Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906 – August 14, 1972) was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, than for his music.
Movies7.04 1951 HD
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist...
Genre: Music
Cast: Gene Kelly
Movies7.129 1947 HD
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Joan Crawford
Movies7.124 1953 HD
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
Genre: Music
Cast: Fred Astaire
Movies6.909 1949 HD
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Fred Astaire
Movies6.8 1948 HD
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Jack Carson
Movies6.4 1945 HD
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Robert Alda
Movies5.7 1955 HD
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Richard Widmark
Movies7 1940 HD
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Bing Crosby
Movies5 1941 HD
New York chorus girl Cindy Lou Bethany becomes frustrated when she prepares for an audition for a Broadway musical, but the auditions close and her...
Genre: Music
Cast: Don Ameche
Movies6.5 1953 HD
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...
Genre: Music
Cast: Mitzi Gaynor
Movies6.323 1952 HD
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Fred Allen
Movies3.5 1929 HD
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Aileen Pringle
Movies5.9 1929 HD
A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to...
Genre: Romance
Cast: Hal Skelly
Movies6 1948 HD
A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.
Genre: Music
Cast: Jeanne Crain
Movies1 1940 HD
Deems Taylor joins Clifton Fadiman and the Information Please regular panel members, Oscar Levant, Franklin P. Adams and John Kieran, for this entry...
Genre:
Cast: Clifton Fadiman
Movies6.9 1994 HD
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: June Allyson
Movies6.8 1976 HD
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Fred Astaire
Movies5.2 1939 HD
Information Please: Series 1, No. 1 is a 1939 short film of the famous show from RKO Radio. The segment stars Clifton Fadiman, Rex Stout, and John...
Genre: Family
Cast: Clifton Fadiman
Movies1 2003 HD
PBS documentary examining the work of Jack Paar.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Fred Applegate
Movies2 1923 HD
Early music video.
Genre: Music
Cast: Ben Bernie
Movies1 1991 HD
A loving tribute to Astaire the singer, hosted by Audrey Hepburn.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Audrey Hepburn
Movies1 1973 HD
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Vincente Minnelli
Movies1 2005 HD
Documentary on the 1953 musical "The Band Wagon."
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Liza Minnelli
Movies7 2010 HD
A feature-length documentary starring Fran Lebowitz, a writer known for her unique take on modern life. The film weaves together extemporaneous...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Fran Lebowitz
Movies1 1941 HD
We have writer Fadiman, regulars Franklin P. Adams, Oscar Levant, and John Kieran, with Boris Karloff as the guest panelist for this edition of...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Clifton Fadiman
Movies1 1940 HD
This issue of RKO's Information Please series, based on the radio program featuring most of the same people, has Howard Lindsay, co-author and...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Clifton Fadiman
Movies6.2 1937 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Carole Lombard
Movies2.5 1934 HD
Genre: Drama
Cast: Clive Brook
Movies5.8 1934 HD
Genre: Crime
Cast: Claude Rains
Movies6.2 1939 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Carole Lombard
Movies5 1930 HD
Genre: Drama
Cast: Bebe Daniels
Movies6.6 1936 HD
Genre: Crime
Cast: Warner Oland
S1 E8766.619 1967 HD
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...
Genre: Family
Cast: John Charles Daly
S5 E2575.3 1967 HD
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC,...
Genre: Talk
Cast: Merv Griffin
S5 E2375.7 1962 HD
Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired...
Genre: Talk
Cast: Jack Paar
