The Duke Is Tops
A theatrical producer puts aside his own success to boost the career of a talented singer.
A theatrical producer puts aside his own success to boost the career of a talented singer.
Ralph Cooper
Duke Davis
Lena Horne
Ethel Andrews
Laurence Criner
Doc Dorando (as Lawrence Criner)
Monte Hawley
George Marshall
Willie Covan
Specialty Tap Dancer
Neva Peoples
Ella
Vernon McCalla
Mason (as Vernon McCallum)
Edward Thompson
Ferdie Fenton
Johnny Taylor
Dippy, 'Prince Alakazoo'
A theatrical producer puts aside his own success to boost the career of a talented singer.
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. She starts out condemning the decadent West, but gradually falls under its spell—with the help of an American movie producer. A remake of Ninotchka (1939).
During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat and pickles contest...with hilarious results.
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
Stationed in West Germany, soldier Tulsa McLean hopes to open up a nightclub when he gets out of the army. Tulsa may lack the capital for such a venture, but a chance to raise the cash comes his way through a friendly wager. Local dancer Lili (Juliet Prowse) is a notorious ice queen, and Tulsa bets everything he has that a friend of his can earn her affections. But, when that friend is dispatched to Alaska, it's up to Tulsa to melt Lili's heart.
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.