Classic Hollywood

Classic Hollywood

62 Episodes

They don’t make ’em like they used to! Enjoy these classics from the golden age of Hollywood and beyond.

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  • Merrily We Go to Hell

    Episode 1

    Directed by Dorothy Arzner • 1932 • United States
    Starring Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen

    One of director Dorothy Arzner’s most fascinatingly subversive portraits of marital dysfunction stars Sylvia Sidney as a wealthy socialite who falls in love with an alcoholic writer (Fredric M...

  • The Cook

    Episode 2

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1918 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John

    Two chefs cook up pandemonium at a high-end restaurant.

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Episode 3

    Directed by John S. Robertson • 1920 • United States
    Starring John Barrymore, Brandon Hurst, Martha Mansfield

    Considered by many to be the first great American horror film, John S. Robertson’s DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE allowed stage legend John Barrymore to deliver one of his most virtuosic screen...

  • Our Hospitality

    Episode 4

    Directed by Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone • 1923 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Natalie Talmadge

    OUR HOSPITALITY broadened the boundaries of slapstick and proved that Buster Keaton was not just a comedian, he was an artist. Keaton stars as youthful dreamer Willie McKay...

  • If I Had a Million

    Episode 5

    Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Norman Z. McLeod, H. Bruce Humberstone, James Cruze, Stephen Roberts, and William A. Seiter • 1932 • United States
    Starring Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, George Raft

    An all-star cast of golden-age Hollywood legends adorns this unique and whimsical dayd...

  • The Blacksmith

    Episode 6

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair • 1922 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

    A bumbling blacksmith’s assistant tries his hand at fixing a car.

  • The Butcher Boy

    Episode 7

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1917 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John

    Buster Keaton makes his film debut as one of a number of troublesome customers at a general store.

  • Day Dreams

    Episode 8

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1922 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Renée Adorée, Joe Roberts

    A luckless young man tries to impress his sweetheart’s father by getting a job—but winds up all wet.

  • Good Night Nurse

    Episode 9

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1918 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Alice Lake

    It’s shenanigans at a sanitarium—with Buster Keaton as a cleaver-wielding surgeon.

  • The High Sign

    Episode 10

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1921 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett, Charles Dorety

    A day at the amusement park goes awry when Buster becomes an accidental hit man.

  • The Goat

    Episode 11

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair • 1921 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

    Buster is wanted—dead or alive!

  • The Hayseed

    Episode 12

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1919 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Molly Malone

    Fatty Arbuckle plays a hilarious game of hide and seek.

  • Hard Luck

    Episode 13

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1921 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

    A despondent young man finds that suicide isn’t as easy as it seems.

  • One Hour with You

    Episode 14

    Directed by Ernst Lubitsch • 1932 • United States
    Starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin

    Ernst Lubitsch reunites Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, this time as a seemingly blissful couple whose marriage hits the skids when her flirtatious school chum comes on to ...

  • The Rough House

    Episode 15

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and Buster Keaton • 1917 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Al St. John, Buster Keaton

    The hapless proprietor of a seaside resort starts a fire and gets creative in the kitchen.

  • The Scarecrow

    Episode 16

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1920 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Sybil Seely

    Farmhand Buster looks for love and ends up playing the dummy in a cornfield.

  • Broken Lullaby

    Episode 17

    Directed by Ernst Lubitsch • 1932 • United States
    Starring Lionel Barrymore, Phillips Holmes, Nancy Carroll

    Though best known for the sophisticated comedies he turned out with elegant ease in the 1930s, director Ernst Lubitsch took a rare, often overlooked detour into serious-minded drama with t...

  • Steamboat Bill, Jr.

    Episode 18

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner • 1928 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Tom McGuire

    STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. was Buster Keaton’s last independent silent comedy and also one of his finest. He stars as the sensitive son of a gruff riverboat captain (Ernest Torrence...

  • Oh Doctor!

    Episode 19

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1917 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John

    A doctor bets it all at the horse races and winds up in quite a fix.

  • Neighbors

    Episode 20

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1920 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton

    A slapstick “Romeo and Juliet” plays out in a tenement house.

  • Honor Among Lovers

    Episode 21

    Directed by Dorothy Arzner • 1931 • United States
    Starring Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Monroe Owsley

    The incandescent presence of two rising stars—Claudette Colbert and Fredric March—lights up this deft blend of comedy, romance, and social drama. A young secretary (Colbert) faces a life-al...

  • One Week

    Episode 22

    Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1920 • United States
    Starring Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely

    Buster Keaton’s first short as an independent producer displays his daredevil innovation as a pair of newlyweds struggle to assemble their prefab house.

  • Back Stage

    Episode 23

    Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1919 • United States
    Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Jack Coogan Sr.

    The stagehands get in on the act during a vaudeville performance gone wrong.

  • The Smiling Lieutenant

    Episode 24

    Directed by Ernst Lubitsch • 1931 • United States
    Starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins

    Maurice Chevalier’s randy Viennese lieutenant is enamored of Claudette Colbert’s freethinking, all-girl-orchestra-leading cutie. Yet complications ensue when the sexually repressed pri...