2024-09-26
An embittered has-been child actor torments her disabled sister, while scheming to resurrect her own vaudeville career when she was known as the talented "Baby Jane.".
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and the rest of the Rat Pack do it their way in the classic original version of the caper flick. Ol' Blue Eyes is Danny Ocean, a playboy who rounds up his old army buddies for a military-style heist in Vegas. The plan: Ring-a-ding in the New Year with a rip off of five casinos. Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson, Richard Conte.
An Oscar-winning score that features 17 Irving Berlin songs drives this romp about a hoofer who tries to mold a singer into a Broadway star. To play the song-and-dance man, Fred Astaire came out of retirement and stepped in after MGM's original choice, Gene Kelly, broke an ankle prior to filming.
Best Picture nominee about an aspiring performer who vies for the leading role in a production staged by her childhood sweetheart turned Broadway producer, even though he's promised the part to his lovely heiress financier.
A famous dancer whose career is on the decline stages a comeback with a musical adaptation of Faust, but fears the flamboyant director and his classical ballerina co-star will upstage him.
A pair of divorced actors come together to star in a musical stage adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," and soon find their feelings resembling those of the characters.
Boy-meets-girl plot tied to events at a posh resort hotel, where a desk clerk falls in love with the daughter of a snobby rich woman. The romance is backdropped by sensational Busby Berkeley production numbers.
This musical comedy follows the last-minute challenges that ensue for a Broadway director on the opening night of his production after his leading lady twists her ankle the evening before the premiere.
Adaptation of the Broadway smash about the evolution of celebrated stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, the younger daughter of a domineering, ambitious stage mother who was the brains (and ego) behind a dying vaudeville act that featured Rose and her older sister, June.
Irreverent Army-surgeon cut-ups and the staff at a Korean War field hospital try to keep their sanity by engaging in wild pranks and wacky high jinks. Ring Lardner Jr.'s screenplay won an Oscar.
Story of an upper-middle-class family struggling to grapple with the death of the oldest son in a boating accident. Based on the novel by Judith Guest.