A Clip of Hollywood Dying....

You can find almost anything on You Tube. I reckon that's the beauty of it. In this clip, we see it's a birthday party, or tribute of sorts, to Elizabeth Taylor. The date is December 1st, 1977.  Many big and upcoming names in the business are there, including John Travolta, Paul Newman, Robert Blake, and others. The interesting thing about this clip is,  is that it's sort of  the last dying breath of Old Hollywood. Not that Hollywood was ever pure in any form, but there was a more dignified expression among the Stars of the previous Era. There is a more innocent feeling about this. It's when even in the secular world, people valued something more than just shaking the sheets.


At this time in the 1970's, Hollywood had been rapidly changing for almost a decade, and the  old guard was passing away. The films were becoming more geared towards nudity and forms of smut. Perhaps Hollywood was always that way, and at this point the mask was slipping. None-the-less , midway through, we see a young Debbie Boone (Pat Boone's daughter) introduced, and she gets up to sing "You Light Up My Life", which had been a massive hit that year. The audience is taken in by Debbie and her performance, as the camera pans on them in multiple directions. The sad part is, this was sort of the end of an Era , or the end of the end of an Era for decency in that business. And we see it all unfold that night.