Midnight (1939), The Night Stalker (1971), Random Harvest (1942), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Ragtime (1981), Gambit (1966), Come Live With Me (1941) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Showgirl movies.
Storyline: Marshal Calem Ware (Randolph Scott) of Medicine Bend is tired and alone. Tired of killing to keep himself from being killed, and alone because of an unspoken past disappointment. The realization that someone in town is paying to have him killed, and the arrival with a show troupe of the special someone from the past, coincide to force more than one type of showdown.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: marshal, showgirl, assassin, businessman, criminal, melodramatic, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can't stay committed to anything in life for very long.—Diana Hamilton <hamilton@gl.umbc.edu>
Plot Keywords: singer, dancer, showgirl, fan, radio host, amusing, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ex-King Alfred VII is a young, handsome, and charming erstwhile monarch who once ruled a nation of two million people. Now all he has left are his Count Humbert and Duchess Anna, along with enough money to live an idle life in Paris with dozens of servants. He hasn't seen daylight in years; he prefers instead to drink himself into a stupor regularly. He's phenomenally bored, and a routine trip to a tedious cabaret finds a chorus girl flirting with him. He calls her to his apartment, apparently to seduce her as he's done many times before, but when she comes, he's passed out. Her outrage gives Humbert and Anna the idea that might bring Alfred out of his unhappy ennui - tell him she didn't come, and have her act as though he weren't so important after all. He of course pursues her with vigor and is snapped out of his apathy. But what happens if she falls in love with him?—Gary Dickerson <slug@mail.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: showgirl, king, doctor, count, duchess, lighthearted, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Al Marsh, Tony Naylor and Jerry Ralby, Broadway producers, are desperately looking for backers. Al is one of the heirs of a dress salon in Paris, but this is almost bankrupt. The two other heiresses, Stephanie and Clarisse and the three producers are able to convince the creditors to back a fashion show there. Things become complicated, when Al and Tony fall in love with Stephanie and Al's New York girl friend Bubbles arrives.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: producer, writer, partner, showgirl, niece, banker, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears class differences may lead to misery.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: showgirl, mother, daughter, socialite, comedian, engaging, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A vicious outlaw called Pecos Pete (Onslow Stevens) has long tormented the peaceful residents of a small frontier town. So these desperate people hire a dedicated new sheriff, Tex Miller (Glenn Ford), to bring this ruffian to justice. But, for all his determination, Tex is tricked by Pete and led into an ambush. Ultimately, it is the wily and brassy transplant Belinda "Bill" Pendergast (Penny Singleton) who uncovers Pete's true identity and plots a way to run him out of town once and for all.
Plot Keywords: cowboy, outlaw, showgirl, sheriff, girlfriend, cattle rustler, winsome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Married song and dance team Pamela and Chuck Hubbard are about to make their much anticipated and highly publicized Broadway debut. In the approach to opening night, Pamela is complaining about aches and pains and a queasy stomach, which they both attribute to a combination of nerves and the extra rehearsal. They discover that the symptoms are for something totally different: she's pregnant. Beyond the issue of the contract, which producer Alec Tackabury releases her from without issue, the other immediate question is who will take her place, her understudy, Sybil Meriden, assuming the role in the short term. But as time goes on, the longer term question is what having a family is going to do for their professional partnership, and not just for the run of the current show. A difference of opinion may not only threaten their professional lives, but their partnership in all aspects. If this issue does cause them to split in their marriage, others may be waiting conveniently in the wings to help them pick up the pieces.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: dancer, wife, producer, understudy, nanny, showgirl, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When ranch foreman Roy learns the new ranch owner Dorothy Bryant and her friends are arriving, he directs them to Gabby's rundown ranch. He figures they will be discouraged and return East. But the plan backfires when Dorothy, thinking her ranch worthless, sells the real ranch at a fraction of it's value.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: singer, rancher, coworker, cattleman, showgirl, sheriff, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A businessman shows up in Washington to lobby agendas that are friendly to his construction plans. His ditsy ex-showgirl bimbo proves to be an embarrassment in social situations, so he hires a reporter to teach her how to appear more intelligent. Soon it becomes apparent to the reporter that she isn't so stupid after all, and things become more complicated as she begins questioning the papers her sugar daddy keeps getting her to sign, and the reporter begins falling in love with her.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: wealthy man, businessman, showgirl, amusing, washington, d.c., bullying, rebellion ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York, as well as getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.
Plot Keywords: sister, showgirl, boyfriend, agent, mother, singer, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nomi Malone, a mysterious young girl with the ambition to dance embarks on a journey to Las Vegas to become a showgirl in a high-class hotel show. There she meets Molly, a seamstress at the Stardust Hotel and the two quickly become good friends. She gets a job as a lap dancer at the seedy Cheetah Club but after a chance meeting with Cristal Connors, the star of Goddess, the current show at the hotel where Molly works, Nomi manages to secure an audition for a spot on the chorus line.However she soon realises that fame comes with a price as her friendships, her morals and her soul are put to the test as she works her way up the ladder and eventually becomes the star of the show, stealing Cristal's part. She begins to wonder if all of her work was for nothing and if she can reclaim her life back before it is too late.
Plot Keywords: showgirl, roommate, dancer, boyfriend, manager, stripper, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A penniless sergeant in the Air Force, Joe Fitzpatrick (Glenn Ford), impulsively marries a feisty nightclub showgirl named Maggie (Debbie Reynolds), who thinks money is more important than love. When Joe is reassigned to a base in Spain, Maggie follows behind, bringing with her the flashy 1955 Lincoln Futura Concept that Joe won in a contest. Believing Joe married her for sex, Maggie forbids him to consummate their marriage for 30 days, which leads to a domino effect of trouble.
Plot Keywords: military officer, military wife, showgirl, bullfighter, prince, playful, cheery ...
Movie Details Click Here!