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Overview: Hollywood’s Gilded Age is not a period of labor strife or Indian wars or racial conflict or the farmers’ revolt. It is a portrait of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia’s social elite.

Hollywood has greatly contributed to the popular impression that the Gilded Age was a glamorous time of overnight fortunes and conspicuous consumption. For Hollywood, the Gilded Age offers an ideal settin... more

Important films of this era

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