Whether playing a lonely teenager re-enacting a high school play,
a nightclub singer with schizophrenia, a visitor from another planet, a silent movie star, a ventriloquist or psychic medium, her face and voice are always the focus, constantly changing and morphing as she performs.
Not exact matches
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]
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.
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.
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.
Tashlin's hand is more evident in his pop - culture lampoons: Lewis as an wild - eyed rock and roll
singer with no actual talent beyond energetic shouting and gesticulating, Marilyn Maxwell's Egyptian costume epic transformed into a silly musical
with a cheesy
nightclub number.
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.
A small town
singer, Ali (Christina Aguilera), moves to the big city for her chance at stardom where she is enchanted by Burlesque, a glamorous
nightclub packed
with dancers, sizzling music, and an owner (Cher) in need of a star.
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.
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.
A battered
nightclub veteran too busy mourning her late junkie husband to see or cope
with her daughter's nameless distress, she's a walking illustration of Altman's worldview; but she isn't a real character, and
Singer is even less of one.
Days after news broke of The Voice
singer, Christina Grimmie's murder, it was reported that an Orlando
nightclub had been the target of a mass shooting
with over 40 fatalities.
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.