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Gypsy is a 1962 musical comedy-drama film produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Leonard Spigelgass is based on the book of the 1959 stage musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable by Arthur Laurents, which was adapted from Gypsy: A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee. Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics for songs composed by Jule Styne. The film was remade for television in 1993.
Determined to make her young, blonde, and beautiful daughter June a vaudeville headliner, willful, resourceful, domineering stage mother Rose Hovick will stop at nothing to achieve her goal. She drags the girl and her shy, awkward, and decidedly less-talented older sister Louise around the country in an effort to get them noticed, and with the assistance of agent Herbie Sommers, she manages to secure them bookings on the prestigious Orpheum Circuit.
Years pass, and the girls no longer are young enough to pull off the childlike personae their mother insists they continue to project. June rebels and elopes with Tulsa, one of the dancers who backs the act. Devastated by what she considers an act of betrayal, Rose pours all her energies into making a success of Louise, despite the young woman's obvious lack of singing and dancing skills. Not helping matters is the increasing popularity of sound films, which leads to a decline in the demand for stage entertainment. With bookings scarce, mother and daughter find themselves in Wichita, Kansas, where the owner of a third-rate burlesque house offers Louise a job.
Actors: Lloyd Kaufman (actor), David Roy (editor), David Roy (actor), David Roy (producer), Tom Martino (director), Tom Martino (writer), Tom Martino (writer), Tom Martino (producer), Tom Martino (editor), Matt Rogers (actor), Danny McCarty (editor), Matt Rogers (producer), Matt Rogers (writer), Matt Rogers (director), Jamelle Kent (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror,Actors: Domiziano Arcangeli (actor), Marguerite Lliteras (miscellaneous crew), Creep Creepersin (actor), Lucy Doty (miscellaneous crew), Ralph Lliteras (miscellaneous crew), Trip Hope (actor), Trip Hope (producer), T. Arthur Cottam (actor), John Hough (producer), Lonnie 'Lono' Woodley (actor), John Hough (producer), Paul McCarthy-Boyington (actor), Luke Y. Thompson (actor), Edward Joyce (producer), Edward Joyce (actor),
Plot: Veronica suddenly finds herself in a surreal and horrifying marathon race. The rules are simple: If you are lapped, you die. If you step off the path, you die. Many will start but only one may cross the finish line alive.
Keywords: title-spoken-by-characterActors: Eric Thomas (director), Eric Thomas (writer), Eric Thomas (editor), Eric Thomas (producer), Michelle Power (actress), Dylan Thomas (actress), Wendy Willow (actress), Edgar Volfson (miscellaneous crew), Kate Power (actor), Lorraine Thomas (actress), John Iwanski (writer), Jonathan Wheat (composer), Angela Baldwin (actor),
Plot: Lucy is the 13-year-old daughter of Emily, a struggling writer and single Mom. Emily lives under the shadow of her own mother's literary success. When news arrives that Emily has been offered her dream job for a magazine in San Francisco, Lucy hides the offer letter fearing her world will be turned upside down. Through the magic of her wild imagination Lucy learns that she must consider the well being of others over her own fears.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, Short,Actors: Mike Cox (producer), Emett Casey (actor), Tracy Clark III (actor), Madison Leisle (actress), Rhianon Gutierrez (actress), Ian Beckman (actor), Alex McKenna (actress), Jenny Hou (actress), Brian Reis (actor), Candace Jade Lewis (director), Candace Jade Lewis (actress), Candace Jade Lewis (writer), Shauna Kae Lauritzen (actress), Rodrigo Glenn (actor), Lisa Tom (actress),
Genres: Adventure, Short,Actors: Steve Joberns (miscellaneous crew), Steve Joberns (miscellaneous crew), Jessica Drake (miscellaneous crew), Charles Martin Smith (director), Charles Martin Smith (writer), Jill McCullough (miscellaneous crew), Brenda Fricker (actress), Billy Boyd (actor), Charles Martin Smith (producer), Mychael Danna (composer), Ron Donachie (actor), Peter Mullan (actor), Robert Carlyle (actor), Caroline Sax (miscellaneous crew), William Vince (producer),
Plot: The Stone of Destiny retells the fascinating and true story of four young Glaswegian students who, in 1951, outwitted the British authorities in their successful attempt to take back the Stone of Scone - a beloved symbol of Scottish pride, back to its country of origin.
Keywords: 1950s, arrest, bar, based-on-true-story, breaking-and-entering, burglar, burglary, car, celebration, christmas-eveActors: Jacek Braciak (actor), Henryk Golebiewski (actor), Maria Maj (actress), Aleksandra Kisio (actress), Jacek Lenartowicz (actor), Barbara Dzido-Lelinska (actress), Piotr Dzieciol (producer), Anna Grazyna Suchocka (actress), Cezary Kowalczuk (editor), Tomasz Jarosz (actor), Grzegorz Stelmaszewski (actor), Piotr Trzaskalski (writer), Piotr Trzaskalski (director), Wojciech Lemanski (composer), Anna Grzeszczak (actress),
Plot: The film tells a story of two scrap pickers - the title hero Edi and his friend Jureczek. Edi is wrongly accused of having raped the girl whose brothers have got the control over one of the city areas. Edi is severely punished for that but he accepts his fate taking care of the girl's child.
Keywords: brother-brother-relationship, brother-sister-relationship, character-name-in-title, false-accusation, false-accusation-of-rape, friendship, gentleness, gypsy, homelessness, polandActors: Merab Ninidze (actor), Johannes Silberschneider (actor), Josef Brandmaier (miscellaneous crew), Andreas Kispert (miscellaneous crew), Stephen Endelman (composer), Vincent Perez (actor), August Schmölzer (actor), Bruce Beresford (director), Jonathan Pryce (actor), Tim Wellburn (editor), Frank Hübner (producer), Norbert Blecha (producer), Wolfgang Hübsch (actor), Simon Verhoeven (actor), Jan Fantl (producer),
Plot: Vienna, 1902: Alma Schindler meets Gustav Mahler. She beautiful, young, plays, and composes: music is her life. She becomes Mahler's lover, then he marries her, asking that she give up composing. She has two children, works as his assistant, does his books, saves him from debt, and feels stifled. In 1910, after the death of a child, she retreats to a spa where she falls in love with Walter Gropius. Will she go with him or stay with Mahler? She conducts an affair with the tempestuous Oskar Kokoschka and is stifled in another way. Then, she marries Gropius, who proves imperious. She leaves him for Franz Werfel: he finds her compositions and insists the public hear them.
Keywords: 1890s, 1900s, adultery, archduke-franz-ferdinand, architect, art, artist, artist's-studio, baby, bare-breastsActors: António de Macedo (editor), António de Macedo (director), Sinde Filipe (actor), António de Macedo (producer), Francisco de Castro (producer), Guida Maria (actress), Luís Santos (actor), João Mota (actor), Fernanda Coimbra (actress), João Franco (miscellaneous crew), Agostinho Alves (actor), Grece de Castro (actress), Luís Barradas (actor), Fernando Loureiro (actor), Bernardo Santareno (writer),
Plot: A couple of traditional fishermen are linked by a secret vote of chastity. One day, they take in a wounded gypsy man, out of their Christian piety. As time goes by, a relationship, and love emerges between the healthy young woman and the gypsy. The reaction of the local society, and the explosion of repressed sentiments will come to a swirling vortex of violence - abduction, shootings, and forced sex.
Keywords: based-on-playActors: Gabriele Tinti (actor), Claude Piéplu (actor), Fernand Sardou (actor), Giuseppe Porelli (actor), Paul Bisciglia (actor), Jean Lefebvre (actor), André Badin (actor), Louis de Funès (actor), Michel Modo (actor), Christian Marin (actor), Michel Galabru (actor), Guy Grosso (actor), Sacha Briquet (actor), Richard Balducci (writer), Henri Arius (actor),
Plot: The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with persistent nude swimmers, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor. He gets drawn into it when he tries to cover for her when a friend 'lends' the car of her assumed father. It turns out that the real owners of the yacht aren't exactly what they pretend to be either...
Keywords: 1960s, art-theft, backgammon, beach, binoculars, bowling, cote-d'azur, cult-film, famous-theme, father-daughter-relationshipActors: Natalie Kalmus (miscellaneous crew), Josef Berne (writer), Richard Goldstone (writer), R.H. Bassett (composer), Josef Berne (director), Harold Hecht (director), Ilia Khmara (actor), Mary Jo Mathews (actress), Perry Askam (actor), Joseph Mario (actor),
Plot: Around a gypsy campfire in Russia, musicians play and sing, women dance, and children get into trouble. A toymaker shows off his animated puppets, two mildly misbehaving boys dream of playful elves and a forest full of faeries, and the adults make music and love.
Keywords: accordion, accordion-player, bed, campfire, caravan, children, colortone-musical, dance, dancer, doll