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.
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Peter RiegertJacob Rubinstein -
Gregory Paul MartinMarco Santorelli -
Claire BloomRebecca Weiler -
Judi BowkerGeorgiana "Georgie" O'Donnell -
Kate BurtonVanessa Ogden -
Joan GreenwoodMadame Levitska -
Ann JillianNellie Byfield -
Lila KayeKathleen O'Donnell -
Stubby KayeAbe Shulman -
Alice KrigeBridget O'Donnell -
Cherie LunghiUna Marbury -
Melba MooreFlora Mitchum -
Milo O’SheaCasey O'Donnell -
Emma SammsViolet Weiler -
Ben VereenRoscoe Haines -
Faye DunawayMaud Charteris -
Richard BurtonSen. Phipps Ogden -
Michael ByrneDr. Carl Travers
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