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- DirectorMike BirbigliaSeth BarrishStarsMike BirbigliaLauren AmbroseJames RebhornA burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.
- DirectorBilly CrystalStarsBilly CrystalDavid PaymerJulie WarnerThe life of Buddy Young, a comic legend in flashbacks but an old man looking for work in the present.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsDan DaileyCharles WinningerNancy GuildThe Norwick family has had a successful run on the vaudeville circuit, but now some of the family want out. Mom is ready to retire on the family's farm, and daughter June wants to quit now that she's engaged. That only leaves Dad and his son Bert, who are happy to work as a twosome. Soon Bert's love of baseball overtakes his showbiz ambitions, especially after he's offered a Major-League contract to play. Now he must figure out how to break the news to his dad.
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsMickey RooneyJudy GarlandCharles WinningerA group of vaudevillians struggling to compete with talkies hits the road hoping for a comeback. Frustrated to be left behind, all of their kids put on a show themselves to raise money for the families and to prove they've got talent, too.
- DirectorRichard BenjaminStarsPeter O'TooleMark Linn-BakerJessica HarperAn aging, dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show in 1954, and a young comedy writer is tasked with the thankless job of keeping him ready and sober for the broadcast.
- DirectorLou AdlerStarsPeter DonatDiane LaneMarin KanterThe media and disaffected teens mistake the acerbic rants of an obnoxious teenage punk rocker as a rallying cry for the women of America, launching her and her talentless group to national stardom.
- DirectorHerbert RossStarsWalter MatthauGeorge BurnsRichard BenjaminA vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a television special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other.
- DirectorStanley TucciStarsOliver PlattStanley TucciWalker JonesWrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find themselves pursued by the law aboard a cruise ship.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersVictor MooreRoguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning the bucks.
- DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsMichael DouglasTerrence MannMichael BlevinsHopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.
- DirectorPaul SchraderStarsGreg KinnearWillem DafoeMaria BelloThe life of TV star Bob Crane and his strange friendship with electronics expert John Henry Carpenter.
- DirectorGregory NavaStarsHalle BerryVivica A. FoxLela RochonThree women each claim to be the widow of 1950s doo-wop singer Frankie Lymon, claiming legal rights to his estate.
- DirectorPeter ChelsomStarsJerry LewisOliver PlattLee EvansAn unsuccessful comedian uncovers a family secret and learns the true price of letting inherent talent shine.
- StarsPaul 'Bubble' FergusonJaime WinstoneAndy NymanDuring a fictional series of Big Brother, a zombie outbreak occurs, but the house-mates are unaware of the impending doom outside of the Big Brother House.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsJames SpaderPolly WalkerMichael CaineA man buys a house on Manhattan, uninhabited for decades - except the ghosts of the previous owner and his wife. They meddle in his love life.
- DirectorAzita ZendelStarsAmy BlomquistDon HughesErik EngstromThe Assistant to a world-famous film director must hide her boss' scandalous lifestyle from reporters.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsDoris SvedlundBirger MalmstenEva HenningA film director tries to create the best film in history, but finds out that human abilities have their limits.
- DirectorKarl FreundStarsPeter LorreFrances DrakeColin CliveIn Paris, a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert-pianist husband's mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing.
- DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsBing CrosbyGrace KellyWilliam HoldenA director hires an alcoholic has-been and strikes up a stormy relationship with the actor's wife, who he believes is the cause of all the man's problems.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsMarlene DietrichJane WymanRichard ToddA struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsRonald ColmanEdmond O'BrienSigne HassoA celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.
- DirectorScott CoffeyStarsNaomi WattsJennifer SymeGreg FreitasA hilarious comic portrait of a young woman's struggle for integrity, happiness, and a Hollywood acting career.
- DirectorShane BlackStarsRobert Downey Jr.Val KilmerMichelle MonaghanAfter being mistaken for an actor, a New York thief is sent to Hollywood to train under a private eye for a potential movie role, but the duo are thrown together with a struggling actress into a murder mystery.
- StarsIan McKellenRenée AshersonAlan BatesA portrait of the 30 year relationship between Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. With comments by their friends and family.
- DirectorDavid HeeleyStarsJulie GarfieldEllen AdlerJoseph BernardThis documentary, aired on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable network, looks at the life and career of John Garfield, whose career was cut short when he died at age 39. His difficult childhood in the rough neighborhoods of New York City provided the perfect background for the tough-guy roles he would play on both stage and screen.
- DirectorEric Neal YoungStarsJohn Rafter LeeJune ClamanJohn BillingsleyA struggling Hollywood writer takes a job as a driver for a cursing, cantankerous old British actress. She believes she has one great role left in her...and decides that it should be in his new play.
- DirectorRobert RobertsStarsMarcus BlackBrian DemaseoTory ElettoAngelo (Frank Fata) and Tony (Adam Piacente) will do just about anything to make it in showbiz. Even if that means constantly playing characters that portray the stereotype they worked their whole lives to avoid. There's more to the Italian culture then the Mafia. Angelo and Tony set out to prove just that. Come follow your paesano's on a series of auditions that will show how cultural discrimination effects us all. Does Angelo and Tony have what it takes to prove to the best in the business that they are more then just a pair of one dimensional goombas...........Fugetaboutit!
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsPatsy Ruth MillerLouise DresserDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a comeback, but age has taken its toll and she is cast in small character roles. Meanwhile, her daughter, Betty Ann, has won a beauty contest, and heads for Hollywood. They end up in the same, film, with Mom playing her Mom. Marshall tries to take advantage of the naive Betty. Somebody gets shot. Somebody is put on trial.
- DirectorGus MeinsStarsMichael WhalenLynne RobertsChick ChandlerKeith Neville and Dan Casey, two small-time stage actors, are traveling by bus back to New York City, and have an overnight stay in a small town. They take a room in a local hotel and a murder is committed in an adjoining room to Keith. The latter hears the gunfire, goes to investigate, and is there when the local police arrive. He and Casey are both held on suspicion of murder and jailed. While a local policeman is going through their luggage at the hotel, he discovers a letter of introduction, in Keith's suitcase, that reads: "It is requested that all official courtesy be extended to Mr. Geoffrey Desmond, Chief Inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department of the London Matropolitan Police, during his journey on a dangerous secret mission." The letter is a stage-prop from the play the two actors had just performed in, but the Police Chief thinks it is real and releases them from jail, and Keith decides to stay on and help the local bobbies solve the murder. He has a vested interest in doing so as Julie Graham, a girl he met on the bus-trip, is the daughter of the a man the District Attorney has now charged with the crime, and Keith stays to help her clear her father of the charges.
- DirectorHugh Munro NeelyStarsCourtney LoveDavid StennBudd SchulbergClara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members an acquaintances. Including seven minutes of additional material not seen in the TV version.
- DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsJoe E. BrownHelen FosterBarton HepburnA vaudeville performer is murdered backstage and another performer is tried for the crime.
- DirectorFrank McDonaldStarsStuart ErwinJean MuirGlenda FarrellA stage-struck small-towner is tricked into backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise when he is sued for plagiarism.
- DirectorUgo GiorgettiStarsAntonio AbujamraOtávio AugustoPedro Paulo CalvosoHired to entertain a party in a luxury home, in São Paulo, a musician, a snooker player, and an old decadent actor keep waiting downstairs, never being invited to the party upstairs to perform their acts.
- DirectorIrving ReisStarsKent TaylorLinda HayesHoward Da SilvaSteve Bennett is a daring flier who crashes airplanes for the movies, and Laura Marley is an arrogant movie star who is transformed into a very likable woman when she marries Steve. But she, fearing for his life, at her insistence Steve abandons his risky profession and seeks a less-hazardous livelihood...but can't find one. And since he's not the type to depend on his wife to support him, their marriage goes aground.
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsDolores Del RíoEverett MarshallGuy KibbeeDonna (Del Rio) is a diva of the stage and wants her lover Rico (Alvarado) as her leading man. To keep this from happening, the producers (Churchill, Cavanaugh) grab Roger Kerry (Marshall) off the street and say he has a contract.
- DirectorGene FeldmanStarsSue CarolAnthony CarusoJeff CoreyIn the 1942 This Gun For Hire, he was only a supporting actor. But his portrayal of a cold, ruthless killer with a core of gentle sadness had an impact on audiences everywhere. Teamed with diminutive Veronica Lake, he became an immediately saleable commodity, and in the process helped launch the age of film noir. By 1954, Photoplay Magazine voted him the world's most popular male film star; his fellow award-winner was Marilyn Monroe. But Alan Ladd's fabulous success already contained within it the mechanism to self-destruct. A deprived childhood and a family tragedy that marked his young manhood, these would exact their toll. Dogged by a sense of inadequacy over his only average stature, Ladd suffered keenly from cruel jests about co-stars being compelled to stand in ditches. Despite the ardent support of his ever present agent/wife and the genuine affection of film crews and co-actors alike, these inner wounds remained. And though in the end his inner demons would destroy him, Alan Ladd's story is also a positive one. Apart from the legacy of his movies, Alan Ladd left behind a close- knit family which counts among its members some of filmdom's greatest successes. Included in the program are excerpts from some of Ladd's most notable pictures: This Gun For Hire, The Glass Key, The Blue Dahlia, Whispering Smith, The Great Gatsby, Shane and The Proud Rebel. Interviewees include co-actors Don Murray, Lizabeth Scott, Patricia Medina, Mona Freeman, Anthony Caruso, Peter Hensen, Edith Fellows, Director Edward Dmytryk, Producer Sam Goldwyn Jr., sons-in-law Producer John Veitch and Radio Commentator Michael Jackson and Alan Ladd's son, Producer David Ladd.
- DirectorMarcel BluwalStarsClaude BrasseurMarianne DenicourtJean-Claude AdelinThe story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).
- DirectorPantelis VoulgarisStarsLefteris VoyatzisStavros ParavasKonstantinos TzoumasThis musical shows of the Acropole dominated Greek theater during the 1950s and 60s. Acropole follows Prince, the self-made producer of this unusual and mythic theater, and Lakis, the cross-dressing actress who specializes in comic female roles. The story culminates on closing night, when cast and crew recreate the "Alalum," a traditional piece by Aristophanes resplendent with the unexpected, the spontaneous and the insane.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsJane WithersO.P. HeggieJackie SearlGinger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and father, Ginger looks after her uncle, gives him lectures, loves him, defends him and keeps house for him. But, through a meddling do-gooder, she is placed in the home of the Parkers, and clashes immediately with the pampered young son, Hamilton.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsSylvia SidneyHerbert MarshallPhillip ReedA young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss tries to fix her up with a man closer to her age and already in love with her.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJoe E. BrownJoan BlondellBeverly RobertsBroadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with Berenice, another actress, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with Yvonne, a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime....
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryGaby MorlayJacqueline DelubacThe battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinking of proposing. Into the mix steps Carl Erickson, a charming Hollywood matinée idol in Paris briefly. He meets Paulette, sees her act (his box seat compliments of Philippe), and sets out to seduce her. The next two days bring talk, tears, separation, despair, surprises, and, perhaps, reconciliation as characters speak "exactly half the truth." It's a quadrille of changing partners.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsHerbert MarshallGertrude MichaelLionel AtwillIn August 1914 London, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan to marry immediately. But the War comes and Elsa mysteriously disappears. Alan's ease in speaking German results in his appointment to the British Intelligence and, to aid his use as a spy, they announce he was killed in action. He takes the name and personality of "shell-shocked" German prisoner Hans Teller and is sent into Germany on an exchange of prisoners. Elsa, now a spy in the service of the Fatherland, is in Monte Carlo, where Allied officers on leave can be tempted into revealing war secrets. In Germany, Alan, posing as Teller, is listed as unfit for service, contacts Carl Schrottle (Rod LaRocque), another British agent. They are to locate the German "Big Bertha," the long-range gun bombarding Paris. They are successful and the gun is destroyed. Elsa is recalled and given the assignment of locating the British spy organization and its members. Through her surveillance of Carl, she meets Hans Teller and recognizes him as Alan, but doesn't let on. Alone, she agrees to flee to Holland with him but her superior officer, Ludwig (Lionel Atwill), is not fooled and is in pursuit.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsArthur LakeJanis CarterLynne RobertsEddie Grant is a radio station sound-effects man whose honeymoon takes a turn for the worse when they discovers the corpse of a program producer in in their honeymoon suite.
- DirectorWilliam ClemensStarsRoss AlexanderGlenda FarrellAnne NagelKent Carter is just a regular Joe who works at a movie studio and observes interesting behavior concerning actors. He uses the info to become a hard driven gossip reporter and bring down a star with a mean streak.
- DirectorRick KingStarsChris SarandonRenée SoutendijkJosef SommerBen Kline is a successful television actor looking for a meaningful role to make him a movie star. When he sets out to play a hero who died in the Holocaust, he is forced to face the reality of those victimized by the war. In assuming the role of Miklos Radnoti, who left a notebook of harrowing poems from his ordeal, Kline finds himself acting not as a hero, but rather a victim who speaks to us from the grave. As Ben gets ever deeper into his role, he begins to merge with his character, blurring the boundaries of truth and illusion. The realization for Ben, and for us all, is that the best homage we can pay to those who died is to understand them... to know that they had little choice in their fate. Everyone could not be a hero, but rather simply tried to survive as best they could, and that is the legacy of the six million.
- DirectorCarl H. LindahlStarsMichael J. FoxCasey Cagney ThomasJames CagneyJames Cagney was a song-and-dance man who loved animals, supported the underdog and was liked by everybody, but is remembered for his roles as a cold-blooded gangster.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsWarner BaxterAlice FayeJack OakieFormer burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite. After his divorce his former top singer returns from London to help out.
- DirectorMarcel PagnolStarsFernandelOrane DemazisFernand CharpinMeeting a movie team on location near his house, a young man gets a lot of encouragement for his dreaming career as a movie star in what was only sarcasm from the members of the team. This is the characteristic of a schpountz: someone who sees himself as a born movie comedian and is blind on the critics to his dream. After he has signed a fake contract which he blindly takes as genuine even if it is ridiculous, he goes to Paris without money to make his career.
- DirectorIke EisenmannStarsHope LevyIke EisenmannKim RichardsAn intrepid journalist tries to track down Tia and Tony, the beloved alien stars of Disney's 1975 film "Escape to Witch Mountain" and its 1978 sequel "Return from Witch Mountain".
- DirectorRobert AltonStarsRed SkeltonVirginia O'BrienGloria GrahameA Kansas bumpkin goes to Hollywood to become a movie star and gets a job burlesquing his favorite actor - only he thinks the role is serious.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsDonald O'ConnorGale StormWalter BrennanTraveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers.
- DirectorBrett ThompsonStarsMaila NurmiDolores FullerPaul MarcoHow was it possible that a movie like Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) could be made? This documentary about Edward D. Wood Jr.'s masterpiece gives the answer.
- DirectorLee PhilipsStarsDom DeLuiseDee WallaceHenry SilvaA former child show host misses the good old days. He and his sidekick from the show are doing a gig when the place gets robbed and the sidekick murdered. The host is the only one who saw the robber well so the robber goes after him.
- DirectorKevin MacdonaldStarsBill PatersonBrenda BullPeter MenziesA film about Eric Campbell, the tall Scottish actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charles Chaplin's Tramp character.
- DirectorKevin BrownlowStarsKenneth BranaghForrest J. AckermanMichael F. BlakeLon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary.
- DirectorRobert G. VignolaStarsMarion DaviesForrest StanleyEdith ShayneThe frothy experiences of a vain little flapper. Her father induces an actor friend to become a gentlemanly cave man and the film becomes another variation of the 'Taming of the Shrew' theme.
- DirectorDirk ShaferStarsVivian PaxtonClaudette SutherlandMichael OrnsteinMockumentary look at Playgirl Magazine centerfold and 1992 Man of the Year, Dirk Shafer, who kept it a secret from the magazine that he is gay. Most of the film is a fictionalized retelling of Dirk's decision to send a photograph to Playgirl, his selection as a centerfold and then Man of the Year, his many TV interviews, his friend Vivian Paxton posing as his beard, and the pressures from his live-in lover to come out of the closet. Interspersed with this chronological narrative are a black and white look at an evening Dirk spends with Angela Lucassey, a woman from Reno who wins Playgirl's national contest to have a date with Dirk, and an interview with a stripper who tracks Dirk down.
- DirectorDavid StennStarsPatricia DouglasBaby PeggyRichard W. BannThe reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other underage girls into attending a stag party, where she was raped.
- DirectorCorey AllenStarsRobert CulpAngie DickinsonEddie AlbertKidnappers making a ransom demand dial a wrong number & reach a struggling actor instead. He decides to cut himself in for some of the money.
- DirectorViktor TausStarsDidier FlamandOldrich KaiserJirí LábusAt the beginning of their careers Oskar, Max and Viktor created a superstar clown trio called The Busters. Their clownery personified little islands of freedom in the midst of a motionless swamp of resignation during the communist regime of the former Czechoslovakia. An explosive disagreement, however, led to the three clowns breaking up. As it turns out, the clowns, beloved by the nation, can't stand each other. Now, after thirty years in exile, Oskar (Didier Flamand) returns to end his artistic career in Prague. The meeting with his former friends leads to an unavoidable confrontation with now morbidly obese Viktor (Jirí Lábus) and terminally ill Max (Oldrich Kaiser). Even after all this time the question remains the same: who will have the last laugh?
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsVerree TeasdaleRicardo CortezLionel AtwillHerman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette. One day, as Carola leaves to walk her dog, Brandt sides up to her and proposes she "visit" him at his apartment after everyone has gone to bed. Shocked and offended at his brazenness, she complains about him to the building manager, who orders Brandt to leave. He refuses, so the Pointers decide that they will move out instead. While they're packing, the police show up at their apartment with some bad news--Brandt has been found murdered, shot in the head, and since they were known to have quarreled with him, they are suspects. However, Inspector Muller, the detective investigating the murder, discovers that there is more to this case than meets the eye.
- DirectorKelly GreeneStarsMichael DalmonMaurice RipkeFred BallardA group of low-budget filmmakers make a horror movie.
- DirectorSidney FranklinStarsRuth ChattertonBasil RathboneRalph ForbesA famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsJane BirkinGeraldine ChaplinAndré DussollierA play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house; an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blurs.
- DirectorJoe MayStarsKay FrancisBasil RathboneIan HunterAging down on her luck cabaret singer murders a respectable composer. On trial she slowly gives in and explains her crime. They had a complicated history.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsAlice FayeGeorge MurphyKen MurrayHal Adams tries to win the heart of Broadway star Betty Bradley.
- DirectorMarcus MizelleStarsJesse O'NeillJoel HoganJandres Burgos CaballeroA bald, out of work actor finds immediate and overwhelming success when he discovers the power of persona in the form of a cheap wig.
- DirectorRobert B. WeideStarsRobert De NiroSteve AllenHoney Bruce FriedmanComedian Lenny Bruce struck a subversive chord in an era of change in America. After getting his start as a conventional stand-up comic, Bruce's increasingly iconoclastic act transformed him into a leading figure of the 1960s counterculture. This is his story.
- DirectorJoaquín OristrellStarsVerónica ForquéDaniel Giménez CachoCandela PeñaA movie script is presented to Isabel. After reading it she realizes it's based on an old love affair she had with movie director Mario Fabra, the author of the script.
- DirectorRobert B. SinclairStarsLuise RainerPaulette GoddardAlan MarshalAspiring actress Louise Mauban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her co-student Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
- DirectorWalter ReischStarsMiriam HopkinsGertrude LawrenceSebastian ShawAnn Williams (Miriam Hopkins), secretary to eccentric drama critic T.H. Skeates (A.E. Matthews), is persuaded to alter a ruinous review of Shakespearean actor Edmond Davey (Sebastian Shaw) by Davey's wife Barbara (Gertrude Lawrence). Davey's "Othello" becomes a hit and Ann, even though fired by Skeates, becomes a fan of Davey and starts to fall for him, much to the jealousy of her boyfriend Tommy (Sir Rex Harrison). At the prospect of involvement in an adulterous triangle, Ann recoils. But despite her resolution, the characters' love lives become ever more tangled and a real-life tragedy of Othello looms.
- DirectorBob KellettStarsDanny La RueAlfred MarksLance PercivalShakespearian actor Fred Wimbush's drafted during WWII. While entertaining the troops with his drag act one day, the Germans capture them. Thinking he's a girl, they let him go. He mustn't break his character until he reaches safety.
- DirectorJose E. Cruz Jr.StarsShaun Paul CostelloValentina MohleAlan Ruck"CLOSE-UP" is a dramatic feature film told through the eyes of a failed Philadelphia actor who has succumbed to drug addiction. Our story follows him during the Holidays as he desperately tries to regain everything he has lost in his life; his wife and child, his job, and his pride, before it's too late. Over the course of one day on New Years Eve in New York City, a young vibrant woman, Freebird, shows him how to stand up, discover himself and move on with his life.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsAlice WhiteJack MulhallBlanche Sweet'Rainbow Girls' has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth-talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural and promises her a movie contract, so she goes to Hollywood, but there is no contract for her. She meets washed-up actress Donny (Blanche Sweet) on the lot and they become friends. Frank is fired from his studio and the new director finds that Frank's storyline is actually a copy of 'Rainbow Girls,' the Broadway stage play. They call Jimmy, the author and Dixie's boyfriend, for the rights and he goes to Hollywood to produce it as a movie. Dixie gets the lead, but things start going wrong when dizzy Dixie, spurred on by the fired Director Buelow, thinks that she is better than the picture or the studio and starts to make demands. Interesting note: Good look at early Hollywood, with cameos by Loretta Young, Walter Pigeon, Noah Beery and a young Noah Beery, Jr. make the film fun to watch.
- DirectorClaude BinyonStarsRobert MontgomerySusan HaywardJohn PayneIn order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finally stands-up to him.
- DirectorDavid MorrisJacqui MorrisStarsJames LanceLuke de WoolfsonBenjamin HartHarry hates being a TV producer and dreams of leaving his job to travel the world. He loves Alex, an aspiring actor who is struggling to create an identity for himself as a performer. Rugby player William's nine-year-old daughter is intent on sabotaging his relationships with new boyfriends, and he's finding it difficult to let Lawrence, the soap star, into his life. Lars is a handsome sometime-model kept by Tom, a successful artist, who will excuse his every betrayal so long as Lars doesn't leave him.
- DirectorDavid A.R. WhiteStarsDavid A.R. WhiteFred WillardAndrea LoganAn Amish man comes to Hollywood to be a missionary, and gets cast as Satan on a nighttime soap opera.
- DirectorJohn GrayStarsRob MorrowLance HenriksenDonna MurphyApril 14, 1865. As four year of Civil War draw to a close, our country again faces unforgettable tragedy: the assassination of the President. Starring Lance Henriksen as the Great Emancipator and Rob Morrow as assassin John Wilkes Booth, this riveting recreation of The Day Lincoln Was Shot (from Jim Bishop's landmark book) is a thrilling and detailed chronicle of the plot, murder and manhunt that changed America forever. To avenge what he called the Confederacy's "noble cause," Booth conspires with his motley followers, rages and boasts, and aspires to a place in history as a Great Man. The weary Lincoln, longing for a just peace, meets with his Cabinet, steals precious time with his family and dreams - literally - of the death of a President. Minute by minute, killer and victim edge closer to the burst of gunfire at Ford's Theatre that stopped Lincoln's heart - and shattered the country's soul.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsBob HopeDorothy LamourLynne OvermanA movie star who can't stand loud noises accidentally joins the Army.
- DirectorDesmond SaundersStarsJim HensonDavid BowieCharles AuginsA behind-the-scenes look at the David Bowie film Labyrinth (1986), also featuring director Jim Henson and co-star Jennifer Connelly.
- DirectorJack GageStarsRosalind RussellLeo GennClaire TrevorA Broadway star unintentionally kills her impresario but keeps mum about it after the police investigator targets a rival actress.
- DirectorGiulio BaseStarsAlessandro GassmannRocco PapaleoEnrico BrignanoThree young Italian actors while attending Actor's Studio set up as a joke an extortion acting like real mafiosi. After the successful first extortion they decide to continue on that way. But the NY mafia realize what is happening and...
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsJack HaleyRosina LawrencePatsy KellyA Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsRichard BooneSuzanne PleshetteStella StevensA blind actor discovers his wife is cheating on him with his best friend, and hatches a plot to murder them both.
- DirectorMichael PressmanStarsMichael PressmanLisa ChessAlan RosenbergTelevision director and producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess. But their attempts to stage the play and work on their marriage, keep running afoul, and everything's threatened by their difficult male lead, Alan Rosenberg. Michael's best hope, as a husband and producer, is to step into the character that Alan has abandoned.
- DirectorSam TaylorStarsBeatrice LillieJack PickfordDoris LloydA maid who works for a traveling theatrical troupe wants desperately to be an actress, and manages to get some small roles in the company's productions, but is determined to do anything she can to show that she deserves a shot at the big time.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsMichael McManusArsinée KhanjianGabrielle RoseA lonely woman stalks a co-worker by obsessively watching videos he appears in. He is an actor trying to get a part in a new TV movie, written by his lover. She has written about her brother's death, but is losing control of the project.
- DirectorMimi FreedmanLeslie GreifStarsMarlon BrandoEdward R. MurrowJanet AemiseggerThe life and legacy of Marlon Brando and how he changed acting.
- DirectorMark RappaportStarsEric FarrLauren BacallCyd CharisseDocumentary about the career and eventual death from AIDS of actor Rock Hudson.
- DirectorJack BenderStarsAndrew KavovitMalcolm McDowellDey YoungThe life story of teen actor and singer David Cassidy, best remembered for the TV show hit "The Partridge Family", is presented with his up's and down's, the rise to fame, personal relationships and his conflicting relationship with his father, also an actor of his own.
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsDeanna DurbinCharles LaughtonFranchot ToneA young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallH.C. PotterStarsAdolphe MenjouAndrea LeedsThe Ritz BrothersMovie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person. Hit song: "Love Walked In.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeRobert Z. LeonardStarsJeanette MacDonaldNelson EddyFrank MorganThe team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsJames CagneyEvelyn DawWilliam FrawleyA New York bandleader journeys to Hollywood when he is offered a contract with a studio, but he is determined to do things his way and not theirs.
- DirectorJohn RichStarsJanet LeighVan JohnsonShelley WintersA struggling author and his wife suddenly become wealthy and move to the suburbs. Divorced neighbor and "companion" aid marital misconstrue which almost culminates in a divorce.
- DirectorHarry LachmanStarsRichard DixFay WrayVictor KilianWhile hospitalized young Billy meets his silent movie idol Tim Bart but then the talkies came, destroying Bart's career. Now Bart must convince his young friend he is still a star.
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJean ArthurJoel McCreaReginald OwenA reporter meets an actress whose producer is a presumed-dead thief, and stakes his reputation on predicting the next crime.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsErrol FlynnAnna NeagleDavid FarrarA young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
- DirectorPeter SykesStarsFrankie HowerdRay MillandHugh BurdenIn 1907, an actor is invited to perform in an isolated country house, and becomes involved in mysterious and dangerous events.