The Hollywood Dream 1965 Vintage Los Angeles

[@matrox]

I was a kid in 65'. Definately a better time than today.

[@muspobear]

Wonder if we are the same age. Born 1960. Santa Monica. Look at the hell hole it is today. What a contrast from when we were born.

[@matrox]

@@muspobear I was born in early 57'.

[@muspobear]

@@matrox Great Days. We were Kings!!! Man O Man matrox. Sure As Hell, Miss-Um!!!

[@doormatt4393]

@@muspobear Born in Orange county hospital 1960. Family moved in 61. I had a BLAST growing up! Mostly.

[@sopaman1234]

So was i and yes it was..

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

Back when Hollywood was a dream. In fact, THE dream for so many. I thank God I grew up when I did.

[@ernestkovach3305]

Sad how fast time flies...This is over a half century old...Almost EVERY adult in this film is either dead or else very old in this film. Still, interesting how modern or universal it resonates even today despite taking place in the ever growing distant past.

[@miguelferreiramoutajunior7932]

Sure. Perennial corrosive philosophy is that from Hollywood.

[@ryanfgrantjr3009]

oh yeah, 1965 was grandparents got married. I lost my dad's parents btw 2009 thru 2014. :( sad, wish i could've jumped in the vid for a day, maybe on my dad;'s parents wedding day in March, 65. They would've been 27 and 29 in '65

[@varietyguy]

To hear Joseph Cotten’s “Hollywood And The Stars” mellifluous voice is a treat in itself!!!

[@SRSM198]

Thanks very much for sharing, loved that era., growing up in London it took me into another world.

[@annryan3307]

Thanks for this, Alison. So much of my childhood here. My father, Jack Ryan, went to Jay Sebring, was a member at The Daisy and the Thalians.

[@sunnyhill5119]

WOW. Was your father an actor?

[@annryan3307]

No, he invented Barbie, Hot Wheels, Chatty Cathy, etc for Mattel@@sunnyhill5119

[@Modguy61]

Really enjoyed watching this, Alison :-D :-D Reminders of growing up in the Southern California of the 60's.

[@guybassett12]

I started working in Hollywood and 64 as an extra I was eight years old. I worked there 20 years it was the best time of my life. Some friends I made with Dan Blocker, Audie Murphy, Barbara Stanwyck. I was an extra for about one year at the end of that time. I was so sick and tired of waiting for the next scene that I told mom I wasn’t interested in that anymore. I ended up doing 94 extra parts in the time I was there though mom made a diary, so I remembered all of them. I had the best mom on the planet.

[@soapbxprod]

Alison, this is so great... it's BH as I remember her as a little kid! OMG! at 35 seconds in, the Clampett Mansion! THANKS!

[@Marybgreat]

This was wonderful! Thanks for posting.

[@rogbrown1965]

65. What a year for music especially obscure groups! Rog. Pacific sunset records.

[@fob1xxl]

I moved here in 1964 at age 19. This is EXACTLY the way it was ! I went on many auditions for singing, modeling, and acting. Lost most. Wound up with a recording contract, a TV special, some modeling jobs, two movies and several club dates. You're only hot for a short time in this business. Those that become legends have that star quality. I didn't.

[@davidg3376]

For anyone who doesn't know, Jay Sebring was one of the unfortunate victims of the Manson murders in August 1969.

[@chrissharp1909]

let's not forget he also was the drug connection to the stars

[@paulcatania1315]

I thought that name sounded familiar!

[@lucyehasz8704]

I lived there, born & raised in Hollywood from 1958 thru 1972; '69 was HELL when the Manson murders happened. I remember Jay Sebring in the news. It was 1969 & I was about 11 years old, scared to death! Same for La Bianca murders. My family moved us in 1972 to a safer place, Valenci,a, CA. BEFORE society ruined it with too many people . It WAS Rural. This was about time Magic Mountain/Six Flags opened.

[@donrickels5622]

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[@donrickels5622]

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[@stevenprice2744]

Joseph Cotton narrating? Gosh, so many great segments.

[@davidarmstrong7966]

Sounds like Vincent Price to me. ?

[@donrickels5622]

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[@jeffreyverspaget4353]

Real beautiful the old Hollywood stars to see in a glamorous time this is style and chique I love it thank to the nex video gr Jeffrey 🍀🌞☕😘🌴

[@dearbrad1996]

What a wonderful production. Thanks so much. I just love the narrator and his excellent choice of words. A little bit of honesty in Hollywood. 4 stars 🤩

[@FilmSureelist97]

My ex boyfriends grandma lived in Los Angeles in the 1950s until the 1970s when she and her family moved to Utah. She came to visit us recently and we drove her around to some older spots she used to go to. She had not visited since she moved. As we took her around, we felt such a silence from her and we even saw tears in her eyes. She explained to us that LA is not the same place that she grew up in and that it has become like Gotham City.

[@williamcharnow9038]

Compared to it's past Image. Hollywood is a tough cold place with lots of hustlers and indifference.

[@timothyypearson]

Parts of Beverly hills to I was blown away when I moved out here and found out parts of Beverly hills are tought and unkept

[@ernestkovach3305]

Also possibly spotted in this film is Elizabeth Montgomery(or her Double!) at: 3:22; Henry Fonda at 4:09; Joan Crawford at 8:37 ; Rosalind Russell at 5:37; the great Gregory Peck at:5:42 ; future president Ronald Reagan at 5: 43; Nancy Davis in background at 5:43; Mary Pickford at 5:49;Gloria Swanson at 5:52; Edward G Robinson at: 6:15 ; Glen Ford at 6:21; Debbie Reynolds at 6:26; Gene Kelly 6:31; James Garner 6:58; Paul Newman at 7:02; John Wayne 7:04; Shirley McClaine at 7:09; Milton Berle at :7:12 inches; Paula Prentess at :7:54; ... Thank You, marvelous documentary.

[@Centervillejim]

That was not Elizabeth Montgomery. She was starring in the new hit "Bewitched" at the time and never worked at Jax Boutique. However, Nancy Sinatra did work there about that time.

[@Fancylooks]

At 6:54, Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer

[@grybnyx]

Yes, Milton Berle was well known for his many inches :)

[@eunoiavision7567]

@@Centervillejim I thought it was montgomery as well.

[@mrimprint]

Alison, loved seeing all the great stars, like glimpsing into a time capsule. Those were the days of real stars and found it so interesting to see them behind the scenes. Love Joseph Cotton's voice over. Henry Fonda smoking during a haircut, classic! Thanks for your extraordinary channel!

[@MrShobar]

Jay Sebring (real name Thomas Kummer) learned to cut hair while in the Navy.

[@eunoiavision7567]

The icing on the cake to these vintage california/LA/Hollywood Videos is the comments from the people who were there living it.

[@gonzoexpress9885]

That FILM NOIR narration takes this piece to another level. Great blast from the past.

[@hazelowens9385]

Thanks , very iteresting

[@culturalobserver8721]

I was two years old in 1965 and lived with my family in Whittier, California, around 40 minutes away from “tinsel town” (Hollywood).

[@kostasveronis5882]

I think the 60s in California was the most beautiful and rebel era to live. Unfortunately everything turn around few years later in summer of '69 and the dream froze abruptly.

[@DA90027]

Hilarious Fonda couldn't put the cigarette down even with his head in the sink!

[@SooziinCa]

+Twaddles McGee As a little kid, I remember when EVERYONE smoked EVERYWHERE. Even @ the supermarket! Shoppers waded through "butts" while strolling down the produce aisle! Ugh! LOL!

[@SooziinCa]

I worked @ a hair salon in the early-mid 90's, to help pay for my college tuition. The "shampoo set ladies" (as they were known) would come & have their hair done EACH & EVERY Friday &/or Saturday! As I would do their "comb outs", the smoke from their cigarette's would violently waft up into their clean, freshly shampooed hair & up my nose! I SMOKED @ THE TIME, yet, I was never SOOOOO HAPPY when the voter's of CA (including myself), voted to ban smoking in public places/building!

[@johnreitz5676]

He looks about 80 here.

[@Powertuber1000]

00:34 the Beverly Hillbillies Mansion.

[@doormatt4393]

Good eye

[@jackjohnson7396]

Great year, things were good.

[@sinatra222]

Watts riots were the same year but sure

[@jmason2838]

Crawford was a scary person ...her eyebrows !?!? that scary eyebrow look is supposed to have been attractive ? - Good Grief ... Bigfoot - like 🤗🤗🤗😄😄😂😂

[@dukeofkbs]

Good to see Cyrano's in this footage ! I only made it to Cyrano's a couple of times, but will always remember it so well !

[@queenofcyanide7856]

Ooh Sebring was expensive!!!

[@ediekoller2636]

Great video Alison...Wow its good to see all those movie people...the hollywood of old. Too bad about Jay Sebring...after that video. he would die 4 yrs later by the manson gang. So sad. But too bad time changes everything. Hollywood is just not the same anymore. Even though I am a hop and a skip and jump over the hill in the San Fernando Valley. Hope to visit Amoeba Records before end of year which is still hollywood but on sunset...Again THanks so much!

[@berthababylovec.6515]

Absolutely Fabulous Films 🥰😘

[@Iceis_Phoenix]

My soul will rest there even if my body cant

[@MrPoupard]

Mad Men made real in Hollywood.

[@youfuckmywife6719]

Jay Sebring was the original Hollywood/Beverly Hills Hairstylist To The Stars . Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen all had that signature style referred to “The Beverly Hills Style” . This style was common in the mid to late 1960’s before long hair & shags took over. The house where he was murdered in was rented out to Roman Polanski. The previous owner was a music producer, Terry P. Melcher . Manson was a naive kid. He didn’t know Melcher was blowing smoke up his ass so he sought after him with vengeance and sharp knives . Typical loser , Manson was .

[@markythelarky6948]

1:00 With the sarcastic tone of the narrator I can't help but think he's referring to something else entirely. Maybe one of those guys is Gore Vidal. Very Hollywood indeed.

[@BigBishop1]

joan crawford looked freakish

[@romeysiamese6712]

The eyebrows. So dark and thick. Tweeze those caterpillars.

[@whiteclifffl]

Demon possessed.

[@doormatt4393]

@@whiteclifffl More like self possessed.

[@bumcheek7]

Sao cool!

[@peterm1826]

when jim morrisons hair became longer and he had a beard someone said whats the matter did ya barber die his reply yeah he did his barber was jay sebring

[@annrhoads6808]

EVERYONE HAS A DREAM IN HOLLYWOOD!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🎩

[@m.oriley8260]

When West Hollywood was cool and the Strip ruled by sleek convertibles.

[@donrickels5622]

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[@Redwhiteblue-gr5em]

Poor Jay Sebring, murdered by the Manson family.

[@paulcatania1315]

I'm there baby!!

[@Powertuber1000]

Too late, its gone.

[@paulcatania1315]

I meant in hindsight, of course. But then, I find that this is increasingly how I'm living out the rest of my life, in a bubble of retrospection. My epitaph should read, "Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda".

[@ernestkovach3305]

Sad . Its not to late! LIVE forward !

[@Powertuber1000]

08:05 "Hollywood is a town in transition, but it's change is toward the conservative" LOL, unfortunately NOT.

[@MrJasonshores364]

Fortunately not

[@haineshisway]

Nope, nope, nope - not 1965. It is exactly between October 30 - Noverber 5, 1963. You're welcome. Before anyone asks, the double bill playing at the Hollywood at the end of the video, played one week and that was the week. 8 1/2 and The Balcony. :)

[@FilmSureelist97]

7:33 to the end is so haunting. Hollywood is a city of broken dreams and it shows that most people who went there didn’t achieve their goals and then the last line tells us that the dream persists, but hollywood has turned into a dystopian dump today.

[@normanbeil3659]

In the William Morris building you can see Abe Lastfogel, Stan Kamen and Norman Brokaw. But who is the man in the light suit?

[@columbiamusicvideoclass5149]

I think it is either Mike Medavoy or Jerry Katzenberg

[@YanksAtShea]

Norman Beil I think that's barry diller

[@beachkidboy]

Used to work there in the 90's

[@chrisn7259]

I wonder what happened to the proposed Hollywood Museum? I remember as a kid when the groundbreaking took place.

[@bferguson9277]

Isn't 0:36 the Beverly Hillbillies mansion?

[@doormatt4393]

I believe you are correct.

[@ShakespeareCafe]

Subtitle: Boulevard of Broken Dreams

[@donrickels5622]

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[@stanleyhoover4244]

❤❤❤

[@stflaw]

Jay Sebring at 4:15.

[@jmason2838]

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[@whiteclifffl]

4:05. Henry Fonda produced the biggest monster in Hollywood... Hanoi Jane Fonda.

[@rogbrown1965]

A lot worse than her. Peter Fonda became an icon with easy rider as did Jane with Barbarella. Lucky enough to meet Peter twice. A great guy. Rip. Rog. Pacific sunset.

[@artniola]

❤

[@doormatt4393]

At 4:05 a haircut costing $7-$25 was "costly" back then. But it's right on target in today's economy.

[@kostasveronis5882]

25$ in 1965 had power of 250$ nowadays.

[@None-zc5vg]

With that overpowering hairdo, those 'African caterpillar' eyebrows and that trowelled-on lipstick, Joan Crawford looks insane in these clips: maybe hers was an early, pre-plastic-surgery case of 'body dysmorphia' that led her to believe that looking grotesque was actually improving her looks.

[@VincentPaterno-hs2fv]

Remember, it was the Grand Guignol era for older actresses - a direction that Myrna Loy, to her everlasting credit, refused to take.

[@doormatt4393]

Roddy McDowall says in an interview that it was all a persona that she had to adhere to in public. Many of the top Hollywood celebrities of the time, such as Marilyn Monroe, did the same. But Joan Crawford stretched the boundaries and took it into her personal life.

[@haineshisway]

Joseph Cotton narrating.

[@thunderousapplause]

$45. for women’s slacks in 1968? Thats like $250. in 2021. Beverly Hills forever overpriced.

[@onazram1]

Meanwhile in San Francisco.. Rock music venues with light shows FM radio and LSD were taking hold...

[@SharonBook]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@jeffevans3193]

They are so full of themselves, I fear for them.

[@tinklvsme]

@:35 that’s the front of The Beverly Hillbillies. 2-23-21

[@arnilaguha8980]

This is super cool! Can I use this footage as fair use or is there a copyright claim?

[@joshuawagner7904]

Great footage! I just finished a documentary about an aging Elvis impersonator who is hell-bent of becoming a celebrity and I need and opening to set up this delusion. This would be perfect. Is it available for use?

[@YankeeBlue]

Who are the 2 actors 1 minute in???

[@matrox]

00:17 That sexpot is in her late 80s now, her twins are in their early 60s.

[@sopaman1234]

Sounds Joseph Cotten as the narrator

[@francescaferreira6862]

Hi, I'm from ABC News and have an inquiry about your video. What's the best way to reach you? Thank you.

[@dima_galkin]

The Dream Factory is at its peak... After the repeal of the Hayes Code in 1968, the slow but sure decline of old Hollywood will occur.

[@Joanne-i7q]

So , Henry Fonda couldn't get thru a haircut without smoking .

[@gaguy1967]

1:20..did that on Curb Your Enthusiasm

[@vegasjay2326]

Total Larry David move.

[@romeysiamese6712]

Why does narrator sound so sarcastic

[@jmason2838]

Joseph Cotton narrates this and he does sound sarcastic ... Because he is part of the 'system' and knows he is narrating a 'puff piece' ... all Rosy and positive ... he won't dare tell the truth about the evil aspects of the whole entertainment industry... 'Pedoland' existed then ,. way back since it's start..⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️.since early 1920s and maybe before then. 🕵️.... Casting couch land ... Street gangs were just getting formed then ..more of all things bad / deadly dangerous .... Once beautiful... less so now...🚧🚧🚧. 🚫🚫🚫

[@roccidisopa661]

Jay Sebring.. didn’t he get ganked by The Manson crew?

[@hanschristianbrando5588]

Back when "$7.00 to $25" was a lot for a haircut.

[@azmike1]

Hollywood conservative? Oh how things change.

[@Redwhiteblue-gr5em]

Laura Petrie wore slacks from Jax

[@victoriar2173]

7:21 so wild

[@ernestkovach3305]

Is that the legendary Journalist -interrogator Mike Wallace doing that narration?

[@dantanasgirl]

Ernest Kovach Joseph Cotton

[@ernestkovach3305]

Whoops! Yes. Yes...Of course, Thank You!

[@paddle_shift]

Joan Crawford was the most overrated actress of her day. Though there are thousands today who exceed her in over ratedness.

[@tjp2109]

Ahhh, it's true there are far more overrated actors today, but experts have looked at her body of work and now say she was a great actress. She's one of my favorites. I think she's incredible. Even in her older years, when she's on the screen a person can't take their eyes off her. Maybe like JLo & Madonna, hard work is more important than perfect natural talent.

[@SRSM198]

Joan Crawford put a lot of feeling into her roles, she stood out, those eyes spoke for themselves.

[@Joanne-i7q]

This is all promotional film-- nothing natural. And no it wasn't a happy place , unless you were Gidget, surfing with Moon Doggie. The American family was falling apart and drugs had arrived.

[@tommyd6665]

1:02 Tom Hanks?????? Lol

[@MrJasonshores364]

Looks nothing like him. Literally nothing like him.

[@Redwhiteblue-gr5em]

Tom Hanks was 9 years old in 1965. Do you understand basic math?

[@rufust.firefly4890]

Narrated by Joseph Cotten.Crawford way too old for Straitjacket.

[@matrox]

00:38 The Beverly Hillbillies House.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartwell_Mansion