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MR SHAW GOES TO HOLLYWOOD

By Simon CALLOW

TV Series - Development 2024

THE GLAMOUR, CONTROVERSY AND INTRIGUE OF HOLLYWOOD’S GOLDEN AGE WAS CAPTURED IN ONE ENIGMATIC PHOTOGRAPH

THIS IS THE STORY BEHIND THE PICTURE

IT ALL STARTED WITH AN ODD, INCONGRUOUS AND NOW FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPH OF A LUNCHEON PARTY IN MARION DAVIES’ PALATIAL BUNGALOW AT MGM STUDIOS IN 1933

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- TV Series, True Story, Drama
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM, USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 10 - 25 M$
- Duration
- 60 mn
- Director(s)
- Simon CALLOW
- Writer(s)
- Mark SALTZMAN
- Cast
- Aiden TURNER
- Producer(s)
- Jasper WARRY (HELLO DEER STUDIOS), Joel ATLEY (HELLO DEER STUDIOS), Ellen LITTLE (The Little Film Company), Patrick IRWIN (Hello Deer Studios)
- Synopsis
- FROM EMMY WINNING WRITER MARK SALTZMAN AND BAFTA NOMINATED ACTOR AND DIRECTOR SIMON CALLOW, SET IN 1933, THIS IS THE STORY OF WHEN GEORGE BERNARD SHAW VISITED HOLLYWOOD WITH HIS WIFE, CHARLOTTE
  
  The idea of turning Shaw’s most successful play, Pygmalion, into a film was a hot topic of conversation as the great and the good of Hollywood vied for his attention, desperate to be part of the next big motion picture.
  
  How would the Irish-born writer and social reformer who was light years ahead on issues like gender and racial equality, and a committed socialist and vegetarian, rub along with the Hollywood elite and, perhaps more importantly, did he have any intention of selling the rights to his beloved story to a film studio in the first place?
  
  Mr. Shaw Goes to Hollywood tells the story of what might have happened before the world came to know the play in its guise as the world famous musical, My Fair Lady.