Private Screenings Explained

Starring:	Robert Osborne
Country:	United States
Network:	Turner Classic Movies
Num Episodes:	27

Private Screenings is a television documentary and reality series that aired on Turner Classic Movies in 1995. The series is hosted by Robert Osborne and features noted personalities from the Golden Age of Hollywood, with clips from his or her work. A special episode dedicated to Osborne aired in 2014.

Notable celebrities who were featured on the show have included

• June Allyson
• Lauren Bacall
• Ernest Borgnine
• Leslie Caron
• Tony Curtis
• Stanley Donen
• Jane Fonda
• James Garner
• Charlton Heston
• Betty Hutton
• Norman Jewison
• Angela Lansbury
• Jack Lemmon
• Sidney Lumet
• Shirley MacLaine
• Walter Matthau
• Ann Miller
• Liza Minnelli
• Walter Mirisch
• Robert Mitchum^[1]
• Patricia Neal
• Jane Powell
• Anthony Quinn
• Debbie Reynolds
• Mickey Rooney
• Jane Russell
• Rod Steiger
• Esther Williams

On October 2, 2006, the series had an episode on child stars, rather than on an individual person. Featured on that episode were Darryl Hickman, Jane Withers, Margaret O'Brien, and Dickie Moore.

Notes and References

1. Gordon Lore - Connections: A Lifetime Journey Through the World of Celebrity 2017 "Many years later —during a segment of one of Turner Classic Movies' Private Screenings —I saw Mitchum tell host Robert Osborne that his marijuana arrest “never happened.” He said it had been staged by his studio's publicity department."