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Documentary about the early female movie stars - Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, 
Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe; immortal goddesses made by Hollywood to reign 
over the silver screen. 

With the beginnings of Hollywood, the star system was born with an archetypal 
bad girl - the vampish Theda Bara - and the good girl - the blazingly sincere 
Lillian Gish. From the 1920s, vivacious Clara Bow and seductive siren Louise 
Brooks are most remembered, but none made the impact of Marlene Dietrich, an 
icon of mystery, or Greta Garbo, with her perfect features and gloomy 
introspection. 

From the power of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis to the seductiveness of Rita 
Hayworth and Ava Gardner, Hollywood studios produced their own brand of 
beautiful, sassy and confident women. But it wasn't to last. The era drew to a 
close with the supreme fame of Elizabeth Taylor and the tragic death of Marilyn 
Monroe.