Pandora's Box (1929), The Country Girl (1954), Broadway: The Golden Age (2004), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Stage Door (1937), Twentieth Century (1934), The Phantom of the Opera (2004) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Theatrical Producer movies.
Storyline: Eric Busch, a novelist/playwright, and his wife, Janet, go to New York where he arranges to have Matt Saxon, who has a reputation for ruthlessness, produce his play. Saxon insists on so many meetings, changes and revisions that it cause a rift between Eric and Janet. Saxon goes to Hollywood to get a prominent actor to play the lead but the actor, no fan of Saxon, declines. Saxon then deliberately robs his own girlfriend of her chance in Hollywood. The actor then comes to New York and offers to do the play, if someone other than Saxon is the producer.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: writer, wife, theatrical producer, singer, ex-wife, intense, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: B.G. Bruno, a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe visiting Edinburgh wants to produce a musical in town but has trouble getting backers. Bruno meets several of the leading ladies of the show; through a misunderstanding he doesn't correct the idea that he's a newspaper reporter. He falls in love with one of the women, who reciprocates; he grows more lively and friendly, to the surprise of his employees. After a series of mishaps and comic incidents comes a happy ending: a successful show and true love.—Mark. Gooley <gooley@mcn.net>
Plot Keywords: chorus girl, wealthy man, chauffeur, theatrical producer, reporter, roommate, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Detective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne are on their way to be married when a scream from a nearby hotel room draws his attention to a pair of theatrical murders.
Plot Keywords: private investigator, fiancé, theatrical producer, actress, police detective, actor, confident ...
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: A barker at a down-at-the-heels carnival becomes a powerhouse New York publicity man as he transforms a sideshow dancer into a Broadway sensation.—David S. Smith
Plot Keywords: carnival barker, exotic dancer, sheriff, theatrical producer, friend, madcap, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before performing at her school, a visiting Broadway producer encourages her by telling her positive things about her sister. Soon afterwards, Sherry decides to make a surprise trip to New York to visit Josephine - but what she finds there is not at all what she expected.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: teen girl, burlesque dancer, theatrical producer, classmate, orchestra conductor, butler, uplifting ...
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: Hank and Queenie Mahoney, a vaudeville act, come to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. Eddie was in love with Hank, but when he meets Queenie, he falls in love to her, but she is courted by Jock Warriner, a member of the New Yorker high society. It takes a while till Queenie recognizes, that she is for Jock nothing more than a toy, and it also takes a while till Hank recognizes that Eddie is in love with Queenie.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: dancer, sister, theatrical producer, lover, lighthearted, melodramatic, rousing ...
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