Great Jews On Stage And Screen

Description for GREAT JEWS ON STAGE AND SCREEN by Darryl Lyman:

Darryl Lyman's GREAT JEWS ON STAGE AND SCREEN focuses on Jewish performers who have excelled in the theater, in films, and on television.

Here we meet such outstanding musical personalities as Barbara Streisand, Barry Manilow, Bette Midler, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, Roberta Peters, Neil Sedaka, and Al Jolson. We meet such talented comic actors and entertainers as Billy Crystal, Milton Berle, Rodney Dangerfield, Zero Mostel, Eddie Cantor, George Burns, and even the Marx Brothers. And there are the film giants: Dustin Hoffman, Tony Curtis, Woody Allen, Kirk Douglas, John Garfield, Lauren Bacall, Edward G Robinson, Peter Sellers, Dyan Cannon, and Peter Lorre. We are also introduced to many of the greats who gained popularity through the television medium, including such stars as Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Edward Asner, Peter Falk, Lorne Greene, Goldie Hawn, Jack Klugman, Dinah Shore, and Beatrice Arthur.

GREAT JEWS ON STAGE AND SCREEN is a compendium of one hundred major biographies and hundreds more thumbnail sketches of Jewish vaudevillians, singers, dramatic and comic actors, dancers, stand-up comics, and others who have made a significant contribution to the performing arts. Fully illustrated, this companion volume to the author's GREAT JEWS IN MUSIC will provide endless hours of reading pleasure.