Top 20 movies like Gems of M-G-M
Top 20 Movies like Gems of M-G-M
- 1. Puttin on the Act
- 2. Walking My Baby Back Home
- 3. Two Knights of Vaudeville
- 4. All-Star Vaudeville
- 5. Follies Girl
- 6. Funny Girl
- 7. There's No Business Like Show Business
- 8. Gypsy
- 9. The Sunshine Boys
- 10. Bowery to Broadway
- 11. Don't Get Nervous
- 12. Yankee Doodle Dandy
- 13. Three of a Kind
- 14. Az and Fert
- 15. Goodbye Broadway
- 16. Those Good Old Days
- 17. The Seven Little Foys
- 18. For Me and My Gal
- 19. The Parish Priest of Saint-Amour
- 20. Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
1. Puttin on the Act
Olive rushes over to show Popeye the headline: Vaudeville is coming back. They agree to rehearse their old act. After a brief song-and-dance intro, the act begins: Popeye demonstrating his strength while Olive displays her flexibility and balance; impersonations of Jimmy Durante, Stan Laurel and Groucho Marx; and the last act, more feats of strength and agility.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
2. Walking My Baby Back Home
A young man from a wealthy New York family pursues a career as the leader of a dance band.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
3. Two Knights of Vaudeville
After getting kicked out of a vaudeville show for misbehaving, they decide to put on a show of their own.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
4. All-Star Vaudeville
A miniature vaudeville show, complete with a title card introducing each act, is presented. First up is The On-Wah Troupe, an East Asian group of contortionists. Next, Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields sing a duet of the song, "Why Don't You Practice What You Preach". Third up, father and son Pat Rooney and Pat Rooney Jr. perform a recitation and dance musing about if they will ever be as clever as their dad. And the last act on the bill is The Runaway Four, a group of comic acrobats.
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
5. Follies Girl
In PRC's Follies Girl, Wendy Barrie plays dress designer Anne Merriday, who becomes the object of middle-aged millionaire J. B. Hamlin's affections. To save his dad from throwing his life away on a supposed golddigger, Hamlin's son, Army private Jerry Hamlin , begins courting Anne-and, of course, falls genuinely in love with her himself. Meanwhile, the rogueish J.B. tries to mount a Broadway burlesque show, with costumes designed by Our Heroine.
6. Funny Girl
The life of Fanny Brice, who rose from the Lower East Side of New York to become one of Broadway's biggest stars under producer Florenz Ziegfield. While she was cheered onstage as a great comedian, offstage she faced a doomed relationship with the man she loved.
It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.
7. There's No Business Like Show Business
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
8. Gypsy
Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
9. The Sunshine Boys
Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spoken in over 20 years of retirement. Willy Clark's nephew is the producer of a TV variety show that wants to feature a reunion of this classic duo. It is up to him to try to get the Sunshine Boys back together again.
It has an average vote of 6.747 on TMDB.
10. Bowery to Broadway
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erupts.
11. Don't Get Nervous
Georgie Price tells Bryan Foy, who is to direct his short film, that he is nervous about performing to a camera and microphone instead of an audience. He then sings a couple songs, in an Al Jolson/Eddie Cantor style.
12. Yankee Doodle Dandy
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
It has an average vote of 7.01 on TMDB.
13. Three of a Kind
Two vaudeville acrobats adopt the son of an actor friend.
14. Az and Fert (Аз и Ферт)
The landowner Mordashov, in order to please his future son-in-law Alexei Fursikov, marks his daughter’s entire dowry with the monogram “A.F.” But the groom gives compensation. So that the goods are not lost, the prudent father begins the search for a groom with the appropriate initials Az and Firth.
15. Goodbye Broadway
Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat and the latter uses the $4000, that he and Molly have been saving for years to buy a retirement farm, to buy the hotel so he can fire Harry. Local skinflint, J.A. Higgins wants the hotel as he knows the state has intentions to buy it for a museum, but Pat won't sell.
16. Those Good Old Days
Young Gloria's father and mother go out for the evening to see a television broadcast. Gloria's grandfather entertains her with stories about his days in vaudeville.
17. The Seven Little Foys
Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While they continue to tour the circuit, they begin a family and before long have seven little Foys to clutter the wings. After tragedy threatens to stall Eddie's career, he comes to realize that his little terrors are worth their weight in gold. - Chris Stone
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
18. For Me and My Gal
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
It has an average vote of 6.444 on TMDB.
19. The Parish Priest of Saint-Amour (Le Curé de Saint-Amour)
The Marquise de Saint-Ange wants to marry her niece Nicole, but the young girl, put off by the chosen suitor, flees with her friend Jacques.
20. Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
The story of three gold-digging ladies searching for millionaires. A loose remake of Gold Diggers of 1933.
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.