Marat/Sade (1967), This So-Called Disaster (2003), The Travelling Players (1975), David Byrne's American Utopia (2020), Broadway: The Golden Age (2004), All About Eve (1950), The Producers (1967), Every Little Step (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Theater Production movies.
Storyline: The Marx Brothers try and put on a play before their landlord finds out that they have run out of money. To confuse the landlord they pretend that the play's author has contracted some terrible disease and can't be moved. Originally a stage play, the setting shows its origins, but this is vintage Marx Brothers.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: theatrical producer, director, manager, playwright, hotel manager, detective, unrestrained ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A tragic and sentimental story that depicts the early career of the 19th century American actor, Edwin Booth with some mention of the events leading to the assassination of President Lincoln by Edwin's brother, John Wilkes Booth. In the film, Edwin's days in the spotlight dwindle shortly after his brother is caught and killed for assassinating Lincoln.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: actor, alcoholic, actress, abolitionist, wife, sad, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue. He goes to the theatre, where he sees Amanda rehearsing a song, and the director thinks him an actor suited to play himself in the revue. He takes the part in order to see more of Amanda.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: billionaire, actress, beautiful woman, publicist, amusing, playful, theater ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cleveland 1951. Pre-med student Artie Shoemaker dreams not so much of a medical career but a life in the theater, against the wishes of his working class parents. Despite having no experience in the theater whatsoever, he is hired as the props man at the Kempton Hills Park Theater, an open air venue that is part of the summer stock circuit. The resident leading man at Kempton Hills is Harry Crystal who, along with some of the other more experienced company members, is working toward more lucrative and higher profile acting jobs. For most, including Harry, the goal is back to Broadway. For some, that Broadway dream is more a delusion than a true possibility. Despite being a bit of a divo, which grates on many of the other crew members, Harry takes inexperienced Artie under his wing both in terms of guiding him through his current position in props, as well as a general life in the theater. Part of that general life includes romantic couplings, the person who Artie ultimately chooses, and she too chooses in return, is the lead dancer named Ramona. Artie's experiences with both Harry and Ramona over the course of the summer stock season shows him if he really wants a life in the theater and if Ramona truly is someone who will be part of his future as he initially envisioned.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: actor, young man, dancer, father, mother, lighthearted, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eva Lovelace, would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage, is a wildly optimistic chatterbox full of theatrical mannerisms. Her looks, more than her talent, attract the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom or the "casting couch"? Will she fade after the brief blooming of a "morning glory"?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: actress, theatrical producer, diva, uplifting, moving, manhattan, small town ...
Movie Details Click Here!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!Storyline: A sleazy Hollywood agent tricks one of his clients, a faded action star, into playing King Lear in an amateur charity production in England.
Plot Keywords: movie star, agent, client, actor, actress, landlady, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Struggling entertainers who are trying to put on a show pose as servants to wealthy woman in hopes of raising the money.
Plot Keywords: entertainer, agent, cook, socialite, patron, singer, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a small town in the 1950s, a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: author, wealthy woman, theatrical producer, actor, actress, director, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Broadway producer Jonnie Demming courts big-name talent for his upcoming musical show, oblivious to the talent all around him, in his family and friends. When Jonnie finally lands Hollywood star Helen Hoyt for his cast, Helen herself tries opening Jonnie's eyes to the talents of his dad and sister. But Jonnie remains adamant. Will his family and friends launch their own show, in competition with Jonnie's?—Dan Navarro <daneldorado@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: producer, actress, vaudevillian, daughter, dancer, amusing, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Television director and producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess. But their attempts to stage the play and work on their marriage, keep running afoul, and everything's threatened by their difficult male lead, Alan Rosenberg. Michael's best hope, as a husband and producer, is to step into the character that Alan has abandoned.
Plot Keywords: director, actress, actor, husband, wife, emotional, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Conceited film star Emery Slade was on top in 1932; in 1949, he's broke and still insufferable. Fox producer Crossman enlists Slade's aid to persuade broadway star Rosalie Brooks to star in the film "Bandwagon." But when Slade meets Julie Clarke, his assistant's onetime girlfriend, he decides she, not Rosalie, should get the part. No one can fathom his motives for this apparently selfless act, but there are a few tricks in the old fox yet...and he'll need them all.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: actor, actress, studio head, assistant, publicist, airy, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Recent widower Guy Jones (Jeremy Irons) is transferred to a sleepy small town in Britain, where he decides to audition for an amateur production of "The Beggar's Opera." The director, Dafydd Ap Llewellyn (Anthony Hopkins), is such a tyrant that most of the actors quit, bringing Guy's role to more prominence. His local fame facilitates his seduction of numerous townswomen, including co-star Fay (Jenny Seagrove) and Llewellyn's wife, Hannah (Prunella Scales).
Plot Keywords: actor, actress, director, widower, wife, lighthearted, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Children and parents cut loose at Little Otter Family Camp.
Plot Keywords: teenager, camper, mother, singer, actor, musician, spirited ...
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