Movies and TvShows featuring "trouper" theme.
To Be or Not to Be is a dark comedy set in Warsaw, Poland during World War II. It follows a troupe of actors who become involved in a plot to deceive the Nazis and protect the Polish Resistance. The film explores themes of deception, sacrifice, and the power of comedy in the face of despair.
Night Will Fall is a documentary that tells the story of the making of the film German Concentration Camps Factual Survey. It explores the efforts of the British government to document the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps and the subsequent restoration of the footage. The film provides a powerful and haunting look at the horrors of the Holocaust.
In the freezing arctic, a photographer and her team find themselves in a life-or-death situation when they are hunted by a genetically modified creature. They must use their wits and survival skills to outsmart the creature and make it out alive.
In the 1870s, a traveling salesman arrives in a small Colorado town to sell his products. However, he soon finds himself caught up in a comedy of errors involving a stagecoach, a peace treaty, a Chinese man, a sharpshooter, a dance hall girl, and a racist stereotype. With the help of a female empowerment troupe and a US Marshal, he attempts to navigate the chaotic situation and save the day.
Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault of stage managers, agents, musicians...everybody but himself. Eddie likes to tell others how good he is, but seldom shows them. Kitty Mayo, an old-time burlesque queen, who is with the McNary Vaudeville Company, advises Eddie to get himself a partner, as his solo abilities can only be stretched so far. He decides to follow her advice and, while in a theatrical supply shop, he sees Rita Carey rehearsing her dancing act that includes a trained duck. Eddie tells Rita he is a good friend of McNary's, and, with him as her partner, her future in show business will be secured. She agrees to join him and Eddie promptly names the act "Eddie Kehoe and Partner". Despite his conceit, Rita likes Eddie, as do others in the troupe, including Cleo a little gold-digger.
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.
A troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.
A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.
A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can solve the murder.
Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service due to WWII, and joins struggling singers/songwriters Sally Richards and Sue Ford in this endeavor. Dottie's screwball schemes to get engagements for the group often lead to disaster.
Nancy Willows (Constance Towers), pretty blonde high school teacher, writes song lyrics which spark the careers of struggling young pianist-composer Martin Adams (Keefe Brasselle')and would-be singer Jerry Dennis (Frankie Laine). When Nancy and Martin fall in love but quarrel over her old flame, David Parker (William Leslie), Nancy returns to her teaching job. Jerry reunites Nancy and Martin and, in turn, succumbs to the charms of his new secretary Marge Stevenson (Lucy Marlow).
Cam Ellerby brings his traveling medicine show to town and it spells glamour and excitement to young Sylvia Townsend.
Ruth Eton (Ruth Etting), a singer with a traveling show troupe, is engaged to the troupe manager, Joe Grant (Edward Leiter), but when Ruth's younger sister, Laura (Wanda Perry) arrives, fickle Joe transfers his attentions and intentions to her. For the sake of her sister and the show, Ruth accepts her tough break philosophically, and sings "Why Did It Have To Be Me?"...because she is a real trouper.
The circus comes to town, and the town's orphans are treated to a day at the circus. The circus troupe's 'Jinx' girl causes so many problems for the performers and performances that, to escape punishment, she has to run away. She mingles with the orphans and runs away to join an orphanage.
After a vaudeville performer is murdered backstage, framed-up evidence lead the police to arrest a troupe member. At his trial, Hermann, a Scandinavian clown known as Beppo, is the lone juror holding out against conviction and pleading for his innocence and acquittal.
Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
Harry Wallace (Harry Richman) is the star of a musical comedy who, while on a leave of absence from Broadway, encounters a troupe of untalented showboat players and takes them to New York City. Without letting them in on the joke, he then features them in a new revue, hoping that unintentionally-funny act will bring the house down.
When Tad Wallace's act flops on Broadway, he joins a troop heading west. In a small town, they run into Jeffries who has just burned down the theater. When Jeffries kills Griswold, Tad has a plan to trap him by using the talents of Shakespearian actor Thorndyke.