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True to Life (1943) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
True to Life
director: George Marshall actor: Mary Martin / Franchot Tone
other title: Dos solteros en un lío / Pris sur le vif
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
You Can't Have Everything (1937) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
You Can't Have Everything
director: Norman Taurog actor: Alice Faye / Al Ritz
other title: 你不能拥有一切 / No se puede tener todo
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
Sing, Baby, Sing (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sing, Baby, Sing
director: Sidney Lanfield actor: Alice Faye / Adolphe Menjou
other title: 唱吧宝贝 / 唱吧寶貝
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
King of Burlesque (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
King of Burlesque
director: Sidney Lanfield actor: Warner Baxter / Alice Faye
other title: 搞笑大王 / バーレスクの王様
Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who helps make Baxter a success. His head turned by sudden fame, Baxter falls under the spell of a society woman (Mona Barrie) who has theatrical aspirations of her own. She marries Baxter, then convinces him to produce a string of "artistic" plays rather than his extravagant musical revues. The plays are flops, and the woman haughtily divorces Baxter. Faithful Alice Faye, who'd gone to London when her ex-beau was married, returns to the penniless Baxter. She and her burlesque buddies team up to pull Baxter out of his rut and put him on top again.
Birth of the Blues (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Birth of the Blues
other title: El nacimiento del blues / 藍調的誕生
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
Who's Minding the Store? (1963) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Who's Minding the Store?
other title: Um Namorado com Sorte / Der Ladenhüter
Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?
Seven Sinners (1940) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Seven Sinners
director: 泰·加尼特 actor: 玛琳·黛德丽 / 约翰·韦恩
other title: 七枭雄 / 세븐 시너스
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
Little Miss Broadway (1938) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Little Miss Broadway
director: 埃文·坎明斯 actor: Shirley Temple / 乔治·墨菲
other title: 百老汇小姐 / 天晴れテムプル
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.