
Ellis Island (1984)
5.0|11 Nov, 1984|140 min
THE DREAM WAS AMERICA AND THE DOOR TO THE DREAM WAS ELLIS ISLAND.
5.0|11 Nov, 1984|140 min
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Ellis Island is a television miniseries broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard Stewart, adapted from his 1983 novel of the same title. The series tells the story of several immigrants from the late 1800s until the early 1910s, trying to achieve the American Dream and arriving on Ellis Island, hoping for a better life. Ellis Island highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War I, and many of the characters are based on real persons, such as Irving Berlin.
Seasons
Season 1 (1984)3
Keywords
immigration
american dream
immigrant
world war i
miniseries
ellis island
19th century
1910s
Casts

Peter Riegert
Jacob Rubinstein
Gregory Paul Martin
Marco Santorelli

Claire Bloom
Rebecca Weiler

Judi Bowker
Georgiana "Georgie" O'Donnell

Kate Burton
Vanessa Ogden

Joan Greenwood
Madame Levitska

Ann Jillian
Nellie Byfield

Lila Kaye
Kathleen O'Donnell

Stubby Kaye
Abe Shulman

Alice Krige
Bridget O'Donnell

Cherie Lunghi
Una Marbury

Melba Moore
Flora Mitchum

Milo O’Shea
Casey O'Donnell

Emma Samms
Violet Weiler

Ben Vereen
Roscoe Haines

Faye Dunaway
Maud Charteris

Richard Burton
Sen. Phipps Ogden

Michael Byrne
Dr. Carl Travers
Crews

Jerry London
Director
Fred Mustard Stewart
Creator
Patricia Johnson
Associate Producer
Gabriel Katzka
Executive Producer
Bernard Gribble
Editor

Jerry London
Supervising Producer

Ennio Guarnieri
Director of Photography

Jack Hildyard
Director of Photography
John J. Dumas
Editor

Barry Jossen
Associate Producer
James Galloway
Editor
Dudley Lovell
Director of Photography
Christopher Newman
Teleplay
Frank Konigsberg
Executive Producer
John Addison
Original Music Composer
Fred Mustard Stewart
Novel
Nick Gillott
Producer
Fred Mustard Stewart
Teleplay
Zeljko Marasovich
Original Music Composer
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