Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches White as he’s assembling the latest edition of his famous revue. As it turns out, she has lots of backstage gossip to choose from; Mona Vale, White’s latest discovery, is making her Broadway debut in the show, and she’s fallen in love with the star, Jimmy Martin. Jimmy, however, only has eyes for Barbara Lorainne, a snooty high society type also in the cast.
Category: Musical
Chick Parker and Pete Pendleton are songwriters that are en route from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Dorothy, a lunch wagon proprietor, joins them.
This animated children’s film tells the story of the two popular dolls who go off to find a pretty French doll who has been stolen by pirates. Many songs from popular children’s composer Joe Raposo ensue, including: “I Look and What Do I See!,” “No Girl’s Toy,” “Rag Dolly,” “Poor Babette,” “A Miracle,” “Ho-Yo,” “Candy Hearts,” “Blue,” “The Mirage,” “I Never Get Enough,” “I Love You,” “Loony Anthem,” “It’s Not Easy Being King,” “Hooray for Me,” “You’re My Friend,” and “Home.”
Anna is about Serge, an advertising agency honcho, who falls madly in love with a young woman photographed in a station by chance. Happiness seems to beckon and Serge, helped by a friend, sets to find this elusive girl by employing the agency’s entire workforce. Combining a touch of the Nouvelle Vague with pop culture, the film contains “English” musical compositions by Serge Gainsbourg.
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After graduation they carry their their feud and collegiate ideas over into the department store business.
This early example of the “backstage” musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated daughter April from following in Mom’s footsteps.
A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women’s “fat farm” nearby, want to get married but don’t have enough money. Three customers of the “fat farm” scheme to get back at their philandering husbands by hiring the soldier and two of his buddies as “escorts” for the weekend. Complications ensue when the husbands show up unexpectedly.
King Rudolf XIV of Langenstein, is too busy to make love to his wife, Queen Elaine of Langenstein, and good Queen Elaine is upset royally about it. She departs the palace and tells him she will not return until he learns how to make love to her,and, as a parting shot, until he also shaves off his ancestral beard. Too much of one thing and not enough of another. As often happens in Langenstein, an Hollywood actor, Carlo Rocco, who is an exact double for the king, shows up, and the King naturally hires him to take his place while the King goes to Vienna to learn how to live and make love.