Fanny Brice

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his...

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

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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...

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

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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...

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

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

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

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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...

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

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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.

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

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"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,...

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