Movies and TvShows featuring "stage-manager" theme.
When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, a glamorous showgirl must reconcile with the decisions she’s made and the community she has built as she plans her next act.
Aging New York cabbie Flanagan still has hopes of making it as a stage actor. He can recite any Shakespeare sonnet and is facile with accents, but he can't land an agent or a job. During the course of one summing-it-all-up day, he drives his cab around the city dealing with fare evaders, an insolent stage manager determined to keep him from auditioning for his choice director, his estranged wife who has a new lover, his mistress who seems awfully close to her "drawing teacher", and two teenage sons whose bright visions of the future don't seem to include jobs. If he can only cope with all the annoyances of this day, maybe he can deal with the limitations in his abilities and his future.
In the 1920s, a stage manager and a producer-director at a theatre company deal with rivalry and backstage drama while putting on a stage musical. The story takes a comedic twist, with a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel becoming involved in the chaos. Based on a Broadway musical, the film explores the glamorous yet chaotic world of the 1930s theatre scene.
In the midst of the air raids during World War II, a crotchety old stage actor struggles to stage a Shakespeare play while dealing with personal and professional challenges.
In 'Opening Night', former star Nick O'Shea is given a one-night chance to revive his success. However, everything goes haywire when he encounters his ex-girlfriend, a stage manager, and a slew of other chaotic characters. With one hit to depend on, Nick must navigate his way through a dance-off, dressing room drama, and his womanizing ways. Will he be able to pull off the show of a lifetime?
Cordelia, a cellist living in a basement apartment in London, becomes the victim of a stalker. As she tries to uncover the identity of her tormentor, she experiences panic attacks and becomes an unreliable narrator. The film explores themes of identity, trauma, and psychological suspense.
Set during World War II, 'The Dresser' follows the story of Norman, a crotchety old man who works as a dresser in a theater company. Norman is tasked with helping the veteran actor, Sir, prepare for his stage performance. As the war rages on and the theater faces the threat of bombing, Norman's dedication and loyalty are tested. The movie explores themes of aging, friendship, and the power of art.
In Happy Go Lovely, a girl in Edinburgh, Scotland is struggling to pay her rent and finds herself caught up in a music revue. Along the way, she falls in love with the show's director and must navigate the challenges of the entertainment industry.
In this movie filled with greed, murder, and deception, a businessman stages a murder mystery to uncover the truth behind an inheritance.
Ladies of the Chorus tells the story of a burlesque queen and her daughter, who navigates the ups and downs of the chorus line. With a backdrop of ballroom and tap dancing, the mother-daughter duo face prejudice, backstage drama, and the complexities of love. Will they find success in the world of burlesque?
Nanking (2007) is a documentary that tells the tragic story of the Nanking Massacre that took place in China in 1937. The film sheds light on the horrifying violence and atrocities committed by the Japanese army during their occupation of Nanking, and explores the courage and resilience of the Chinese people who survived the massacre.
Like the first entry, this one is played mostly for laughs, with Radio's Mister District Attorney. James Ellison replacing Dennis O'Keefe as feckless assistant DA P. Cadwallader Jones. The publisher of a tony fashion magazine is murdered, requiring Jones to sift through a colorful array of suspects. He is helped along by snoopy girl reporter Terry Parker.
The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get himself and his family blacklisted from every major vaude house in the country. Though Pete's kids Jimmy and Patsy love their dad, they're forced to break away from the act and go off on their own to survive. Eventually, the whole gang is reunited in a shamelessly lachrymose musical finale.
Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show, Winnie Clark appears in a camp show, hears about his task and offers him his help. He thinks, she does it for her publicity only, so he doesn't want to know anything about this, till he finds out, that she has no such intentions.
A love-struck actor in London struggles to balance his career and romantic relationships while working in a theater production.
A gangster rises to power in the criminal underworld but his jealousy and paranoia lead to his downfall.
Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink Broadway play producer in starring her in a planned-show that is a tribute to her supposed mother.