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