A compilation of scenes and acts from various comedy and musical shorts over the years.
Footlight Varieties is of 1 hour(s) and 1 minute(s). It is Produced By: RKO Radio Pictures. It was released on 1951-03-21. It has the tagline: A New Musical Revue Including Highlights From RKO Film Hits! It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
Top 20 Movies like Footlight Varieties
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
The musician Udo Lindenberg is kidnapped during the party after a concert. Nobody realises this until the next day, when he doesn't show up in time for a rehearsal. Since the police believes this is only a promotion gag, private eye Kuhlmann has to be hired to find him in time.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
The life of Moses as told through the Book of Exodus, the imagination of a dying boy, and the ballads of his father.
(El mundo se equivoca y algo más)
Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet's the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy's friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet's reputation.
It has an average vote of 4.333 on TMDB.
A behind-the-scenes look at the putting on of the successful West End stage musical, including footage of the cast rehearsing and the triumphant first night.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka is imprisoned.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
Brass and percussion blend with dramatic choreography, brilliant lighting and special effects to create a new genre of performance in BLAST! Its performers move constantly, staging intricate movements to classical, symphonic, Broadway and popular music.Taped at the London Apollo Hammersmith Theatre in April 2000, BLAST! musical highlights include Ravel's "Bolero," Copland's "Appalachian Spring," and Chuck Mangione's "Land of Make Believe."
It's 1967 and British pop sensations Norman's Normans have accidentally blasted off a rocket from the British Space Agency and landed on a planet of all women. When the princess falls for lead singer Norman, the queen imprisons the British invaders. Can they use their catchy rhythms to win over the girls of Hormone and help them make peace with the neighboring planet of men, all the while finding a way back home to Earth?
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
In this musical showcase, two aspiring stars attempt to wow a pair of talent scouts with their stellar abilities. Songs include "My Heart Isn't in It" , "It's Love, Love, Love" , "When They Ask about You" , "Jumpin' at the Jubilee" , "Taking Care of You" , "Where Am I Without You?" , "Two Hearts in the Dark" , "Somewhere This Side of Heaven," "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel."
An underworld character wins a Broadway nightclub in a card game.
When quadruple-threat newcomer Stef Harris , arrives at Kings Park University, the college Glee Club can’t wait to snap him up. Lead by charismatic singer Bea Minicello, their group “Bea Minicello & The Bea Flats" immediately make Stef feel at home.</p><p> But this Glee Club holds dark secrets and Stef can already sense tensions beneath the surface. There’s confrontational self-proclaimed ‘cool-guy’ Ash Green who has it in for just about everyone, down-trodden stage technician Dru Lowley who has a few killer secrets to share, backing vocalist Summer who behind her sickly smile is desperate to take Bea’s crown and of course Bea Minicello - who is as sweet as pie to Stef but if she’s for real then how come everyone else seems to loathe her? Something is not right...</p><p> A story about a group of young people with their whole lives ahead of them. However long that may be.
(Mônica Salmaso - Alma Lírica Ao Vivo)
A bandleader, desperate to get his band's instruments out of hock, promises the pawnshop clerk--an aspiring songwriter--that he'll let the band's female singer do the clerk's songs at a local club if he will let the band "borrow" their instruments at night. The clerk's girlfriend, however, thinks that the band singer is after more than her boyfriend's songs.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.
It has an average vote of 5.931 on TMDB.
A traditional chinese story about a girl, Zhu Yingtai, daughter of the noble Mr. Zhu, who goes to Hangzhou to study, dressed as a boy. There, she meets a student, Liang Shanbo, with whom she becomes good friends. They go to school together for the following years, and Zhu gradually falls in love with Liang.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
A seductive dancer helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Through her feminine charm she achieves diplomatic success.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
In Rome's notorious gay club, the Alibi, men date, love and quarrel. Meanwhile, on stage, the classic drama of Salomé is played but with surprising variations, In the end, a clown goes out through the city's streets saying a monologue that explains it all, while satirizing the bourgeoisie.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, instilling in him her favorite credo, "Life is a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death."
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
