Posts Tagged ‘actress’

42nd Street (1933)

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Baxter, Warner | Daniels, Bebe | Brent, George | Keeler, Ruby | Kibbee, Guy | Merkel, Una | Rogers, Ginger | Sparks, Ned | Powell, Dick | Jenkins, Allen | Nugent, Edward J. | McWade, Robert | Stone, George E. | Akst, Harry | Clark, Wallis
Directors: Bacon, Lloyd
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The source from which all modern musicals flow: An ailing Broadway director returns to produce one final show, but his leading lady is injured and must be replaced by a novice. Call it dated, but it’s aged to perfection, and the final twenty minute sequence will leave you tapping your toes, with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Movies—never mind musicals—just don’t get any better than this.

Fame (1980)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Barth, Eddie | Cara, Irene | Curreri, Lee | Dean, Laura | Franceschi, Antonia | Gaines, Boyd | Hague, Albert | Hughes, Tresa | Inwood, Steve | McCrane, Paul | Meara, Anne | Merlin, Joanna | Miller, Barry | Moody, Jim | Ray, Gene Anthony
Directors: Parker, Alan
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At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation. They are the brazen Coco Hernandez, shy Doris Finsecker, sensitive gay Montgomery MacNeil, and brash, abrasive Raul Garcia.

Beyond the Sea (2004)

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | Musical
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Bosworth, Kate | Goodman, John | Hoskins, Bob | Blethyn, Brenda | Scacchi, Greta | Aaron, Caroline | Cincotti, Peter | Ullrich, William | Byrne, Michael | Rippy, Matt | Whelan, Gary | Broder, Jake | Bademsoy, Tayfun | Spencer, Tomas
Directors: Spacey, Kevin
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Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin (1936-1973) is making a movie about his life. He’s volatile, driven by the love of performing, ambition, perfectionism, and belief that he’s living on borrowed time. He begins in the Bronx: a fatherless lad learning music and dance from his mom. His career starts slowly, then “Splish Splash” puts him at the top of the charts and on “Bandstand.” He wants to be an entertainer, not a pop star, so he aims for the Copacabana; then it’s on to the movies, where he meets and marries Sandra Dee. After, it’s balancing career, health, marriage and family life, balances he doesn’t always keep. Throughout, conversations with his boyhood self give him perspective.

Valley of the Dolls (1967)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Parkins, Barbara | Duke, Patty | Burke, Paul | Tate, Sharon | Scotti, Tony | Milner, Martin | Drake, Charles | Davion, Alexander | Grant, Lee | Stevens, Naomi | Harris, Robert H. | Susann, Jacqueline | Viharo, Robert | Bishop, Joey | Jessel, George
Directors: Robson, Mark
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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.

That Old Feeling (1997)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Midler, Bette | Farina, Dennis | Marshall, Paula | O'Grady, Gail | Rasche, David | Denton, James | Nucci, Danny | Mankuma, Blu | Eastwood, Jayne | Reynolds, Michael J. | Luchak, Joan | Wilmot, Mike | Franklin, Lula | Hevenor, George | Meadows, Arlene
Directors: Carl Reiner
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When Molly’s parents see each other for the first time in 14 years, Molly thought a shouting match at the reception was the worst thing that could happen. But as the spark of her parents love is rekindled in a car in the parking lot, things get much worse for the newlywed…

Meet Wally Sparks (1997)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Dangerfield, Rodney | Mazar, Debi | Stiers, David Ogden | Reynolds, Burt | McKenzie, Rita | Thornhill, Lisa | Taylor, Mark L. | Williams, Cindy | Gottfried, Gilbert | Danza, Tony | Duffy, Karen | Roche, Eamonn | Mix a Lot, Sir | Weatherly, Michael | Harris Jr., Glenn Walker
Directors: Baldwin, Peter
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Wally Sparks is a tabloid TV show reporter who’s trying to boost ratings on his show. He goes to the governor’s mansion to uncover a sex scandal.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Alexander, David | Hinds, Ciarán | Pace, Lee | Payne, Tom | Potter, Tim | Ryan, Matt | Strong, Mark | Zinal, Mo | Mansfield, Chris
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Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.

V for Vendetta (2005)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Portman, Natalie | Weaving, Hugo | Rea, Stephen | Fry, Stephen | Hurt, John | Pigott-Smith, Tim | Graves, Rupert | Allam, Roger | Miles, Ben | Cusack, Sinéad | Wightman, Natasha | Standing, John | Marsan, Eddie | Ashborn, Clive | Field-Rayner, Emma
Directors: McTeigue, James
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The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that’s a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman) from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Segel, Jason | Brand, Russell | Hader, Bill | McBrayer, Jack | Wily, Taylor | McDonald, Davon | Landesberg, Steve | Hill, Jonah | Rudd, Paul | Alexander, Kala | Robb, Kalani | Richmond, Branscombe | Bush, Billy Green | Baldwin, William | Bateman, Jason
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Devastated Peter takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know Sarah’s traveling to the same resort as her ex … and she’s bringing along her new boyfriend.

National Lampoon presents Cattle Call (2006)

Friday, June 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholas, Thomas Ian | Bader, Diedrich | Katos, Andrew | Mazursky, Paul | Winters, Jonathan | Maxwell, Jack | De Luca, Rudy | Kartalian, Buck | Capodice, John | Mariano, John | Guigui, Martin | Macaluso, Mario | Reynolds, Buck | Falcone, Drew | Wooster, Pete
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A guy starts a fake casting agency in hopes that he will meet his soul mate.