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Hollywood Actresses

Sylvia Syms looks back on the legendary leading ladies of Hollywood - the glamorous and often powerful stars who helped define what it was to be a woman in cinema's golden age.

Sylvia Syms looks back on the legendary leading ladies of Hollywood - the glamorous and often powerful stars who helped define what it was to be a woman in cinema's golden age. Featuring Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Lauren Bacall, Natalie Wood, Debbie Reynolds and Doris Day, the programme uses rarely seen archive and interviews to examine the relationships these great stars had with audiences, studio bosses - and sometimes with each other.

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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:29

    Henry Mancini

    Banzai Pipeline

  • 00:47

    Doris Day With Percy Faith & His Orchestra, Percy Faith, Doris Day, Percy Faith & His Orchestra

    Shaking The Blues Away

Credits

Narrator Sylvia Syms
Series Producer Simon Goretzki

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