Been Rich All My Life (2006), Easter Parade (1948), The Old Dark House (1932), Unfinished Song (2012), The Boy Friend (1971), You'll Never Get Rich (1941), Sailing Along (1938), Pal Joey (1957) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Chorus Girl movies.
Storyline: They are the "Silver Belles," five women aged 84 to 96. They first met in the 1930's as chorus dancers at the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater where they worked 15 hour days, rehearsing a new show every week. In their heyday they performed with legendary band leaders like Cab Calloway, Jimmie Lunceford and Duke Ellington. When the big band era ended, and with it the need for show dancers, they all went into other work. In 1985 they put their tap shoes back on, and are still performing regularly. But in one week, Cleo tumbles down the subway stairs and breaks her knee and arm, Marion gets a pacemaker, and Bertye is taken to the hospital. Is this the end of the Silver Belles?—Signy
Plot Keywords: chorus girl, elderly woman, manager, performer, endearing, inspiring, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but she decides to start a career on her own. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. After a while, this new team is so successful that Florenz Ziegfeld is interested in them, but due to the fact that Nadine Hale also dances (and stars) in the Ziegfeld Follies, Don says no. Despite the fact that he is in love with Hannah, he keeps the relation with her strictly business. So Hannah is of the opinion that he is still in love with Nadine, and her suspicion grows when he dances with Nadine in a Night Club Floor Show.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: dancer, partner, chorus girl, friend, endearing, heartwarming, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in a remote region of Wales, several travellers are admitted to a gloomy, foreboding mansion belonging to the extremely strange Femm family. Trying to make the best of it, the guests must deal with their sepulchral host, Horace Femm and his obsessive, malevolent sister Rebecca. Things get worse as the brutish manservant Morgan gets drunk, runs amuck and releases the long pent-up brother Saul, a psychotic pyromaniac who gleefully tries to destroy the residence by setting it on fire.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: host, butler, chorus girl, veteran, industrialist, religious person, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Song for Marion", a London-set comedic drama, is about shy, grumpy pensioner Arthur who is reluctantly inspired by his beloved wife Marion to join a highly unconventional local choir. At odds with his son James, it is left to charismatic choir director Elizabeth to try and persuade Arthur that he can learn to embrace life. Arthur must confront the undercurrents of his own grumbling persona as he embarks on a hilarious, life-affirming journey of musical self discovery.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: old man, ex-wife, son, chorus girl, conductor, emotional, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company (Polly Browne) is forced to understudy for the leading lady (Rita) at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director (Cecil B. DeThrill) is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza. Polly also happens to fall in love with the leading man (Tony) and imagines several fabulous fantasy sequences in which the director is free to exercise his capacity for over-the-top visuals in this charming 1920's era flick.—Bliss Blood <soundex@sccsi.com>
Plot Keywords: director, actor, stage manager, chorus girl, spectacular, campy, england ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After his wife discovers a telltale diamond bracelet, impresario Martin Cortland tries to show he's not chasing after showgirl Sheila Winthrop. Choreographer Robert Curtis gets caught in the middle of the boss's scheme. Army conscription offers Robert the perfect escape from his troubles- or does it?—Diana Hamilton <hamilton@gl.umbc.edu>
Plot Keywords: dancer, chorus girl, captain, wife, boyfriend, producer, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kay, who works on a Thames River barge, and Steve are secretly in love with each other but do their best to hide it. Kay wants desperately to be a music-hall star and Steve wants to be a player in the world of high finance. An eccentric millionaire decides to do what he can to see that they achieve their dreams.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: millionaire, entertainer, financier, agent, chorus girl, charming, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joey Evans' a charming, handsome, funny, talented a-1st class, A-N°.1... heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl ("she used to be 'Vera...with the vanishing veils'") and now is the rich widow, Vera Simpson, the pair of lecherous souls seem made for each other. That is, until Linda English comes along. Linda's a "mouse on the chorus line" and built like there's no tomorrow. But she's the typical good little girl from a good little home - just the right ingredient to louse up Joey's set-up.—A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>
Plot Keywords: singer, chorus girl, widow, amusing, lighthearted, playful, san francisco ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and Melvin soon offers to do a photo spread of her. His boss, however, has no intention of using the photos. Melvin wants to marry Judy, but her father would rather she marry dull and dependable Harry Black. As a last resort, Melvin promises to get Judy's photo on the cover of the next issue of Look, a task easier said than done.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: assistant, actress, heir, father, photographer, chorus girl, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too. Trying to steal the car, Steve tells Malcolm that he lives in Hollywood, next to Anita Ekberg's. When Malcom hears that, they both set out for Hollywood and the adventure begins...—Chris Makrozahopoulos <makzax@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: gambler, chorus girl, dog, film fan, bookie, actress, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: B.G. Bruno, a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe visiting Edinburgh wants to produce a musical in town but has trouble getting backers. Bruno meets several of the leading ladies of the show; through a misunderstanding he doesn't correct the idea that he's a newspaper reporter. He falls in love with one of the women, who reciprocates; he grows more lively and friendly, to the surprise of his employees. After a series of mishaps and comic incidents comes a happy ending: a successful show and true love.—Mark. Gooley <gooley@mcn.net>
Plot Keywords: chorus girl, wealthy man, chauffeur, theatrical producer, reporter, roommate, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The corrupt Lord Ambrose D'Arcy (Michael Gough) steals the life's work of the poor composer Professor L. Petrie. (Herbert Lom). In an attempt to stop the printing of music with D'Arcy's name on it, Petrie breaks into the printing office and accidentally starts a fire, leaving him severely disfigured. Years later, Petrie returns to terrorize a London opera house that is about to perform one of his stolen operas.—Jeremy Lunt <durlinlunt@acadia.net>
Plot Keywords: composer, wealthy man, producer, chorus girl, dwarf, kidnapper, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: New York newspaperman Bat Masterson thinks back on his time as a lawman in Dodge City, Kansas, when he cleaned up the lawless town and loved a saloon girl named Dora Hand. Masterson's rival for Dora's love was a scofflaw named King Kennedy, who laughs at Masterson's attempts to establish law but grudgingly admires the way he goes about it. Kennedy's jealousy of Dora leads him into deeper conflict with Masterson, even as Dora tries to maneuver Masterson into leaving town and leaving the dangerous job of marshal behind.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: sheriff, chorus girl, rancher, mayor, old man, fiery, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Miss Ethel 'Dynamite' Jackson is a chorus girl who mistakenly receives an invitation from the State Department to represent the American theatre at an arts exposition in Paris, France. There's only one problem: the invitation was meant for Miss Ethel Barrymore. Meanwhile, S. Winthrop Putnam, the bureaucrat who made the mistake, tries unsuccessfully to correct his mix-up. It's too late, for Dynamite Jackson is off to Paris, where the two meet and marry, or so they think.—Kelly
Plot Keywords: bureaucrat, chorus girl, boss, fiancée, entertainer, busboy, winsome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Diana Borden (Doris Nolan, a bleeding-heart rich-girl, returns from a trip to Russia filled with sympathy for the "little" people of the slums and wants to do "something" artistic and socially significant for them...so she opens up a nightclub atop a 100-story skyscraper. For her, that means acts such as opera singers, extracts from "Hamlet" and three sailors imitating a giraffe. Bandleader Ted Lane (George Murphy)thinks hot-music, burlesque-acts and the old razzle-dazzle is just the ticket. Her programming leads to early exits and no-returns.Film debut for 12-year-old Peggy Ryan.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: bandleader, chorus girl, club owner, uncle, love interest, amusing, rousing ...
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