George Jessel

Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage, never-heard-before voice recordings and personal photos.

Восстановленная версия незавершенного фильма-долгостроя Орсона Уэллса о режиссере старой закалки Джейке Хэннафорде, который надеется вернуть себе славу благодаря новому провокационному кинохиту. Но его мечте не суждено сбыться: Хэннафорд погибает в автокатастрофе в день своего семидесятилетия. Остается вопрос, было ли это несчастным случаем?

Документальный фильм о жизни и карьере кинорежиссера Фрэнка Капра. Ведущий Рон Ховард.

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.

Фильм рассказывает правдивую историю Джона Рида, радикального американского журналиста во время Первой Мировой Войны. Он встречается с замужней женщиной Луизой Бриант, которая бросает своего мужа ради него. После политических разногласий в США, они уезжают в Россию, в то время когда там идет октябрьская революция 1917 года. Они вдохновляются решимостью коммунистов и возвращаются в штаты, надеясь устроить такую же революцию.

A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.

The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians is a 1970 American animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. After the Christmas special Frosty the Snowman (1969), it was Rankin/Bass' second hand-drawn animated work to be outsourced to Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Production in Tokyo, Japan. The show aired on ABC on April 7, 1970 before the airing of that year's Oscars. It was a tribute to early vaudeville, and featured animated reworkings of various famous comedians' acts.

A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.

Heironymus Merkin screens an autobiographical movie of his life, growth and moral decay.

Три истории о мечтающих об успехе актрисах, каждой из которых предстоит отыскать свой путь, пройдя через испытания славой, неудачные романы, увлечения алкоголем и наркотиками.

Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.

An European princess visiting America helps a record producer organize a big concert.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary taking a satirically narrated look at the "Windy City".

The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.

A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.

A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.

Tonight We Sing is a 1953 musical biopic film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, based on the life and career of the celebrated impresario Sol Hurok. It stars David Wayne and Ezio Pinza.

This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.

At the fiftieth anniversary of his town's founding, the town's first barber recalls his long-dead, spirited bride and the flaw in his own character that helped bring about her loss and several others.

Костюмный приключенческий фильм, повествующий о любви, которой нет места в жизни пиратов и в их погоне за золотом. Прекрасная и грозная женщина-капитан «Провидение» бороздит океаны на своем фрегате «Шибу Куин» и нападает на торговые суда Британского Королевского флота. Вынашивая в сердце месть за своего повешенного брата, она и ее команда грабят, и убивают англичан. Быть самоотверженной и мужественной женщиной-пиратом ее научил воспитавший

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.

Period musical about a song plugger who vows to turn an opera composer's music into popular hits.

In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.

Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear on Broadway while Bonny gets left behind on the road. Things get worse with Skid's increasing drinking problem and the fact that the press has reported him to be spending a lot of time with his pretty co-star.

Стэн Карлайл работал фокусником, «читавшим» чужие мысли на ярмарках и в передвижном цирке. Вскоре это перестало его удовлетворять, и он с помощью психиатра начал убеждать состоятельных людей, что способен входить в контакт с их умершими родственниками. Стареющий миллионер Гриндл, жаждущий пообщаться с покойной дочерью, обращается к Карлайлу.

Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.

A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance

Питер Морган — молодой профессор биологии в Старом Шаронском университете, приезжает срочно в Нью-Йорк, чтобы вернуть «заблудшую овцу» двоюродного брата Кита Моргана домой. Когда он, наконец, находит брата, неожиданно для себя знакомится, влюбляется и скоропалительно женится на певичке из ночного клуба Фрэнси. По возвращении домой в небольшой городок, которым заправляет Питер Морган-старший — его консервативный отец, с диктаторскими замашками, Питер никак не может набраться смелости, чтобы поставить в известность о своей женитьбе тирана-отца и больную матушку. Он просит Фрэнси поселиться у Кита, пока он придумает выход из создавшегося положения…

An immigrant has become a mailman on Radio Row. One of his first duties is to deliver letters to Bunny Poe, Vera Van, Ramon & Rosalie and George Jessel. Each of them is doing a specialty, except for Jessel, who's been interrupted in his rehearsal by a fellow who wants him to appear on a benefit for starving "moonlight-song writers". Jessel accepts and tells his mother that he won't be home for dinner, until he is told that the benefit is not in town but in Philadelphia. But the fellow has a pretty secretary...

After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss.

Veteran vaudevillian regales the audience with highlights from his comedy travel monologue and introduces "His Modern Art Choir," A Russian group he met while traveling in the Soviet Union who sing a traditional Russian song and an American standard.

George convinces his friend John that suicide isn't the answer.

An ambitious campaign manager makes friends, influences people and welcomes his long-lost mother to Ellis Island.

Any movie that starts Jewish entertainer George Jessel as an Italian accordionist named Luigi can't be all bad. In love with the beautiful Margharita (Lila Lee), Luigi lands a job in the music store owned by the girl's uncle. Ultimately, however, our hero does the Pagliacci act when Margharita evinces a preference for handsome Pasquale (David Rollins). The film's best scene takes place in a nursery full of talented tots, a sequence that undoubtedly reminded Jessel of his days with Gus Edwards' "Schoolroom" act. Exercising his droit du seigneur, Georgie Jessel sings the title tune.

Any movie that starts Jewish entertainer George Jessel as an Italian accordionist named Luigi can't be all bad. In love with the beautiful Margharita (Lila Lee), Luigi lands a job in the music store owned by the girl's uncle. Ultimately, however, our hero does the Pagliacci act when Margharita evinces a preference for handsome Pasquale (David Rollins). The film's best scene takes place in a nursery full of talented tots, a sequence that undoubtedly reminded Jessel of his days with Gus Edwards' "Schoolroom" act. Exercising his droit du seigneur, Georgie Jessel sings the title tune.

Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she calls all the boats former stars to join in a big show to rescue it.

Молодой еврей работает в ювелирном бизнесе своего отца, но ему это совсем не нравится — он хочет быть артистом, чего, как он знает, его отец никогда бы не одобрил. Он придумывает план поставить собственное шоу в театре и показать отцу, что он может добиться успеха, но все идёт не так гладко, как он планировал.

Молодой еврей работает в ювелирном бизнесе своего отца, но ему это совсем не нравится — он хочет быть артистом, чего, как он знает, его отец никогда бы не одобрил. Он придумывает план поставить собственное шоу в театре и показать отцу, что он может добиться успеха, но все идёт не так гладко, как он планировал.