Sunset Blvd. (1950), Top Hat (1935), Jewel Robbery (1932), What Price Hollywood? (1932), Behind the Candelabra (2013), Fashion (2008), Cover Girl (1944), Pal Joey (1957) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Glamour movies.
Storyline: Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him complete it in time.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, romance, paris, 1960s, hollywood, screenwriter, filmmaking ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Liza Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. Why not her new obstetrician Dr. McBain? She offers him help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The mismatched pair begin a marriage of convenience...—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, golden age hollywood, romantic comedy, marriage, misunderstanding ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1904, Uncle Latsie comes to New York from Hungary with two little nieces, who immediately take to cafe dancing. In 1912 they're still at it, but to pay Uncle's card debts they decide to go into vaudeville. Singer Harry Fox, whom they meet en route, schemes to get them an audition with the great Hammerstein; but their resulting success takes them far out of Harry's league. Lots of songs with a little story.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, biography, drama, historical, sisters, song and dance, 20th century ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band, has won a talent contest and a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But this lady doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use for Mona a double, Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as a singing waiter in a drive-in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for an leading actor in a musical. After the first screening the actor is invited by Louella Parsons to sing in her program "Hollywood Hotel". He accepts, but he doesn't know that Ronny Bowers does not want to lend him his voice again. So everybody starts to play his little game to solve his own problems.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, drama, classic, 1930s, hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Al Marsh, Tony Naylor and Jerry Ralby, Broadway producers, are desperately looking for backers. Al is one of the heirs of a dress salon in Paris, but this is almost bankrupt. The two other heiresses, Stephanie and Clarisse and the three producers are able to convince the creditors to back a fashion show there. Things become complicated, when Al and Tony fall in love with Stephanie and Al's New York girl friend Bubbles arrives.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, fashion, broadway, dance, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in the New York club scene of the late 1980's thru the 1990's, a tale which is based on the rise and fall of club-kid promoter Michael Alig, a party organizer, whose extravagant life was sent spiralling downward when he boasted on television that he had killed his friend, roommate, and drug dealer, Angel Melendez. Originally from Indiana, Alig moved to New York, and came to be an underground legend, known for his excessive drug use and outrageous behavior in the club world. At his peak, he had his own record label, and magazine, and hosted Disco 2000, one of the biggest club nights in New York in the '90s. He was doing a lot of drugs, and as his addiction got worse, his party themes became darker and more twisted. Alig's saga reached its tragic crescendo when he viciously murdered his drug dealer, Angel, by injecting him with Drano and throwing him in the East River. The power he wielded on the club scene made him feel untouchable, so he didn't hesitate to boast of the murder. The...
Plot Keywords: biography, crime, drama, lgbtq+, true story, nightlife, drugs ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: New York City. Forty year old Lee Simon, a critically panned two time novelist who works as a travel writer (a job he hates) to earn a steady living, tells his shocked wife of sixteen years, English teacher Robin Simon, that he wants a divorce. Although he had not been happy with Robin for some time, she who he feels is a bundle of Catholic repressions and neuroses especially when it comes to sex, Lee finally came to the conclusion about wanting a divorce upon attending his high school reunion and seeing a roomful of losers, he believing he turning into one of them if he didn't make a drastic change. He gets a job working as a journalist for an entertainment magazine, while he writes screenplays on the side, he believing the latter a good stepping stone to finishing his third novel if the screenplays works out. The journalist job includes conducting interviews with celebrities, not only to who he can pedal his completed screenplay, but also what he quickly learns to who he has easy ...
Plot Keywords: dark comedy, satire, celebrity culture, media critique, new york, vanity fair, moral decay ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't like to hold hands with him, at least not to begin with...—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, dance, las vegas, 1950s, gambling ...
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: musical, comedy, family, teen, high school, drama, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary depicts the rise and fall of Michael Alig, who arrives in New York City from Indiana and becomes a renowned club promoter. Notorious for their outlandishness, his parties become increasingly debauched and drug-fueled, as does Alig himself. When drug dealer and club regular Angel Melendez is found dead, evidence eventually points to Alig and one of his roommates as the killers. The film features interviews with Alig and others in his world, along with dramatized reenactments.
Plot Keywords: crime, drugs, nightlife, based on true events, murder, new york, club culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Today's hottest burlesque performers reveal the passion and personalities, the naked truth of an exotic world where artifice is a route to authenticity and pretending to be someone else is the ultimate journey to become yourself.
Plot Keywords: musical, dance, performing arts, cabaret, stage, behind the scenes, art documentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An anthology film retelling the story of the famous Studio 54, a hot disco hangout for the social elite of New York. The movie follows several characters at once, some of whom are in desperate straits and on the verge of crashing.
Plot Keywords: nightclub, disco, 1970s, new york, celebrity culture, party, drugs ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary focused on former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief and fashion stylist Carine Roitfeld as she moves to New York to launch her own magazine.
Plot Keywords: fashion, documentary, paris, style, art, culture, fashion industry ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Frankie Fane has clawed his way to the top of the Hollywood heap. Now, as he's preparing to win his Oscar, his friend Hymie Kelly reminisces over their life together, and Frankie's ruthless struggle to the top and the people he's stepped on (i.e., everyone else in the movie) to make it there.—<crow_steve@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, romance, hollywood, fame and fortune, show business, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Texas heiress Mary 'Mame' Carson strikes oil twice in one day, and her wealth scares away her fiance; so she decides to take a boat trip incognito to Paris and snare a husband using only her own abundant natural charms. To this end, she switches identities with model Myrtle Brown, and sets sail with her bosom pal Annie...and French revue star Pierre DuQuesne, who has been hired to keep a watchful eye on "Mary Carson" a perfect setup for Musical Comedy Misunderstandings.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, dance, hollywood, 1950s, fashion ...
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