Isobel Lennart

The life of Fanny Brice, who rose from the Lower East Side of New York to become one of Broadway's biggest stars under producer Florenz Ziegfield. While she was cheered onstage as a great comedian, offstage she faced a doomed relationship with the man she loved.

A carreira da lendária estrela Fanny Brice. Desde o início, quando somente sua mãe acreditava em suas chances, ao estrelato no famoso show de Florenz Ziegfield, passando pelo malogrado casamento com um jogador inveterado. Oscar de melhor atriz (Streisand) e mais sete indicações da Academia.

A carreira da lendária estrela Fanny Brice. Desde o início, quando somente sua mãe acreditava em suas chances, ao estrelato no famoso show de Florenz Ziegfield, passando pelo malogrado casamento com um jogador inveterado. Oscar de melhor atriz (Streisand) e mais sete indicações da Academia.

A carreira da lendária estrela Fanny Brice. Desde o início, quando somente sua mãe acreditava em suas chances, ao estrelato no famoso show de Florenz Ziegfield, passando pelo malogrado casamento com um jogador inveterado. Oscar de melhor atriz (Streisand) e mais sete indicações da Academia.

When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living.

Jerry Ryan wanders aimlessly around New York after giving up his Nebraskan law practice. His wife asks for a divorce. He meets Gittel, a struggling dancer from Greenwich Village and they try to sort out their lives. An extended conversation piece with a static camera, but reflects the moral climate of the time.

A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.

No Outback Australiano, a família Carmody - Paddy, Ida e seu filho adolescente Sean - levam uma vida nômade, são tropeiros de ovelhas, sempre em movimento. Ida e Sean querem sossegar e comprar uma fazenda. Mas Paddy quer se manter em movimento. Um concurso de tosquia de ovelhas, o nascimento de uma criança, bebidas, jogos e um cavalo de corrida terão um papel na decisão final.

O crítico e professor de teatro Larry McKay (David Niven), sua esposa Kay (Doris Day), e seus quatro filhos se mudam de seu apertado apartamento em Manhattan para uma velha e grande casa de campo. Enquanto a dona de casa Kay se adapta a vida suburbana, Larry continua desfrutando do teatro e das festas de Nova York. Kay logo começa a questionar a fidelidade de Larry quando ele menciona um encontro com a estrela da Broadway Deborah Vaughn (Janis Paige). - traduzido de Daniel Bubbeo

Toda sua vida a inglesa Gladys Aylward sabia que a China era o lugar onde ela pertencia. Não qualificada para ser enviado para lá como missionária, Gladys trabalha como doméstica para ganhar o dinheiro necessário para custear a viagem à uma pobre aldeia remota chinesa. Lá, ela finalmente vive uma vida plena e feliz. tocando uma pousada, atuando como "Inspetora de Pés", aconselhando o mandarim local e até mesmo ganhando o coração do mestiço Capitão Lin Nan. Mas Gladys descobre seu verdadeiro destino, quando o país é invadido pelo Japão e as crianças chinesas precisam dela para salvarem suas vidas. Baseado em uma história verdadeira.

When eccentric English teacher Andrew Larabee needs a raise in order for his fiancée to marry him, his interest in archaeology leads him to an ancient statue's burial site. But when he finds a traveling circus directly above the statue's location, he accidentally becomes part of the act. With a newfound passion for performance and an attraction to the beautiful acrobat Selena, Andrew must decide what is truly important to him.

To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.

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...

Connie is a widow and mother whose work involves checking up on the competition for her department store employer. When Steve, a charming salesman at a competing store, recognizes her true motives but refuses to expose her, he ends up getting fired as a result. Feeling guilty, Connie agrees to buy lunch for Steve, striking up a friendship that complicates her relationship with Carl, a lawyer who wants to marry her.

Um relato romanceado da carreira da cantora de jazz Ruth Etting (Doris Day). Era a cantora sensação da Era do Jazz, tinha boa aparência, ambição e uma assombrosa voz de veludo. Mas foi preciso mais do que isso para fazer dela uma estrela. Precisou que Marty "The Gimp" Snyder (James Cagney), o manco, o mal-humorado capo de Chicago, desse um impulso para Ruth conseguir sair dos sujos salões de dança para a fama na Broadway. Mas também transformou sua vida fora dos palcos em um pesadelo de violência e medo. - traduzido de Alex Lapp

An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.

Stage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird buys her first home, and everyone who is anyone comes to her first garden party only to be blinded by smoke from next door. Jeannie charges next door to bawl out her new neighbor and meets comic-strip artist Bill Carter. Bill has devoted himself to his strip, and raising his ten-year-old son Joe since the death of his wife. Joe bases his strip on the everyday happenings of he and his son and is proud of keeping it scrupulously honest. When Jeannie and Bill fall in love, young Joe is hurt, especially when Bill starts using a lot of the father-son time to be with Jeannie. Bill cancels a father-son trip to Canada, and Joe decides to write a letter to Bill's syndicate pointing out that the current plot line of the script being set in Canada isn't honest, since they didn't go.

When a man confesses to his wife that he has been unfaithful, she imagines all the different ways that historical figures such as Cleopatra and Joan of Arc might handle the situation.

Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn't long marches or several weeks in a small boat, but their love life.

Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a university professor. In one tale a Boston resident becomes angry when the census forgets to record her presence. Another sketch chronicles the achievements of African Americans while still another pays tongue-in-cheek tribute to Texas.

A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.

O casal Jessie (Barbara Stanwyck) e Brandon (James Mason) vive confortavelmente em um dos bairros mais luxuosos de Manhattan. No entanto, a vida amorosa não vai bem. Tudo piora com a volta de Isabel Lorrison (Ava Gardner), que já fora amante de Brandon no passado.

Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.

Ricardo (Frank Sinatra) é filho de um bandido mexicano que sempre "deixa a sua marca" beijando a menina mais bonita em qualquer grupo que ele rouba. Ele estuda gerenciamento hoteleiro em Boston e, com a morte de seu pai, logo é chamado de volta à sua cidade natal sem saber que a finalidade da viagem é assumir o lugar do "bandido beijoqueiro". Quando descobre quem fora seu pai, decepciona-se e reluta, em vão, a assumir o cargo, mas acaba seguindo os passos de seu pai. Logo em seu primeiro assalto, o bando aborda a diligência de Teresa (Kathryn Grayson), filha do governador, mas Ricardo ainda é tímido demais para deixar a marca do bandido.

Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds that Brooklyn is not so nice after all. He is able to share a place with Nick, the janitor of his old High School, and get a job as a singer in a music store. He also meets Leo, a talented pianist and his teacher Anne, whose dream is to singing Opera. When Jamie arrives from England, Danny tries to show him the Brooklyn experience and help him compose modern swing music. Together, these four also try to help Leo get the Brooklyn Music scholarship.

Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Evans, believes that she is no longer a young girl and that she has fully matured into adulthood. Eager to make her mark in the sophisticated world of foreign diplomats living in Mexico, Christine appoints herself as organizer of her father's social activities and takes over the planning of a big garden party he will be hosting. Because he loves his daughter,

Dois marinheiros, um ingênuo, e outro experimentado nos caminhos da vida, em liberdade, e em Los Angeles, é o cenário para este filme musical. E encontram uma simpática garota que tem uma bela voz. E também tem um filho, um garoto de 7 anos, que é um verdadeiro fanatico pela marinha. E para emoldurar tudo o grande maestro José Iturbi. Nas ondas da música... Risos e Romance! Dois marinheiros perdidos de amor em uma licença de quatro dias de diversão e frivolidade!

Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.

In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.

Os membros de uma pequena comunidade abastada ficam preocupados quando é revelado que uma de suas empregadas domésticas está escrevendo uma exposição reveladora.