Ginsberg the Great (1927)
Having missed the opportunity to re-create his Broadway role in The Jazz Singer on film, Georgie Jessel attempted to launch a movie career in lesser vehicles. In Ginsberg the Great, Jessel plays an aspiring sideshow magician whose act is tinctured with ethnic humor. Given a crack at the Big Time, our hero ingratiates himself with a producer (Sam Hubert) by saving the latter's jewels from being stolen. But once a "carney," always a "carney" Featured in the cast is perennial Laurel & Hardy foil Stanley J. "Tiny" Sandford as a circus strongman, and Akka the Chimp as -- Akka the Chimp. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Director(s):
- Byron Haskin
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Synopsis of Ginsberg the Great
Having missed the opportunity to re-create his Broadway role in The Jazz Singer on film, Georgie Jessel attempted to launch a movie career in lesser vehicles. In Ginsberg the Great, Jessel plays an aspiring sideshow magician whose act is tinctured with ethnic humor. Given a crack at the Big Time, our hero ingratiates himself with a producer (Sam Hubert) by saving the latter's jewels from being stolen. But once a "carney," always a "carney" Featured in the cast is perennial Laurel & Hardy foil Stanley J. "Tiny" Sandford as a circus strongman, and Akka the Chimp as -- Akka the Chimp. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Ginsberg the Great
- Gertrude Astor - Sappho
- Douglas Gerrard - Sam Hubert
- James Quinn - A Crook
- Jack Santoro - Hawkins
- Audrey Ferris - Mary
- Theodore Lorch - Charles Wheeler
- George Jessel - Johnny Ginsberg
- Stanley "Tiny" Sandford - Hercules
- Director(s):
- Byron Haskin
- Writer(s):
- Anthony Coldeway
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