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With a keen sensitivity to the demands and specificities of the American “musical”, and after the triumph of Sondheim’s Follies in 2015, the Opéra de Toulon once again embarked on a Broadway adventure with the French premiere of Bernstein’s Wonderful Town, and brought back for the occasion stage director Olivier Bénézech, a major connoisseur of the genre. A true declaration of love to the city of New-York, Wonderful Town tells the tale, with a boisterous rhythm and vast amounts of jazzy tunes, of two sisters from Ohio looking for success and glory in the big city. Lighter in tone than later works like West Side Story or Candide, its smart combination of the different musical traditions one could hear when wandering in the streets of New-York, its accomplished orchestral writing and colouring, and its vivid sense of comedy earned it no less than five Tony awards when it premiered in 1953.
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A famed mystery writer and her doctor ex-lover solve her daughter-in-law's murder.
Author
El abogado Chris Walters y su esposa Alice viven felices junto a sus hijos Ockie y Debbie en el barrio de Gramercy Park, en Nueva York. Están pensando cómo celebrar su décimo tercer aniversario de casados: se les ocurre tener una cita romántica como en los viejos tiempos, pero, de repente, surge un motivo de desacuerdo y tensión: la presencia de un televisor en la casa puede llegar a arruinar la armonía familiar.
Musical
Ruth Sherwood and her sister, Eileen, have moved to 1935 Greenwich Village. They're surrounded by colorful Village characters (including an out-of-work football player known as the Wreck, and Mr. Appopolous, a modern painter and their landlord) and embark on various New York adventures. Ruth, who's trying to make it as a writer, meets up with a sleazy newspaper writer named Chick and a kindly editor named Bob, both of whom take an interest in both her career and her.
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La familia Poole quiere adoptar un niño, tras años de intentar tenerlo ellos. Para gestionar la adopción se les asigna Miss Novick como asistenta social. A través de una maraña de malentendidos, ella recibe muy mala impresión de Augie Poole y le comunica que su informe será desfavorable. Por otra serie de circunstancias todavía más confusas, Augie es capaz de cambiar la opinión de Miss Novick quien, más tarde, llega a creer que es el responsable de su embarazo. La agencia debe proporcionar a los Poole un niño y Augie cree que va a ser el de Miss Novick, del cual está convencido que es el padre, hasta el punto de que su mujer también llega a creerlo. Al final todo se aclarará en un maravilloso final feliz.
Theatre Play
La familia Poole quiere adoptar un niño, tras años de intentar tenerlo ellos. Para gestionar la adopción se les asigna Miss Novick como asistenta social. A través de una maraña de malentendidos, ella recibe muy mala impresión de Augie Poole y le comunica que su informe será desfavorable. Por otra serie de circunstancias todavía más confusas, Augie es capaz de cambiar la opinión de Miss Novick quien, más tarde, llega a creer que es el responsable de su embarazo. La agencia debe proporcionar a los Poole un niño y Augie cree que va a ser el de Miss Novick, del cual está convencido que es el padre, hasta el punto de que su mujer también llega a creerlo. Al final todo se aclarará en un maravilloso final feliz.
Theatre Play
Ruth y su guapa hermana Eileen llegan al Greenwich Village de Nueva York buscando fama, fortuna y un apartamento para alquilar. Encuentran el apartamento, pero la fama y la fortuna son mucho más esquivas. Ruth consigue la atención de un editor, el playboy Bob Baker, cuando le envía una historia sobre su maravillosa hermana Eileen. Intentará mantener su atención convenciéndolo de que su hermana y ella son la misma persona.
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James Craig is torn between his criminal career as the masked bandit named the "El Paso Kid," and the life of a law-abiding citizen with his long-suffering wife Zoe. He repeatedly tells Zoe, "just one more time," but he is unable to stop which angers her greatly. However, he does have brief moments of heroics such as when he helps the Widow Weeks save her farm.
Theatre Play
A soldier loses his girlfriend to his best buddy.
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Documental sobre la 25 y última misión del bombardeo B17, el "Memphis Belle". El avión participó en un gran bombardeo en Wilhelmshafen, Alemania. En su camino encontró artillería pesada antiaérea e interceptores.
Theatre Play
La joven Ruth Sherwood quiere ser periodista a toda costa, así que se traslada de Ohio a Nueva York para ver cumplido su sueño. En el viaje le acompaña su hermana Elena, una aspirante a actriz. Ambas alquilan un humilde apartamento en Greenwich Village, donde se encontrarán con todo tipo de excéntricos personajes. El problema es que nada de lo que escribe Ruth parece ser lo suficientemente bueno para ser publicado, hasta que decide contar sus propias experiencias personales...
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La joven Ruth Sherwood quiere ser periodista a toda costa, así que se traslada de Ohio a Nueva York para ver cumplido su sueño. En el viaje le acompaña su hermana Elena, una aspirante a actriz. Ambas alquilan un humilde apartamento en Greenwich Village, donde se encontrarán con todo tipo de excéntricos personajes. El problema es que nada de lo que escribe Ruth parece ser lo suficientemente bueno para ser publicado, hasta que decide contar sus propias experiencias personales...
Idea
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
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A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
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A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens.
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Dos hermanas entran a trabajar en un musical, una como bailarina y la otra vendiendo cigarrillos. El productor, novio de la bailarina, pronto se da cuenta de que está enamorado de la otra hermana.
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The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.
Screenplay
American Steve Kendall, a freighter's radio officer, discovers seaman Carlson sending an unauthorized message ashore as the ship approaches his war-poised homeland. Carlson is shot in cold blood when he jumps ship and Kendall, implicated in the espionage, swims ashore to avoid arrest. A woman he meets at the dock hides him in her apartment, where he learns Carlson was her brother, and they both work in a sabotage ring. Nedra is a singer at Tio's Cafe, and she approaches Tio for help when both the saboteurs and the secret police try to capture Steve.
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Un rico hombre de negocios quiere casarse con su secretaria, pero antes ha de pasar la inspección de la familia de ella.
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A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.
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Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted.
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A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.
Story
In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.
Screenplay
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails.
Adaptation
A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
