Ellis Island
“THE DREAM WAS AMERICA AND THE DOOR TO THE DREAM WAS ELLIS ISLAND.”
About
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
as Jacob Rubinstein
Gregory Paul Martin
as Marco Santorelli
Claire Bloom
as Rebecca Weiler
Judi Bowker
as Georgiana "Georgie" O'Donnell
Kate Burton
as Vanessa Ogden
Joan Greenwood
as Madame Levitska
Ann Jillian
as Nellie Byfield
Lila Kaye
as Kathleen O'Donnell
Stubby Kaye
as Abe Shulman
Alice Krige
as Bridget O'Donnell
Cherie Lunghi
as Una Marbury
Melba Moore
as Flora Mitchum
Milo O'Shea
as Casey O'Donnell
Emma Samms
as Violet Weiler
Ben Vereen
as Roscoe Haines
Faye Dunaway
as Maud Charteris
Richard Burton
as Sen. Phipps Ogden
Michael Byrne
as Dr. Carl Travers
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