This installment in the Hollywood Singing and Dancing documentary series takes a look at the musicals of the 1920's,...
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2009
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2007
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2007
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Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy,...
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Featured Music
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1990
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Weighed down by her late husband's debts, widow Beth Macauley (Jessica Lange) is compelled to sell her home and move to a...
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Featured Music
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1990
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Lucille Ball is honored in this program which features many of her television and film appearances. ~ Rovi...
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1990
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Entertainment history. Uses film clips and contemporary interviews to show what Hollywood did during World War II in raising...
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1989
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This nostalgic video uses five short films to look back at Hollywood's efforts to bolster both overseas G.I.s and the folks...
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1980
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1961
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1954
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Will Rogers Jr. stars as his own father in this slow, sentimental biopic. The film begins with Rogers' days on his father's...
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1952
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Host
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1952
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Host
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1951
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A comedy variety show with a rotating roster of hosts and celebrity guests. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi...
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1950
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1950
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Hoping for a success commensurate with his previous Show Business (1945), comedian Eddie Cantor poured a lot of his own money...
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Producer, Sam Parker
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1948
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The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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1945
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After a year's absence, entertainer Eddie Cantor returned to the screen in the self-produced Show Business. The plot is...
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Producer, Eddie Martin
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1944
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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1944
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Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky...
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Himself
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1943
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In this drama, a former big-man-on-campus, finds himself almost destitute twenty years later because he cannot find a job....
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Gilbert J. Thompson
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1940
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Autograph hound Al Babson (Eddie Cantor) accidentally disrupts the filming of a movie about Ali Baba, and is injured in the...
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Ali Bobo
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1937
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Musical comedy star Eddie Cantor stars in this story, well suited to his talents, as Eddie Pink, a meek gentleman who works...
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Eddie Pink
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1936
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Brooklyn tugboat worker Eddie (Eddie Cantor), bullied and cowed by his tough-guy stepfather and stepbrothers (a la...
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Eddie Wilson, Jr.
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1934
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Easily the best of Eddie Cantor's gargantuan musical comedies for producer Sam Goldwyn, Roman Scandals begins in the...
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Eddie
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1933
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In director Leo McCarey's film The Kid From Spain, actor Eddie Cantor plays mischievious college boy Eddie Williams, who,...
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Eddie Williams
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1932
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Eddie Cantor plays Eddie Simpson, a shy and jumpy young fellow who spontaneously bursts into song whenever he gets nervous....
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Screenwriter, Eddie Simpson
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1931
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Mr. Lemon of Orange was advertised as comedian El Brendel's first starring feature, even though he'd previously dominated the...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Insurance is a short that showcases Eddie Cantor's vaudeville style origins. Cantor plays Sydney B. Zwieback, a somewhat...
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1930
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Sparring landladies provide the focus of this comedy. The two women are constantly competing to take in the most boarders at...
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Book Author
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1930
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1930
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Henry Williams
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1930
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Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld brought his legendary "Follies" to the silver screen in Glorifying the American Girl....
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1930
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The second and last of Eddie Cantor's silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed comedian as a hapless mailman....
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Eddie
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1927
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Based on the musical comedy of the same name, Kid Boots was the first of two silent vehicles for irrepressible Ziegfeld...
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Kid Boots
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1926
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1923
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