If you were black, gay or Asian and trying to make it in 1940s Hollywood, prevailing attitudes about race and sexuality would have held you back.
But producer Ryan Murphy's buzzy new limited series, Hollywood, blurs history and fantasy by imagining what the Golden Age of Tinseltown might have looked like had such barriers been overcome.
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