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There's No Business Like Show Business(1954)

NR
| 1h 57min | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 41 votes)

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.

The Broadway Melody(1929)

NR
| 1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.6/5 (with 53 votes)

The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognises that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.

Directed by Harry Beaumont - With Anita Page, Charles King, Bessie Love, Edward Dillon, Carla Laemmle, Jed Prouty, ...

Yankee Doodle Dandy(1942)

NR
| 2h 6min | Drama, Music
3.6/5 (with 87 votes)

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

One Froggy Evening(1955)

3.9/5 (with 71 votes)

A workman finds a singing frog in the cornerstone of an old building being demolished. But when he tries to cash in on his discovery, he finds the frog will sing only for him, and just croak for the talent agent and the audience in the theater he's spent his life savings on.

Directed by Chuck Jones

The Sunshine Boys(1975)

PG
| 1h 51min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 39 votes)

Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spoken in over 20 years of retirement. Willy Clark's nephew is the producer of a TV variety show that wants to feature a reunion of this classic duo. It is up to him to try to get the Sunshine Boys back together again.

Brain Donors(1992)

PG
| 1h 32min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 24 votes)

Three manic idiots—a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman—team up to run a ballet company to fulfil the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet.

The Great Rupert(1950)

1h 28min | Kids & Family, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.

The Great Flamarion(1945)

NR
| 1h 18min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.

Road to Utopia(1945)

NR
| 1h 30min | Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family, Music
3.4/5 (with 16 votes)

While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countryside—for the map.

The.Three.Stooges(2000)

1h 28min | Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

A biography of the Three Stooges, in which their careers and rise to fame is shown throughout the eyes of their leader, Moe.

For Me and My Gal(1942)

NR
| 1h 44min | Music, Romance / Love, War
3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

Babes in Arms(1939)

1h 33min | Comedy, Music
3.3/5 (with 17 votes)

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.

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Mother Wore Tights(1947)

NR
| 1h 47min | Music
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.

Walking My Baby Back Home(1953)

1h 35min | Comedy, Music

A young man from a wealthy New York family pursues a career as the leader of a dance band.

Broadway Scandals(1929)

1h 13min | Music, Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Ted Howard, a vaudevillian left, stranded in a tank town. A local girl, Mary (Sally O'Neil), proposes to finance a new act with her savings and the team succeeds in a minor way until Ted is discovered by Broadway femme fatale Valeska (Carmel Myers). Not wishing to stand in her partner's way, Mary nobly resigns from the act and instead accepts a minor role in the show. She proves a sensation on opening night, however, and a jealous Valeska demands her ousted. But Ted, who is in love with Mary, reorganizes their old act and they begin a new life together as man and wife.

All I Desire(1953)

NR
| 1h 19min | Drama, Romance / Love, History
3.6/5 (with 14 votes)

In 1910, a wayward mother re-visits the family she deserted.

Bright Lights(1935)

NR
| 1h 22min | Comedy, Music
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.

Directed by Busby Berkeley - With Joe E. Brown

The Seven Little Foys(1955)

NR
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While they continue to tour the circuit, they begin a family and before long have seven little Foys to clutter the wings. After tragedy threatens to stall Eddie's career, he comes to realize that his little terrors are worth their weight in gold. - Chris Stone.

Bob Hope on the Road to China(1979)

Bob Hope tours China, takes in the culture and meets up with Big Bird, Crystal Gayle, Peaches and Herb, and others.

Elstree Calling(1930)

1h 23min | Music, Comedy
2.6/5 (with 8 votes)

A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).

The Parish Priest of Saint-Amour(1952)

1h 28min | Comedy

The Marquise de Saint-Ange wants to marry her niece Nicole, but the young girl, put off by the chosen suitor, flees with her friend Jacques.

Bound by Flesh(2012)

NR
| 1h 35min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 8 votes)

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were once the cream of the sideshow crop. Taught to sing and dance at an early age, the winsome duo ascended through the early 20th-century vaudeville circuit as a side attraction (working alongside Bob Hope and Charlie Chaplin as well as a memorable turn in the Tod Browning classic "Freaks") before a cascade of unscrupulous management and harsh mistreatment brought their careers (and lives) tumbling down. This engrossing glimpse into a bygone era is filled with fascinating interviews and rare archival footage.

Puttin' on the Ritz(1930)

NR
| 1h 28min | Music
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.

Glorifying the American Girl(1929)

NR
| 1h 35min | Music, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the latest hits. She is accompanied on piano by her childhood boyfriend, who is in love with her, despite her single-minded interest in her career. When a vaudeville performer asks her to join him as his new partner, she sees it as an opportunity to make her dream come true. Upon arriving in New York City, our heroine finds out that her new partner is only interested in sleeping with her and makes this a condition of making her a star. Soon, however, she is discovered by a representative of Ziegfeld.

Caicedo (with Pole)(1894)

3.0/5 (with 18 votes)

King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home.

Spotlight Scandals(1943)

A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go awry.

Directed by William Beaudine

Upstage(1926)

1h 16min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Dolly Havens, a small-town girl with big-town ambitions that are larger than her talents, hooks up with Johnny Storm, a vaudeville performer, whose talents make the act a success. Dolly, thinking she is the reason, meets a handsome leading man and joins up with him but, before long, he discovers 'she ain't a trouper' and she is soon performing with 4th-class acts in Tank Town America.

If I Had My Way(1940)

NR
| 1h 34min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Construction worker Buzz Blackwell becomes the guardian of 12-year-old Pat Johnson after one of his buddies, her father, is killed. Buzz and Pat, along with their chum Axel Swensen, head to New York to look for the girl's uncle. The trio soon unexpectedly become owners of a tired restaurant.

Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope(1894)

2.4/5 (with 19 votes)

Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.

When My Baby Smiles at Me(1948)

1h 38min | Music
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear on Broadway while Bonny gets left behind on the road. Things get worse with Skid's increasing drinking problem and the fact that the press has reported him to be spending a lot of time with his pretty co-star.

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