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Great Romances of the 20th Century Season 2 Episodes

Season 2 Episode Guide

26 Episodes 1999 - 1999

Episode 1

Jean Harlow and William Powell

26 mins

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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Episode 2

Ronald and Nancy Reagan

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Episode 3

Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy

26 mins

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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Episode 4

Gloria Swanson and Joseph Kennedy

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Episode 5

Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli

26 mins

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.

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Episode 6

Gloria and James Stewart

26 mins

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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Episode 7

Cary Grant and Barbara Hutton

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Episode 8

Pier Angeli and James Dean

26 mins

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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Episode 9

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

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Episode 10

Rudolph Valentino and Natasha Rambova

26 mins

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.

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Episode 11

George Burns and Gracie Allen

26 mins

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.

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Episode 12

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

26 mins

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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Episode 13

Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer

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Episode 14

Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer

26 mins

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'.

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Episode 15

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow

26 mins

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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Episode 16

Roberto Arias and Margo Fonteyn

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Episode 17

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip

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Episode 18

King Hussein and Queen Noor Of Jordan

26 mins

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

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Episode 19

Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni

26 mins

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

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Episode 20

Howard Hawks and Slim Keith

26 mins

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.

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Episode 21

Charles and Anne Lindbergh

26 mins

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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Episode 22

John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich

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Episode 23

David O Selznick and Jennifer Jones

26 mins

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.

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Episode 24

Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor

26 mins

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.

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Episode 25

Richard and Pat Nixon

26 mins

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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Episode 26

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

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