Herbert Baker

A Jewish cantor's son defies his father to pursue a career in popular music.

"In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he'd honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster's bombshell girlfriend--the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role--and the washed-up talent agent (Tom Ewell) who seeks to revive...

From 1950 to 1955, every Sunday night NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour presented live musical variety television featuring the top names in vaudeville, theater, radio and film. In this 1954 production of the famed Cole Porter musical comedy 'Anything Goes, ' Frank Sinatra and Ethel Mermen made their television debuts, belting out classic tunes in this blockbuster song and dance production. "On a luxurious ocean liner, a nightclub singer helps a fellow American...

This is the classic story of a lonely woodcarver who carves a puppet as a son out of a block of wood that not only springs to life, but miraculously fulfills its dream to become a real boy.