Movies

Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.

The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

Ethnic comedy of a nightclub entertainer trying to train a boxer.

Caddish 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...

This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which...

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

When 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.

Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical...

This documentary examines the dozens of Yiddish-language talking films made in the United States and Europe between the release of The Jazz Singer in...

Fannie Brand, an industrious girl who supports her brother and sister by working in a theatrical costume house, falls in love with Joe Halsey, a...

Documentary about radio comedies primarily focused on Burns & Allen, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, The Jack Benny Program, Fibber McGee & Molly,...

A documentary film about three generations of female Jewish comedians and the complexity and challenges of their relationship to comedy, Judaism, and...

"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,...