Screen Actors (1950)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 9分
演出 : Hal Elias
シノプシス
This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors.
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
By a twist of fate, the photogenic Milanese shop assistant, Clara Manni, gets the leading role in Italian movie producer Gianni Franchi's romantic drama, "Addio Signora", and becomes an overnight sensation in Rome.
1959年、作品の高評価とは裏腹に監督としてはアカデミー賞に縁遠かったアルフレッド・ヒッチコックは、後にサスペンス映画の金字塔と称される「サイコ」の製作に着手。しかし独創的かつ奇抜であるがゆえに資金繰りは難航し数々の困難に見舞われてしまう。さらに、常に彼を支え続けてきた最大の理解者である妻アルマとの関係までほころびが生じてくる。
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
Rhonda Fleming shines as Pamela, an American film star who falls in love with coffee grower Claudio (Rossano Brazzi) while in Brazil. When the two are hastily married, Pamela finds herself entwined in a clash of cultures in this rarely seen romantic comedy.
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
‘Hero’ brings to life the story of Tarzan Antony, a young man from a lower middle class family who becomes a stuntman for films. Antony’s father Thankachan worked as a driver among the film crowd in Chennai for some time and whenever the father came home, Antony used to listen to his father’s tales about the film world with rapt attention.
女優と家庭との両立で悩むロザンナは、引退したデブラ・ウィンガーに、辞めた理由を聞くための旅に出る。その途中、さまざまな女優たちに出会って……。ハリウッドの裏側を描いたドキュメンタリー。
On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise to the paparazzi and they became the most hunted and photographed couple on earth. Their rocky, passionate, relationship, born in front of the cameras, was subsequently captured in a series of films, including The V.I.P.s and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The last of the great, extravagant stars, flaunting diamonds, yachts and private planes, they continually seized the headlines. They even divorced and married again - only to divorce again - but remain in each other's hearts. This Elizabeth Taylor - Richard Burton story is a no-holds barred account of their undying, but impossible love.
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.. to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.
A gorgeous movie star invites four men to a party to choose her lover. However, they start being killed and the situation gets out of control. This comic thriller is a remake of French movie “Serial Lover”.
Sharon Bell is back, this time she must stop a terrorist plot to smuggle Nazi nerve gas.
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actress and the paparazzi that follow her around.
When six famous Korean actresses gather for a Vogue fashion photo shoot, egos collide in funny and touching ways in this ingenious mockumentary, where all actresses involved play (not so) fictional versions of themselves.
A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.
ニッキー(ローラ・ダーン)とデヴォン(ジャスティン・セロー)は、映画監督のキングスリー(ジェレミー・アイアンズ)が手掛ける映画に出演することになる。その作品は、ある秘密を抱えており、主演女優のニッキーは役にのめりこむにつれ、次第に役柄と私生活を混同し始めるようになる。