George Jessel Movies

Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage,...

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

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.

College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.

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

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

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

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

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...

Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more...

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

Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

A time capsule of the L.A. comedy scene in the 1970s, "Diary of a Young Comic" casts Richard Lewis as a fictionalized version of himself - a young...

The life story of legendary impresario Sol Hurok. A lover of the arts, young immigrant Hurok despairs when he realizes he has no musical or artistic...