Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "broadway-manhattan-new-york-city", "romantic-rivalry"

1. Beaches (1988)

PG-13 | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

Director: Garry Marshall | Stars: Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, Spalding Gray

Votes: 28,931 | Gross: $57.04M

2. The Broadway Melody (1929)

Passed | 100 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King, Eddie Kane

Votes: 8,022 | Gross: $6.12M

3. Footlight Parade (1933)

Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell

Votes: 6,097 | Gross: $3.49M

4. Reckless (1935)

Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Wealthy Bob Harrison buys all the seats in the theatre to watch Mona Leslie's musical by himself. He loves her, her agent Ned Riley loves her. Conflict ensues.

Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone, May Robson

Votes: 1,498

5. Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

Passed | 135 min | Biography, Drama, Musical

George Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.

Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn

Votes: 1,799

6. Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)

Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A Broadway producer is reluctant to hire his high school sweetheart for the leading role in a new show, so she decides to take advantage of a rumor started by a gossip columnist.

Directors: Roy Del Ruth, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor, Una Merkel

Votes: 1,998

7. Small Town Girl (1953)

Passed | 92 min | Musical, Romance

A judge's daughter keeps an eye on a playboy who gets 30 days in jail for speeding.

Director: László Kardos | Stars: Jane Powell, Farley Granger, Ann Miller, S.Z. Sakall

Votes: 931

8. The Helen Morgan Story (1957)

Not Rated | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Ann Blyth, Paul Newman, Richard Carlson, Gene Evans

Votes: 869

9. Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)

Approved | 106 min | Drama, Music, Musical

This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman

Votes: 2,324

10. Smooth as Silk (1946)

Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An attorney engaged to an actress gains acquittal for a wealthy playboy accused of manslaughter. The actress, anxious to play the lead in a production backed by the playboy's uncle, ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Kent Taylor, Virginia Grey, Milburn Stone, John Litel

Votes: 243

11. The Velvet Touch (1948)

Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A Broadway star unintentionally kills her impresario but keeps mum about it after the police investigator targets a rival actress.

Director: Jack Gage | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor, Sydney Greenstreet

Votes: 1,285

12. You Can't Have Everything (1937)

Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals George Macrae over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers, Don Ameche, Charles Winninger

Votes: 276

13. Accent on Youth (1935)

Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance

A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss tries to fix her up with a man closer to her age and already in love with her.

Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Herbert Marshall, Phillip Reed, Holmes Herbert

Votes: 133

14. It's a Date (1940)

Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 670

15. Love Is a Racket (1932)

Unrated | 71 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue beholden to a penthouse gangster.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee, Lee Tracy

Votes: 566

16. Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)

Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, History

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

Directors: Irving Cummings, Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis

Votes: 455

17. Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)

Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Manicurists Sally, Irene, and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. After Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Alice Faye, Tony Martin, Fred Allen, Jimmy Durante

Votes: 133

18. Go Into Your Dance (1935)

Approved | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Musical

Al Howard may be a star on Broadway, but he is no longer welcomed by any producer. It seems that he just trots off to Mexico any time he wants causing shows to close and producers to lose ... See full summary »

Directors: Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz, Robert Florey | Stars: Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane

Votes: 468

19. Calendar Girl (1947)

Approved | 88 min | Musical, Romance

A songwriter finds out that his beautiful girlfriend is going to be an artist's model.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Jane Frazee, William Marshall, Gail Patrick, Kenny Baker

Votes: 279

20. Forty Naughty Girls (1937)

Passed | 63 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

While Oscar and Hildegarde are attending a Broadway show, a press agent is shot in an actress' dressing room and an actor is murdered onstage in full view of the audience. Oscar and Hildegarde are on the case.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Marjorie Lord, George Shelley

Votes: 442

21. West of Broadway (1931)

Passed | 73 min | Drama, Romance, War

Jerry Seevers returns from World War I service broken in health and his doctor tells him he has only six months to live. His fiancée jilts him and he sets out to drink himself to death. In ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: John Gilbert, El Brendel, Lois Moran, Madge Evans

Votes: 646

22. Career Girl (1944)

Approved | 69 min | Musical

Joan Terry, a girl from the country wants to become a Broadway Star, but this proves to be not so easy.

Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Frances Langford, Edward Norris, Iris Adrian, Craig Woods

Votes: 217

23. Love, Honor and Goodbye (1945)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance

Attorney William Baxter and his secretary, Mary Riley, visit Bill's actress-wife Roberta on the set of her play. Her co-star, Tony Linnard, convinces Roberta to keep practicing, despite ... See full synopsis »

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Virginia Bruce, Edward Ashley, Victor McLaglen, Nils Asther

Votes: 24

24. Sweet Adeline (1934)

Approved | 87 min | Musical, Romance

In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But ... See full summary »

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Irene Dunne, Donald Woods, Hugh Herbert, Ned Sparks

Votes: 317

25. Dizzy Dames (1935)

Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Lillian Bennett runs a theatrical boarding house in New York City. She doesn't want her débutante daughter Helen Bennett, reared in finishing schools away from New York, to know of her own ... See full summary »

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Marjorie Rambeau, Florine McKinney, Lawrence Gray, Inez Courtney

Votes: 62

26. Battle of Broadway (1938)

Approved | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two American Legionnaires on convention in New York share adventures and rivalries in an around show biz.

Directors: George Marshall, Allan Dwan | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Raymond Walburn

Votes: 78

27. Footlight Fever (1941)

Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Romance

Unable to secure financial backers for their new Broadway play, producers Don Avery and Geoffrey Crandall are about to abandon their endeavors when they are visited by wealthy Eileen Drake,... See full synopsis »

Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Alan Mowbray, Donald MacBride, Elisabeth Risdon, Lee Bonnell

Votes: 74

28. Gigolette (1935)

Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance

Kay Parrish, a society girl, finds she is penniless when her father dies. However she persuades Terry Gallagher to give her a hostess job at his New York City clip-joint, which he operates ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Adrienne Ames, Ralph Bellamy, Donald Cook, Robert Armstrong

Votes: 45

29. Good Intentions (1930)

Passed | 69 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Racketeer David Cresson's sudden passion for the straight-and-narrow life is thanks to his falling in love with society débutante Helen Rankin. However, his former associate and ... See full summary »

Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Marguerite Churchill, Regis Toomey, Earle Foxe

30. Dame Chance (1926)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance

Gail Vernon arrives late for a rehearsal and loses her job in the cast of a big Broadway show. Craig Stafford offers to set her up with an apartment, money, and clothes but she turns him ... See full summary »

Director: Bertram Bracken | Stars: Julanne Johnston, Gertrude Astor, Robert Frazer, David Hartford