Movies and TvShows featuring "tap-dancer" theme.
In a small Minnesota town, a beauty pageant becomes a hotbed of sabotage and murder, as the contestants and their families compete for the crown. With a cast of eccentric characters and unexpected twists, Drop Dead Gorgeous is a hilarious and dark satire of small-town America.
The Cotton Club is a famous New York City nightclub in the 1920s and 1930s. It tells the story of a young musician named Dixie Dwyer who gets involved with the mob and falls in love with a singer named Vera Cicero. The club becomes a hot spot for jazz and attracts many famous musicians of the time. However, racial tensions and mob wars threaten to tear the club apart.
Easter Parade is a romantic musical set in 1910s New York City. It follows the story of a dance duo who join forces to become stars in the famous Ziegfeld Follies. Along the way, they navigate romantic rivalries, show-business betrayals, and the challenges of making it in the competitive world of show business.
In this musical comedy, a sailor on shore leave in New York City pretends to be married to avoid unwanted attention. However, complications arise when he falls in love with a young dancer and is faced with an ultimatum. With mistaken identities, tap dancing, and romantic reconciliations, this Broadway musical is full of comedy and surprises.
Get to Know Your Rabbit is a comedy about a businessman named Donald, who abruptly quits his job to pursue his dream of becoming a magician. Along the way, he encounters various eccentric characters and navigates through the ups and downs of the entertainment industry. Will Donald find success and happiness as a magician or will he return to his former life?
Roberta is a movie set in 1930s Paris, where a dressmaker pretends to be a Russian countess to impress a potential suitor. However, complications arise when her true identity is revealed, leading to a series of comedic events and romantic entanglements.
Ship Ahoy is a comedy musical set on a ship during World War II. A group of performers find themselves caught up in a spy ring when they unwittingly stumble upon a government secret. With misunderstandings, mistaken identities, and secret weapons, the performers must navigate their way through the chaos while also putting on a show for the passengers.
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.
The Time of Your Life follows the lives of various characters in a San Francisco bar in the 1940s. It explores themes of friendship, loneliness, and the search for meaning. The story revolves around Joe, a wealthy man who wants to experience life to the fullest, and his interactions with the other patrons and staff of the bar.
Laughing Sinners tells the story of a young Salvation Army worker named Ivy Stevens who falls in love with a composer named Carl Loomis. However, their relationship is tested when Ivy becomes seduced by a promiscuous nightclub singer named Harley Prentiss. Ivy must navigate her own desires and the temptations of the world in order to find redemption and true love.
After being wrongfully convicted of murder, a woman escapes from prison and sets out to clear her name. Along the way, she becomes involved in a love triangle and must navigate a series of comedic and dramatic situations.
Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted mansion.
When a female reporter from San Francisco arrives in New York City, she gets caught up in a whirlwind of a Hollywood hoax, secret marriages, and tap-dancing tramp steamers.
A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart and go their separate ways for a time. Also in the mix are two circus comics who feud over the heart of another Southern belle.
A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the naïve boy would make the perfect investor for his daughter's new show. Comedy with music.
A painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he's a famous bandleader and finds romance with a pretty singer. Comedy with music.
Two desperate singers take a job as the singing act in a movie theater between shows. They soon regret their decision.
Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She refuses and goes to Las Vegas. When she finds them there hunting her down, she manages to escape them by hiding in the car of a newspaper reporter. She comes out of hiding while he is driving, but everything she says is misconstrued, making him believe that she is a recently-escaped convict, "The Singing Widow". He plans to use this as a story to get back into the good graces of his editor. Through some comic mishaps, he learns who she really is. He then decides to take her back to Hollywood to collect the reward for her return. But now love has entered the mix, and must be resolved with his job and her engagement to another.
In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately, the local gang of hood's leader resists his attempts. More trouble ensues when the dancer helps a convict gain parole by hiring him. It later turns out that the ex-con is only interested in trying to use the agency as a front for extortion. Songs include the Oscar nominated "When There's a Breeze on Lake Louise," "Your Face Looks Familiar," "Heavenly, Isn't He?" "Let's Forget It," "You're Bad For Me," and "A Million Miles From Manhattan."
In this short film, musical and dance acts perform, first at a night club, then at a "rent party".