Sentences with phrase «fortune as a singer»

But his family is dead - set against anyone in their brood becoming a musician, and they have been since his great - great - grandfather left his great - great - grandmother, as well as his great - grandmother when she was still nothing but a child, to fend for themselves so he could make his fortune as a singer.

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Madame Adelaide decides to leave her fortune from her career as an opera singer to her cats.

Oscar Issac gave a terrific performance as Llewyn, an angry and devious Greenwich Village folk singer whose fortunes fade just as a young man called Bob Dylan arrives in town.

Asked hypothetically what he feels his directing style would be, Kinberg responded: «I've had the good fortune of working with a lot of good directors, from Bryan Singer to Ridley Scott to Sir Kenneth Branagh, and I've also had the opportunity to work with directors that aren't as good and I learned a lot of lessons from those directors as well.

The Truth About Youth briefly flickers to life when Loy comes on slinky nightclub singer «The Firefly,» seducing Young's betrothed, and she steals the show in The Naughty Flirt (1931), another tale of high - society bad behavior, this one starring Alice White as a brazen socialite who sets her sights on a young lawyer's in papa's firm and Loy as a party girl working with a gigolo to grab her fortune.

As she seeks her betrayer, we are treated to a grand operatic epic, from her Minnesota childhood, her escape to Europe as part of a traveling circus, her flight from the circus to the streets of Paris, then to a ritzy brothel, and finally to her emergence as a great singer and courtesan, with all the requisite reversals of fortune, melodrama and gorgeous costumes, gorgeously describeAs she seeks her betrayer, we are treated to a grand operatic epic, from her Minnesota childhood, her escape to Europe as part of a traveling circus, her flight from the circus to the streets of Paris, then to a ritzy brothel, and finally to her emergence as a great singer and courtesan, with all the requisite reversals of fortune, melodrama and gorgeous costumes, gorgeously describeas part of a traveling circus, her flight from the circus to the streets of Paris, then to a ritzy brothel, and finally to her emergence as a great singer and courtesan, with all the requisite reversals of fortune, melodrama and gorgeous costumes, gorgeously describeas a great singer and courtesan, with all the requisite reversals of fortune, melodrama and gorgeous costumes, gorgeously described.

Apart from great bargains, other attractions include fortune - tellers and occasionally, Cantonese opera singers, as well as alfresco dining.