Bellissima (1951), First a Girl (1935), Goon (2011), Headhunter (2009), Star Dust (1940), Fear City (1984), It Happened in Flatbush (1942), Expresso Bongo (1959) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Talent Scout movies.
Storyline: Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daugther to Cinecittà, hoping she'll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria, even if her husband would prefer they save their little money for the rent, instead of paying teachers, hairdressers or bribes for her illusions.—Yepok
Plot Keywords: mother, daughter, father, celebrity, child actor, talent scout, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Elizabeth, a delivery girl, dreams of being a music-hall singer but she is refused at the first casting she takes part in. A bit depressed, she gets to know Victor, a would-be Shakespearean actor and another audition victim. When Victor quite unexpectedly gets a female part in a music-hall number he unfortunately finds himself voiceless. Why wouldn't Elizabeth replace him in it? His new friend hesitates but finally makes her debut as ... a man posing as a woman! She is noticed by McLintock, an influential talent agent who hires Mr. Victoria (Elizabeth's stage name) and launches his/her brilliant international career. One day, Robert, a handsome young man engaged to Princess Mironoff, makes friends with this young man posing as a woman posing as a man ...—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: aspiring actor, aspiring actress, talent scout, young man, princess, trainer, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Doug Glatt of Orange, Massachusetts is floundering in life, he having no real sense of where he fits - having a "thing" as he calls it. He doesn't have the book smarts to become a doctor like his adoptive father or his gay adoptive brother Ira. And he doesn't have the passion that his best friend Pat has for his self-appointed work, hosting a hockey based cable call-in show, Hot Ice. Because his fists and skull are figuratively like steel, Doug is good at the enforcement part of his job as a bouncer despite he having a naturally friendly childlike approach to dealing with people and situations. An incident involving Doug in the stands of an Orangetown Assassins minor league hockey game leads to its coach, Rollie Hortense, offering Doug a tryout with the team as its enforcer, the tryout regardless of the fact that Rollie has no idea if Doug even knows how to play ice hockey (which he doesn't). Learning just enough hockey skills, Doug makes the team. Rollie, however, quickly believes ...
Plot Keywords: goon, talent scout, bouncer, suspenseful, massachusetts, team, game ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Martin Vinge, (35), former notorious journalist, now successful headhunter with a complicated personal life, is in all confidentiality contacted by 85 year-old N.F. Sieger, S.E.O. of Denmark's largest shipping company and oil empire. Sieger hires Martin to find an alternative heir to the firm instead of his son, Daniel Sieger, who for a long time has been destined to take the company into the next era. Martin starts coming up with suitable names for the position, but discovers that he has actually been entangled in a larger impenetrable power game aimed at deciding what is really going to happen to the company; a brutal power struggle that puts an intense pressure on Martin and his private life and relationships.—Nordisk Film
Plot Keywords: journalist, successor, talent scout, thrilling, denmark, money, oil ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Carolyn Sayres gets a Hollywood contract from talent scout Brooke but is later rejected because she's too young. She falls in love with Bud Borden, another contractee who helps her to become a star. Based partly on Darnells' early experiences in Hollywood. Wharton is a parody of Zanuck.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: actress, teenager, talent scout, football player, singer, girl, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A killer is targeting New York City strippers, and world-weary policeman Al Wheeler (Billy Dee Williams) confronts sleazes Matt Rossi (Tom Berenger) and Nicky Parenzo (Jack Scalia), who have a hand in the local adult entertainment scene. Wheeler wants the duo to dig up some clues and threatens to find find a reason to put them behind bars. But, as Matt watches his stripper ex-lover, Loretta (Melanie Griffith), cope with the murders through drug abuse, he decides to hunt down the killer himself.
Plot Keywords: talent scout, boxer, ex-lover, stripper, police officer, mobster, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A washed up baseball player (Lloyd Nolan) returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but ends up clashing with the beautiful new owner (Carole Landis)
Plot Keywords: baseball manager, baseball pitcher, talent scout, sportswriter, team owner, love interest, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Johnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent, discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house. Despite Bert's protestation that he really is only interested in playing bongos, Johnny starts him on the road to stardom. The deal they cut, however, is highly exploitative of the young singer, and their relationship soon begins to go bad.—George S. Davis <mgeorges@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: promoter, talent scout, pop star, musician, teenager, melodramatic, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Glamour artist Bob Randolph is world famous for his paintings of a stunning beauty dubbed "The Randolph Girl". What the world doesn't know is that his pin-up creation is really a composite of parts of the anatomy of 12 different models. In an effort to find one girl who possesses all the proper physical attributes, Randolph and PR man Chuck Donovan pursue Ruth Wilson, a beauteous schoolteacher who prefers to be admired for her brain rather than her curves. Ruth changes her tune, however, when a published photo of her in a swimsuit causes her to be fired by the uptight schoolboard. She sues for reinstatement and in the process learns that swimsuits and sex appeal do have a place in her world, after all.—Dan Navarro <daneldorado@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: talent scout, artist, teacher, secretary, photographer, mother, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) and her dog, Boi, go to New York City and overcome the odds to find success in the dog-eat-dog world of theater.
Plot Keywords: teen girl, aspiring actress, filmmaker, talent scout, dog, student, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Story revolves around Casey, a young dancer who is discovered on YouTube by an up-and-coming talent scout. When Casey gets thrust into the modern world of internet celebrity and culture, she must find a way to balance her true identity with her online persona, or risk losing herself and everything she cares about. A coming-of-age dance drama for the YouTube generation.—V
Plot Keywords: dancer, talent scout, young man, competitor, airy, amusing, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A spirited hound (Harrison Fahn) neglects his friend (Jonah Bobo) after a dog (Patrick Swayze) recruits him to join his canine act.
Plot Keywords: fox, band leader, talent scout, singer, cheery, heartwarming, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Always on the lookout for the next big act to sign, Margaux (Catherine Deneuve) discovers the musical duo of Jeremy (Christophe Lambert) and Michel (Richard Anconina), two young Parisians making exactly the kind of safe, soft rock her superiors are looking for. The musicians themselves, however, aren't quite as collected. While Michel is having an affair with a married woman, Jeremy is falling hard for Margaux, and their strained relationship is taking its toll on the band and on Jeremy.
Plot Keywords: musician, talent scout, married woman, husband, amusing, melodramatic, emotional ...
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