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...

A documentary made for the PBS program American Masters about the comedy team Nichols and May.

Roast of Rodney Dangerfield recorded in Aspen on his 75th birthday.

"The Television Years" examines the events that took place in the years between 1956 and 1960, in which Elvis Presley excited a whole nation as the...

TV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming title role in "The Benny Goodman Story."

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

A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture.

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...

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

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

Don't Ask Me, Ask God is a TV Special starring Michael J. Fox.

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

Homemaker Lucy Whittaker calls up President Carter to complain about a local political issue—and to her astonishment, he agrees to come dine at...

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

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

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

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...

Jazz Pianist on the Creative Process & Self-Teaching. Here is the late, brilliantly original jazz pianist in intense conversation with his...

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