Eight-year-old Heidi is orphaned and her selfish maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with Adolph Kramer Read More »
Musical
Howdy Broadway (1929) Charles J. Hunt, Tommy Christian, Ellalee Ruby, Johnny Kane
A story about wild youth is framed in this early musical from Poverty Row company Rayart that includes such songs as “I Want You to Know I Love You” Read More »
Step Across the Border (1990) Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel, Jonas Mekas, Julia Judge, John Spacely
This film is a snapshot of the life of Fred Frith, an English-born multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor. Read More »
Lili Marleen (1981) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer
In Switzerland, German singer Willie falls in love with Jewish composer, Robert, who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. Read More »
Mardi Gras (1958) Edmund Goulding, Pat Boone, Christine Carère, Tommy Sands
A military school cadet Boone wins a date with a French movie goddess (Carère) who happens to be the queen of the “Mardi Gras” parade. Read More »
Jolly Fellows (1934) Grigori Aleksandrov, Leonid Utyosov, Lyubov Orlova, Mariya Strelkova
Yelena (Mariya Strelkova), a well-off would-be singer who can’t carry a tune Read More »
April in Paris (1952) David Butler, Doris Day, Ray Bolger, Claude Dauphin
Miss Ethel ‘Dynamite’ Jackson is a chorus girl who mistakingly receives an invitation from the State Department Read More »
Cheer Up (1936) Leo Mittler, Stanley Lupino, Sally Gray, Roddy Hughes
A couple of out of work songwriters try to persuade a wealthy stockbroker to back them. Read More »
Shall We Dance (1937) Mark Sandrich, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
Ballet star Pete “Petrov” Peters arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer Read More »
This is the Army (1943) Michael Curtiz, George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias
In WWI dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Read More »