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- Covers the making of a "sequel" to the surprising hit of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", in which career rivals Bette Davis and Joan Crawford finally appeared together in combative circumstances. The follow-up film, "Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte", had done location shooting in Louisiana and some Hollywood soundstage shooting when, Crawford, victim this time to Davis's well-planned scheming, withdrew from the film, necessitating a restart with a different star, Olivia de Havilland. Interviews with co-star and family members reveal the nature of the Davis-Crawford rivalry.
- This short documentary charts the professional life of Keye Luke, from his early career as an artist to his iconic roles as Lee Chan (Number One Son) in the Charlie Chan series and Master Po in Kung Fu.
- A look through stills and interviews at how William Fox influenced American film at the transition between silent and sound by importing the German expressionist F.W. Murnau who in turn influenced the romantic American Frank Borzage.
- Documentary that traces the tangled rights to Ian Fleming's "Casino Royale," the first James Bond story, which took over a half century to reach the screen in recognizable form.
- A look at 4 of the best Chan films and the careers of many of the actors in them.
- This is a very good biographical sketch of the heroine of the 1952 film, "With a Song in My Heart." Jane Froman survived a wartime plane crash only to return two years later to entertain GIs all across Europe in 1945.
- Deborah Kerr's husband Peter Viertel expresses his gratitude for their "affair" that turned into four decades of a very happy marriage.
- Patricia Elliot Tobias, president (2008) of the International Buster Keaton Society, discusses Keaton and his career.