The Pirates of Penzance (1983), Merry Andrew (1958), Just Around the Corner (1938), Frisky (1954), The Girl Most Likely (1957), Girl Crazy (1932), Madeline (1998), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Lively movies.
Storyline: This movie is an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta of the same name, with parts of other of their operettas stirred in. Frederic (Rex Smith) has fallen in love with sweet innocent Mabel Stanley (Linda Ronstadt). Yet his vocation is an impediment to their union. Perhaps the situation can be rectified by his old nurse, Ruth (Dame Angela Lansbury), who made a dreadful blunder years before. A highlight is the song and dance, "A Policeman's Lot is Not a Happy One".—Reid Gagle
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, humor, romance, adventure, british, song and dance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Downtrodden but creative English school-teacher (Danny Kaye) on archeological trip discovers joys of love and circus life with acrobat (Pier Angeli).—<Nicholas.palmer@chbs.mhs.ciba.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, dance, 1950s, american film, color film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Penny Hale is the daughter of Jeff Hale, a once wealthy architect and widower now ruined by the depression and working as the maintenance man in an apartment building, in which his girlfriend Lola lives in the penthouse. Shirley, always positive and happy refuses to accept their drop in the world and believes prosperity is just around the corner. She makes friends with an eccentric, grumpy old man, Samuel G. Henshaw, who turns out to be a millionaire and backs her father's engineering plans.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, great depression, song and dance, family, children ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a small Italian village, Maria De Ritis is engaged to army Lieutenant Pietro Stelluti. Stelluti's superior officer, Marshal Antonio Carotenuto, is contemplating marriage to Annarella Mirziano, but he will be forced to resign if he marries Annarella, since she has an illegitimate child and that is against regulations for army officers. When Stelluti leaves town for a few weeks, the town-gossips create an affair out of the innocent relationship between Maria and Antonio. Stelluti returns and accuses Maria of infidelity, and, she, in reprisal, runs off and joins a traveling theatrical troupe as a dancer. Antonio, after convincing Annarella that he has not betrayed her love, encounters more trouble when the father of Annarella's child shows up and asks that she and the child go away with him. Antonio tells Annarella that it is her decision to make, and she chooses the child's father and leaves with him. Maria arrives back in town, as does an earthquake that destroys her home, but she and Stelluti are reunited.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, vintage, 1950s, romantic, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He proposes and Dodie accepts. Dodie next meets Pete, who she thinks is rich, but she soon finds out that he is just a boat mechanic. They have fun on their date and Pete proposes and Dodie accepts. Then Dodie meets Neil Patterson who is rich. They go to Mexico on his yacht and have fun on their date. Neil proposes and Dodie accepts. Now she has to choose.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, youth, school, dance, beauty pageant ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, college, youth, love, song and dance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The adventurous, young Madeline is very good at getting into trouble, but she's also fantastic in solving problems as well, and her school-mistress Miss Clavel is not too approving of her. The biggest problem comes up when Lord Covington decides to sell Madeline's school.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: children, comedy, family, adventure, animation, france, paris ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Bakers, a family of 14, move from small-town Illinois to the big city after Tom Baker gets his dream job to coach his alma mater's football team. Meanwhile, his wife also gets her dream of getting her book published. While she's away promoting the book, Tom has a hard time keeping the house in order while at the same time coaching his football team, as the once happy family starts falling apart.
Plot Keywords: family, comedy, children, parents, siblings, chaos, parenting ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, classic, hollywood, song and dance, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of (literally) drifting popsters find themselves involved in a grim sand-and-sandals desert movie. They reckon a few song-and-dance numbers would liven things up.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, romance, dance, 1960s, british film, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hazari and Murari rob the Police Commissioner's residence; Chetta Singh steals the car of the latter's wife, Kusum; while AD elopes with the niece, Shreya, of Sub-Inspector Pralay Pratap Singh. All of them dramatically end up in a stolen vehicle with a jewelery-laden suitcase worth Rs.50 Crores that belongs to Durjan Singh/Black Cobra. Now on the run from gangsters and the police, they don fake police costumes, take part in a song and dance number, and subsequently end up in Madhavgarh - just in time to stop Loha Singh from molesting a woman. Mistaking them for real police officers, the residents welcome them and even prepare a feast for them. They decide to make themselves at home - not realizing that soon they will not only be pitted against the police - but also Durjan - who had killed two men just to steal their video camera; looted two villages to purchase an antique car; and set fire to this town's Police Station, killing nearly all policemen - and is all set now to confront and do away with them.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: comedy, bollywood, indian cinema, humor, wedding, farce, music ...
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