The Great American Songbook (2003)

Sparkling performances by Judy Garland Lena Horne Al Jolson the teenage Dorothy Dandridge and the flashdancing Nicholas Brothers light up this great documentary that originally aired on educational television Using rare and neverbeforeseen footage singerpianist and musical historian Michael Feinstein hosts an informative look at the composers and lyricists who wrote Americas standards from the 1890s through the mid1950s