Hollywood: The Dream Factory

This is the best of all the documentaries about Hollywood and specifically about MGM. It is creatively written and edited and wonderfully narrated by Dick Caveat and is so much better than the "That's Entertainment" series which it certainly inspired. It is not a promotional film for the studio but rather an interesting and seemingly honest depiction about this "beehive" of 5000 persons of so many different skills, talents, crafts from practically every industry: accountants, artists, musicians, actors, carpenters, stylists, bankers, writers, publicists, landscapers, historians, teachers (for the child stars), gourmet chefs, mechanics, electricians and on and on and on. The ending line is so tender and touching regarding the amazing theatrical enterprise that the studio was: "And while we can't be sure, the world is likely to never see anything quite like it again"