Double or Nothing (1937)
Everything We've Done Before We're Doing Double NOW and Twice as Good as Waikiki Wedding
Gênero : Comédia, Romance
Runtime : 1H 31M
Director : Theodore Reed
Escritor : Duke Atteberry, Jack Moffitt, Charles Lederer
Sinopse
A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation that the first one who can double the amount -- without dishonesty-- will win a cool million. Hindering the four are the avaricious relatives of the late millionaire.
Filme otimista que critica a exaltação do modo de vida americano. A sonhadora Marialva é levada, pela amiga ,para trabalhar como dubladora de Mary Shadow.
A young woman in search of a lost identity, her long lost mother who abandoned her soon after her birth.
Grace Chang delivers an eye-opening performance as a lusty nightclub singer climbing the social ladder in seedy Wanchai. Borrowing story and song elements from Georges Bizet’s CARMEN, this Wong Tin-Lam directed musical has flair and polish to rival Hollywood, and a superstar leading lady that would any film industry would have a tough time matching! A key film from the celebrated Cathay Film Studios.
Para Vishnu, amplamente considerado o melhor dançarino da Índia, a dança é mais do que uma paixão - é a razão pela qual ele vive. Então, quando ele se vê demitido da companhia de dança que ele mesmo ajudou à construir, por seu manipulador parceiro de negócios, é como se o ar que ele respira tivesse acabado. Arrasado, Vishnu, decide desistir da dança e partir de Mumbai. No entanto, na noite anterior à sua partida, ele testemunha um incrível grupo de dançarinos na Batalha de Dança do festival de Ganesha. À partir desse momento, ele decide tornar esses jovens dançarinos em um grande grupo de dança capaz de competir no famoso programa de TV, Dance Dil Se.
Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang.
The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded in Tahiti at the time of the fall of France to the Nazis. Suzette "Suzie" Durand (Simone Simon). a French-American girl singing in a nightclub is consumed with a desire to go to the United States. Things go from bad to worse for the band,. and they are faced with the necessity of either taking a girl singer into the group,which they all regard as bad luck, or starving. The band insists that she be dropped as soon as they can earn enough to catch a bot home. But Mickey falls in love with Suzie, and smuggles her on board the ship.
Sem trabalho uma banda de swing monta um show trabalhando para uma campanha política, atraindo e entretendo potenciais eleitores em comícios. O candidato é realmente um fantoche de um grupo político corrupto que descobre que o cantor bonito e atraente da banda daria um fantoche muito melhor. Enquanto isso, o romance floresce entre os cantores da banda. Quando o dia da eleição se aproxima, o cantor da banda quer sair da campanha, mas a grupo político ameaça esfarrapá-lo, e a seus amigos da banda, se ele parar.
An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
Jimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of their songs. There is interplay with impersonator Florence Desmond, Ben Turpin, Rudy Vallee and many others.
A French-Canadian girl is a champion bronc rider and is also a nightclub singer. An ambitious young man sees her act one night and is struck by her talent, realizing that she is good enough to become a Broadway star. He convinces her to accompany him to New York, where she indeed does become a Broadway star. However, the young man finds himself being squeezed out by greedy Broadway producers who see the talented young girl as their own personal gold mine.
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.
Harry is a man whose friends throw him night-long bachelor party on the eve of him getting married. Harry flashes back to his many female "conquests" with the go-go dancers that remind him of his many past lovers.
Gracie Fields' second film Looking on the Bright Side was a smash hit film of 1932. It contains a lot of her biggest hit songs of the period.
Rebellious Princess Marie "Mitzi" Christine must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry.
Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis - women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy's father, even though and maybe because she says she's in dreamville, does not share her affection for Dobie. An English essay which almost revolutionizes English instruction, and Dobie's role in a chemistry lab explosion convinces Mr. Hammer he is right. Pansy is sent off broken-hearted to an Eastern school, but with the help of Happy Stella Kolawski's all-girl band, several hundred students and an enraged police force, Dobie secures Pansy's return to Grainbelt.
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.
Vencedor do Oscar de Melhor Filme Estrangeiro, este conto à la Fellini de decadência e amor perdido encontra um jornalista envelhecido na Itália relembrando seus dias em meio à exuberante vida noturna de Roma após seu 65º aniversário.
An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House, was recorded at the historic Vienna Opera House July 2012 during a special two-week long unplugged tour, played to a limited audience over seven exclusive shows. Varying from his electric blues shows, this presentation was an all-acoustic concert performance, making it a unique and very special show fans had been waiting years to experience. Produced by Kevin Shirley. Source: Amazon.com - http://www.amazon.com/Acoustic-Evening-Vienna-Opera-Blu-ray/dp/B00B6S56X6