Night and the City (1950), Ball of Fire (1941), Nora Prentiss (1947), Somewhere in the Night (1946), The Cooler (2003), Johnny Apollo (1940), A Night in Casablanca (1946), Little Voice (1998) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Nightclub Singer movies.
Storyline: A sultry night club singer, a man who has also traveled to many exotic ports and a salesman meet aboard ship on the 45-mile trip from Hong Kong to Macao. The singer is quickly hired by an American expatriate who runs the biggest casino in Macao and has a thriving business in converting hot jewels into cash. Her new boss thinks one of her traveling companions is a cop. One is -- but not the one the boss suspects.—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
Plot Keywords: singer, hong kong, one word title, nightclub singer, boat, song, phonograph record ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1930's Hollywood, the powerful agent, Phil Stern, is attending a party and receives a phone call from his sister living in New York. She asks for a job for her son and Phil's nephew, Bobby, who decided to move to Hollywood. Three weeks later Phil schedules a meeting with Bobby and decides to help him. He asks his secretary Veronica "Vonnie" to hang around with Bobby, showing him the touristic places. Bobby immediately falls in love with Vonnie, but she tells that she has a boyfriend, a journalist that travels most of the time. However, Vonnie's boyfriend is indeed a married man that is also in love with her and soon she has to make a choice between her two loves.
Plot Keywords: letter, gangster, shot in the head, prison, new year's eve, 1930s, uncle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swelled head which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle. He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: brooklyn new york city, horse, carrot, fired from the job, clothes ripped off, mob of reporters, black eye ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Homicide detective Mike Conovan investigates the shooting of fellow detective Monigan, who apparently was moonlighting as a guard for a bookie. He finds that all the bookies in town are being robbed, upsetting the racket bosses who can't get normal police protection. Mike encounters blind alleys and double crosses and is distracted by his wife's growing disenchantment.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: police officer, handcuffs, whiskey, breaking a mirror, fear, bathrobe, pajamas ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Spirited singer and dancer Connie (Helen Twelvetrees) charms a radio station executive, John Bradley (Victor Jory), when he spots her performing in a Panama nightclub. Connie hits it off with John and visits him in New York City. However, what she really wants is a gig for Chick ...
Plot Keywords: greed, song, singer, singing, reprisal, retribution, nightclub singer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Judith Nelson quit her medical studies to marry. Years later, her husband, a physician, divorces her to be with another doctor. Deeply frustrated, she now lives alone in her luxury apartment in New York, looking for a new meaning for her life. Pat Francato, the janitor and lift-boy, has a troubled life himself: Gambling debts and the tragic death of his daughter took away all his spirit. One day, he and Judith meet in the right mood and a fragile friendship starts to grow. They can help each other to get on their feet again. But one false move could destroy everything they built so carefully.—Julian Reischl <julianreischl@mac.com>
Plot Keywords: f rated, masseur, nurse, terminal illness, tattoo, drink thrown into someone's face, club ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Policemen Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, the two NYC detectives are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. While Bonaro and Madigan follow up on various leads, Police Commissioner Russell goes about his duties, including attending functions, meeting with aggrieved relatives, and counseling the spouses of fallen officers.—Ken Miller <wkmiller704@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: detective, psychopath, gunfight, murder, police officer, police chief, nagging wife ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an eight-year old little boy named Nando, who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. Mike immediately disapproves of Nando's Italian-style (in other words "lax") education. To make matters worse, Lucia happens to be ... a sexy nightclub dancer. This is too much for a puritan like Mike and the only solution in his eyes is to have the boy brought up in the States...—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: american abroad, tourist, american in europe, flower, naples italy, death of brother, loss of brother ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the 1931 Broadway play, which was inspired by the real-life marriage of singer Libby Holman and tobacco tycoon Smith Reynolds, this is the story of nightclub singer Abby Fane (Carole Lombard), who, unable to tolerate Rodney Deane (Gene Reynolds) her millionaire husband's dissipated existence, walks out on the wastrel. Soap opera reformation, redemption and forgiveness may be in the offing.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: nightclub singer, cheating husband, cigarette smoking, reprisal, retribution, scandal, newspaper story ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Anne Welles, a bright, brash young New England college grad leaves her Peyton Place-ish small town and heads for Broadway, where she hopes to find an exciting job and sophisticated men. During her misadventures in Manhattan and, later, Hollywood, she shares experiences with two other young hopefuls: Jennifer North, a statuesque, Monroe-ish actress who wants to be accepted as a human being, but is regarded as a sex object by all the men she meets, and Neely O'Hara, a talented young actress who's accused of using devious means by a great older star (Helen Lawson) to reach the top, pulling an "All About Eve"-type deception in order to steal a good role away from her.—filmfactsman
Plot Keywords: show business, based on novel, melodrama, drug addiction, price of fame, pill popping, manhattan new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: To land a rich husband, golddigger Marjory Stuart goes to Trinidad posing as a debutante. Beach boy Pete promptly unmasks her, but offers to help her catch his enemy, yachtsman Alfred Monroe. Marjory's pal Bubbles turns out to be the old flame of Pete's pal Wally. All the well-planned efforts to land Monroe end in slapstick; then Wally's voodoo priestess landlady gives him a love potion that works...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, jeweler, newspaper photographer, spinster, turmoil, nightclub singer, dire straits ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Love makes the world go round. At least that's what Marcel and Kyle believe, until they suddenly discover that love can alternatively flip the world upside-down. When certain elements are set into motion, they tend to stay in motion. If tampered with, they can spin out of control. Marcel and Kyle are in love at first sight, and even though they can't legally marry, they will find a way to make it work. French Marcel marries their lesbian friend Sarah so he can stay in the USA with Kyle. Together they can overcome any obstacle, hurdle any barrier. Together they cannot be stopped. Enter Kyle's sister April, a former prostitute. She needs a place to crash, but for how long? Taking a quick dislike to Marcel, April methodically drips poison into their happiness. But where Marcel sees a conniving woman with a not-so-hidden agenda, Kyle only sees his sister - in need. And how do you choose between family and the love of your life? Why should you have to? Love isn't pure after it's been tainted. Our perfect couple falls headlong into possessiveness, jealousy and rage; trapped in the tangled emotions found in that space between love and goodbye. Just how far will one of them go to put a stop to the madness?—Embrem Entertainment
Plot Keywords: male frontal nudity, male full frontal nudity, male nudity, male rear nudity, sex scene, male pubic hair, bare chested male ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When an accident obliterates the British royal family and most of its branches, a desperate geneological search discovers the next King: Ralph, a sleazy American lounge singer. Can Ralph measure up to the job, even with the help of loyal aristocrat Willingham?
Plot Keywords: king, fast food, based on novel, american abroad, chimpanzee, las vegas nevada, strip club ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After discovering the body of a murdered female agent in their trendy Soho, London nightclub, groovy owners Charles Salt and Christopher Pepper partake in a fumbling investigation and uncover an evil plot to overthrow the government. Can our cool, yet inept duo stop the bad guys in time?—Woodyanders
Plot Keywords: murder of a nude woman, buddy comedy, buddy, espionage, interracial friendship, london england, nightclub owner ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young woman in Paris is about to divorce her husband when she discovers... he's dead; and all their money is gone. She meets a mysterious man, who tells her that the money was really his, and he wants it back, seemingly convinced that she's hiding the cash. Meanwhile, more people end up dead...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: railway station, fur coat, ferris wheel, fedora, false passport, fake moustache, fake identity ...
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