Gone with the Wind (1939), Mighty Joe Young (1949), Footsteps in the Dark (1941), Sailing Along (1938), Lady by Choice (1934), Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943), A Girl, a Guy and a Gob (1941), The Bat Whispers (1930) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Old Hollywood movies.
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: musical, romance, drama, classic, hollywood, golden age, backstage ...
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: musical, comedy, romance, dance, broadway, theater, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A filmed version of Phil Silvers' hit Broadway show about a television comic who tried to regain his ratings on TV.
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, broadway, stage adaptation, 1950s, show business, satire ...
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