Xavier Cugat

A joyful tale filled with music. The rise of radio. The jazz big bands. The legendary clubs and ballrooms. The soundtracks of the great musical films and TV shows. Sex and romance, gangsters, luxury cars and palm trees. From Barcelona to New York, with a stop in Cuba. The birth of Las Vegas. The sound of the maracas. Chihuahuas everywhere. The incredible life story of Xavier Cugat (1900-90).

Algumas das estrelas musicais da MGM revisam a história dos musicais dos estúdios. De 'The Hollywood Revue' de 1929 a ' A Lenda dos Beijos Perdidos' de 1954. Dos primeiros talkies musicais a Gene Kelly em 'Cantando na Chuva' de 1952.

Documentário que traça um panorama dos musicais no cinema desde a década de 20 até os anos 50, e traz entrevistas com algumas das estrelas do gênero.

A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.

Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.

An expulsive star of a variety theatre cannot decide between the love of an honest archaeology professor and the love of an extravagant official who turns himself into a cabaret comedian in his sparetime.

Donatella é uma garota romana simples e honesta, filha de um encadernador e namorada de Guido, dona de um posto de gasolina. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)

Biografia romanceada do pianista Eddy Duchin. No final dos anos 20, o farmaceutico recém-formado e aspirante pianista Eddy Duchin vai de Boston para Nova York com a expectativa de tocar com a orquestra de Leo Reisman no fantástico Cassino do Central Park de Nova York. No entanto, ele tinha entendido mal a convite do maestro. Quando está deixando o local conhece a rica socialite Marjorie Oelrichs que pede a Leo Reisman para dar uma chance ao Eddy. Ele começa a tocar durante os intervalos da orquestra e se torna um pianista famoso. Dois anos depois, Marjorie e Eddy se casam e no Natal, Marjorie tem um bebê, Peter.

Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?

An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda.

This film visits many of the neighborhoods and landmarks on Manhattan Island and occasionally includes a history lesson. The neighborhoods include the Bowery, Chinatown, Herald Square, and Times Square. Some of the architectural highlights are the Empire State Building, the New York Public Library, Temple Emanuel, the Central Park Zoo, and the Rockefeller Center complex. The film ends with a visit to a dining room in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where the Xavier Cugat Orchestra entertains.

Uma estilista de roupas de banho está determinada a proteger sua desmiolada irmã de um destruidor de corações da América do Sul, mas um caso de identidade equivocada complica as coisas. A desmiolada Betty Barrett confunde o massagista Jack Spratt com Jose O'Rourke, o capitão da equipe de pólo Sul-Americana. Spratt entra na brincadeira, mas a situação se complica quando eles se apaixonam. Enquanto isso Eve, a sensível irmã mais velha de Betty, teme que Betty fique com o coração partido quando descobrir a confusão. Então ela arranja um encontro com o verdadeiro O'Rourke, mas, para complicar um pouco mais, o amor logo floresce entre eles também.

Capt. Jeremy Bradford has a particularly exciting luxury liner cruise in store when he's charged with transporting a troupe of opera singers to Rio de Janeiro. Anxious to become a singer herself, Bradford's young daughter, Polly, decides to skip out on school and sneak onto the ship before it departs. Angry that his daughter disobeyed him, Bradford puts her to work on the ship for punishment, but Polly has her own ideas about how to spend the trip.

Desenvolvido a partir de um programa de rádio que começou em 1941, a hiperativa adolescente Judy desafia e é desafiada por seus pais excessivamente caretas, pela praga de seu irmão Randolph e por seu namorado Oogie.

A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her at a Forces show, the young lad somehow believes she should be his girl. Her boyfriend is just one of those disagreeing.

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,

Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.

O compositor de canções românticas Steve (Red Skelton) ingressa numa faculdade feminina para tentar reconquistar sua esposa Caroline (Esther Williams), uma treinadora de natação. A partir daí começam muitas confusões, risadas garantidas e memoráveis balés aquáticos. Skelton em ótima forma e Esther Williams abalando os corações com seu corpo escultural, sem contar com inúmeras beldades como alunas da bela Williams. Uma comédia deliciosa.

A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him.

Broadway star Fay Lawrence (West) is a temperamental diva who is reluctantly persuaded by a Broadway producer (Gaxton) to star in his latest production.

A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance

O Acunas, uma rica família argentina, seguem a tradição de que as filhas têm de se casar em ordem, primeiro as mais velhas. Quando a irmã # 1 se casa, as irmãs # 3 e # 4, que já escolheram seus futuros maridos, fazem pressão sobre Maria a irmã # 2. Mas Maria ainda não conheceu um homem que goste. O pai Eduardo Acuna, acreditando que os homens não são românticos suficiente nos dias de hoje, envia para sua filha flores e cartas de amor anônimas, criando um "homem misterioso" para ela se apaixonar. Ele pretende escolher um rapaz apropriado para ela mais tarde, para ocupar o papel. Mas Robert Davis, um dançarino americano à procura de trabalho, surge em cena. Maria se apaixona por ele, mas o pai não aprova.

Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from one such appearance, Arden's car breaks down. She orders her publicity man to find her a place to stay, suspicious that he planned the break down to keep her away from a man. However, she soon finds herself mooning over an attractive repairman in town and listening to his ideas about inventing equipment for film.

A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is Hungarian-born Victor Varconi, portraying a legendary south of the border outlaw who tries to force Canadian senorita Fay Wray to marry a rival rustler whom she despises. She pleads with the bandito so pathetically that he is moved to grant her a single wish. Without hesitation she chooses her poor but true love. The bandit king, being a somewhat honorable fellow grants the wish and without a twitch, guns down the wicked cattle thief. Fortunately the film was played for comedy, a wise decision since it probably would have garnered laughs as a straight drama anyway.

A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.

A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.

The magazine "Paintings of the People" initiates a contest to select the best watercolor painting of ethnic peoples and customs. A hungry bohemian painter invokes his muse to help him to produce the winning painting, and when he experiments with scenes set in Mexico, Argentina and Spain, his paintings come to life. In Xochimilco, Mexico, a young bachelor has a drunken dream that his girl friend is performing Josephine Baker's famous banana dance in a Parisian nightclub. In Buenos Aires, an Italian and a Galician are rivals for the affections of a Creole girl. At the other side of the Hispanic world, a Sevillian girl tells of her tragic romance with a matador, who obstinately continues to appear in the ring despite having been injured.

The magazine "Paintings of the People" initiates a contest to select the best watercolor painting of ethnic peoples and customs. A hungry bohemian painter invokes his muse to help him to produce the winning painting, and when he experiments with scenes set in Mexico, Argentina and Spain, his paintings come to life. In Xochimilco, Mexico, a young bachelor has a drunken dream that his girl friend is performing Josephine Baker's famous banana dance in a Parisian nightclub. In Buenos Aires, an Italian and a Galician are rivals for the affections of a Creole girl. At the other side of the Hispanic world, a Sevillian girl tells of her tragic romance with a matador, who obstinately continues to appear in the ring despite having been injured.

When Prince Danilo falls in love with American dancer Sally O'Hara, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids him to marry her because Sally is a commoner. Thinking she has been jilted by her prince, Sally marries wealthy Baron Sadoja. When the elderly man dies suddenly, Sally must be wooed all over again by Danilo.

Os Quatro Cavaleiros do Apocalipse (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) éum filme mudo de 1921 produzido e realizado por Rex Ingram. Foi adaptado para cinema por June Mathis a partir do livro de Vicente Blasco Ibanez com o mesmo nome. Teve como actores principais Rudolph Valentino, Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard e AliceTerry. No filme Os Quatro Cavaleiros do Apocalipse, Valentino é sensacional como Júlio,um dançarino de tango e conquistador de mulheres.