Ellis Island
THE DREAM WAS AMERICA AND THE DOOR TO THE DREAM WAS ELLIS ISLAND.
Overview
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.
Cast
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
