Oscar Levant Movies

Martin Scorsese’s portrait of writer and social commentator Fran Lebowitz, celebrated for her sharp wit and observations on modern life. Filmed...

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

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...

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...

Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected...

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...

After Pearl Harbor Lt. James Stewart narrated this film to rouse American support for the war.

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...

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...

Early music video.

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...

Deems Taylor joins Clifton Fadiman and the Information Please regular panel members, Oscar Levant, Franklin P. Adams and John Kieran, for this entry...

A modern-day pirate vies with a society playboy for the love of a dancer.

Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her...

Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to...

An American sailor arrives to a seedy banana republic, where he finds a fellow yank, a stranded girl, as a saloon singer. They become romantically...

A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.