Sentences with phrase «nightclub singer»

The victim is a blackmailing nightclub singer who had listed the names of all known criminals in Manhattan in her diary.

Michelle Williams will make her Broadway debut as sultry nightclub singer Sally Bowles in a planned revival of «Cabaret,» according to reports.

She is Marina, a waitress and nightclub singer with operatic aspirations who is the lover of a rather older man, Orlando (Francisco Reyes, a dead ringer for Paul Verhoeven), who has left his family to live with her.

A blackmailing nightclub singer, who has made a habit of blackmailing her well - to - do lovers, is found murdered — necessitating the intervention of sleuth - extraordinaire Phil Vance.

He received recognition at the Golden Globes, Gotham Awards, and the Independent Spirit Awards for his portrayal of transgendered nightclub singer Calpernia Addams.

In an early scene in Chilean director Sebastián Lelio's A Fantastic Woman, performing on stage, the transgender, sultry nightclub singer Marina flirts with Orlando, her older lover and partner.

Exquisitely - tailored contract killer Jeff (Chow Yun - Fat, Hong Kong's finest actor) accidentally damages the sight of nightclub singer Jennie while blasting a dozen gangsters to kingdom come.

The other family member, David's favorite, is Aunt Mae (Rowlands), a former nightclub singer who moves in when she has nowhere else to go, though Frank thoroughly disapproves of her.

Nelly (Nina Hoss), a German - Jewish nightclub singer, has survived a concentration camp, but with her face disfigured by a bullet wound.

Stewart plays Peter Morgan, a young botany professor who while on a visit to New York impulsively marries free - spirited nightclub singer Francey (Rogers).

after a whirlwind romance, botany professor stewart tries to introduce his new bride, nightclub singer rogers, to the stuffy academic crowd, especially his father, university president charles coburn.

When director Alain Gomis introduces us to single mother and nightclub singer Félicité, he seems to hold onto realism with as firm a grip as his fierce heroine.

Nikki Baughan: Transgender actress Daniela Vega puts in a phenomenal, mesmerising performance as Chilean nightclub singer Marina, whose already challenging life is turned upside down after the death of her older boyfriend.

From there, we disappear into Margot's dream, wherein she wakes as an amnesiac nightclub singer and we drift into a colleague's song about a man (Udo Kier) obsessed with derrieres, and inflamed by a whiplashing id personification known as The Master Passion (Geraldine Chaplin), which culminates in the afflicted man's multiple lobotomies.

Set in gorgeous 1930s London, it sees downtrodden middle - aged governess Miss Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) on the brink of destitution unless she can bag a long - shot job as PA to a dizzy, glamorous young, mink - for - brains nightclub singer Delysia Lafosse (a perfect Amy Adams)-- whose main talent lies between her own satin sheets.

MacLachlan's amateur sleuthing plunges him into a dangerous underworld populated by sad - eyed nightclub singer Isabella Rossellini and her psychotic tormentor, Dennis Hopper, lover of PBR, nitrous oxide, kinky sex and Roy Orbison.

As Marina, the transgender nightclub singer ostracised and humiliated by her late lover's family, Daniela Vega is the driving force behind Sebastián Lelio's absorbing drama.

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.

When Alice Neel moved from the bohemian Chelsea to Spanish Harlem in 1938, she was pregnant with her son, Richard, whose father was nightclub singer José Negrón.

And, as a former amateur nightclub singer, Laura really knows how to tackle and inspire a tough crowd.

«A Fantastic Woman» follows Marina, a waitress and nightclub singer who must put her life back together after her older boyfriend dies suddenly.

Stars a young Scott Baio as career criminal Malone and Jodie Foster (at 13, and already a screen veteran) as a sultry nightclub singer.

Money permits a nightclub singer to buy bread from a baker who gets his music from iTunes.

But Sharon meets her match in a nightclub singer who likes to rough up women.

Synopsis: After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane (Whoopi Goldberg), answers a personal ad from Robin (Mary - Louise Parker), a real es... [MORE]

During her early years as an actress, Rosalind Cash moonlighted as a hospital aide, waitress, salesgirl, and nightclub singer.

Her film career finished by 1943, Weidler staged an unsuccessful comeback as a nightclub singer, then retired from show business in favor of a happy and enduring marriage.

A waitress moonlights as a nightclub singer when her boyfriend dies suddenly.

A nightclub singer (Vera Ralston, I, Jane Doe) becomes mixed up in illegal drug dealings and the mob shortly after witnessing her husband's supposed death and the murder of a couple of narcotic... More

Singers Gwen Stefani (as Harlow) and Rufus Wainwright (preening ridiculously as a nightclub singer) get unnecessarily featured moments.

Written by Neil Simon, The Marrying Man follows Alec Baldwin's Charley Pearl as he walks away from his engagement to Elisabeth Shue's Adele Horner after meeting a sultry nightclub singer (Kim Basinger's Vicki Anderson)- with the film subsequently detailing the couple's consistently tempestuous relationship and their multiple marriages to one another.

Melora Hardin, Jan from The Office, plays a nightclub singer who emerges from a giant clamshell, while acclaimed character actress Margo Martindale plays a waitress in a café that's made to look like a giant bulldog.

A crime thriller melodrama transformed into an explosive revenge tale with the suave Chow Yun - fat as the soulful hitman of the title and Sally Yeh as a nightclub singer blinded during one of his assignments, it melds such divergent films as Jean - Pierre Melville's Le Samourai and Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession into an explosive revenge tale.

A Fantastic Woman stars Daniela Vega as transsexual Marina, a waitress moonlighting as a nightclub singer who is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.

Which is just as well because Nelly, who was a nightclub singer before the war, is a disfigured Jewish survivor of the concentration camps who had been shot in the face and left for dead.

Nightclub singer and dancer Gilda (Rita Hayworth), a prototypical sex symbol before the term came into vogue, carries on a perverse relationship with two men — her husband (George Macready) and her ex (Glenn Ford) in South America.

Playing Marina, a waitress, nightclub singer, and strongly self - possessed trans woman in Santiago, Chile, Vega is on - screen for all but the first few minutes, carrying the film almost single - handedly through its shifts between melodrama, social - problem picture, and delirium.

The trail leads to a nightclub singer (Rossellini) who lives alone in a starkly furnished flat.

The title character is Marina, a waitress and nightclub singer who must put her life back together after her older boyfriend dies suddenly.

A subplot involving Angermann's attraction to a nightclub singer (Lilith Stangenberg) replaces the real conversation that these two men should be having but at which, instead, they only hint — that the discriminatory policies of the Nazis still continue, albeit against a group that it is still considered socially acceptable to treat as criminals, simply because of who they are.

Most notably there's A Fantastic Woman, directed by Sebastian Lelio and starring Daniela Vega as a waitress who moonlights as a nightclub singer, grieving over the death of her older boyfriend; Vega is already being praised for her powerful performance, and the movie was one of the best reviewed of 2017.