George Jessel Movies

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

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

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

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 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...

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...

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...

Travelogue featuring New Orleans, its music, and its Mardi Gras.

Johnny Ginsberg (George Jessel) is a tailor's assistant whose ambition is to become a successful conjurer/magician. He joins a carnival and fails but...

Isadore "Izzy" Goldberg changes his name to I. Patrick Murphy because his store is in an Irish-neighborhood in New York City. He meets Eileen...

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

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...

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

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...

Izzy Murphy is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he...