Actor's Life
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    Movies

    Factory Girl (2006)

    Wealthy Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) lands at artist Andy Warhol's (Guy Pearce) Factory and becomes...

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    William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)

    Bicyclists and an actor's (Kevin Kline) troupe enter a 19th-century Tuscan woods and fall under the...

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    Mommie Dearest (1981)

    Movie queen Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) pampers and punishes her adopted son and daughter (Diana...

  • There's No Business Like Show Business picture
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    There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)

    The story of a vaudeville couple (Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey) and their children spans the world wars.

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    The Big Knife (1955)

    A Hollywood movie star's battle with a studio chief leads to a downward spiral of alcohol, blackmail...

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    Singin' in the Rain (1952)

    A silent-film star (Gene Kelly) loves a chorus girl (Debbie Reynolds) who dubs his squeaky-voiced...

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    Movies

    Twentieth Century (1934)

    An actress (Carole Lombard) deserts the Broadway director (John Barrymore) who bolstered her career,...

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    Movies

    Soapdish (1991)

    The star (Sally Field) of a soap opera is rattled by her ex-lover's (Kevin Kline) return to the...

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    I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)

    1930s singer/actress Lillian Roth (Susan Hayward) hits bottom after bad marriages, then joins...

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    Funny Girl (1968)

    Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) falls for gambler Nicky Arnstein (Omar Sharif).

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    The Buster Keaton Story (1957)

    The Buster Keaton Story is the sublimely inaccurate life story of immortal film comedian Buster...

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    El Estrella (1952)

    A washed-up movie queen finds romance, but still desires a come-back.

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    Movies

    Let's Make Love (1960)

    A billionaire (Yves Montand) plays himself in an off-Broadway satire and falls for his co-star...

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    Star! (1968)

    English actress Gertrude Lawrence (Julie Andrews) reviews her musical career as a London and...

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    Opening Night (1979)

    A Broadway actress (Gena Rowlands) prepares for a premiere on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

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    Movies

    The Producers (2005)

    A Broadway producer (Nathan Lane) and his accountant (Matthew Broderick) scheme to overfinance a...

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    Movies

    Inside Daisy Clover (1966)

    An overnight starlet (Natalie Wood) marries a homosexual actor (Robert Redford) and goes downhill in...

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    Movies

    The Children of Paradise

    In 1840s Paris a mime (Jean-Louis Barrault) becomes obsessed with a woman (Arletty) he saved from...

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    A Double Life

    Ronald Colman won an Academy Award for his portrayal of an off-the-beam actor in A Double Life. A...

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    Stage Door (1937)

    New York chorus girls (Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers) room at a theatrical boardinghouse while...

  • Two Weeks in Another Town picture
    Movies

    Two Weeks in Another Town

    An actor (Kirk Douglas) and a director (Edward G. Robinson), both washed-up in Hollywood, try to...

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    Movies

    Timecode (2000)

    Four simultaneous, improvised stories center around a movie producer (Saffron Burrows), his wife...

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    Fame (1980)

    Leroy, Coco (Irene Cara), Bruno (Lee Curreri) and others of mixed talents and means attend New...

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    Movies

    The Muppet Movie (1979)

    Kermit and his new found friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog-legs...

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    Movies

    Postcards From the Edge (1990)

    A drug-detoxed Hollywood actress (Meryl Streep) moves in with her boozing actress mother (Shirley...

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    Movies

    Imitation of Life (1959)

    An aspiring actress and her black housekeeper retain a solid friendship despite problems with their...

  • It Should Happen to You picture
    Movies

    It Should Happen to You (1953)

    An executive (Peter Lawford) and a filmmaker (Jack Lemmon) woo a model (Judy Holliday) famous for...

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    Movies

    A Star Is Born (1954)

    A Hollywood star (James Mason) drinks away his career, as his singer wife (Judy Garland) becomes...

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    Movies

    Three Amigos! (1986)

    Three silent-film cowboys (Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Martin Short) come to Mexico to perform but...

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    Hollywood Boulevard (1976)

    Allan Arkush and Joe Dante co-directed this campy spoof of exploitation films -- Roger Corman's...