Night and Day (1946)

Storyline :  The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s. The film's attempted biography matches many public myths surrounding Cole at the time, despite its lack of relationship with truth. For instance, truth and movie are different in regards to: his sex life (he was a gay man in a marriage of convenience with a divorcee friend), his relationship with his wife, Monty Wooley was a contemporary (not Professor), and his French military experience was a hoax.

Stars :  Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Mary Martin, Ginny Simms, Jane Wyman, Eve Arden, Victor Francen, Dorothy Malone, Alan Hale

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Désirée (1954)

Storyline :  In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.

Stars :  Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie, Cameron Mitchell, Elizabeth Sellars, Charlotte Austin, Cathleen Nesbitt, Evelyn Varden, Isobel Elsom, John Hoyt, Alan Napier

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D'Annunzio (1987)

Storyline :  D'Annunzio is in Rome, father, husband and bored with the prospect of another child on the way. Candidly megalomaniac and penniless, with no apparent effort goes from city to city: journalist, columnist, essayist, art critic, writer of transgressive and scandalous works,

Stars :  Robert Powell, Stefania Sandrelli, Laurent Terzieff, Florence Guérin, Sonia Petrovna, Teresa Ann Savoy, Fiorenza Marchegiani, Paolo Bonacelli

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The Singing Nun (1966)

Storyline :   Young and inexperienced Sister Ann has just arrived at her next posting at Samaritan House, a Dominican order located in a disreputable neighborhood of Ghent, Belgium. Sister Ann is enthusiastic, progressive but naive, all which irks one of the senior sisters, Sister Cluny, especially the fact that Sister Ann has a prized material possession, a guitar she's named Adele. Sister Ann considers Adele and her music to be her friends. Contrary to Sister Cluny, the Mother Prioress believes Sister Ann will be a welcome addition to their order. This posting is to be the training ground for Sister Ann and others to become missionaries in Africa. Sister Ann's path takes a detour when the order's Father Clementi hears Sister Ann sing. He believes Sister Ann should record her music and as a favor asks Robert Gerarde of Primavera Records for recording time. Unknown at the time the request is made, Robert and Sister Ann are old friends who attended the Paris Conservatory of Music together five years...

Stars :  Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalban, Greer Garson, Agnes Moorehead, Ed Sullivan, Katharine Ross, Chad Everett, Juanita Moore

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Words and Music (1948)

Storyline :  Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting, through lean years and their breakthrough, to their successes on Broadway, London, and Hollywood. We see the fruits of Hart and Rodgers' collaboration - elaborately staged numbers from their plays, characters' visits to night clubs, and impromptu performances at parties. We also see Larry's scattered approach to life, his failed love with Peggy McNeil, his unhappiness, and Richard's successful wooing of Dorothy Feiner.

Stars :  Judy Garland,  Mickey Rooney,  June Allyson,  Gene Kelly,  Perry Como,  Lena Horne, Ann Sothern,  Tom Drake,  Cyd Charisse,  Janet Leigh,  Betty Garrett,  Jeanette Nolan, Mel Torme,  Richard Quine,  Marshall Thompson,  Harold Miller,  Ethelreda Leopold, Frank Mayo,  Irving Bacon,  Bert Stevens,  Dee Turnell,  Ilka Grüning,  Sandra Spence

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Moulin Rouge (1952)

Storyline :  A fictionalized account of the latter part of the life of French artist Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901) is presented, he who is arguably most renowned professionally for immortalizing the characters of the Paris can-can dance hall, the Moulin Rouge, on canvas. This phase of his story begins in 1890. Born into aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec moves to Paris to pursue his art as he hangs out at the Moulin Rouge where he feels like he fits in being a misfit among other misfits.

 His misfit status is due to his diminutive physical stature, his legs which were broken and stopped growing following a childhood fall down some stairs. Because of the way he looks, he believes he is never destined to experience the true love of a woman. That lack of love in his life may change as he meets two women. The first is prostitute Marie Charlet, who he saves from imprisonment in a white knight act. Their relationship ends up being a turbulent one, the downs where each feels the need to hurt the other ...

Stars :  José Ferrer,  Zsa Zsa Gabor,  Colette Marchand,  Claude Nollier,  Katerine Kath, Suzanne Flon,  Christopher Lee,  Peter Cushing

Moulin Rouge Russian

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The Greatest Showman (2017)

Storyline :  Orphaned, penniless but ambitious and with a mind crammed with imagination and fresh ideas, the American Phineas Taylor Barnum will always be remembered as the man with the gift to effortlessly blur the line between reality and fiction. Thirsty for innovation and hungry for success, the son of a tailor will manage to open a wax museum but will soon shift focus to the unique and peculiar, introducing extraordinary, never-seen-before live acts on the circus stage. Some will call Barnum's wide collection of oddities, a freak show; however, when the obsessed showman gambles everything on the opera singer Jenny Lind to appeal to a high-brow audience, he will somehow lose sight of the most important aspect of his life: his family. Will Barnum risk it all to be accepted?

Stars :  Hugh Jackman,  Michelle Williams,  Zac Efron,  Zendaya,  Rebecca Ferguson, Diahann Carroll,  Fredric Lehne,  Keala Settle,  Yahya Abdul-Mateen II,  Isaac Eshete, Katrina E. Perkins,  John Druzba,  Shawn Contois,  Ethan Coskay,  Jamie Jackson

The Greatest Showman Russian

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Dalida (2016)

Storyline :  Based on the true story of acclaimed music icon Dalida born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, and playing in awarded Youssef Chahine's picture "Le Sixième Jour", and who later committed suicide in 1987 in Paris, after selling more than 130 million records worldwide.

Stars :  Sveva Alviti,  Riccardo Scamarcio,  Jean-Paul Rouve,  Nicolas Duvauchelle, Alessandro Borghi,  Valentina Carli,  Brenno Placido,  Niels Schneider, Vittorio Hamarz Vasfi,  Davide Lorino,  Haydee Borelli,  Vincent Perez,  Patrick Timsit

Dalida part 2

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I, Tonya (2017)

Storyline :  From the proverbial wrong side of the tracks in Portland, Oregon, former competitive figure skater Tonya Harding was never fully accepted in the figure skating community for not inherently being the image of grace, breeding and privilege that the community wanted to portray, despite she being naturally gifted in the sport athletically. Despite ultimately garnering some success in figure skating being national champion, a world championship medalist, an Olympian, and being the first American woman to complete a Triple Axel in competition, she is arguably best known for her association to "the incident": the leg bashing on January 6, 1994 of her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, who, unlike Tonya, was everything that the figure skating community wanted in their representatives. Her association to that incident led to Tonya being banned from competitive figure skating for life. Tonya's story from the beginning of her figure skating life at age four to the aftermath of the incident is presented...

Stars :  Margot Robbie,  Sebastian Stan,  Allison Janney,  Caitlin Carver,  Julianne Nicholson, Bojana Novakovic,  Mckenna Grace,  Paul Walter Hauser,  Bobby Cannavale, Renah Gallagher,  Amy Fox,  Ricky Russert,  Jeffery Arseneau,  Bobby Akers, Suehyla El-Attar,  Kaleigh Brooke Clark,  Catherine Dyer,  Joshua Mikel,  Jason Davis

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Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)

Storyline :  Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.

Stars :  Judy Garland,  June Allyson,  Frank Sinatra,  Van Johnson,  Angela Lansbury, Lucille Bremer,  Kathryn Grayson,  Van Heflin,  Lena Horne,  Tony Martin, Virginia O'Brien,  Dinah Shore,  Robert Walker,  Cyd Charisse

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The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

One of the first movies to place British cinema firmly on the international map, "The Private Life of Henry VIII" is a comedy of manners loosely based on the matrimonial adventures of a sixteenth-century English king who was married six times.

Starring Charles Laughton, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lanchester, Binnie Barnes, Robert Donat.

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