Great Romances of the 20th Century

- Season 2

(1999)

The Blonde Bombshell meets The Thin Man, a movie partnership which set the screen alight. But was Harlow's tragic early death related to their romance?

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Theirs was one of the greatest Hollywood romances, a remarkable meeting of opposites. The deep feeling Hepburn and Tracy had for each other is preserved in a series of classic movies in which they co-starred.

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She was one of MGM's most luminous stars. He was one of its most brilliant directors. The union of two flamboyant talents produced a third. Liza Minnelli.

One of the legendary love matches in Hollywood history. Stewart was the all-American boy - movie star and war hero - whose marriage reflected the title of one of his best-loved films, 'It's a Wonderful Life'.

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James Dean lived fast and died young. The fate of the unhappy Pier Angeli was to live on, but she was never the same after her romance with the ?Rebel Without a Cause'.

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He was the Great Lover of the Silent Screen, she was the self-created exotic who fashioned his career. Neither partner in this remarkable marriage was quite what he or she seemed.

George and Gracie were two of America's best loved vaudevillians and movie stars who capped dazzling careers by making it big in television. After Gracie's death, the laconic cigar-chomping George becomes an American showbiz institution.

Like Desi, all of America loved Lucy, the RKO contract player who eventually gained the TV clout to buy the studio where she had started her movie career.

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Hepburn was a bewitching elfin spirit in Fifties Hollywood, Ferrer the handsome leading man she married and with whom she co-starred in 'War and Peace'.

The Dust Bowl bandits whose blood-splattered spree of robbery and murder became a Depression legend and the basis for Arthur Penn's Oscar-winning movie.

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One of the greatest survivors in the turbulent politics of the Middle East, received the support he needed from his beautiful third wife.

Two of Europe's most charismatic cinema icons whose affair was one of the most closely guarded secrets of the 1970s.

One of the most glamorous couples of the Golden Era of Hollywood - the greatest of studio directors and his shrewd fashion editor wife who brought Lauren Bacall to the attention of her husband Humphrey Bogart.

He was the most celebrated aviator of the age and she was the daughter of a wealthy diplomat. Their marriage saw flying triumphs and personal tragedy when the kidnapping of their baby led to one of the most sensational murder trials in American legal history.

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After the unrepeatable triumph of 'Gone With The Wind', master-producer David O. Selznick spent much of his later days in Hollywood promoting the career of his beautiful but neurotic wife.

He was the MGM's longest-serving leading man, she was one of Hollywood's finest actresses and the ultimate film noir icon in 'Double Indemnity'. Together they were dynamic.

From the Chequers speech to Richard Nixon's traumatic resignation from the office of President, Pat travelled with her husband every step of the way. Inevitably, there was a price to pay for such loyalty.

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