George Jessel Filmes

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.

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...

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

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical...

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

Heironymus Merkin is an internationally successful singer approaching middle age who retells his life story in a series of production numbers on a...

A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.

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...

A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of theatre and film appear and host a recreational...

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.

After buccaneer captain Anne Providence spares Pierre LaRochelle and recruits him into her pirate crew, their growing attraction is tested when...

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

Surrounded by fans and sceptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he...

Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a...

A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.

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

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...

Veteran vaudevillian regales the audience with highlights from his comedy travel monologue and introduces "His Modern Art Choir," A Russian group he...

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

A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his...