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After an accident, Princess Maria Christine ends up stranded in Rothenburg, where she falls in love with engineer Rudi Becker, but pretends to be a shoe saleswoman. Misunderstandings, mix-ups and intrigues lead to turmoil surrounding her planned wedding to the King of Slovenia.
An unemployed sailor gets a job at the yacht of a wealthy man, where he is tortured by his beautiful young wife and decides to leave his wife and son to leave with her.
Foulad Bek, a wealthy reactionary who loves breeding horses, is coveted by his secretary Sami for his money. He tries to marry his sister Nana to Hassan, Foulad's heir. Hassan loves art and works in a circus with his friend Rashid. He loves Basbas, the daughter of the circus owner Bahlool. His father sends him to Cairo for Eid, but he refuses. Foulad instructs Nana to make Hassan fall in love with her.
One of Pancho Magalona and Tita Duran's most beloved films.
Biographical film about the composer Rimskiy-Korsakov. Belongs to the gallery of costume historical and biographical films of the postwar cinema of the Soviet Union. The film tells about the last two decades in the life of Russian composer.
Carlos, veterinary, poet, musician in his spare time and a fun-minded Don Juan,pretends to be his friend Fernando who has inherited a pharmacy in Madrid. There he meets an old girl friend that attracts him.
Tokyo in the 1950s. A jazz-loving younger sister attends piano lessons, while her older brother is obsessed with drumming. The two discover the joy of music. From the ashes of Cinema 58, a continuation of Hiroshi Teshigahara and Susumu Hani’s screening group Cinema 57, Teshigahara and Hani invited new filmmakers to join the group such as Yoshiro Kawazu, Zenzo Matsuyama, Kyushiro Kusakabe, Sadamu Maruo, Kanzaburo Mushanokoji, Masahiro Ogi, Ryuichiro Sakisaka to make Tokyo 1958. Hani, Teshigahara and Kawazu make a promotional jazz film for an instrument maker during the vibrant 50s. They employ a similar newsreel documentary shooting style as Tokyo 1958.
Three sailors rescue Carmen, who has fallen into the clutches of the white slave trade, and also manage to destroy a drug gang.
Husband and wife share the spotlight as two of Mexico's most famous ranchera singers, but when they decide to pursue solo careers, a Spanish theatrical empresario and an Italian female chocolatier will threaten their marriage.
Mohamed Fawzy, 1957
A shy lawyer tries to win the hand of a beautiful girl and hilarities ensue.
Juan Luis and Dimas arrive to the "Venta del Catite", a tavern run by Rafael and his goddaughter Reyes. The tavern is frequented by tuna fishermen in the region, but in reality it is a cover for smuggling. Rafael decides to hire a beautiful singer, Raquel, to distract customers and the two new arrivals, so that he can do his business without being disturbed.
The residents of a dormitory led by Bu Siti each have their own personal issues. Tari, a dance student, falls in love with a man old enough to be her father. Rahimah, a medical student, is about to be forced into marriage in her village but is rescued by Nasrul. Maria, a flight attendant, gets entangled in a love quadrangle. She is loved by Imansyah, a co-pilot, but Maria is more attracted to Broto, a wealthy merchant. However, Broto himself is more interested in Sita, a dance instructor. Additionally, two teenagers, Ani and Ina, are placed under Bu Siti's care because their parents are preoccupied with politics. All these problems are resolved in a comedic manner.
We have linguists, we have literary men, we have newspapers, actors, musicians, but we have no national opera!", lamented the champions of national revival in the middle of the last century. Hungarian music culture at home is limited to the performance of works by foreign composers. And the public demands Hungarian opera, and such a challenge is not easy to meet. So let's see who is up to the task!
Naima is still a student in a boarding school, but she collides with the reality of life early on. She loves Kamal, the actor, but he cannot marry her because he is engaged to his cousin. At the same time, Naima's uncle tries to marry her to his crazy son so that he can get the money she inherited. This is where the school principal intervenes to help her.
In 1925 Maria Velez, a young Andalusian, starts working on the set of a variety show. Her tenacity, her fighting spirit and the strength of his voice enable Mary to win fame as a great popular singer. But his luck her love life is not the same, three men fall for her and whoever is elected dies tragically.
Two rival colleges prepare for a Battle Of The Bands. Also malt-shoppes and football games.
In this film, the famous singer/composer Zeki Müren plays himself. His flamboyant and luxurious life takes a tragic turn when he is poisoned, loses his voice and then gets framed for the killing that he doesn't actually carry out.
A concert film made up of performances shown at the final concert of the Decade of Belarusian Art and Literature in Moscow in February 1955.
To the tune of a classic French-Canadian nonsense song, surreal blackbird made of lines loses body parts and gets them back threefold.
A young woman wants to dedicate herself to Spanish music and her father opposes it, but she continues with her project.
Early 'visual music' film by John Whitney. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.
A young landlady on Lake Constance returns the love of an operetta singer who concealed his fame and profession from her.
The narrative deals with the dreams and aspiration of a 16-old-girl, Sheetal (Meena Kumari) caught in the vortex of uncertainty and morality. Desperate for engagement with her neighbour, Shravan (Nasir Khan) who is equally drawn towards her but she is forced into meaningless wedlock with a sick old man.
Musical short with Neil Chotem.
A stage director gives the lead role to an actress who gets completely in character and becomes the fraudster who steals a precious necklace from one of the stores. As she escapes to Cairo, she puts the necklace in the pocket of a well-known singer who discovers her singing talent.
A woman impressed by news reports about flying saucers, gets hit on the head by a vase, passes out and dreams that she is the 'Queen of Mars', from where she sends an expedition to Earth in order to bring back Rio's Carnaval to the planet.
A Harvard grad tries to start a gold claim, but is immediately beset by the amorous daughter of a rival miner.
Saber Effendi is a simple employee suffering from financial pitfalls. A new manager comes to the company who had an old friendship with Saber's wife, which strengthens his relationship with Saber's family. But it causes a rumor that there is a relationship between the manager and Saber's wife.
A multitude of entertainment's biggest stars come together to celebrate the life of the late Manie Sacks, recording executive for Columbia Records, and vice president of both NBC and RCA.
Composer John Berger is plagued by marital problems and struggling with a deadline for the music for an operetta. When he is visited by the muse of music, Polyhymnia, the melodies begin to flow, but she also causes a lot of complications in his earthly life. Like John's wife Irene, she falls in love with flight lieutenant Harry, while her father Zeus looks on disapprovingly and decides to intervene. Meanwhile, the premiere of the operetta is fast approaching.
Tó and Pedro are cyclists from rival clubs, sponsored by small, highly competitive local companies: Famel (bicycles) and Caves (wines). Their competition extends to girls. Clara, the school teacher, ends up by marrying Tó, after he suffers a nasty accident which Pedro was involved - or that may have been Pedro's fault. 1 year later, it's again competition day when Clara gives birth to a son, and a similar head-to-head race finish...
Sheikh Hassan loves Louisa, the sister of his friend's student, they get married against the blessing of their parents. His mother dies of grief at the separation of her son, so his father pressed him to return home. They're forced to get divorced but Louisa is pregnant with Sheikh Hassan's child.
Pretty Ruth Mason, who headlined at the Village sport for almost a year, is the heroine with Manhattan Paul, emcee at the club, as the guy who gets her, finally.
Canadian concert pianist Glenn Gould enjoys a respite at his lakeside cottage. It is an aspect of Gould previously known only to the collie pacing beside him through the woods, the fishermen resting their oars to hear his piano, and fellow musicians like Franz Kraemer, with whom Gould talks of composition. (First of two parts.)
This is Oslo Kinematografer's Christmas greeting from 1951, where a family invites the audience to sing Christmas songs with them.
The only son of the Royal Astrologer, Narsin (Om Prakash) namely Gopal (Bharat Bhushan) is not interested in astrology but in music and songs, much to the dismay of Narsin. Based on the novel Hamsageethe by T. R. Subba Rao.
The film narrates the adventures of the trickster Juca Moleza in the carnival while he has to deal with the consequences of the scams he applied to people of high society.
Russian ballet version of Shakespeare's tragedy about star crossed lovers from two feuding Italian Renaissance families. The film was based on the 1940 production of Prokofiev's ballet, choreographed by Leonid Lavrovsky. It won the Best Lyrical Film at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, was nominated as the Palme d'Or.
Studio-filmed performance of Jose Limon's landmark 1949 ballet. Shot in 16mm Kodachrome, this is an Ektachrome reversal print. Made in 1951 for Brandon Films.
A heartfelt story about a young girl from the choir and her sympathy for a poor boy until she organizes a birthday celebration for him.
Musician Sun Ping is estranged from his wife. Second daughter Yinzheng lives with Sun while eldest daughter Jinliu follows her mother. By coincidence, the sisters both enter the 'Calendar Girl' pageant but Jinliu deliberately lets her sister win the contest. Later, the sisters and Liu Bucheng perform in Sun's musical show. Though the show is a success, Yinzheng decides to quit in order to get married. Not wishing to disappoint their father, Jinliu devises a plan to make Yinzheng stay on, but the plan misfires. Yinzheng leaves angrily. She is at last brought back to the show due to Liu's mediation. The elders also reconcile as the sisters perform together on stage.
Tells about a little violinist who played so wonderfully that his violin was considered magical.
A closed-circuit television special produced to raise funds for the relief agency CARE telecast live from the Adelphi Theatre in New York.
In a comical atmosphere, one of the film directors tries to find help in order to resume his film. However, the heroine of the film decides to marry and to retire the entire artistic field, which leads the director to search for an alternative actress to meet a cafe owner known as the teacher Bulbul. The heroine is very much like that, and the director uses this similarity to continue working on his film, but it does not work out well after the return of the married actress from the honeymoon.
Having fallen out with his girlfriend Dolorès, Juanito leaves for Mexico, where he becomes a famous matador.There he meets a Viennese singer, Fanny Miller, who falls for him so much so that she intercepts the letters Dolorès keeps on sending him. In desperation, Dolorès devotes all her time and efforts to dance and she becomes the celebrated dancer Estrellita. After a series of misunderstandings and ups and downs, the sun of Andalusia will finally reunite the two lovebirds.
Matthias Scheichelroither is a poor but always cheerful, or rather, jolly farmer. He has grand plans for his son Heini, nicknamed "Heinerle": He intends for him to one day become a trained academic, a doctor. To achieve this, the old man scrims and saves to give Heinerle a perfect education. But Heini has other plans: Instead of focusing on his studies, he is drawn to music. With the help of Vivian Harrison, a wealthy American woman who is in love with him, he finally manages to organize his first concert as a composer.
Based on a short story found in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling (1640–1715)
In 1958, NBC's OMNIBUS, the Golden Age of Television’s most distinguished series, commissioned Gene Kelly’s first television special. Written, choreographed, co-directed and starring the Hollywood legend, DANCING, A MAN’S GAME enlisted some of the top names in sports to illustrate Kelly’s message about the masculine grace of dance.
Film-ballet written by composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The authors of the movie tell the story of the ballet's creation, as well as about various stage productions with the participation of outstanding performers of the role of Odette-Odile. The movie includes fragments of the ballet staged by choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov.
Music teacher gets all tangled up with a nightclub singer, after seeing his students ogling her advertisements.
The film revolves around the fisherman Mohsen, who wishes to marry Laila, the daughter of his employer, Al-Reis Aweis. One day, a young man arrives in town to work with Al-Reis Aweis. The young man learns of Mohsen's plan to marry Laila and fires Mohsen from his job. However, Mohsen later finds work in the arts, and things develop for both Laila and Mohsen after their separation.