Albert Akst

出生 : 1899-08-31, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

死亡 : 1958-04-19

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Somebody Up There Likes Me
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The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Meet Me in Las Vegas
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Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't like to hold hands with him, at least not in the beginning...
Trial
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A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters.
Moonfleet
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Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
Brigadoon
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Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace and special beauty. The citizens go to bed at night and when they wake up, it's 100 years later. Tommy falls in love with a beautiful young woman, Fiona, and is torn between staying or going back to his hectic life in New York.
Torch Song
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Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who may be able to break through her tough exterior.
バンド・ワゴン
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フレッド・アステア、シド・チャリシー主演のミュージカル映画。かつてダンス映画で名声を得た俳優トニー。その彼も今や俳優生命に陰りが見え始めていた。そんな時、旧友のマートン夫妻が、彼のために書き下ろしたミュージカル・コメディ「バンド・ワゴン」の舞台化案を持ち掛けてくる。トニーは初め戸惑うも、その企画へ参加することに。さらにそこへ、ジェフリーという男も協力者としてやって来る。彼は作品の近代的な音楽劇化を提案。その突飛な発想で、トニーの共演者に新進バレリーナのガブリエルを抜擢した。こうして彼らは、ジェフリーのアイデアに不安を抱きながら初演を迎える。
Because You're Mine
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A famous opera singer falls for his sergeant's sister at boot camp.
The Belle of New York
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In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. The object of his affections is beautiful Angela Bonfils, a mission house worker in the Bowery. He promises to reform his dissolute life, even trying to do an honest day's work.
The Strip
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Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of murder.
Royal Wedding
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Tom and Ellen are asked to perform as a dance team in England at the time of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. As brother and sister, each develops a British love interest, Ellen with Lord John Brindale and Tom with dancer Anne Ashmond.
Summer Stock
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To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores in exchange for food. Her reluctance becomes attraction when she falls in love with the director, Joe, who happens to be her sister's fiance.
Tension
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Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, when Claire leaves him for a liquor store salesman, Warren can no longer bear it. He decides to assume a new identity in order to murder his wife's lover without leaving a trace. Along the way, his plans are complicated by an attractive neighbor, as well as a shocking discovery that opens up a new world of doubts and accusations.
The Barkleys of Broadway
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Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.
イースター・パレード
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フレッド・アステア&ジュディ・ガーランド共演。主人公の有名ダンサーが、酒場の踊り子を一流のダンサーに育てあげるまでを、ロマンスを交えて描く傑作ミュージカル。 ダンサーのドンは、パートナーに去られた意地で、酒場の踊り子ハンナを誘い新たなパートナーとしてレッスンを始める。踊りの基本も知らないハンナだったが、ドンは来年のイースターまでにハンナを一流のダンサーに仕立ててみせると誓うが…。 アーヴィング・バーリンの名曲の数々にのせ、フレッド・アステアとジュディ・ガーランドが歌い踊る、戦後日本で初めて公開された傑作ミュージカル。アカデミーミュージカル映画音楽賞受賞。
Summer Holiday
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Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the girl next-door, Muriel, but her father isn't too happy with their puppy-love, since Richard always share his revolutionary ideas with her.
Good News
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At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.
The Harvey Girls
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On a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
ジーグフェルド・フォリーズ
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The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
若草の頃
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セント・ルイスを愛するスミス一家。次女のエスターは隣に引っ越してきたジョンを想い、あれこれ画策してやっと親しくなった。だが、父が突然ニューヨーク転勤を命じられ……。ジュディ・ガーランド主演の不朽のミュージカル映画。
Broadway Rhythm
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Broadway producer Johnny Demming is only interested in big-name talent and scoffs that his sister, father and other small-time talent could be used in a successful show.
Girl Crazy
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Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray, who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first...
Heavenly Music
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Bandleader/singer/songwriter Ted Barry arrives to heaven. The receptionist tells him that before he can take his place in the Hall of Music, a committee must review his work and decide whether he is worthy of admittance.
Presenting Lily Mars
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Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
Sunday Punch
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Ma Galestrum (Connie Gilchrist) is a boardinghouse owner whose tenants are a group of aspiring boxers. When her young niece, Judy (Jean Rogers), comes to stay for a visit, college dropout Ken Burke (William Lundigan) and Swedish janitor Ole (Dan Dailey Jr.) immediately fall for her charms. Ken considers going back to college for Judy, but his fight promoter is less than thrilled with this idea. Meanwhile, Ole is determined to meet Ken in the ring to vie for Judy's heart.
Johnny Eager
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A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
The Feminine Touch
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A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Russell), to New York where he plans to publish a book on the subject. Meeting with publisher Elliott Morgan (Van Heflin), who falls head over heels for Julie, John is assigned to his assistant Nellie (Kay Francis), who only has eyes for her boss. Working closely with Nellie, who Julie thinks is after her husband, John continues his high-minded ways while his angry spouse schemes to make him so jealous he'll knock Elliott's block clean off.
Sucker List
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In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of what little they have.
Forbidden Passage
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This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter by illegal means.
Waldo's Last Stand
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The gang offers to help their pal Waldo attract customers to his lemonade stand. Redecorating their clubhouse as a lavish nightclub, the kids stage an elaborate floor show, with Darla Hood as the star vocalist.
Soak the Old
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Part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series, this short film focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams.
A Way in the Wilderness
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This Passing Parade entry tells the story of Dr. Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929), a Hungarian immigrant who devoted his life to finding the cause of pellagra, a disease that killed hundreds of thousands in the southern United States. Although the medical community believed that the condition was caused by a virus, Goldberger proved that a healthy diet was the cure.
Jack Pot
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This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with illegal gambling and bookmaking.
Drunk Driving
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In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes drinking and driving, and the tragic consequences hit very close to home.
One Against the World
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This short film presents the story of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, who came under scrutiny for his pioneering of surgical practices.
Home Early
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A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.
The Raven
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A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.
Princess O'Hara
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When King's beloved horse dies, Princess tries to purchase a new nag, and that's how she inadvertently gets her hands on a "stolen" race horse. Our heroine nearly ends up with a lengthy prison term before the story is resolved during the climactic Big Race.
A Notorious Gentleman
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A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
Flaming Guns
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A ranch manager falls in love with a banker's daughter, but after a quarrel with the girl's parents, flee across the border into Mexico.