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  1. Borough of Kings (2000 Film)

    aka: Brooklyn Sonnet

    Director
    Elyse Lewin
    Producer
    Elyse Lewin; Chris Brinker; Patrick Newall

    Independent feature film. Jimmy (Stanek) is eager to escape his apparent future as a low-level mobster in his Brooklyn neighbourhood. He aspires to be an actor and auditions for a role in a Shakespearean...

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  2. Macbeth in Manhattan (1999 Film)

    Director
    Greg Lombardo
    Producer
    Joe Gagen; Victoria Lang
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film comedy. A group of young actors rehearsing a production of Macbeth find their roles are reflecting and shaping their personalities. Claudia (Gloria Reuben) and Max (David Lansbury) both audition...

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  3. Moon over Parador (1988 Film)

    Director
    Paul Mazursky
    Producer
    Paul Mazursky

    Feature film. The narrative is told in flashback. Jack Noah (Dreyfuss) is a fairly successful stage and film actor on a location shoot in the English-speaking Parador. He’s given an offer he can’t refuse...

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  4. Fame (1980 Film)

    Director
    Alan Parker
    Producer
    David de Silva; Alan Marshall
    Subject
    Drama

    Musical drama. The fortunes of some of the students at Manhattan’s High School for the Performing Arts. During the auditions at the beginning of the film, several students recite Shakespeare; one delivers...

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  5. Nini Tirabuscio: La Donna Che Invento la Mossa (1970 Film)

    Director
    Marcello Fondato
    Producer
    Silvio Clementelli
    Distribution
    No distributor or archive copy found (2007).

    Feature film comedy. Set in turn-of-the-century Naples, Nina dreams of becoming a tragedian and instead becomes a cafe singer and starts a popular dance craze based on the can-can. For her audition piece...

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  6. Panic Button (1964 Film)

    Director
    George Sherman
    Subject
    Drama

    Feature film comedy. A businessman (Connors), faced with an income tax demand of $500,000, decides to invest in a deliberately bad movie. He employs a has-been French actor (Chevalier) and a glamorous,...

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  7. Presenting Lily Mars (1943 Film)

    Director
    Norman Taurog
    Producer
    Joseph Pasternak

    Musical comedy about Lily (Judy Garland), an aspiring actress from a small town in Indiana. In once scene Lily wants to impress a visiting Broadway producer (Heflin) and gives him a mawkish and melodramatic...

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  8. Melody and Romance (1937 Film)

    Director
    Maurice Elvey
    Producer
    Herbert Smith

    Musical comedy. A young man (Green) aspires to a career as a radio star. Along the way, the falls in love with a scientist’s daughter (Lockwood). He then adds several talented friends to his act and...

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  9. Spitting Image[03/05/1992] (Television)

    Director
    Steve Bendelack; Andy De Emmony
    Producer
    Bill Dare

    Television satirical puppet show. Includes two brief sketches, one where film director Michael Winner tries to direct television presenter Jim Bowen as Hamlet, the other where the producers of a new...

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  10. Dobie Gillis - Boy Actor (Television)

    Director
    Ralph Francis
    Distribution
    No distributor or archive copy found (2006)

    American sitcom about life and love seen through the eyes of a daydreaming American teenager. In this episode Dobie and Milton audition to be the leading man in a school play. Dobie loses the audition when...

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