Walter Winchell

The life and times of radio commentator and syndicated newspaper gossip columnist Walter Winchell, who reached an audience of 50 million at his peak.

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.

Female migrant workers eat dirt at the hands of a sadistic ranch foreman (Dean Fredericks of The Phantom Planet) during grape harvesting season in the San Joaquin Valley.

World War II GIs adopt an Italian war orphan.

Sociology professor Steve MacInter is conducting a survey at Collins College about the mores and lifestyles of the young people. Some of the good citizens begin to find exception to his sociological survey when they find out it includes questions about sex. Reporter Betty Ducayne receives an anonymous tip that the good professor is engaging in corruption of youth and when Steve's past comes up to haunt him, all heck breaks loose.

마이애미 비치에 있는 특급 호텔 퐁텐블로에서 벨보이로 일하는 스탠리(제리 루이스)는 아무 말없이 자신의 임무를 수행하려 하지만 매번 사고를 일으키고 만다. 영화는 특정한 플롯이 없이 스탠리가 투숙객들의 요구를 수행하면서 겪게 되는 여러 상황들을 보여줄 뿐이다. 제리 루이스의 감독 데뷔작인 이 작품은 이야기가 거의 없다는 점에서 오히려 그의 재능을 여실히 확인할 수 있는 작품이 되었다.

1920년 대 미국을 배경으로 헬렌 모건의 가수 인생의 일대기를 그린 영화다. 당시 가수라는 직업은 사람들에게 노래를 불러 주기 보단 저급한 춤을 선보이며 술을 파는 광대 정도로 인식이 되었다. 작은 시골 마을 출신인 헬렌은 힘든 여건 속에서도 꿋꿋이 이겨내며 진정 사람들에게 노래로 감동을 줄 수 있는 가수로서 성공하기 위해 밑바닥부터 일하고 노력한다. 그 와 중에 래리 매덕스라는 남자를 만나 사랑에 빠지지만 자신의 성공을 위해서라면 모든지 이용하는 이기적인 남자였다. 여러 차례 그에게 이용당하지만 그를 떠나지 못한다. 훗날 웨이드 라는 변호사가 그녀를 후원하게 되어 가수로서 크게 성공하게 되고 사랑도 하게 되지만 유부남인 웨이드를 떠날 수 밖에 없었다. 많은 사랑의 시련과 배신으로 심신이 지친 헬렌은 술과 담배로 나날이 찌들어 갔고 공연 중에 실신하게 된다. 이 후 명성을 떨어지고 가수로서 모든 걸 잃게 된다 하지만 정신차리고 돌아온 래리 덕분으로 재기에 성공하게 되고 노래 부르게 된다.

브로드웨이 최고의 쇼무대를 꾸미고 있는 몰리(Molly: 에델 머만 분)와 테렌스 도나휴(Terence Donahue: 댄 데일리 분) 부부는 세 자녀가 성장하자 그들과 함께 가족 쇼단을 꾸민다. 부모의 재능과 끼를 물려받은 스티브(Steve Donahue: 조니 레이 분), 케이트(Katy Donahue: 미치 게이너 분) 팀은 춤과 노래에서 발군의 실력을 보이고 ‘도나휴 쇼단’은 승승장구 빅히트를 기록한다. 그러던 어느날 맏아들 스티브가 신부가 되겠다는 폭탄 선언을 한다. 게다가 여자와 술을 지독히도 좋아하는 막내팀은 놀랄만한 미모의 가수 지망생 빅키(Vicky: 마를린 몬로 분)와 사랑에 빠져 불행을 자초한다. 캐이트, 빅키, 팀 세 사람이 함께하는 새로운 공연이 막을 올리는 날, 빅키에 대한 짝사랑에 상심해 있던 팀은 자동차와 함께 전복되는 사고를 당하는데...

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.

Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer named Dan O'Mara. O'Mara is married and has children. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.

A documentary about the 82% of US citizens that listen to the radio for their entertainment, news and sport.

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.

A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.

Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?

Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?

Walter Winchell meets a budding country journalist and shows her around the Biltmore Hotel.

Newspaper columnist helps finishing school students get out of trouble after the night club in which they go to see him is raided.