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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 4,133 films · Page 127.
comedy film, musical film
Lucky Lawton, a cowboy millionaire is about to marry Barbara. Unfortunately there has been a delay in finalizing Barbara's divorce from her previous husband and while this is being sorted out in Paris, Lawton is persuaded to visit a Balkan town - Pushtalnick - where he stays in a castle and has various misadventures. The elected Rose Queen - Manya - takes a liking to Lawton and romantic interludes take place.
musical film
Leo is a Holocaust survivor who suffers from total amnesia. When he immigrates to the U.S. he manages to find a job as a hotel desk clerk.
musical film
Victor Molnár, once the distinguished conductor of the Royal Symphony Orchestra in Budapest, has given up his career and emigrated to America with his wife and his grown son, Ted. Among the few possessions they bring is Victor's most treasured item—a violin gifted to him by Emperor Franz Joseph. During the ocean voyage to New York, Ted plays music on the steerage deck and catches the attention of several first-class passengers, including a beautiful young woman, Gail Wilson, who listens from above.
crime film, drama film, musical film, thriller film
The film unfolds on a bare set with no pretense of realism. It opens with harmonica music and three figures, one resembling Bob Dylan. Lana Turner, known as the "Sweater Girl" from her role in the film They Won't Forget (1937), sings about modeling sweaters while her boyfriend Johnny Stompanato waiting at home with her "son" Cheryl—played by Richard Schmidt, who poses like a juvenile delinquent.
musical film
Sid Barnett, a young composer, is in love with Adeline Schmidt, the daughter of a beer garden owner, but her father Oscar dislikes him, preferring the Spanish-American War hero Major Day. Because Schmidt is completely opposed to show business, Adeline's sister Nellie runs away to New York, hoping to pursue a career as an actress. Adeline goes after her.
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drama film, musical film
A failed film director has to accept a job teaching at an acting academy. He soon discovers that one of his pupils, Alice Perkins, is a gifted singer. He persuades a wealthy backer to put up the money to make a film starring her.
musical film
musical film
On the crowded Lower East Side of New York lives Tommy O’Day, a golden-voiced Irish lad who is the pride and joy of his mother, Mrs. O’Day. Tommy works as a delivery boy in a delicatessen, and during his rounds he befriends Jake Sturmberg, an impoverished and half-starved violinist.
musical film
As the film begins, bus driver Sid (Drew Forsythe) is stuck in traffic on King Street, Newtown, making light of the situation by playing "I Can't Get Started" on trumpet to his passengers. We then meet Billy Appleby, known professionally as Billy Apples (Max Cullen) - a divorced, middle-aged man who owns a hardware store in Newtown. In his spare time, he plays trombone and sings lead vocals in The Billy Apples Band.
alternative hip-hop, horrorcore
Cast *Violent J – J *Shaggy 2 Dope – Shaggy *Krista Kalmus – Amy *Lindsay Ballew – Stacy *Kathlyne Pham – Tiffany *Damian Lea – Brad *Sabin Rich – Carl *Mark Jury – Guy In Car *Roxxi Dolt – Girl In Car
musical film
The story of a student who becomes a disc-star and finds romance.
musical film
The plot involves two rival groups of entertainers converging on an abandoned roadhouse with the intent to reopen it, unaware that a gangster is eyeing the property for his own scheme.
music television
musical film
George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George then teams up with Charlie, a stranded trouper, and Irving becomes their manager. Later, in New York, the "Two Black Crows" star in their own revue and save money to build their own theater on Broadway.
Drama, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
musical comedy, musical film
Elmer Smoot and Bing Crosby both have a crush on vocal teacher Beth Sawyer, who is sponsoring an upcoming music recital. Smoot is an aspiring singer who hopes to run Bing Crosby off the radio, though he doesn't realize Crosby's identity when he meets him. They become bitter rivals for Sawyer's affection.
musical film
A Hollywood director (Edmund Lowe) finds himself in trouble when his latest Swedish discovery departs the shooting of his film. He finds the perfect candidate in a girl working at a fair (Ann Sothern). The only problem is, she is not in fact Swedish; a minor detail but one that can be sorted by deft handiwork and a bit of pretence.
musical film
According to film magazine, Rainbow Ryan, a minstrel performer, adopts Billy Ryan, the son of an acrobat friend who is killed while performing on stage. Playing in a small town, Rainbow falls in love with Mary Land, the daughter of a strict hotelkeeper who disapproves of all theatrical people. Rainbow moves on with the show, and Mary belatedly discovers that Billy is the child of her dead sister.
drama film, musical film
The young Mexican Alberto (Juan Gabriel) lives in Los Angeles with the family of his older brother, Manny (Narciso Busquets) and studies at UCLA with the support of Professor Bob (Julio Alemán). Another young man, Jimmy Joe (Valentin Trujillo), who lives with his sister Estela (Ana Laura Maldonado), is encouraged to quit drug addiction at a youth rehabilitation center coordinated by Manny. Disillusioned with a gringa, Alberto meets Estela at a disco and becomes her boyfriend.
musical film
Though produced on a shoestring, Country Music Holiday has a lot more going for it than most popular-music melanges of the 1950s. Ferlin Husky stars as Verne Brand, a talented hillbilly warbler who is discovered by fast-talking Sonny Moon (Jesse White). Verne's rise to the top of country-western fame is compromised by the machinations of a predatory Hungarian lass (Zsa Zsa Gabor) who owns 50 percent of the boy's contract.
drama film, musical film
A composer kills his wife's lover and, having escaped from the prison on Devil's Island, returns to France and writes an opera about the experience.
musical film
A famous singer pretends to be a penniless waiter to get close to the woman of his dreams, a European princess.
comedy drama, musical film
John Forrest is a top investigator for the Stamford Insurance Company. Retiring from the firm, he intends to devote the rest of his life to writing detective fiction, but his plan is foiled when his former employers are robbed of $1,000,000 in jewels belonging to foreign potentate Prince Homouska. With the help of his befuddled butler Treadwell, Forrest follows the trail of clues to American gangster boss Chadwick, capturing his quarry with a variety of slapstick subterfuges.