Mazeppa (film)

Painted Angels (1998)

Actors: Brenda Fricker (actress), Meret Becker (actress), Mark Shivas (producer), Kelly McGillis (actress), Christina Jennings (producer), Bruce McFee (actor), Bronagh Gallagher (actress), Scott Garvie (producer), Greg Lawson (actor), Robert Wu (actor), Lisa Jakub (actress), Stephen Onda (producer), Billy Morton (actor), Joseph Griffin (actor), Ann Scott (producer),

Plot: The story centers on the life of a bordello in a midwestern prairie town in the 1870s. The whorehouse is run by pragmatic madam Annie Ryan and the film follows the life of several of her girls.

Keywords: bare-midriff, breasts, brothel, female-nudity, independent-film, nudity, prostitute, prostitution, teenage-girl-in-underwear, teenager-nudity
Genres: Drama, Western,
Taglines: Sometimes even saints are forced to become sinners

Mazeppa (1996)

Actors: Brian Large (director), Alexander Pushkin (writer), Paul Smaczny (producer), Bernd Helthaler (producer), Sergei Alexashkin (actor), Larissa Diadkova (actress), Nikolai Putilin (actor), Nikolai Gassiev (actor), Costa Pilavachi (producer), Irina Loskutova (actress), Vladimir Zhivopistsev (actor), Viacheslav Luhanin (actor), Irina Molostova (miscellaneous crew), Irina Molostova (miscellaneous crew), Vladimir Vasilkov (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Drama, Music,

Gypsy (1962)

Actors: Rusty Wescoatt (actor), Herb Vigran (actor), Frank Sully (actor), Harry Shannon (actor), Jack Benny (actor), William Fawcett (actor), Harvey Korman (actor), Eddie Foster (actor), Ben Frommer (actor), Karl Malden (actor), Marcel De la Brosse (actor), Parley Baer (actor), Thomas E. Jackson (actor), Gail Bonney (actress), Dick Winslow (actor),

Plot: Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.

Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, ambition, audition, backstage, based-on-book, based-on-stage-musical, based-on-stage-musical-based-on-book, boy, burlesque
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical,
Taglines: Let this tuneful Broadway classic entertain you. The Magnificent Musical Where "Everything's Coming Up Roses." ...The Girl Who Became The Greatest Show In Show Business All The Heart and Happiness of The Broadway Play

Quotes:

Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: You really would have been something, Mother.::Rose Hovick: Think so?::Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: If you had had someone to push you like I had.::Rose Hovick: If I could've been, I would've been. And that's show business.

Baby June: Hello, everybody. My name is June. What's yours?

Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: [singing] Little cat, little cat, why do you look so blue? Did somebody paint you to look like that, or is it your birthday, too? Little lamb, little lamb, I wonder how old I am.

Rose Hovick: Here she is, boys! Here she is, world! Here's Rose!

Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: I said, turn it off! Nobody laughs at me! Because I laugh first. At me! Me, from Seattle! Me, with no education. Me, with no talent, as you kept reminding me my whole life! Well, Mama look at me now. I'm a star! Look! Look how I live! Look at my friends! Look where I'm going! I'm not staying in burlesque! I'm moving, mabye up, maybe down! But wherever it is, I'm enjoying it. I'm having the time of my life! Because for the first time, it is my life! And I love it. I love every second of it! And I'll be damned if you're gonna take it away from me! I am Gypsy Rose Lee! And I love her! And if you don't, you can just clear out now!

Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: [singing] Let me entertain you, Let me make you smile, Let me do a few tricks, Some old and then some new tricks, I'm very versatile, And if you're real good, I'll make you feel good, I want your spirits to climb, So let me entertain you, And we'll have a real good time; Yes, sir!, We'll have a real good time.

Rose Hovick: [on remarrying] After three husbands, it takes a lot of butter to get you back in the frying pan.

Rose Hovick: [singing] You'll be swell, you'll be great. Gonna have the whole world on a plate! Starting here, starting now. Honey, everything's coming up roses.

Rose Hovick: [contemplating an unneeded wig] You know, we could get a nice refund on this... if we'd ever paid for it.

Rose Hovick: You need something to remind you your goal was to be a great actress. Not a cheap stripper.::Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: My sister's the actress, mother. And I'm *not* a cheap stripper. I'm the highest-paid in the business.::Rose Hovick: You won't be ready for vaudeville when it comes back.::Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: No, I'll be *dead*.

Der blaue Engel (1930)

Actors: Gerhard Bienert (actor), Hans Albers (actor), Hans Albers (actor), Reinhold Bernt (actor), Reinhold Bernt (actor), Carl Balhaus (actor), Carl Balhaus (actor), Wilhelm Diegelmann (actor), Wilhelm Diegelmann (actor), Kurt Gerron (actor), Kurt Gerron (actor), Friedrich Hollaender (actor), Emil Jannings (actor), Gerhard Bienert (actor), Charles Puffy (actor),

Plot: Immanuel Rath, an old bachelor, is a professor at the town's university. When he discovers that some of his pupils often go into a speakeasy, The Blue Angel, to visit a dancer, Lola Lola, he comes there to confront them. But he is attracted to Lola. The next night he comes again--and does not sleep at home. This causes trouble at work and his life takes a downward spiral.

Keywords: based-on-novel, bird, cabaret, calendar-shows-passage-of-time, chalkboard, classroom, clown, color-in-title, corruption, cuckold
Genres: Drama, Music,

Quotes:

Kiepert: You must drink. I'm not paying for your art.

Lola Lola: They call me Lola.

[to stuffy Professor Immanuel Rath, who is dressed in a clown suit]::Lola Lola: Your boys should see you now.

[singing]::Lola Lola: Falling in love again/ Never wanted to/ What am I to do?/ I can't help it.

Mazeppa, der Volksheld der Ukraine (1919)

Actors: Werner Krauss (actor), Max Gülstorff (actor), Eva Speyer (actress), Alfred Beierle (actor), Martin Berger (director), Martin Berger (writer), Marie von Buelow (actress), Bertold Reissig (actor), Aenderly Lebius (actor), Rudolf Hofbauer (actor), Otto Mannstaedt (actor), Ernst Keppler (actor), Lulu Lànyi (actress), Mi. Samoliows (actor),

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