Steve Allen Movies

A compilation film of stand up performances and comedy routines featuring some of the biggest stars in the early years of television. This film was...

Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny...

Rodney Dangerfield wants the hottest up-and-coming comedians for his new HBO special, but as always, he gets no respect.

The sun's too bright, the traffic's going to be bad, there's too many people out there... It's just easier to sit back on the couch and laugh with...

Documentary discussing the casting and making of "Some Like It Hot", the film voted as the Best Comedy ever made by the American Film Institute.

I'll Get By is an updated remake of the 1940 20th Century-Fox musical Tin Pan Alley. William Lundigan and Dennis Day play William Spencer and Freddie...

Elvis fans, thank your lucky stars. This jam-packed collection of pulse-raising performances from TV, movies, concerts and special events showcases...

A documentary about James Dean. People who knew him or had worked with him reminisce.

A biography of comedian double act Bud Abbott & Lou Costello

Featuring a host of archival appearances, interviews and performances, this comprehensive documentary celebrates the never-ending love affair America...

Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't...

The outrageous, groundbreaking comic Lenny Bruce, whose iconoclastic material in a conservative era got him into tragic trouble, is profiled by a...

Witness the last days of the Beat poet whose works would capture the very essence of the 1960 counter-cultural movement in an informative documentary...

This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo...

Remake of "My Favorite Wife," unfinished because of star Marilyn Monroe's firing, rehiring, and sudden August 1962 death.

Peter Lawford hosts this documentary taking a look at the life and films of James Dean.

In a triumphant career that lasted forty years Erroll Garner pushed the playability of the piano to its limits, developed an international...

Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows teach viewers computer terminology, basic functionality and the many common uses of home computers.

In 1948, Lenny Bruce was just another comic who couldn't get arrested. By 1961, all that would change.

Andrew O'Hagan looks at a critical point in the life of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac. In 1956 he spent spent 63 soul-searching days as a...