There's No Business Like Show Business

There's No Business Like Show Business 1954

6.00

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.

1954

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942

7.03

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

1942

The Sunshine Boys

The Sunshine Boys 1975

6.77

Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spoken in over 20 years of retirement. Willy Clark's nephew is the producer of a TV variety show that wants to feature a reunion of this classic duo. It is up to him to try to get the Sunshine Boys back together again.

1975

The Broadway Melody

The Broadway Melody 1929

5.20

The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.

1929

One Froggy Evening

One Froggy Evening 1955

7.68

A workman finds a singing frog in the cornerstone of an old building being demolished. But when he tries to cash in on his discovery, he finds the frog will sing only for him, and just croak for the talent agent and the audience in the theater he's spent his life savings on.

1955

Gypsy

Gypsy 1993

6.50

Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.

1993

Brain Donors

Brain Donors 1992

6.10

Three manic idiots—a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman—team up to run a ballet company to fulfil the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet.

1992

The Great Rupert

The Great Rupert 1950

5.60

Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.

1950

For Me and My Gal

For Me and My Gal 1942

6.40

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

1942

Road to Utopia

Road to Utopia 1946

6.60

While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.

1946

Babes in Arms

Babes in Arms 1939

6.40

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.

1939

The Three Stooges

The Three Stooges 2000

6.40

A biography of the Three Stooges, in which their careers and rise to fame is shown throughout the eyes of their leader, Moe.

2000

All I Desire

All I Desire 1953

7.00

In 1910, a stage actress re-visits her husband and children she deserted ten years ago.

1953

See My Lawyer

See My Lawyer 1945

6.00

Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclub patrons… a ploy that soon has them facing multiple lawsuits… to the delight of three struggling attorneys, Charlie Rodman, Bettty Wilson and Arthur Lane.

1945

The Great Flamarion

The Great Flamarion 1945

6.17

A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.

1945

Mother Wore Tights

Mother Wore Tights 1947

5.30

In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.

1947

The Singing Fool

The Singing Fool 1928

5.00

After years of hopeful struggle, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Al Stone is on his way. He gets his huge break on a magical night when his song wows big-time producer Louis Marcus and gold-digging showgirl Molly, whom Al fancies. Broadway success and marriage follow, but sure enough, hard times are on the way.

1928

Henry Goes Arizona

Henry Goes Arizona 1939

6.00

A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.

1939

The Girl from Chicago

The Girl from Chicago 1932

5.80

An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss.

1932

Willy

Willy 1954

1

Willy is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 18, 1954 to June 16, 1955. The series centers on Wilma "Willy" Dodger, played by June Havoc, a lawyer from rural New Hampshire who elocates to New York City to represent a vaudeville troupe.

1954

Funny Girls

Funny Girls 2015

1

A new sketch comedy show that is funny - and has girls! Featuring fast paced sketches that cover issues such as work, life, relationships and what to do when you’re being haunted by a photobombing ghost. Set on a fictional television show where a large group of men produce an all-female sketch show. Funny Girls is a combination of hilarious sketches linked together by a behind-the-scenes narrative often derived from misguided opinions on what women want.

2015