the 1970's.
45 :01x45 - Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke was one of the first Afro-American singers to have wide crossover appeal among white audiences but the events at end of his life are shrouded in unanswered questions.
46 :01x46 - Freddie Mercury
Queen's lead singer, Freddie Mercury, who died of AIDs, is profiled.
47 :01x47 - Sal Mineo
Sal Mineo was a matinee idol in the 1950's but twenty years later, with his career in the dumpster, he was murdered before getting a chance to make a comeback.
48 :01x48 - Bobby Fuller
Bobby Fuller had a huge hit with "I Fought the Law" and seemed to be on his way to being a rock and roll superstar. What happened?
49 :01x49 - Doris Duke
Heiress Doris Duke was one of the world's richest women but she never found love or happiness and died alone in her Hollywood mansion possibly the victim of foul play.
50 :01x50 - Jack Warner
Jack Warner was the oldest of the Warner Brothers who founded the legendary Hollywood studio.
51 :02x01 - Gig Young
Gig Young won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor but his personal life was tumultuous and his death left many unanswered questions.
52 :02x02 - Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Bankhead was a wealthy deb from Alabama who became a famous actress on stage, screen, and radio.
53 :02x03 - Orson Welles
Orson Welles was a cinematic genius whose first film, Citizen Kane, is considered a masterpiece. But afterwards, Welles was faced with the prospect of having to top himself.
54 :02x04 - Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin was one of the top pop singers of the late 50's and early 60's and he also had a distinguished film career. Sadly, he died from heart disease at the age of 37 in 1973.
55 :02x05 - The Hollywood Ten
Many in Hollywood defended the so-called "Hollywood Ten", a group of writers who were blacklisted for being Communists. Many of their defenders claim the Ten were innocent but we know now that they were not.
56 :02x06 - Amelia Earhart
Aviatrix Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic as well as around the world. Her disappearance in 1937 while on a trans-world flight remains one of history's greatest mysteries.
57 :02x07 - Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman was one of the top stars of the 1940's but she created a scandal when she left her husband and child for another man.
58 :02x08 - Aimee Semple McPherson
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was the Tammy Faye Bakker of her time. Her disappearance and sudden re-appearance in 1924 is still shrouded in mystery.
59 :02x09 - Veronica Lake
Veronica Lake was one of the most popular stars of the 1940's but her career floundered after the end of World War II and she died forgotten and in poverty.
60 :02x10 - Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino was the greatest lover of the silent screen and his 1926 funeral drew nearly half a million distraught fans.
61 :02x11 - War of the Worlds
In 1938, a radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds by Orson Welles and his Mercury Radio Theatre players panicked many segments of America who thought it was the real thing and that the Earth was being attacked by aliens from Mars.
62 :02x12 - The Hollywood Blacklist
Whitewashed and inaccurate account of the Hollywood Blacklist of the 1950's.
63 :02x13 - Mae West
Bombshell Mae West rose to fame on Broadway and later became a sensation in the movies but battles with censors cut short her film career.
64 :02x14 - Lupe Velez
Lupe Velez, nicknamed "the Mexican Spitfire", was one of the first Hispanic actresses to make a breakthrough in Hollywood but her life ended in tragedy.
65 :02x15 - Frank Lloyd Wright
America's greatest architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, is profiled along with some of his creations.
66 :02x16 - Harry Cohn
Harry Cohn was the tyrannical boss of Columbia Studios. His life and career is recounted.
67 :02x17 - Josephine Baker
Entertainer Josephine Baker found herself a victim of prejudice and discrimination in the United States so she left the country to reside in France.
68 :02x18 - Ed Wood
Guest star: Gregory Walcott (Himself), Paul Marco (Himself), Martin Landau (Himself)
Ed Wood, the legendary director of stink bombs such as Plan 9 from Outer Space, is the subject of this episode.
69 :02x19 - Otis Redding
Otis Redding was a soul singing musical legend whose career was ended prematurely by his death in a plane crash.
70 :02x20 - Tennessee Williams
Playwright Tennessee Williams' personal life was as strange and tumultuous as the characters in some of his plays.
71 :02x21 - John Garfield
During the 1940's, John Garfield was one of the top stars at Warner Brothers studio in Hollywood but a heart defect would lead to his premature death.
72 :02x22 - Inger Stevens
Swedish-born Inger Stevens starred in the TV series The Farmer's Daughter during the 1960's but an ill-fated romance would lead to her committing suicide in 1970.
73 :02x23 - Jack Cassidy
Jack Cassidy was married to Shirley Jones and the father of pop idols David and Shaun Cassidy but his own Hollywood career never took off the way he intended and he would die tragically in a fire.
74 :02x24 - Frankie Lymon
Frankie Lymon was a singing legend but his career fizzled out and he left a complex legacy after his death with three women claiming to be his legal widow.
75 :02x25 - Nick Adams
Nick Adams was well-known in the movies for roles in such films as Mister Roberts and No Time for Sergeants and on television for his western series The Rebel but his mysterious death in 1968 still leaves questions today.
76 :02x26 - Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell was one of the nation's most powerful gossip columnists and radio broadcasters but his fall from power was swift and severe and only three people attended his funeral.
77 :02x27 - Gypsy Rose Lee
Burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee is profiled in this installment.
78 :02x28 - Vivian Vance
The life story of Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball's favorite sidekick.
79 :02x29 - Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh was the first aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic but later suffered a personal tragedy when his oldest son was kidnapped and later found murdered.
80 :02x30 - Truman Capote
Truman Capote was a man with a mean "write." The factual novel In Cold Blood brought him widespread fame but it didn't bring him personal happiness.
81 :02x31 - Oscar Levant
The life of actor, pianist, and wit Oscar Levant is told in this episode.
82 :02x32 - Jon-Erik Hexum
Guest star: Richard Anderson (Himself), Meeno Peluce (Himself), Jennifer O'Neill (Herself)
Jon Erik Hexum was rising like a rocket on the Hollywood scene but it all came crashing down in one tragic on-set accident.
83 :02x33 - Mabel Normand
Silent film comedienne Mabel Normand rode high for a while but eventually crashed and burned.
84 :02x34 - William Holden
Actor William Holden's unusual life and tragic death are recounted in this episode.
85 :02x35 - Peter Duel
Starring the in comedy western Alias Smith and Jones seemed like the jumpstart to a great career for actor Pete Duel but he was found dead from a gunshot wound by his own hand in December of 1971. Duel's tragic life is told in this episode.
86 :02x36 - Glenn Miller
Did bandleader Glenn Miller really die in a 1944 plane crash or was it something else that the government covered up?
87 :02x37 - Jerry Giesler
The life of superagent and fixer Jerry Geisler is related in this episode.
88 :02x38 - Judy Holliday
Judy Holliday was America's favorite movie dumb blonde in the 50's and early 60's but her career was tragically cut short when she died from cancer in 1965.
89 :02x39 - Marlene Dietrich
International sex symbol Marlene Dietrich was a superstar on two continents. Her lifestory is told in this episode.
90 :02x40 - Carole Landis
Actress Carole Landis tragically killed herself after an affair with a married actor turned sour. Her life is recounted here.
91 :02x41 - Gene Tierney
Gene Tierney was one of the top actresses in Hollywood during the 1940's but mental illness halted her career.
92 :02x42 - Russ Columbo
Crooner Russ Columbo's career rivaled that of Bing Crosby in the 1930's but his mysterious suicide still has people wondering.
93 :02x43 - Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson was an Afro-American athlete, actor, and singer who spoke out for the civil rights of his race. We also know now that he was a hardcore Stalinist who might have been a Communist agent.
94 :02x44 - Susan Hayward
The career and personal ups and downs of Academy Award winning actress Susan Hayward.
95 :02x45 - The Silent Theatre Murder
A Pasadena theatre owner made a good living showing silent movies only to be murdered. Did one of his partners do him in?
96 :02x46 - The Knickerbocker Hotel
The history of the famed Knickerbocker Hotel in Los Angeles.
97 :02x47 - Dorothy Kilgallen
Gossip columnist Dorothy Kilgallen was found dead reportedly after discovering information that would blow the lid off the JFK Assassination. What really happened?
98 :02x48 - Paul Kelly
The lifestory of character actor Paul Kelly, who served jail time for manslaughter before resuming his acting career.
100 :02x50 - Harry James & Betty Grable
For a long period of time, Harry Janes and Betty Grable were a golden couple in Hollywood but as their careers waned so did their marriage.
101 :02x51 - Robert Mitchum
Hollywood bad boy Robert Mitchum was a rebel who lived to a ripe old age. His life is recounted in this episode.
102 :03x01 - Libby Holman
The story of singer/actress Libby Holman and the scandal involving the death of her first husband, a heir to the Reynolds tobacco fortune.
103 :03x02 - Capucine
Beautiful French actress and model Capucine, who was an international star in the 1960's, would end up committing suicide after her career waned.
104 :03x03 - Dack Rambo
Dack Rambo is best-remembered for co-starring with Walter Brennan in The Guns of Will Sonnett. He later went onto a career in daytime soap operas before dying tragically of AIDs.
105 :03x04 - Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler was an oil company executive who decided to give fiction writing a try when he lost his job during the Great Depression. Chandler created one of the greatest characters in detective fiction history, Phillip Marlowe, but his private life was unhappy.
106 :03x05 - Walter Scott
Wannabe rocker Walter Scott disappeared in 1983 and his body was discovered four years later. Wifey and her lover were charged with his murder.
107 :03x06 - Otto Preminger
Director Otto Preminger was well-known for being a tyrant on the set but he did produce some classic films such as Laura.
108 :03x07 - Carol Wayne
Carol Wayne, famous for playing dumb blondes on television, died in Mexico under mysterious circumstances. This episode details her life and death.
109 :03x08 - The Little Rascal: Stymie
This episode details the story of yet another Little Rascal who led a tragic life.
110 :03x09 - Marie McDonald
Actress Marie McDonald was nicknamed "the Body" but her life ended in tragedy.
111 :03x10 - Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee became a cinematic legend with his martial arts films but his death remains shrouded in mystery to this day.
112 :03x11 - Ernie Kovacs
Comedian Ernie Kovacs' life was as wild and wacky as some of his movies. It ended prematurely with his death in an automobile accident.
113 :03x12 - Jeffrey Hunter
Jeffrey Hunter was a popular actor in the 50's and 60's whose premature death in 1968 was shrouded in mystery. His lifestory is recounted here.
114 :03x13 - Jeff Chandler
Jeff Chandler's career was cut tragically short when he died on the operating table during surgery.
115 :03x14 - Barbara Payton
Barabra Payton, a popular B-move actress in the 1950's, saw her life descend into a nightmare of alcoholism, drug abuse, and prostitution.
116 :03x15 - Doodles Weaver
Doodles Weaver was a comedian who never quite hit the big time and whose life ended tragically.
117 :03x16 - Mario Lanza
Famed tenor Mario Lanza's all too brief life is recounted in this episode.
118 :03x17 - Hopper/Parsons
The careers of Hollywood gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons are recounted in this episode along with the long-running feud the two had with each other.
119 :03x18 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
Dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson had to overcome many barriers in order to achieve Hollywood success.
120 :03x19 - Albert Salmi
Character actor Albert Salmi met a tragic end along with his second wife in a purported murder-suicide. Friends and family members tell the story of Albert's life in this episode.
121 :03x20 - Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner was one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood history but she never found happiness in her personal life.
122 :03x21 - Sam Peckinpah
The life and times of maverick director Sam Peckinpah is the subject of this installment.
123 :03x22 - Linda Darnell
Linda Darnell, dubbed "the Girl With the Perfect Face" died tragically from burns obtained in a housefire at the age of 42.
124 :03x23 - Susan Cabot
B-movie actress Susan Cabot, whose most famous film was The Wasp Woman, would end up being killed by her own son. Her life is recounted.
125 :03x24 - Lon Chaney, Jr.
Horror icon Lon Chaney, Jr. left a huge legacy in the genre but his entire life was a struggle to escape from the shadow of his father who left an even bigger legacy.
126 :03x25 - Humphrey Bogart
The life of Hollywood icon Humphrey Bogart who was the archetypical movie tough guy.
127 :03x26 - Billy Tipton
Jazz pianist Billy Tipton had a secret so incredible that it's still barely believable today.
128 :03x27 - Beverly Hills Babylon
A brief history of the numerous scandals which have occurred in the municipality of Beverly Hills.
129 :03x28 - Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd achieved screen immortality in the classic western Shane but his 1964 death still raises questions.
130 :03x29 - Hollywood Ghosts
A profile of supposedly haunted Hollywood locations.
131 :03x30 - Tyrone Power
Tyrone Power was a Hollywood heartthrob who passed away at the peak of his career.
132 :03x31 - Paul Lynde
Paul Lynde rose to fame on The Hollywood Squares but his life was a train wreck.
133 :03x32 - Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz rose from bandleader to major television star and head of a Hollywood studio only to see it all come crashing down.
134 :03x33 - Jean Spangler
The story of Jean Spangler, a Hollywood bit player, who disappeared mysteriously in 1949. She is still listed as a missing person today.
135 :03x34 - Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx was hilarious on the big screen and on television but his private life was anything but a laugh.
136 :03x35 - Hedy Lamarr
The life of actress Hedy Lamarr is profiled in this episode.
137 :03x36 - Bette Davis
The life and career of actress Bette Davis is recounted in this installment of the series.
138 :03x37 - Peter Lawford
Director: Alison Martino
Guest star: Jeannie Carmen (Herself), Jay Bernstein (Himself)
Peter Lawford was a member of the famed "Rat Pack" and the brother-in-law of JFK. What Hollywood secrets did he know?
139 :03x38 - Gloria Grahame
The personal life of Academy Award winning actress Gloria Grahame was more tempestuous than any of the characters she portrayed on-screen.
140 :03x39 - Maria Callas
Opera star Maria Callas had a long affair with famed Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis that extended into his marriage to Jackie Kennedy.
141 :03x40 - Audie Murphy
War hero Audie Murphy tried his luck in Hollywood with some success but found Tinseltown glory to be fleeting. Just when he was preparing for a movie comeback, Murphy was killed tragically in a plane crash.
142 :03x41 - Steve Cochran
Tough guy actor Steve Cochran's death in 1965 remains a puzzler. He was found dead on his yacht off the coast of Mexico with an all-female crew apparently from a lung infection.
143 :03x42 - Maria Montez
Maria Montez was a Dominican born actress who had some success in Hollywood during the 1940's. After World War II she married French actor Jean Pierre Aumont and moved to Europe. Montez was found dead in her bathtub in 1951. She had apparently suffered from heart palpitations which led to her drowning.
144 :03x43 - Vincent Price
Vincent Price was a suave and cultured stage actor who later became an icon of the horror genre.
145 :03x44 - Gail Russell
The story of actress Gail Russell who died from complications from alcoholism in 1961.
146 :03x45 - Dorothy Arzner
The life and times of Dorothy Arzner who was Hollywood's first female director.
147 :03x46 - Cary Grant
Alfred Archibald Leach rose from bit parts to become the symbol of Hollywood elegance known as Cary Grant but he never seemed to find happiness in his personal life.
148 :03x47 - John Wayne
The life and career of Hollywood (and American) legend John Wayne is profiled in this episode.
149 :03x48 - Merle Oberon
The life and times of actress Merle Oberon is recounted in this installment of the series.
150 :03x49 - Hollywood Goodfellas
The history of Mob activity in Hollywood is this episode's subject.
151 :03x50 - Charlie "Bird" Parker
Charlie "Bird" Parker was a musical genius but drug addiction prematurely cost him his life.
152 :03x51 - Will Rogers
The life and times of actor, cowboy, and humorist Will Rogers is detailed in this episode.