Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo

★ 3.3•2011•1 Seasons•ANIME

Drama

In early 1972, Ita Buttrose and Kerry Packer got together to create a magazine that became one of the most dramatic sensations in Australian publishing history. CLEO Magazine - begun in a "fit of pique" - went on to help define women, Australia and the relationship between the two.

Top Cast

Asher Keddie

Ita Buttrose

Rob Carlton

Kerry Packer

Jessica Tovey

Leslie Carpenter

Matt Day

Daniel Ritchie

Ian Meadows

Andrew Cowell

Maeve Dermody

Rachel Carr

Annie Maynard

Annie Woodham

Tony Barry

Sir Frank Packer

Cheree Cassidy

Ivana Holbrook

Octavia Barron-Martin

Pat Nigra

Olivia Pigeot

Rosina O'Casey

Keith Agius

Joel

Kate Box

Germaine Greer

Simon Lyndon

Jack Thompson

Benedict Samuel

Michael

Episodes

Season:

1. Paper Giants: Part 1

90m

It’s 1972. Skirts are up, pants are down. Girls can have anything. And riding the wave of sexual liberation and feminist freedom is Cleo magazine – fresh, bold and naughty. Two ambitious, young upstarts – Ita Buttrose and Sir Frank Packer’s unregarded second son, Kerry – create their own legends as they fling the modern girl headlong into the passion and politics of this turbulent era.

Aired: 4/17/2011