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1) Respect
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a young child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, Respect is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice and become the Queen of Soul.
2) Ball of Fire
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia encounter a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover. Nominated for 4 **Academy Awards**.
3) Selena
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the Grammy Award-winning South Texas singer whose life tragically ended just as she was taking Tejano music into mainstream America.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Financial manager by day and musician by night, Nate Holden hears a beautiful female voice one evening singing outside his apartment in sync while he plays his piano. Mysteriously, the voice turns out to be the coat check girl at the local jazz club. After Nate strikes a deal with Chloe to perform with him, their chemistry undeniably becomes closer with every song they play.
5) Wild Rose
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Rose-Lynn Harlan is bursting with raw talent, charisma, and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville. Her mom Marion has had a bellyful of Rose-Lynn's Nashville nonsense. Forced to take responsibility, Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house.
6) Burlesque
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ali is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess, the club's proprietor and headliner. After Ali finally makes her way from the bar to the stage, things take a dramatic turn when her larger than life voice causes a charismatic entrepreneur to make...
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
Una atractiva cantante de cabaret ha cautivado con su sensual voz al desaliñado ex policía Nick. El pasado de ambos está por alcanzarlos para desatar una extraordinaria historia de sexo, drogas, intrigas, muerte.
An attractive cabaret singer with a sensual voice, has captured the attention of Nick, a sleazy, former police officer. Their past encounter is about to lead them into an extraordinary affair filled with sex, drugs, intrigue and death....
Language
English
Formats
Description
Indiana Jones, his sidekick Short Round, and nightclub singer Willie Scott go from high-flying action above the Himalayas to a nail-biting runaway mine car chase and finally a spine-tingling escape from a fortress-like mine in India while on the trail of a sacred stone.
10) Lucky me
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Struggling performer Candy Williams (Doris Day) has many ways to ward off bad luck. Maybe that's why the most lopsided, unlucky day of her life eventually turns out to be the luckiest."--Container.
11) Ball of fire
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so talent agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace Garry. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, but then has a problem trying to sell her to the show's sponsor. Doug tries every trick he can think of to make Martha a star, and as the two work more closely, he falls in love with her....
13) The big street
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Haughty nightclub singer Gloria Lyons doesn't have time for the little people, including Little Pinks, the busboy who adores her. Then Gloria is paralyzed when a mobster knocks her down the stairs, and those little people are the only ones who help her.
14) The rose
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Presents the final days of a hard-living, burned-out rock performer who badly needs a rest. When her ruthless manager won't give her one, she sets off on a self-destructive binge. The character is modeled after Janis Joplin.
15) Copacabana
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A wild musical comedy about a two-bit theatrical agent (Groucho Marx) who gets his top-and only-client two singing jobs at the same nightclub, hoping for a double commission. Carmen Miranda plays her familiar Latin role and doubles as a blonde French chanteuse who wears a veil. Steve Cochran also stars as the manager of the Copa who falls in love with the blonde Carmen, much to the dismay of pretty bookkeeper Anne, who's secretly in love with Steve....
17) Lillian Russell
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A biography of American actress and singer Lillian Russell, from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor until her retirement in 1912, when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.
18) Anchors aweigh
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Two lovesick sailors on shore leave in Hollywood fall hard for the same beautiful singer. The race for Susie's heart leads them both into a series of comical and musical adventures.
19) Beaches
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this contemporary remake, it follows the serendipitous meeting of two young girls on the Venice Beach Boardwalk who, though worlds apart in lifestyle, embark on an unexpected and lifelong friendship. CC is an aspiring singer trying to make it in Los Angeles when a director who gives her first big shot discovers her. Hillary, the daughter of a prominent civil rights lawyer, is struggling to find her own destiny.
20) A star is born
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Drunken waning movie star Norman Maine meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he literally stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops which blossoms into romance but tensions increase as Esther's career takes off while Norman's plummets.
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