(josepth mankiewicz) what they forget is: the size of the audience that wanted to escape, not to a differentalaxy, not to a different world but to their own world as they wanted it to be. (sydney pollack) you knew you wouldn't stand in the fog in a trenchcoat, watch ingrid bergman go up a gangplank, you know, with somebody else, but it broke your heart watching this. then you'd out into the daylight of a midwestern street and the distance between your life and that life was enormous. and that was part of its success. (narrator) the success of motion pictures turned america into moviegoers. at the height of hollywood in the mid-40's, 90 million americans went to the movies every week. audiences developed preferences for the movies they watched. (announcer) this woman wants more musical shows. these boys want more westerns. these girls, more love stories. this man, more adventure. others want more travel, comedy, mystery, romance. more everything. ♪ it had to be you ♪ it had to be you ♪ i wandered around ♪ and finally found ♪ somebody who ... ♪ (sydney pollack) i am strongly influenced by the