Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940), A Star Is Born (1937), Ginger and Fred (1986), The Sunshine Boys (1975), My Sister Eileen (1942), On the Avenue (1937), Sailing Along (1938), I Love Melvin (1953) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Entertainers movies.
Storyline: Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brent as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to gives him the name of his partner.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: musical, dance, romance, comedy, fred astaire, broadway, show business ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, music, hollywood, fame, stardom, tragedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act (imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) on a TV variety show. It's both a touchingly nostalgic journey into the past, and a viciously satirical attack on television in general and Italian TV in particular, portraying it as a mindless freakshow aimed at morons—Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, italian, dance, nostalgia, entertainers, reunion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a long separation, two former vaudeville partners reunite to renew their friendship and their feud.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, classic, nostalgia, stage play, partnership, conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage. The two end up living in a dismal basement apartment in Greenwich Village, where a parade of odd characters are constantly breezing in and out. The women also meet up with magazine editor Bob Baker, who takes a personal interest in helping both with their career plans.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, romance, family, new york, sisters, dreams ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuse Mona Merrick.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, broadway, song and dance, 1930s, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kay, who works on a Thames River barge, and Steve are secretly in love with each other but do their best to hide it. Kay wants desperately to be a music-hall star and Steve wants to be a player in the world of high finance. An eccentric millionaire decides to do what he can to see that they achieve their dreams.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, british, 1930s, theatre, dance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and Melvin soon offers to do a photo spread of her. His boss, however, has no intention of using the photos. Melvin wants to marry Judy, but her father would rather she marry dull and dependable Harry Black. As a last resort, Melvin promises to get Judy's photo on the cover of the next issue of Look, a task easier said than done.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, 1950s, hollywood, dance, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.—Paul Penna <tterrace@wco.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, 1940s, dance, show business, love triangle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promise an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather, and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, song and dance, 1930s, hollywood, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Conceited singer Gary Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, then must try to sell her to the show's sponsor. As the two work more closely while he tries to make her a star, he falls in love with her. Then Martha meets Gary--and becomes attracted to him.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, hollywood, song and dance, love, entertainers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: San Francisco's Barbary Coast is the hub of light and gaiety for a bustling young metropolis, while at Sharkey's Colosseum , Trudy Evans (Alice Faye), Johnnie Cornell (John Payne), Dan Daley (Jack Oakie) and Beulah (June Havoc) offer divertissement. Trying out a new number the group pulls the paying customers away from the bar, and they are promptly fired. True-blue Trudy begs Dan and Beulah to stick with Johnnie who is full of ideas, some of which, later cause Trudy much distress. When fast-talking Sam Weaver (Laird Cregar) happens upon Johnnie with another tale of a sure bonanza gold strike. Johnnie grubstakes him to the group's last $10. Coming upon an anti-drinking missionary group, Johnnie makes them a proposition which will benefit them all. He stages a series of street carnivals in front of the saloons which attracts the crowds, especially when Beulah performs cooch-dance, to the ruination of the juke-and-gin mills. Each proprietor offers $500, if Johnnie will keep away from their bars, but to Sharkey (Ward Bond) the price is $1000. With the money from his high-handed extortion Johnnie opens The Grizzly Bear and it becomes an overnight sensation with Trudy as the star of an elaborately-mounted show which even brings in the carriage trade from Nob Hill, including the haughty Bernice Crodt (Lynn Bari) and her pre-entourage days entourage. Johnnie is fascinated by her poise and social position. The Grizzly prospers and Johnnie soon opens three more saloons which makes him an early-day impresario , and Trudy the Toast of the Coast. Beulah is rather toasty herself. Ned (John Archer), a Trudy admirer, brings Cochran (Aubrey Mather), an English theatrical producer, slumming in the colonies, to see the show and offers a starring role in his next London production. Deeply in love with Johnnie, Trudy refuses, but cad Johnnie, eager for society prestige abruptly marries femme-fatale Bernice so he can climb up Nob Hill. Broken-hearted Trudy sails for England where as the star of "The Girl from Piccadilly" she is the darling of the London theatre crowds. Johnnie and Bernice go on a European honeymoon, during which time he sees Trudy's show. That's is Johnnie last highlight for a while. Back in gay old Frisco, Johnnie's fortunes decline rapidly when he becomes a sponsor of Grand Opera, long a pet project for money-drain Bernice. One by one he closes Barbary Coast saloons including the Grizzly Bear. Dan and Beulah go back to Sharkeys and Johnnie is a barker for a cooch-show on the carnival midway. Trudy returns and is distressed more than somewhat to find the familiar night spots shuttered and silent and Bernice had given Johnnie his walking papers when he ran out of money. So True-Blue Trudy quietly finances Sam, who in turn convinces Johnnie that he has at last struck a gold bonanza. With "his share" of the old grubstake Johnnie reopens the Grizzly but refuses to hire Trudy for his show since he now has a large case of remorse. Will they get together again?—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, classic, 1940s, show business, san francisco ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cynthia is swept off her feet and marries a rich and very successful business executive, but business affairs make him abandon her during their honeymoon. Cynthia is sad and while he's away, meets the charming war hero, Maj. Milvaine, who is on leave. Sparks fly. Will she choose wealth over love?—erasmus
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, song and dance, classic, hollywood, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, 20th century fox, 1940s, dance, nightclub ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bernand Fréderic is a mediocre bank executive, married, with a son. He used to have another profession: look-a-like of French star Claude François. Now, with the Imitators Gala Night coming up, he must choose between his wife or the only thing that makes him fully happy: the applause.—Bruno Benton
Plot Keywords: comedy, music, french film, midlife crisis, dreams, friendship, competition ...
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