David Byrne's American Utopia (2020), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019), The Matinee Idol (1928), The Velvet Touch (1948), My Six Loves (1963), Springtime in the Rockies (1942), Grand Central Murder (1942) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Broadway Star movies.
Storyline: This movie is an intimately shot and thus presented live performance of David Byrne's Broadway show American Utopia which emerged from his album of the same name, the album from which most of the songs performed are taken. The show itself is part concert, part musical theater, part performance art, but always Byrne's commentary on the human condition, largely of humankind trying to find its place in a world that often does not make sense. That place includes finding those much needed connections to each other in his wish, as a naturalized U.S. citizen, for society to move closer to his vision of an American utopia.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: broadway star, drummer, uplifting, spectacular, rousing, new york, broadway theater ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1920s Broadway. Playwright David Shayne considers himself an artist, and surrounds himself with like minded people, most struggling financially as they create art for themselves, not the masses. David, however, believes the failure of his first two plays was because he gave up creative control to other people who didn't understand the material. As such, he wants to direct his just completed third play, "God of Our Fathers", insider scuttlebutt being that it may very well make David the toast of Broadway. With David having no directing history, David's regular producer, Julian Marx, can't find any investors,... until a single investor who will finance the entire production comes onto the scene. He is Nick Valenti, a big time mobster, with the catch being that his dimwitted girlfriend, non-actress Olive Neal, get the lead role. A hesitant David and Julian, who are able to talk Nick into them giving Olive one of the two female supporting roles instead, go along with the scheme hoping ...
Plot Keywords: playwright, actress, broadway star, mobster, bodyguard, actor, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!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: The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don?—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: broadway star, aspiring actress, father, producer, manager, charming, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Broadway star Valerie Stanton, breaking up with her producer-lover Gordon Dunning, unintentionally kills him. In flashback, she recalls meeting new flame Michael Morrell, and Dunning's machinations leading to the fatal argument. The next day, it appears that Valerie's former rival Marian Webster is the prime suspect. Or is suave police Captain Danbury just playing cat and mouse with her? Nicely catty dialogue.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: broadway star, producer, ex-girlfriend, rival, architect, police detective, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Broadway star, Janice Courtney goes to her countfy home to rest. When she gets there, she meets some people who change her life permanently, and discovers true love and happiness.—Marinelle K. Szenasy
Plot Keywords: broadway star, pastor, orphan, secretary, producer, housekeeper, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.—Paul Penna <tterrace@wco.com>
Plot Keywords: dancer, broadway star, secretary, valet, ex-lover, partner, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A convict being escorted in for retrial escapes at Grand Central and threatens his old girlfriend on the phone. She flees for her new beau's private railcar at the same station. When she is then found murdered the cops round up a motley group of suspects including the escapee, several guys feeling sore at the way the gold-digging broad had treated them, some jealous dames, and a private eye already on the case. Inspector Gunther soon has a problem - enough evidence to fry all of them.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: broadway star, private investigator, police detective, ex-boyfriend, father, housekeeper, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The life of Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott is chronicled from his childhood to his days as the toast of New York. In between, his rise to the top is complicated by romances with two women: his true love Rose Donovan and stage star Lillian Russell, who wants to make him a star.—Daniel Bubbeo
Plot Keywords: broadway star, singer-songwriter, girlfriend, singer, cheery, endearing, inspiring ...
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 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This musical biopic chronicles the vaudeville-to-Broadway story of 1920s' star Marilyn Miller (June Haver). From her start on the boards in Findlay, Ohio, Marilyn sings and dances her way to Broadway stardom, frequently in company with her mentor, dancer Jack Donahue (Ray Bolger).—Dan Navarro <daneldorado@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: dancer, vaudevillian, husband, songwriter, broadway star, parent, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role to the girl they selected without informing the other until they head back across the Atlantic by liner - with each man having brought his choice along! It becomes a stormy crossing as each man has to tell his 'find' that she might not get the role after all.—Alfred Jingle
Plot Keywords: broadway star, tv personality, dancer, frenchwoman, protégé, american, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shipyard worker Bill Swanson writes a wartime play celebrating the American spirit. He meets theatre actress Julie Hampton, visiting the shipyard on a bond drive, and convinces her to read his patriotic opus. Enthusiastic at its potential, Julie is able to get the show produced, but Bill is dismayed when he discovers that its being turned into a musical. Withdrawing his option, he returns to his day job, but Julie isn't to be put off so easily.—Chris Stone <jstone@bellatlantic.net>
Plot Keywords: broadway star, coworker, uncle, producer, inspiring, lighthearted, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Story of the legendary impresario Sol Hurok and the many stars that he introduced and represented to the world of music.
Plot Keywords: impostor, wife, ballerina, opera singer, violinist, broadway star, melodramatic ...
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