Safety Last! (1923), Christmas in Connecticut (1945), The Leopard Man (1943), Houdini (1953), Living It Up (1954), Lady by Choice (1934), A Woman of Distinction (1950), Bye Bye Birdie (1963) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Publicity Stunt movies.
Storyline: Radio singer Joan Abbott, known as the "Crunchy-Wunchy Thrush", does not want to renew her contract with the cereal sponsor, as she wants to go to college. Her Uncle Willie signs it for her, however, as she is under age. Taking the name and credentials of Susie Smith, the secretary of her employer, Hartman, she disappears and enrolls at Rawley College. There she meets Buzz, leading a college band, and Scoop, running a college newspaper, who induces her to become a reporter. The Crunchy-Wunchy company institute a search for Joan via a publicity stunt, and Scoop assigns Joan to write an editorial against this kind of bad publicity. The Abernathy Products Company institutes a nation-wide contest to find the best college band, and Rawley College is entered, with Babs, the band's soloist, coached by Joan. Cynthia, girl friend of Buzz, is jealous of Joan, suspects she is the missing "Crunchy-Wunchy Thrush" and notifies Uncle Willie. The night of the nation-wide band-contest broadcast, Babs gets sick, Joan replaces her... and the Monogram musical formula-finale begins.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: independent film, confusion, turmoil, retribution, reprisal, damsel in distress, actress shares last name with character ...
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: title spoken by character, reference to ernest hemingway, cigar smoking, soap, elevator, audience, applause ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The 1977 Broadway musical returns to the big screen with this Overbrook Entertainment/Sony Pictures production surrounding a 10-year-old Harlem foster child (played by Beasts of the Southern Wild's Quvenzhané Wallis) taken in by a calculating billionaire (Jamie Foxx) who's campaigning to be mayor. Abandoned by her biological parents as a baby, Annie (Wallis) spends every moment of every day attempting to avoid the wrath of her cruel foster mother Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). Thing start to look up for Annie, however, when she has a very public encounter with Will Stacks (Foxx), a local cell-phone mogul with mayoral ambitions. Stacks campaign isn't going too well until he meets Annie and invites her into his home at the suggestion of his trusted top assistant Grace (Rose Byrne) and his ambitious PR advisor Guy (Bobby Cannavale). Meanwhile, what was originally conceived as a PR stunt to win over skeptical voters becomes something much more personal when the jaded tycoon realizes his ...
Plot Keywords: forename as title, harlem manhattan new york city, publicity stunt, illiteracy, helicopter, title spoken by character, 2010s ...
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