Movies and TvShows featuring "carnegie-hall" theme.

Florence Foster Jenkins, a wealthy New York City heiress, has a dream of becoming an opera singer. She hires a vocal coach and starts performing in front of audiences, unaware of her complete lack of singing talent. With the support of her husband and loyal friends, Florence pursues her passion and becomes famous for her unique performances. However, her delusions and chronic disease eventually catch up with her.

The Turning Point follows the lives of two aspiring ballerinas, Deedee and Emma, who both face personal and professional challenges as they pursue their dreams. Deedee struggles to balance her role as a wife and mother with her desire to dance, while Emma is haunted by past regrets and a competitive rivalry with Deedee. Together, they navigate the complexities of the ballet world, including jealousy, infidelity, and the quest for perfection. Will they find redemption and triumph in the face of adversity?

In the midst of World War II, a Polish violinist and a German opera singer form a forbidden love amidst the horrors of the German occupation of Poland. As they navigate the challenges of war and prejudice, they find solace in music and create a lasting legacy.

Lady Sings the Blues is a biography drama film that tells the tragic story of jazz singer Billie Holiday. Set in the 1930s and 1940s in Harlem, New York City, the movie follows Billie's struggles with drug addiction, racism, and her rise to fame as a singer. It explores her relationships, including her tumultuous marriage and her mother-daughter bond. The film delves into the dark side of the music industry, showcasing the hardships Billie faced, from drug rehabilitation to facing the Ku Klux Klan. Lady Sings the Blues is a poignant and emotional journey into the life of a legendary musician.

The story of an economically depressed town whose corrupt mayor decides to create a fake miracle in order to attract tourists. The phony miracle draws the attention of an emotionally inhibited nurse, a crowd of inmates from a local asylum, and a doctor with secrets of his own.

City for Conquest tells the story of two brothers, one a truck driver and the other a talented composer, as they navigate their ambitions and the challenges of life in New York City. Their lives intertwine with dancers, musicians, gamblers, and a blind pianist, all striving to make their dreams come true.

A young Irishwoman comes to the United States to live and work with her mother as a cleaning lady at Carnegie Hall. She becomes attached to the place as the people she meets there gradually shape her life. The film also includes a variety of performances from some of the foremost musical artists of the times: conductors Bruno Walter & Leopold Stokowski, solists Arthur Rubinstein & Jascha Haifetz, singers Lily Pons & Jan Peerce and bandleader Vaughn Monroe among many others.

He dazzled America for decades with his musical artistry. Now fans as well as those curious about this exciting entertainer’s unique appeal can relive the Liberace magic in his only starring film, Sincerely Yours. In a poignant story scripted by Irving Wallace, Liberace plays a concert pianist threatened by deafness. Plunged into despair, he finds escape from personal sorrow by secretly involving himself in the problems of strangers. Liberace touches the heart and delights the ear with sparkling renditions of 31 selections from Chopin to Chopsticks. Along the way he romances Joanne Dru and Dorothy Malone, trades barbs with old pro William Demarest and in a warmly humorous nightclub scene, pokes fun at his own image as the 1950s matinee idol of the little-old-lady set. From beginning to end, Sincerely Yours perfectly captures the charisma and sheer musicality of the legendary Mr. Showmanship.

The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.

A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.

Mr. and Mrs. Jones hear a piano being played in their living room. They automatically assume it is their cat who is making the music, when in fact, the talented one is a mouse whom the cat has forced into being his stooge to make him famous. The cat is showered with media attention and set to play at Carnegie Hall, where he hopes nobody will notice that he is pantomiming the movements with the keys while the mouse is playing his miniature piano inside the full-scale model.

Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted mansion.