Costume Designers Revive Late Forties Glamour for Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood

Hugh Hart
May 1, 2020

Writer-producer Ryan Murphy and his team envision an outrageously optimistic alternative history of the movie business in 1947 via their new show Hollywood. Debuting May 1 on Netflix, the period melodrama boasts a huge ensemble headed by David Corenswet as a fresh-faced actor who works as a gigolo before getting his big break. Along the way, he meets a black screenwriter/prostitute (Jeremy Pope), the voracious wife of a studio boss (Patti LuPone), a black actress (Lauren Harrier), a half-Filipino director (Darren Criss), a bi-sexual former actor (Dylan McDermot) who runs a drive-up brothel/gas station staffed by dapper young men, a rookie Rock Hudson (played by Jake Picking) and his gay manager (Jim Parsons). Overcoming racism and homophobia, the characters claim victory when their very first movie, about actress Peg Entwistle’s death jump from the Hollywood sign, earns Academy Award recognition.

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