Actor's Life
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    Sweet Liberty (1986)

    A professor (Alan Alda) tries to stop a film crew from making a teen comedy out of his book about...

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    The Blackout

    Residents of Brooklyn, N.Y., deal with a citywide blackout for two days in the summer of 2003.

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    Broadway Damage (1998)

    A homosexual actor (Michael Shawn Lucas) rooms with a female friend (Mara Hobel) in Manhattan, seeks...

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    The Fluffer (2001)

    A gay man (Michael Cunio) looking for a job in adult movies becomes infatuated with a straight actor...

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    Cats Don't Dance (1997)

    A small-town cat lands a part in a '30s Hollywood musical but must cope with a nasty child star and...

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    Frances (1982)

    Actress Frances Farmer (Jessica Lange) makes trouble in 1930s and '40s Hollywood; her mother (Kim...

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    Chinese Coffee

    About two Greenwich Village rival writers and their conversations on love, friendship and the siren...

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    Heller in Pink Tights (1960)

    Members (Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Eileen Heckart) of a two-wagon traveling show fight for their...

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    Stand-Ins (1997)

    The story of stand-ins for famous 1930's starlets.

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    Process

    An actresses makes several suicide attempts. Through flashbacks the trials and hardships that drove...

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    Anna (1987)

    An expatriate Czech movie queen (Sally Kirkland) loses her boyfriend (Robert Fields) and career to a...

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    Premium (2007)

    A struggling actor (Dorian Missick) deals with a series of personal and professional challengers.

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    Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)

    Sibling chorus girls (Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain) go to Paris and live like their mother and aunt...

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    Method

    The line between fantasy and reality blurs when an actress (Elizabeth Hurley) begins behaving like...

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    Frogs for Snakes (1999)

    A group of aspiring New York theater actors moonlight as debt collectors, maiming those who won't...

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    The Girls (1971)

    Three actresses, performing "Lysistrata", find inspiration from the play to stand up against the men...

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    Illuminata (1999)

    A playwright (John Turturro) is anxious to stage his new work, which was written for a New York...

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    The Seven Little Foys (1955)

    After the young wife of vaudevillian Eddie Foy passes away, he incorporates their seven children...

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    Last Goodbye (2004)

    A hot summer day in Atlanta is the backdrop for the interweaving lives of a famous TV actress, a...

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    The Impostors (1998)

    Two struggling New York actors (Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci) disguise themselves as stewards on a...

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    Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2004)

    Richard Schickel examines the career of Charles Chaplin, including interviews with the comic's...

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    Ham & Cheese

    Two talentless actors attempt to make it in the cruel world of showbiz. Without an ounce of talent...

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    Dragon: the Bruce Lee Story (1993)

    Based on the life of the martial artist (Jason Scott Lee) from Hong Kong who found fame as a movie...

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    The Last Horror Film

    A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which...

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    The Female Animal (1958)

    An aging film star and her alcoholic daughter compete for a handsome extra.

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    The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957)

    Two men (Ralph Meeker, Keenan Wynn) kidnap a Hollywood actress (Jane Russell), who refuses to let...

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    The Telephone (1988)

    In this comedy-drama, Vashti Blue (Whoopi Goldberg) is a struggling actor who takes out her...

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    An Actor's Revenge (1971)

    A female impersonator in a Kabuki troupe, upon reaching the age of maturity, is obligated to avenge...

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    The James Dean Story (1957)

    The story about the rise and fall of James Dean.

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    Jeanne Eagels (1957)

    A 1920s dancer/actress (Kim Novak) leaves her jealous lover (Jeff Chandler) for Broadway, Hollywood...