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Everybody Went to Max: Remembering Dr. Feelgood, the Merlin of Kennedy's Camelot (2013)
64 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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Everybody Went to Max: Remembering Dr. Feelgood, the Merlin of Kennedy's Camelot (2013)

64 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The rise and fall of the notorious Dr. Max Jacobson of New York, who treated hundreds of celebrities including President Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams, but who lost his medical license in 1975 for ...See moreThe rise and fall of the notorious Dr. Max Jacobson of New York, who treated hundreds of celebrities including President Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams, but who lost his medical license in 1975 for inappropriately administering amphetamines -- 'speed.' Jacobson was perhaps the original 'Dr. Feelgood.' The German-born physician's euphoria- and energy-producing needles were an international fad with the famous for decades, despite some deaths. The director (a patient of Dr. Jacobson as a child) interviewed Jacobson's daughter, former patients, a famed pathologist who performed a key autopsy that helped bring down Jacobson. The late singer Eddie Fisher delivers audio book memories of a 37-year addiction. Jacobson was done in by changing times and an expose by the New York Times. Written by Anonymous See less

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Jill Jacobson Self / Daughter Self / Daughter See fewer	Everybody Went to Max: Remembering Dr. Feelgood, the Merlin of Kennedy's Camelot (2013)
Max Jacobson Self / Dr. Feelgood Self / Dr. Feelgood See fewer	Everybody Went to Max: Remembering Dr. Feelgood, the Merlin of Kennedy's Camelot (2013)
Boyce Rensberger Self / Journalist Self / Journalist See fewer	3-2-1 Contact (1980)
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Emily Frankel Self / Actress Self / Actress See fewer	Folio (1955)
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Martin Kasindorf Narrator - Documentary (voice) Narrator - Documentary (voice) See fewer	Bobby Kennedy for President (2018)
Max Kempe Self / Biographer Self / Biographer See fewer	Everybody Went to Max: Remembering Dr. Feelgood, the Merlin of Kennedy's Camelot (2013)
G. Oliver Koppel Self / Lawyer Self / Lawyer See fewer	Everybody Went to Max: Remembering Dr. Feelgood, the Merlin of Kennedy's Camelot (2013)
Kirk Lawrence Self / Patient Self / Patient See fewer	The Caregiver (III) (2024)