The fascinating story of the movies from the days of the first "flicker" .. the personal dramas of the fabulous figures behind the Hollywood Legend- D.W. Griffith, Mack Sennett, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Rudolph Valentino. Here, recreated visually, is the grim tension of Hollywood's "black years," when the unsavory Fatty Arbuckle case and the unsolved murder of Director William Desmond Taylor rocked the nation in the early twenties. Here also are intimate chapters on the "It Girls," from Clara Bow to rita Hayworth-making Life and death in Hollywood" a movie album to be treasured by everyone.