Movies and TvShows featuring "music-publisher" theme.
A group of aspiring musicians and singers navigate their way through the Nashville music scene. They face challenges in love, business, and personal growth as they chase their dreams of success.
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
The Great Waltz is a musical drama set in Vienna, Austria in the year 1845. It tells the story of a talented musician, Johann Strauss, and his journey to becoming a famous Viennese composer. Along the way, he faces romantic rivalry, self-sacrifice, and the challenges of fame. The movie explores his relationships, including his tumultuous marriage and extramarital affairs. It also highlights the cultural and historical backdrop of Austria during that time period, including the revolution and the imperial palace. With beautiful music, captivating performances, and a compelling plot, The Great Waltz is a must-watch for fans of biographical dramas and music.
After learning they were duped by a con artist, two songwriters join forces with other swindled colleagues and use creative methods to promote their music.
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
Set in the backdrop of New York City, the movie explores the journey of a talented composer as he overcomes various obstacles to achieve success in the music industry. It portrays his relationships, musical achievements, and personal challenges.
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
A piano teacher and her roommate decide invest their savings in a music publishing company. Comedy with music.
A songwriter is sued for libel, and when he gets to court he discovers that his girlfriend is the plaintiff's attorney.
A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.
Lady Be Good tells the story of a divorce judge and a singer-songwriter who meet and fall in love in New York City. The film explores themes of divorce, remarriage, and the challenges of balancing personal and professional lives. It features lively musical numbers and tap dancing sequences, creating a delightful and entertaining experience for viewers.
When a college girl becomes the center of attention for a group of men, a battle of the sexes ensues. With a backdrop of music and comedy, the film explores themes of feminism and women's liberation.
Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of US films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical screwball-comedy fashion, the plot is set in motion by authoress Nicky Henderson, who has hit the best-seller charts with her latest tome, Why Marry a Latin? While researching her next book in Rio De Janeiro, she finds out "why" when she meets handsome songwriter Miguel Soares. Upon learning about Nicky's book, Miguel decides to teach her a few lessons in the affairs of the heart. Edward Everett Horton is also on hand, twittering his way through the role of a well-meaning buttinsky. Thanks to the "Good Neighbor" policy of the 1940s, South American musicals were a glut on the market, but Brazil was good enough on its own merits to pay its way at the box office.
When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle Publishing Co., has claimed as his own the song she submitted to his company. One of the many films made at Republic with a year attached to the "Hit Parade" title, which came from the "Hit Parade" radio program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes.
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.
A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.
The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.
Break of Hearts is a story about a married couple who are both musicians. Their marriage is tested when the husband becomes infatuated with another woman, leading to heartbreak and reconciliation.