Hooray for Hollywood.

You may be homely in your neighborhood,

but if you think that you can be an actor, see Mr. Factor.

He'll make a monkey look good.

Within half an hour, you'll look like Tyrone Power.

Hooray for Hollywood.

Richard Whiting and Johnny Mercer, hooray for Hollywood.

Richard Whiting and Johnny Mercer,

hooray for Hollywood.

Welcome to the history of the 20th century. Music The

The Episode 387.

Hooray for Hollywood.

I want to talk about cinema today,

a topic I last touched on all the way back in episode 274.

That was a long time ago, wasn't it?

Back then, I took the story of motion pictures up through the early years of sound.

We're going to pick up that thread today, and I'll note right off the bat that

although I try to take a global outlook in the history of the 20th century, this topic right

here, motion pictures in the 30s and 40s, is overwhelmingly a story about the American film

industry based in Hollywood.

The United States was a world leader in their production of films even before the introduction of sound.

The country got a leg up on the rest of the world

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