Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019), But Not for Me (1959), Man About Town (1939), The Helen Morgan Story (1957), Meet Me After the Show (1951) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Broadway Producer movies.
Storyline: The origin story behind one of Broadway's most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, and its creative roots in early 1960s New York, when "tradition" was on the wane as gender roles, sexuality, race relations and religion were evolving.
Plot Keywords: songwriter, broadway producer, actor, choreographer, broadway star, author, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward (Clark Gable) decides to give up the game. But when Russ lays off his nubile secretary, Ellie Brown (Carroll Baker), she shocks him with a declaration of love. Inspired, Ward commands playwright MacDonald (Lee J. Cobb) to rewrite his latest show as a May-December romance starring Brown herself. Ward struggles to make a comeback as his ex-wife, Kathryn (Lilli Palmer), plots to end his new relationship.
Plot Keywords: broadway producer, secretary, playwright, ex-wife, lover, actress, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: broadway producer, singer, love interest, wife, husband, jealous man, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The 1920's and 30's career of singer Helen Morgan is followed from her early days singing outdoors in a carnival, through her speak-easy and chorus-girl days, to her stardom on Broadway in Ziegfeld's "Show Boat". Her involvement with Larry Maddux, a gin-runner and con-man, and Russell Wade, a prominent, married New York lawyer, and her decline thanks to these failed romances and alcohol are punctuated by performances of many of the songs she made famous.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: singer, broadway producer, broadway star, bootlegger, boyfriend, alcoholic, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Delilah Lee is the sar of husband Jeff Ames' Broadway show when she starts to suspect he has been exchanging more than contracts with the show's vampish backer. Alimony and amnesia become the order of the day.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: broadway star, broadway producer, rival, singer, husband, lawyer, playful ...
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