Eva Tanguay

American Pop (1981)

Actors: Tony Autore (actor), Ralph Bakshi (actor), Elya Baskin (actor), Robert Beecher (actor), Gene Borkan (actor), Johnny Brogna (actor), Auburn Burrell (actor), Joey Camen (actor), Don Carlson (actor), Frank Ciaravino (actor), Vance Colvig (actor), Philo Cramer (actor), Frank DeKova (actor), Tony Fasce (actor), Umberto Autore Jr. (actor),

Plot: "American Pop" is the animated story of a very talented and troubled family starting with 19th century Russia and moving through several generations of musicians. The film covers American popular music from the pre-jazz age through rhythm and blues, 1950s rock 'n' roll, drug-laden psychedelia, and punk rock, finally ending with the onset of New Wave in the early 1980s.

Keywords: 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Genres: Animation, Drama, Music,
Taglines: All those years, all those dreams, all those sons... one of them is going to be a star. The state of the art in living animation.

Quotes:

Tony: What is this?::The Blonde: Corn.::Tony: Corn? Corn comes in a little white box from Birdseye. Corn? Kansas is corny! Can ya eat it?::The Blonde: Yeah.::Tony: Can ya smoke it? Can ya drink it? Can ya lie in it?::The Blonde: Sure.::Tony: Then lie in it with me.::The Blonde: Are you crazy?::Tony: Yeah, I'm crazy. I'm crazy in love with your blue eyes... and your corn-silked hair. Your corn-silked hair. I'll never eat corn again without thinkin' about you. Canned corn, candy corn, popcorn, Crackerjacks! You're the prize in my box! And my box is this country. It's all tinfoil on the outside. Corn and sweetness on the inside.

Man: Hey, DiNoble, what are you doin'?::Tony: Thinkin'.::Man: Thinkin' of what?::Tony: Clean thoughts.::Man: Then how come my dishes are dirty?::Tony: Dirty?::Man: Dirty.::Tony: Well, them poor dumb little bastards. They never learned the power of positive thought.::Man: I thought you said you was a dishwasher.::Tony: I'm a dishwasher. [shouts to the sky] I am a dishwasher! My hands is permanently puckered!

[Louie and Zalmie are performing as the two halves of a dancing horse - Zalmie being the lower half]::Zalmie: Louie?::Louie: Yeah?::Zalmie: I'm 17 years-old. When's my voice gonna change already?::Louie: It's changin'. It's changin'.::Zalmie: I know it's changin'. When's it gonna change for good?::Louie: What's your rush?::Zalmie: I don't wanna be a horse's ass forever.

Zalmie: Hey, Louie. I just seen the most beautiful thing I ever seen in the whole world.::Louie: Some pre-Prohibition booze, huh?::Zalmie: No. I seen the stripper gettin' dressed.::Louie: A stripper gettin' dressed ain't beautiful unless she's ugly to begin with.

[the 1980s - Pete has grown up dealing cocaine. He arrives at a recording studio]::Pete: [Slamming down briefcase full of cocaine on table] Pizza man! We deliver!::Musician: You got the coke, daddy-o?::Pete: What do I look like, man? A soda fountain?::Musician: Hey, what else you got there?::Pete: Songs.::Musician: You scorin' songs now too?::Pete: Givin' 'em away, a song an ounce.::Musician: By who?::Pete: Me!::Musician: You can keep the songs, man.::Pete: I will keep the coke too!

[Tony has injured himself and lies in bed wearing casts around his neck, leg, and arm]::Man: How do you feel?::Tony: Like a fuckin' M&M;: dig my thin candy shell.

Palumbo: Don't you think it's time for a wedding?::Zalmie: How can I ask her? I don't have a cent.::Palumbo: You should have thought of that before you got her pregnant.::Zalmie: Who thinks at a time like that?

The I Don't Care Girl (1953)

Actors: Sam Ash (actor), Ben Astar (actor), Howard Banks (actor), Willis Bouchey (actor), Andy Brennan (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Herbert Butterfield (actor), John Caler (actor), Charles Calvert (actor), Tom Carr (actor), Harry Carter (actor), Leo Cleary (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), George Conrad (actor), Aladdin (actor),

Plot: This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies. Then Jessel's staff comes up with a letter from Larry Woods with another version.

Genres: Biography, Musical,
Taglines: WILD and WONDERFUL Musical Hit! The Wild and Wonderful Musical About the BAD Girl of Show Business!

An Angel Comes to Brooklyn (1945)

Actors: John T. Bambury (actor), Roy Barcroft (actor), Rodney Bell (actor), Joe Cappo (actor), George M. Carleton (actor), Jimmy Conlin (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Billy Curtis (actor), Jack Daley (actor), Lew Davis (actor), Robert Duke (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor), Oscar Gould (actor), Wilton Graff (actor), Cliff Allen (actor),

Plot: High up in Actors' Heaven---where those actors who have taken their final curtain on earth still maintain a lively interest in theatrical activity---there is a bell which has been named Minnie. When a struggling young actor on Broadway has sufficient faith in himself---if he believes strongly enough in his ability and talent---then Minnie rings out clearly, signaling that the time is right for an angel to leave Actors' Heaven and go down to earth to help a worthy, but-as-yet-successful actor or actress. When versatile, young Karen James refuses to be discouraged by her rejection by producer Rodney Lloyd, Minnie rings out loudly and clearly. Phineas Aloysius Higby, who was a magician before he was called to Actor's Heaven, begs to be allowed to go earthward to help Karen and is finally assigned the job. Phineas rents a room in the theatrical boarding house run by Madam Della, an ex-prima donna who has never gotten over it. Karen also lives there, as well as David Randall, a young artist. David conceals his love for Karen because he believes she loves Paul Blake, an advertising writer who pretends, for Karen's sake, that he has playwriting ambitions. Phineas befriends Karen and David and accompanies them to another audition for Rodney Lloyd, who rejects Karen again but is entranced by Phineas' magic and tries to sign him up. Phineas consults Sir Henry Bushnell, head man of Actors' Heaven, and secures his permission to pretend to be a producer in order to encourage Karen. Phineas then promises to produce a show to be written by Paul (who can't write)and to star Karen and her friends, Tiny , Rosie, Susie , Kay , Barbara, and others, all theatrically ambitious, talented kids now working in a department store. David dreams up several production numbers, and even Madam Della's maid, Theresa, who also sings in a night club, and her accompanist and agent, Cliff , join in with a hot number of their own. But complications arise and, before long, Phineas has created many problems and soon has Minnie the Bell ringing constantly and boisterously.

Keywords: 1940s, actor, actress, advertising, angel, audition, b-movie, boarding-house, borough-name-in-title, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance,