Sunset Blvd. (1950), All About Eve (1950), Network (1976), Mulholland Dr. (2001), A Star Is Born (2018), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Stage Door (1937) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Showbiz movies.
Storyline: Three sisters (Sister and the Sisters) from Harlem become singers. Sister (Lonette McKee) becomes involved with drugs, while Sparkle (Irene Cara) ends up being the one who gets famous. This film tells of how drugs ruin Sister's relationships and eventually end her life. It is also about the relationship between Sparkle and Stix (Philip Michael Thomas).—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drugs, drug addiction, musician, performer, show business, showbiz, singing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Loosely based on the life of Marilyn Monroe, the story of a young woman destined from childhood on to be adored by millions but unhappy in her own life. Patty Duke plays Emily Ann Faulkner as a young, friendless, fatherless rural southern girl whose mother is indifferent to her. As a teenager, Emily Ann, played by Kim Stanley, remains a loner but with one small exception - boys dote on her, drawn by her beauty and her powerful aura of feminine sexuality. Emily Ann marries young but leaves her first husband when she meets young prizefighter Dutch Seymour (Lloyd Bridges). She becomes an actress and her star rises rapidly until she hits the heights of fame - and the depths of anguish.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: fame, hollywood california, divorce, director, depression, boxer, ambition ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Portrait of an American innocent. In 1955, Bettie Page (1923-2008) waits to testify before a U.S. Senate sub-committee investigating the effects of pornographic material on American adolescents and juveniles. In flashbacks, we see her childhood in Tennessee, a brief marriage, a gang rape, and her going to New York City in 1949. There she takes acting lessons, models for photos, and acts in short films for adults, earning the nickname "The Pin-Up Queen of the Universe". We see her relationship with merchants Irving and Paula Klaw, photographers John Willie and Bunny Yeager, boyfriends, and the public. Through it all, she is wholesome, sporting and forthright - Eve before the fall.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: bondage, 1950s, christianity, fetish, photography, sexual awakening, religion ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Singing star loses his voice, recuperates in the country, meets aspiring playwright and her daughter.
Plot Keywords: maine, doctor, theatrical producer, broadway manhattan new york city, generosity, showbiz, playwright ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the mid-1980s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager Morris Levy. One is a singer from Los Angeles, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philadelphia; one teaches high school in a small Georgia town. Each claims to be the widow of long-dead doo-wop singer-songwriter Frankie Lyman, and each wants years of royalties due to his estate, money Levy has never shared. During an ensuing civil trial, flashbacks tell the story of each one's life with Lyman, a boyish, high-pitched, dynamic performer, lost to heroin. Slowly, the three widows come together and establish their own bond.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, concert, crowd, death, desire, disappointment, female singer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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.—George S. Davis <mgeorges@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: psychotronic film, singing, homosexual subtext, male objectification, hairy chest, bare chested male, romantic rivalry ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A vaudeville star has to leave her daughter with her dead husband's stuffy Boston parents while she makes a living. But when the daughter shows some talent, the mother become a stage mother and pushes her daughter into becoming a Broadway star. The mother is a monster with a heart of gold, and after breaking up the daughter's love affair, finally sees the error of her ways.—Ed Lorusso
Plot Keywords: vaudeville, letter, contract, europe, hospital, blackmail, divorce ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to True Love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: assumed identity, nightclub, roller skating, tap dancing, war hero, washington d.c., cheesecake ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Neil Diamond stars in this motion picture as Yussel Rabinovitch, a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career outside the synagogue in popular music as Jess Robin. Against the wishes of his rigid father and his loving wife, Yussel travels from New York City to Los Angeles to play his music. Swept up by the excitement, he meets a spunky manager who believes in his talent and shares his dream. He grows apart from his family, and becomes confused about what he should ultimately do with his life.—Ted Kula <tkula@cs.wvu.edu>
Plot Keywords: jewish, judaism, heritage, generation gap, behind the scenes, ambition, musician ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A touring variety troupe, the "Dinky Doos" are in financial trouble. An encounter with three strangers - Inigo Jollifant (a romantic, song-writing ex-schoolmaster), Miss Trant (a philanthropic spinster in search of adventure), and Jess Oakroyd (a down to earth, practical man recently made redundant from his job) leads to a change of fortune. Re-launched with Miss Trant's money, they tour England, at first with little success. Inigo falls in love with the troupe's talented and pretty young girl singer, Susie Dean. The troupe is threatened with disharmony, but, due to Inigo's intervention, and the marriage of the principal dancer (Jerry Jerningham) to Lady Parlitt (whose family "own a chain of theatres"), all turns out well for Susie by the end, when she triumphs in a lavish London revue, with the other members of "The Good Companions" in the audience, cheering her triumph.—Roger Mellor <roger@mellor48.freeserve.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: remake, showbiz, based on novel ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jerry dreams of becoming a famous jazz singer, but to accomplish that, he must defy his father, a Jewish Cantor who opposes such a dream as a future for a son of his.
Plot Keywords: jewish, new york city, remake, based on play, jazz music, korean war, melodrama ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Jill becomes a movie star, she soon discovers that her private life is destroyed by persistent fans that won't leave her alone. Her mother's ex-lover, Fabio, tries to protect her.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: price of fame, photographer, paparazzi, fame, fanatic, extramarital affair, disguise ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the teenager Mary Elizabeth Steppe, a.k.a. Lola, moves with her mother and two younger twin sisters from New York to the suburb of Dellwood, New Jersey, she has the feeling that her cultural and entertaining world ended. While in school, the displaced Lola becomes close friend of the unpopular Ella, who is also a great fan of the her favorite rock band Sidarthur. However, the most popular girl in the school, Carla Santini, disputes the lead role in an adaptation of Pygmalion with Lola and also the leadership of their mates. When the last concert of Sidarthur is sold-out, Lola plans with Ella to travel to New York and buy the tickets from scalpers. However, the girls get into trouble while helping the lead singer and Lola's idol Stu Wolf, changing their lives forever.
Plot Keywords: based on novel, mother daughter relationship, school life, single parent, female bonding, teen angst, aspiring actress ...
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