What REALLY made it the Golden Age of Hollywood

In a sense, its real reason is similar to that of Nickelodeon.

With Nick, the 1990s was its Golden era. The 1980s built it up and the 1990s was when everything was coming out.

But what made both that and the Golden age of hollywood, a golden age are the following:

1. New heights. When talkies came out they changed the movie industry, and then there was color. These new things to movies shaped it out. Likewise with Nickelodeon, a tv channel that broadcasted game shows, cartoons, and sitcoms all produced by the network brought it new heights.
2. New ideas. Today Hollywood feels repetitious. Constantly movies are remade, or rehashed in a lame sequel. But back in the 1940s, these were new ideas, new concepts.
3. Glamour. Old Hollywood was very glamourous courtesy of MGM.
   
4. Back in old hollywood, it was a big deal to be a part of a studio. These studios were reaching their first height in art.

It wasn't so much acting that made it a golden age, its the newness that was involved...not to mention we have the tendency to look at the past as a better time when we feel the present sucks. The present always sucks until it becomes the past.