Top 20 movies like Variety Time
Top 20 Movies like Variety Time
- 1. The Yacht Party
- 2. A Bing Crosby Christmas
- 3. Ça c'est Claude François
- 4. Reir más es imposible
- 5. Mrs. Henderson Presents
- 6. Rock 'N' Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits
- 7. Stars in Your Eyes
- 8. The Big Birdcast
- 9. Vita Napoletana
- 10. Bette Midler: Art or Bust
- 11. Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Rock
- 12. International House
- 13. The Hollywood Revue of 1929
- 14. Throckadacia
- 15. Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
- 16. 30th Anniversary Party - Stage Version
- 17. The Special London Bridge Special
- 18. Stars in the Eye
- 19. Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?
- 20. Elstree Calling
1. The Yacht Party
On a set resembling a yacht, Roger Wolfe Kahn leads his orchestra in several popular tunes of the day. Billed and un-billed guest acts also perform. At the end, Kahn thrills his guests by piloting a biplane.
2. A Bing Crosby Christmas
The program on this DVD is basically a retrospective produced in the early 1990s for public television that was originally called «A Bing Crosby Christmas: Just Like the Ones You Used to Know» that was narrated by Gene Kelly and hosted by Bing's widow, Kathryn Crosby. The program itself features clips from fifteen of Bing's classic television specials, concentrating on the period from the early 1960s onwards when he included Kathryn and their three children in the programs.
3. Ça c'est Claude François (Ça c'est Claude François)
(Ça c'est Claude François)
4. Reir más es imposible (Reir más es imposible)
Julian Cazorla, a political leftist, is caught by his wife and her mother in adultery. The mother, determined to apply the law of retaliation assures his son that his wife will deceive him with his best friend. Meanwhile, Agapito Berlinches, a right-wing politician, surprises the president of his party with a young girl in his office; Agapito mounted such a mess trying to explain the event that the press has just published that he is gay and was caught with a transvestite. when Cazorla read the press decides to introduce Berlinches as his best friend.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
5. Mrs. Henderson Presents
Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to lose money. Mrs. Henderson suggests they add female nudity similar to the Moulin Rouge in Paris.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
6. Rock 'N' Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits
15 complete performances that were filmed when these bands played live on The Ed Sullivan Show. Michelle Phillips of The Mamas and Papas narrates between songs and shows still photographs or film clips of these band members as they are interviewed by Ed or others.
7. Stars in Your Eyes
A group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts – but unscrupulous property developers also want the theatre and resort to dirty tricks to disrupt the first night's performance!
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
8. The Big Birdcast
Birds present their own radio broadcasting service, featuring feathered versions of such stars as Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Rudy Vallee, Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn, and many others.
9. Vita Napoletana (Vita Napoletana)
A variety film consisting of 13 solo songs and two musical sketches, one comedic, the other serious, all in the Italian language but made entirely in the USA by members of the Italian-American community in New York. Missed by the American Film Institute and IMDb, information was found in the New York State Archives' files from that state's old censors' office.
10. Bette Midler: Art or Bust
The Divine Miss M is featured in a concert filmed at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, at the culmination of her most recent cross-country tour which was known as "De Tour". This live recording was a combination of footage from both September 10 and 11, 1983. Set against a Renaissance art background and outfitted in a rainbow array of costumes, Midler sings and performs her uninhibited stage antics.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
11. Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Rock
Chris rocked SNL for three seasons-here are his greatest bits, featuring Nat X, Luther Campbell, I'm Chillin'" and more. Special guests include Sinbad, Michael J. Fox and George Wendt. 1999/color/71 min/NR/fullscreen.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
12. International House
Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.
It has an average vote of 5.294 on TMDB.
13. The Hollywood Revue of 1929
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
It has an average vote of 5.739 on TMDB.
14. Throckadacia
Sterling and his co-host begin filming their variety talk show as usual, when an unexpected visitor arrives. The man at the door is Sterling’s ex-lover, flowers in hand. But the show must go on.
15. Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
Diva Las Vegas was a show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas starring Bette Midler performing as singer and comedian. The one-time performance was filmed for television; HBO released it as a TV special originally broadcast on January 18, 1997 and repeated on February 2, 1997. Midler won the 1997 Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for the special. Among the songs performed were The Rose, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, From A Distance, Friends, Wind Beneath My Wings, Stay With Me and Do You Want To Dance?. Bette's daughter Sophie von Haselberg appeared for a short time during the song "Ukulele Lady". She sat with the rest of the cast and musicians on stage playing a ukulele and singing the words.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
16. 30th Anniversary Party - Stage Version (30-årsfesten - Scenversionen)
"You could have met in the office over coffee and cake to say congratulations, and that would have been that," writes Claes Eriksson in the preface to the 30th anniversary party's program. But that will not be the case...
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
17. The Special London Bridge Special
In 1972, the Arizona State Park bought the London Bridge. Tom Jones is magically transported to the bridge's new location where he, befuddled, sings with other celebrities, has adventures and gets kidnapped by “the villain”.
18. Stars in the Eye
Various CBS stars appear in this one hour variety program about the opening of the brand new $7 million dollar CBS Television City Studios.
19. Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?
At the height of his KOJAK TV series fame, Telly Savalas starred in this variety special that was sponsored by Kraft Foods and shown without commercial interruption. Barbara Eden, Cloris Leachman, Diahann Carroll and others appear and join in the singing and dancing and mugging.
20. Elstree Calling
A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley .
It has an average vote of 5.139 on TMDB.