• Warning: Spoilers
    After all this time as a big time movie fan, I have to plead ignorance to the name of Ken Murray. As it turns out, he lived for a time not far from me in the city of Kingston, New York, moving to Hollywood in 1927 to catch whatever rising star he could find. It turns out that buying a sixteen millimeter movie camera did the trick, as he began recording unscripted moments in the private lives of many of the celebrities of the day; this film covers roughly the period 1927 through the early Sixties. There's probably a list somewhere of all the entertainers who appear in this documentary, but trying to name them all here would be kind of pointless. Highlights for me included candid scenes of Bob Hope, W.C. Fields and Will Rogers, Boris Karloff in an Indian get-up, Tyrone Power as a drill sergeant (for real), and Eddie Fisher and Liz Taylor taking off on their honeymoon. If you see the clip on Jayne Mansfield, note the resemblance to future first lady Jackie Kennedy. My rating for the picture has more to do with the sheer number of celebrities captured on film than for it's quality. Old time movie and stage fans should have a real blast with this, so catch it if you can.