Le Grand Ziegfeld
Apr 08, 1936Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
Drama
Fanny Brice
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Tout le Monde Chante
Jan 01, 1938Une famille un peu excentrique va tenter de mettre en place un spectacle musical.
Music
Ziegfeld Follies
Aug 26, 1945Arrivé au sommet de sa gloire, le grand Ziegfeld rêve de monter sa dernière "folie" avec ses plus prestigieuses vedettes.
Music
The Great Radio Comedians
May 11, 1971Documentary about radio comedies primarily focused on Burns & Allen, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, The Jack Benny Program, Fibber McGee & Molly, The Bob Hope Show, and The Fred Allen Show.
Documentary
Be Yourself!
Feb 07, 1930Night Club
Mar 28, 1929"When the Paramount movie people decided to make "Night Club"...they took a lot of stage names, let some of them do their specialties, wound a thin, unpleasant story around the whole, and called it a day." - Kansas City Times, 02/18/1929
Music
A documentary film about three generations of female Jewish comedians and the complexity and challenges of their relationship to comedy, Judaism, and gender. The film profiles Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, and Wendy Wasserstein, as well as contemporary comedians Judy Gold and Jackie Hoffman.
Documentary
My Man
Dec 15, 1928Fannie Brand, an industrious girl who supports her brother and sister by working in a theatrical costume house, falls in love with Joe Halsey, a young fellow who earns a precarious living demonstrating an elastic exerciser in a drugstore window. Fannie and Joe set a date to be married, but the wedding is called off when Fannie finds Joe making love to her unprincipled sister, Edna. Fannie auditions for Landau, a theatrical producer, and goes on the Broadway stage. Fannie is a great success, and she and Joe soon find their way back into each other's arms.
Drama
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Aug 06, 1975Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Documentary
Hollywood Goes to Town
Jul 07, 1938This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to suggest a garden that might be seen in a French palace. This includes the placement of trees and other foliage, as well as large statues along the route. Grandstands are set up so fans can see their favorite stars as they arrive for the premiere. Finally, the proverbial "galaxy of stars" arrives in their limousines. Fanny Brice and Pete Smith make remarks at the microphone set up on the carpet outside the theatre.
The Man from Blankley's
Mar 28, 1930When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.
Comedy
Crime Without Passion
Aug 30, 1934Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.
Crime
Almonds and Raisins
Aug 09, 1985This documentary examines the dozens of Yiddish-language talking films made in the United States and Europe between the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927 and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.
Documentary
