Most Similar Movies to The Idolmaker (1980)
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A Star Is Born (1954), Rocketman (2019), Gypsy (1993), Funny Girl (1968), The Five Pennies (1959), Three Little Words (1950), Loving You (1957) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
A Star Is Born (1954)
A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.
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Rocketman (2019)
A musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John's breakthrough years.
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Gypsy (1993)
Stage-mother Mama Rose (Bette Midler) sees one daughter quit, while her other one (Cynthia Gibb) becomes stripper Gypsy Rose Lee.
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Funny Girl (1968)
The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.
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The Five Pennies (1959)
Danny Kaye cuts loose with his trademark musical clowning. Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong plays his horn and croons in that famed gargling-granite voice. Big Band icons Bob Crosby, Ray Anthony and Shelly Manne join the fun.
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Three Little Words (1950)
The story of the successful Tin Pan Alley songwriting team of Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby is told loosely and lightheartedly.
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Something to Sing About (1937)
A New York bandleader journeys to Hollywood when he is offered a contract with a studio, but he is determined to do things his way and not theirs.
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Expresso Bongo (1959)
Johnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent, discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house. Despite Bert's protestation that he really is only interested in playing bongos, Johnny starts him on the road to stardom. The deal they cut, however, is highly exploitative of the young singer, and their relationship soon begins to go bad.
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Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
A tunefull account of the life of Ernest R. Ball, composer of many popular Irish songs, including the title's.
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Chasing Rainbows (1930)
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, decept...Read all
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Artists and Models (1955)
A cartoonist (Dean Martin) turns his babbling roommate's (Jerry Lewis) bizarre dreams into a hit comic strip read by spies.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
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Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader - Eddie Wilson - may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released album.
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The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
A gangster hires a down-and-out press agent to make his airheaded girlfriend a singing star.
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Rose of Washington Square (1939)
A singer becomes a star in the Ziegfeld Follies, but her marriage to a con man has a bad effect on her career.
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Pal Joey (1957)
Joey Evans' a charming, handsome, funny, talented a-1st class, A-N°.1 - heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl and now is the rich widow, Vera Simpson, the pair of lecherous souls seem made for each other.
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