Host Barbara Walters interviews Sir Laurence Olivier, John Ritter, James Garner, and Kenny Rogers.
Kenny Rogers remembers the hard times, and his broken marriages and estranged children, recalled in a conversation joined by his current wife, Marianne Gordon of "Hee Haw.
Memories also key this Barbara Walter's Special with James Garner
whose reflections on an embattled career seem as relaxed and candid as a camera commercial.
John Ritter shatters his "Three's Company" images as a womanizer, and emerges unselfconscious as a tender and proud new father, and devoted family man.
Walters concludes with her interview of "the preeminent theatrical figure of the 20th century" - Lord Olivier - who reveals his difficult professional relationship with Marilyn Monroe (costar in the 1957 film "The Prince and the Showgirl"), and sums up his own talent as "know-how {to} disguise technique.