Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), Chaplin (1992), The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018), American Pop (1981), The Entertainer (1960), For Me and My Gal (1942), International House (1933), Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Vaudeville movies.
Storyline: Mickey Moran, a talented singer and musician, is son of a veteran from show business. Mickey has a partner, Patsy Barton, a pretty girl and also a very talented singer. One day, a big opportunity arrives for Mickey, a big contract to set up his own show. However, things don't go well, and in order to avoid being sent to a work farm, he'll improvise a show in the country, despite the awful weather conditions. Patsy's in love with Mickey, he loves her, too, but for him the show must go on, and his big dream maybe will come true: to formally stage his play in a big scenario, with a huge production.—Alejandro Frias
Plot Keywords: singer, dancer, parent, girlfriend, lighthearted, charming, united states ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Biographical movie about the early 20th century Broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
Plot Keywords: singer, songwriter, manager, magician, friend, rival, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chronicles the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song after another. Despite his egotistical behavior, he manages to woo and win Sally Elliott, one of the more popular songstresses of the day.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: songwriter, musician, singer, girlfriend, countess, publisher, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After obtaining her from an orphanage a couple exploit entertainer Withers till she runs away and later becomes a professional.
Plot Keywords: orphan, adoptive father, adoptive mother, tramp, child actor, charming, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kip Cooper, a successful comedy star, is the hit of the nation starring on his own television show. His agent, in flashback, tells a young, inexperienced comedian how Cooper rose to the top, mostly running over others on the way. Copper was a small-time comedian who worked upwards through sheer aggressiveness. He double-crosses his sweetheart after she gets him a big break, lies, cheats and steals material in his efforts to succeed. But, he sees the light.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: vaudevillian, comedian, dancer, fiancée, amusing, playful, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Conrad Nagel, representing the Hollywood movie community, and Jack Benny, representing the Broadway stage community, act as the interlocutors of a musical comedy revue. A plethora of chorus boys and girls are featured front and center in some of the song and dance numbers, and provide back-up to some other acts. But the revue primarily is a vehicle to highlight a cavalcade of Hollywood movie and Broadway stage stars. One early running gag has both Nagel and Benny playing straight man to Cliff Edwards, who just wants a nice introduction to his act. Edwards would return later to be featured along with the Brox Sisters in one of the highlights of the second act, a production number around the song "Singin' in Rain", complete with rain soaked stage. A reprise of the song with the entire cast acts as the revue's finale.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: singer, buster keaton, dancer, comedian, lighthearted, amusing, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After her father's death, Mary Rainey takes over the Rainey Circus (which operates twice daily, rain or shine) but runs into financial troubles. In one bit reminiscent of the Marx Brothers, the circus performers are up to some ridiculous antics at a dinner party with the family of Bud Conway, Mary's beau. As times become worse and the performers go on strike, Mary must try to save the circus from rioting patrons.—Paul Donahue
Plot Keywords: vaudevillian, circus owner, sidekick, circus performer, madcap, playful, hilarious ...
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 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Junior Donal, an ex-vaudevillian now teaching music at Knickerbocker University in New York, enlists to help of patroness Peggy Portefield to persuade Sergei Alexandrovich, the director of the Russian Ballet, to stage a friend's jazzy "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" ballet. Junior becomes involved with the company's prima ballerina, Vera Barnova, and even takes over the male lead in "Slaughter". This so enrages Vera's lover and regular dancing partner that he hires two thugs to kill Junior while he is performing on stage.—Alessandro Martini <alemartini@geocities.com>
Plot Keywords: composer, ballerina, director, partner, hit man, amusing, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary, but a gold digger named Daisy has worked her way into his confidence. When Mary sees Jack and Daisy together, she leaves Jack and Jack marries Daisy the next day. When Daisy decides that she wants into the Vaudeville act, she has Jack dump both Jerry and his baseball contract. But Jack soon finds that - no act - means no money - means no Daisy.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: baseball player, vaudevillian, best friend, gold digger, baseball manager, fiancée, madcap ...
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