Howard Jeffrey

Documentary attached to the 50th anniversary MGM Blu-ray collection of "West Side Story" (1961). Details how this successful stage production was reared and molded into a beautiful cinematic one. Deep-dives into Jerome Robbins' choreography and Leonard Bernstein's score-making processes.

Marguerite Sydney is a celebrated Hollywood star attempting a comeback after a stay in a mental hospital, as well as trying to re-establish a relationship with her teenage son, and risking a romance with a mysterious stranger.

ポーランド人の劇団スターを巡る三角関係がなぜかナチのスパイ追跡劇となり、それが総勢50人もの脱出劇に発展するという奇想天外なコメディ。才人メル・ブルックスやアン・バンクロフトら演技派名優で送る抱腹絶倒の内容。

Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold has a jinx on Willie and can't lose with him. Bonita and Willie meet and fall for each other and plot to do away with Harold and collect on his life insurance.

Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.

The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality, the latter prompted by his romantic involvement with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl who joins impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes specifically to seduce Nijinsky. After a series of misunderstandings with Diaghilev, who is both his domineering mentor and possessive lover, Nijinsky succumbs to Romola's charms and marries her, after which his gradual decline from artistic moodiness to complete lunacy begins.

世話好きの未亡人ドーリーは金持ちだが口やかましい男やもめホレスと帽子屋アイリーンの仲を取り持とうと奔走するが、そのうちドーリー自身も彼を好きになってしまい、ついには自分を売り込んでしまう。

1920年代の人気スター、ファニー・ブライスの半生をW・ワイラーが映画化したミュージカル。これが映画デビュー作のB・ストライサンドがアカデミー主演女優賞を受賞。 一介の踊り子だったファニーは舞台で失敗ばかりしていたが、逆にその失敗が客に受けて人気の一座に引き抜かれ、看板女優となる。結婚もするが、幸せは長く続かず…。

マンハッタンのウエスト・サイド。イタリア系の若者からなるジェット団と、プエルトリコ系の若者からなるシャーク団は不良グループ同士、町で顔を合わせればにらみあうという一触即発の関係だ。しかし、ジェット団のリーダー、リフの親友であるトニーは、シャーク団のリーダーであるベルナルドの妹、マリアと出会って、互いに一目惚れしてしまう。やがてリフとベルナルドがけんかした末、ひとりが命を落としてしまう事件がおこる。