Tangos: The Exile of Gardel (1985), The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984), Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937), Star Spangled Rhythm (1942), Jumping Jacks (1952), Give a Girl a Break (1953), The Hollywood Revue (1929), The Good Companions (1957) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Musical Revue movies.
Storyline: In the sorrow of exile, a group of Argentinians in Paris seek solace and connection to their culture by staging a set of tangos. The film alternates between their vibrant rehearsals and their circumscribed lives in low-rent apartments, underemployed, fitfully communicating with families back home, trying to make do with what they hope are only temporary arrangements in a foreign land.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: dancer, singer, clown, ghost, playful, passionate, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Muppets graduate from college and decide to take their senior revue on the road. They hit the streets of Manhattan trying to sell their show to producers, finally finding one young and idealistic enough to take their show. After several mishaps and much confusion, things begin to come together for them.
Plot Keywords: kermit the frog, miss piggy, restaurant owner, daughter, patron, con artist, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Steve Raleigh wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee, however his wife Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with two ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: songwriter, dancer, producer, wealthy woman, partner, horse trainer, cheery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: security guard, sailor, star, singer, airy, charming, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hap Smith, nightclub entertainer, has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen joined the army: with lovely new partner Betsy Carter, Hap plays a clownish parody of a soldier. Meanwhile, Chick is organizing a soldier show at Fort Benning and finds he needs his old partner's help. To get onto the base, Hap impersonates a hapless real soldier, Dogface Dolan; but circumstances force them to prolong the masquerade, creating an increasingly tangled Army-sized snafu.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: entertainer, partner, paratrooper, soldier, general, sergeant, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The star of an upcoming Broadway production, Janet Hallson, walks out during rehersals. The producers of the show, Ted Sturgis, Leo Belney and Bob Dowdy begin to search a replacement. After a quick audition, each favors someone else: Madelyn Corlane, Joanna Moss, Suzie Doolittle. The rest of the movie tells in a series of musical and dance scenes how they finally pick ...—Gerhard Gonter <g.gonter@ieee.org>
Plot Keywords: singer, dancer, producer, choreographer, rival, husband, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Conrad Nagel, representing the Hollywood movie community, and Jack Benny, representing the Broadway stage community, act as the interlocutors of a musical comedy revue. A plethora of chorus boys and girls are featured front and center in some of the song and dance numbers, and provide back-up to some other acts. But the revue primarily is a vehicle to highlight a cavalcade of Hollywood movie and Broadway stage stars. One early running gag has both Nagel and Benny playing straight man to Cliff Edwards, who just wants a nice introduction to his act. Edwards would return later to be featured along with the Brox Sisters in one of the highlights of the second act, a production number around the song "Singin' in Rain", complete with rain soaked stage. A reprise of the song with the entire cast acts as the revue's finale.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: singer, buster keaton, dancer, comedian, lighthearted, amusing, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A touring variety troupe, the "Dinky Doos" are in financial trouble. An encounter with three strangers - Inigo Jollifant (a romantic, song-writing ex-schoolmaster), Miss Trant (a philanthropic spinster in search of adventure), and Jess Oakroyd (a down to earth, practical man recently made redundant from his job) leads to a change of fortune. Re-launched with Miss Trant's money, they tour England, at first with little success. Inigo falls in love with the troupe's talented and pretty young girl singer, Susie Dean. The troupe is threatened with disharmony, but, due to Inigo's intervention, and the marriage of the principal dancer (Jerry Jerningham) to Lady Parlitt (whose family "own a chain of theatres"), all turns out well for Susie by the end, when she triumphs in a lavish London revue, with the other members of "The Good Companions" in the audience, cheering her triumph.—Roger Mellor <roger@mellor48.freeserve.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: singer, spinster, songwriter, dancing girl, love interest, spirited, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Musical-romance with Dick Powell as a private stationed in Hawaii who gets involved with Ruby Keeler, the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when Powell's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star Keeler.—Alessandro Martini <alemartini@geocities.com>
Plot Keywords: cadet, general, daughter, lieutenant, sergeant, amusing, passionate ...
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