you have jane russell here.ansfield. >> and he looks so excited to be showing off. >> oh, yes. oh, he was very proud of everything, the stuff he created. >> alongside the dresses, more of harlan's strange inheritance -- mr. blackwell's infamous best- and worst-dressed lists. from the best dressed, names like audrey hepburn, kate middleton, and nicole kidman. but it's blackwell's dressing-downs that are truly classics. >> i'm a huge fan of the first list, when he chose judy garland. he said, "a brilliant talent, but apparently keeps all her fashionable clothes in that trunk she's always singing about." >> i actually remember this one. you had barbra streisand -- "a shoddy, secondhand rose looking for a tour guide in brooklyn." ouch. mr. blackwell knows from brooklyn. he's born there -- richard selzer. in the late 1930s, he moves to hollywood, a teenager dreaming of stardom. for years, richard gets bit parts in "b" movies. then he meets eccentric millionaire producer howard hughes. hughes casts him in a minor role