George Jessel
Also Known As: George Albert "Georgie" Jessel, George Albert Jessel
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 03, 1898
Age: 127 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 23, 1981
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Valley of the Dolls
Overview: In New York City, bright but naive New Englander Anne Welles becomes a secretary at a theatrical law firm, where she falls in love with attorney Lyon Burke. Anne befriends up-and-coming singer Neely O'Hara, whose dynamic talent threatens aging star Helen Lawson and beautiful but talentless actress Jennifer North. The women experience success and failure in love and work, leading to heartbreak, addiction and tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-27
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Politics
Overview: An ambitious campaign manager makes friends, influences people and welcomes his long-lost mother to Ellis Island.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-14
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Diary of a Young Comic
Overview: 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 New York comic who comes out to Los Angeles to seek his fame and fortune.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-03
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The Phynx
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-06
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Yesterday and Today
Overview: 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 Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-02
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Wonders of New Orleans
Overview: Travelogue featuring New Orleans, its music, and its Mardi Gras.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Private Izzy Murphy
Overview: 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 Cohannigan, the daughter of a meat-packer, and he tells her he is Irish and a romance begins. When America enters World War I, "Izzy" enlists, is sent to France, and is wounded while engaged in a heroic rescue during a big battle. While recovering in an overseas hospital, he writes Eileen and tells her he is Jewish and not Irish. Returning home, he is parading with his regiment and he sees Eileen with Robert O'Malley, his old rival. He thinks she has thrown him over because he is Jewish. An Irish lodge comes to bestow an honor on the man they think is Patrick Murphy, an Irish hero. But O'Malley tells them his real name is Goldberg. But Eileen tels him it is he she loves, and they head for the marriage-license bureau.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-30
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Sailor Izzy Murphy
Overview: 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 sells. After resourcefully tracing the beauty (whose father(Warner Oland) manufactures the perfume to a luxury yacht, he finds himself in the company of an escaped lunatic John Miljan) who has vowed to murder the perfume manufacturer in retaliation for all the flowers that have been lost in the making of the perfume.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-08
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Wonders of Chicago
Overview: A BAFTA award nominated documentary taking a satirically narrated look at the "Windy City".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-03
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George Jessel and His Russian Art Choir
Overview: Veteran vaudevillian regales the audience with highlights from his comedy travel monologue and introduces "His Modern Art Choir," A Russian group he met while traveling in the Soviet Union who sing a traditional Russian song and an American standard.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-20
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Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
Overview: Heironymus Merkin is an internationally successful singer approaching middle age who retells his life story in a series of production numbers on a seashore in front of his two toddlers and aged mother. Merkin's promiscuous relationships with women are explored, particularly Polyester Poontang and the adolescent Mercy Humppe. Merkin is constantly surrounded by a Satan-like procurer, Goodtime Eddie Filth, and an angelic 'Presence' who interrupts Merkin's biography with cryptic Borscht Belt-level jokes to denote births and deaths in Merkin's life. Newley periodically steps out of character to complain about his 'Merkin' role with an unseen director, two screenwriters, the film's producers and a trio of blasé movie critics who are turned off by the story's eroticism and lack of plot.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-19
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Happy Days
Overview: Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she calls all the boats former stars to join in a big show to rescue it.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-16
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Overview: Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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Juke Box Rhythm
Overview: An European princess visiting America helps a record producer organize a big concert.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-01
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The Other Side of the Wind
Overview: Surrounded by fans and sceptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film. This film was started in 1970 but never completed during Welles's lifetime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-02
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It Might Be Worse
Overview: George convinces his friend John that suicide isn't the answer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-03
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Love, Live & Laugh
Overview: Any movie that starts Jewish entertainer George Jessel as an Italian accordionist named Luigi can't be all bad. In love with the beautiful Margharita (Lila Lee), Luigi lands a job in the music store owned by the girl's uncle. Ultimately, however, our hero does the Pagliacci act when Margharita evinces a preference for handsome Pasquale (David Rollins). The film's best scene takes place in a nursery full of talented tots, a sequence that undoubtedly reminded Jessel of his days with Gus Edwards' "Schoolroom" act. Exercising his droit du seigneur, Georgie Jessel sings the title tune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-02
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Four Jills in a Jeep
Overview: Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-17
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Stage Door Canteen
Overview: A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Ginsberg the Great
Overview: 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 not before apprehending a gang of jewel thieves and gaining the love of Mary (Audrey Ferris), the girl he adores.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-26
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Wonders of Puerto Rico
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-10
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Lucky Boy
Overview: 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 father would never approve of. He comes up with a scheme to put on his own show in a theater and show his father that he can be a success, but things don't work out quite as well as he planned.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-02
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Rambling 'Round Radio Row #9
Overview: 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 Jessel. Each of them is doing a specialty, except for Jessel, who's been interrupted in his rehearsal by a fellow who wants him to appear on a benefit for starving "moonlight-song writers". Jessel accepts and tells his mother that he won't be home for dinner, until he is told that the benefit is not in town but in Philadelphia. But the fellow has a pretty secretary...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-19
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Beau James
Overview: The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-07
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The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians
Overview: The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians is a 1970 American animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. After the Christmas special Frosty the Snowman (1969), it was Rankin/Bass' second hand-drawn animated work to be outsourced to Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Production in Tokyo, Japan. The show aired on ABC on April 7, 1970 before the airing of that year's Oscars. It was a tribute to early vaudeville, and featured animated reworkings of various famous comedians' acts.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-07
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Reds
Overview: An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-25
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Frank Capra's American Dream
Overview: A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Sid & Judy
Overview: Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage, never-heard-before voice recordings and personal photos.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-26
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The Busy Body
Overview: Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-12
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Overview: A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-26
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