James Dean (2001), Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003), Show People (1928), The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018), Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017), Mifune: The Last Samurai (2015), Bombshell (1933), Steve McQueen: American Icon (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Movie Star movies.
Storyline: Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, song and dance, hollywood, 1930s, show business ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Forty-nine year old Bobby Bowfinger is the owner/president of a Hollywood-based production company, Bowfinger International Pictures. The company has yet to produce a film, Bobby's personal net worth is virtually zero, and the company only has $2,184 to its name, $1 invested into it personally by Bobby every week since he first decided he wanted to make a movie when he was a child. Bobby believes his fortunes will change when his accountant Afrim changes hats and writes a science-fiction alien invasion screenplay that Bobby thinks all studios will clamor for and has Oscar written all over it. He has a small stable of followers who support his vision in being part of this movie, which eventually includes Daisy as the lead actress, she a stereotypical small town girl looking to make it big in Hollywood. Having just arrived in town, she does not know her way around the Hollywood system,... except on her proverbial back. Bobby is not averse to telling bald-faced lies in his singular focus...
Plot Keywords: comedy, hollywood, film production, parody, independent film, scheme, celebrity culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ex-King Alfred VII is a young, handsome, and charming erstwhile monarch who once ruled a nation of two million people. Now all he has left are his Count Humbert and Duchess Anna, along with enough money to live an idle life in Paris with dozens of servants. He hasn't seen daylight in years; he prefers instead to drink himself into a stupor regularly. He's phenomenally bored, and a routine trip to a tedious cabaret finds a chorus girl flirting with him. He calls her to his apartment, apparently to seduce her as he's done many times before, but when she comes, he's passed out. Her outrage gives Humbert and Anna the idea that might bring Alfred out of his unhappy ennui - tell him she didn't come, and have her act as though he weren't so important after all. He of course pursues her with vigor and is snapped out of his apathy. But what happens if she falls in love with him?—Gary Dickerson <slug@mail.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, hollywood, 1930s, black and white, romantic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The continuing story of Fanny Brice following that depicted in Funny Girl (1968) is presented. An established star on Broadway as a headliner for the Ziegfeld Follies, Fanny and the rest of the world are hitting difficult times entering into the 1930s. Her marriage to Nicky Arnstein, who she still loves is ending in divorce, and even Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. is having trouble coming up with money to continue to produce the Follies. Along comes brash nightclub owner, song lyricist and wannabe impresario Billy Rose, who says he can raise the money and has the material to produce his own revue, which he wants to star Fanny. Fanny is both attracted to and repelled by Billy because of his chutzpah, his stubbornness and knowing that underneath his outer veneer is the soul of a true hustler... much like she was when she was first starting out and much like she still is now. Through their professional trials and tribulations, they slowly start to fall for each other. But Fanny admits that Nicky is still never far from her mind...—Huggo
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, biography, classic, song and dance, hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This movie follows a day in the life of Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), a Hollywood fixer for Capitol Pictures in the 1950s, who cleans up and solves problems for big names and stars in the industry. But when studio star Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) disappears, Mannix has to deal with more than just the fix.
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, drama, black comedy, hollywood, 1950s, kidnapping ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Famous actress Lara Tyler can't get married to author James Arber without intrusive paparazzi crashing the ceremony. Because of James's best-seller, Lara's agent, Steve, checks out the little known Hegg Island in Scotland as the site for their next attempted wedding. Unfortunately, James is a hack, and his book (supposedly based on Hegg) relays little of it accurately. Katie, an island native and the only unmarried woman on it, has been unlucky in love. She's working on writing her own guide to Hegg Island when Steve and crew arrive, eventually hiring her as a reluctant decoy bride to distract the paparazzi. In a mix-up, she and James end up married to each other while Lara, having spotted the press, goes into hiding. Katie and James now have to get an island divorce while avoiding the press while other parties seek out Lara (who has disguised herself as one of the elderly islanders).—statmanjeff
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, romance, scotland, celebrity, fake marriage, island, journalist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young navy lieutenant is brought in as techninical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her - and been kissed at the end - at a Forces show, the young lad somehow believes she should be his girl. Her boyfriend - and fellow co-star - is just one of those disagreeing.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, love, dance, hollywood, color film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Albert and Lucy fall in love, get married, and have a daughter Casey. Everything is wonderful, until their work distracts Albert and Lucy from each other and Casey. They soon divorce and start fighting. Casey, who spends much time with their Latino maid and childminder, eventually decides to seek legal emancipation from her parents, and to go and live full time with the maid who has been taking care of her. The media pick up the case and have a field day with it, making things worse.—Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, family, divorce, marriage, hollywood, children ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rosalee Futch is a grocery clerk living in rural West Virginia. But even a small-town girl can have big dreams, and Rosalee's is to someday--somehow--meet her big-screen idol Tad Hamilton. The somehow arrives in the form of a contest--the grand prize: a date with Tad Hamilton--and the someday is now. Rosalee wins, much to the chagrin of her best friend and co-worker Pete, who is deeply, hopelessly--and secretly--in love with Rosalee. The Win a Date contest was cooked up by Tad's agent, Richard Levy, and his manager, also named Richard Levy, to clean up Tad's bad-boy image. Someone should have told them to be careful what you wish for. When Tad meets Rosalee and gets a taste of what he's been missing in the real world, he decides he wants seconds and moves to West Virginia, turning Rosalee's dream come true into a nightmare for Richard Levy, Richard Levy and, most of all, Pete.
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, small town life, love triangle, coming of age, movie star, lighthearted, modern fairy tale ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: New York City's Waldorf-Astoria hotel is bustling with guests and crisscrossing story lines. Movie star Irene Malvern (Ginger Rogers) is fighting depression while awaiting the debut of her latest film. James Hollis (Van Johnson) is a wounded vet awaiting a surgery that will decide whether he lives or dies. Martin X. Edley (Edward Arnold) is a con artist hatching a scheme; Bunny Smith (Lana Turner) is the gorgeous stenographer intent on sharing his riches. It'll all be resolved at checkout time.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, musical, song and dance, love, hotel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A portrait of Hollywood royalty Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, celebrity, hollywood, mother-daughter relationship, behind the scenes, star life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Charley Pearl (Alec Baldwin), wealthy heir and gadabout, is slated to marry Adele (Elisabeth Shue), the daughter of a Hollywood tycoon (Robert Loggia). But, during a wild bachelor party in Las Vegas, Charley strikes up a flirtation with nightclub crooner Vicki Anderson (Kim Basinger) that soon leads to her bedroom. When the couple are discovered by Vicki's beau, infamous gangster Bugsy Siegel (Armand Assante), he makes a surprising pronouncement -- they'd better marry, or Charley is a dead man.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, romantic comedy, hollywood, 1990s, marriage, celebrity ...
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