An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
Promoter "Smoothie" King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
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Married couple Willy and Therese go separate ways. Willy leaves town and returns years later as a famous singer. But Therese is about to marry her best friend Peter. Little does Willy know that he and Therese now have a teenage daughter.
One day, while Grigoris is working and singing at a construction site, a conductor, Vangelis, and two bouzouki musicians happen to pass by. They listen, enchanted by his limpid voice, and suggest that he becomes a member of their orchestra. Thus, the newly-wed day laborer gets a second job at Mr. Lefteris’ night club. His wife, Marina, soon joins him at the club, and, before long, she too goes on stage, cuts capers and charms everyone. Her success, however, has a negative impact on the couple’s relationship, since Marina’s admirers as well as those of Grigoris’, turn one away from the other.
An usherette in a theatre, where a distinguished and popular actor performs, gets her big break when the leading actress has an accident. The director decides to take advantage of the heretofore unexploited talent of the girl and asks her to replace the leading actress. This unexpected opportunity transforms her from a humble usherette into a shining star. Later on, she wins the heart of the leading actor with whom she was secretly in love. However, her sudden rise to theatrical-musical stardom creates complications in their love affair, as her companion sinks into disappointment and drowns himself in drink, abandoning his career. Nevertheless, the usherette/leading actress doesn't give up; She looks for him, finds him and supports him, psychologically and morally, until he makes a comeback to the stage and their love nest.
The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.
Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its previews, the movie is considered a critical, artistic and surefire commercial success. As such, Alex seemingly has his choice of what his next project will be. As he makes the rounds both in the Hollywood community and European movie centers for ideas, he fantasizes about movie scenarios of those everyday situations he is in.
Rainer Werner Fassbinders film om tre kvinders samliv og forhold er efter sigende modelleret efter den klassiske Hollywood produktion The Women, som imidlertid i sammenligning forekommer temmelig konventionel. Fassbinder fortæller sin historie næsten udelukkende fra soveværelset hos den succesrige designer Petra (Margit Carstensen), hvor hun hundser med sin sekretær (Irm Hermann), og tiltrækkes af den unge Karin (Hanna Schygulla).
Craig Alexander, a con-man "psychic" on the carnival circuit receives the opportunity to pilfer some legendary rubies in Kenya. His luck holds and he winds up the sole beneficiary of the ill-gotten wealth, which he parlays into an astrological broadcasting empire. But once he reaches the top, there's only one direction he can go...
After an absence of five years, six times Mr Olympia winner Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a comeback and attempts to take the World Body Building Championship for the 7th time.
Thanasis an honest tax official in the tax office. He can not cope and has trouble providing the family of the necessities. So the wife is forced to go to work in a factory as a result not seen at all. !!!
Blomsterhandler Seymour drømmer om at blive rig og berømt. I et forsøg på at nå sin drømmes mål køber han en mystisk plante fra en gammel kineser. Planten viser at være en kødæder med vokseværk, og så må Seymour på jagt efter kunder til at stille gevækstens sult. Det går ud over en lang række mere eller mindre specielle mennesker.
Brantley Foster (Fox) har kun lige afsluttet gymnasiet, da han beslutter sig for at bestige karrierestigen i New Yorks pengeverden på rekordtid ved at lade som om, at han er en ambitiøs underdirektør, selvom han i virkeligheden bare er den nye postomdeler. Men Brantleys planer begynder at løbe løbsk, da chefens kone bliver forelsket i ham, og han selv bliver forelsket i en anden underdirektør, der viser sig at være chefens elskerinde.
Charles Elaine, a famous actor, becomes the target of a man who wants to apply to him a theory according to which you can make someone crazy by manipulating him. Rella, a beautiful young woman, is designed to drive Charles crazy.
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
Filmens omdrejningspunkt er det sibiriske titel-orkester, der drager til USA på foranledning af en lokal impresario. ”Tag til USA, der æder de hvad som helst,” lyder hans råd, da han hører de seks sovjetiske cowboys spille op til russisk folkedans. Og af sted tager de, ledt af den enerådige manager Vladimir, der er fast besluttet på at få en rock’n’roll-succes ud af det bizarre og mildest talt talentløse orkester.