Highest-Rated Movies about 'Stage Manager', Sort by Popularity
The Boy Friend (1971), Our Town (1940), Paris 36 (2008), Double Take (2009), Stage Mother (1933) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Stage Manager movies.
#1. The Boy Friend (1971)
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!#2. Our Town (1940)
Storyline: Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: milkman, editor, stage manager, professor, husband, wife, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!#3. Paris 36 (2008)
Storyline: In 1936 Paris, three out-of-work friends (Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad) create a musical, struggling with their lack of experience and with a local thug, and they depend on the production raising enough money to buy the theater.
Plot Keywords: singer, stage manager, landlord, son, wife, radical, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!#4. Double Take (2009)
Storyline: Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. Subverting a meticulous array of TV footage and using 'The Birds' as an essential metaphor, DOUBLE TAKE traces catastrophe culture's relentless assault on the home, from moving images' inception to the present day.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: double, police officer, stage manager, husband, housewife, filmmaker, crafty ...
Movie Details Click Here!#5. Stage Mother (1933)
Storyline: A vaudeville star has to leave her daughter with her dead husband's stuffy Boston parents while she makes a living. But when the daughter shows some talent, the mother become a stage mother and pushes her daughter into becoming a Broadway star. The mother is a monster with a heart of gold, and after breaking up the daughter's love affair, finally sees the error of her ways.—Ed Lorusso
Plot Keywords: stage manager, lover, daughter, actress, artist, melodramatic, touching ...
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