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A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1954 IMDB Rating: 7.5

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

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The Country Girl

The Country Girl

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1954 IMDB Rating: 7.2

An ex-theater actor is given one more chance to star in a musical yet his alcoholism may prevent it from happening.

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Love Me or Leave Me

Love Me or Leave Me

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1955 IMDB Rating: 7.1

A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.

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King Creole

King Creole

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1958 IMDB Rating: 7

Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie...

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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan

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Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1953 IMDB Rating: 6.9

The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896,...

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Carmen Jones

Carmen Jones

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1954 IMDB Rating: 6.8

The tale of the cigarette-maker Carmen and the Spanish cavalry soldier Don Jose is translated into a modern-day story of a parachute factory worker and a stalwart GI named Joe who is about to go to fl...

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South Pacific

South Pacific

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Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1958 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out...

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Young at Heart

Young at Heart

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Film Age rating: 5 Year: 1954 IMDB Rating: 6.7

The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.

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Jailhouse Rock

Jailhouse Rock

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1957 IMDB Rating: 6.5

After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.

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Million Dollar Mermaid

Million Dollar Mermaid

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1952 IMDB Rating: 6.5

After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.

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