show-business
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    Top Banana (1953)

    Ratings drop, and a TV comic (Phil Silvers) hires some new talent to spice up his variety show.

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    The Picture Show Man

    This easygoing drama offers a look back at the early days of the Australian movie business, and it...

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    Chump Change (2004)

    A failed Hollywood actor returns to his home town in Wisconsin and reminisces about his life in L.A....

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    You Light Up My Life (1977)

    Laurie Robinson has come to a crossroads in her life; she does not want to follow in the footsteps...

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    Showboy (2004)

    A documentarian (Lindy Heymann) follows a writer/producer (Christian Taylor) after he gets fired and...

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    Valet Girls (1987)

    Three girls (Meri D. Marshall, April Stewart, Mary Kohnert) park cars at a Hollywood party mansion,...

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    You Talkin' to Me? (1987)

    In this film, an aspiring young actor moves to Los Angeles from his New York home, hoping to make it...

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    Hearts of the West (1975)

    A naive young man goes to Hollywood to write pulp Westerns and becomes the hero of a string of class...

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    Too Much, Too Soon (1958)

    Based on the autobiography of Diana Barrymore (Dorothy Malone), the troubled daughter of actor John...

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    Hard Country (1981)

    Jan-Michael Vincent stars as Kyle Richardson, who works at a dead-end job in a Texas chain-link...

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    Ginger et Fred (1986)

    Has-been vaudeville dancers (Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni) emerge from retirement for a TV...

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    Girls Will Be Girls (2003)

    An aging actress (Jack Plotnick) takes as a housemate the daughter (Jeffery Roberson) of a now-dead...

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    Wired (1989)

    The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career.

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    Ratboy (1986)

    This drama follows an unlikely "ratboy" (S.L. Baird) after he is discovered living in a makeshift...

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    Princess of the Nile (1954)

    A prince (Jeffrey Hunter) of Baghdad saves a dancing princess (Debra Paget) and her father's city...

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    Fedora (1978)

    Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film...

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    Ellie Parker (2005)

    An actress (Naomi Watts) tries to hold her life together as she struggles to carve out a career in...

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    Movie Movie

    This spoof of a "typical" double-feature bill of the 1930s is introduced by George Burns, who...

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    Dancemaker (1999)

    Documentary that focuses on the Paul Taylor Dance Co., examining the ballet world and the nuts and...

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    Slaves of Hollywood (1999)

    Follows the lives of five college graduates and their first jobs in corporate Hollywood.

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    Walk the Talk

    A talent agent uses his paraplegic girlfriend's government checks to fund a faded club singer's...

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    Lady Grey

    In this tale about the rocky road to stardom, Ginger Alden plays Lady Grey, a poor young woman from...

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    All By Myself

    This documentary on Eartha Kitt features several of her songs (that of the title itself, "Solitude,"...

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    Boxoffice

    Box Office tells the story of the road to success in Hollywood, and how once the destination is...

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    Les Annees 80

    All of the time and effort put forth to stage a musical is chronicled here in this bright and funny...

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    The One and Only (1978)

    Brash young Andy Schmidt (Henry Winkler) can't make a go of it as an actor in the early 1950s....

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    The Singer and the Dancer

    In this drama, an aging dancer observes the life of a star-struck younger woman. The older one sees...

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    T'ai-Shang T'ai-hsia

    In this Hong Kong melodrama, two sisters are part of a cabaret act that is rapidly declining in...

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    Malambo

    This melancholy comedy features Chris (Klaus Rohrmoser), a perennial loser trying to imitate Harry...

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    The Serpents of the Pirate Moon

    In this gripping psychological character study, an obsessive, neurotic woman finds herself slowly...