Howard Lindsay — Playwright (4)
Anything Goes (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Anything Goes
director: Robert Lewis actor: Bing Crosby / Donald O'Connor
other title: Broadway-Zauber / Quadrille d'amour
Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role to the girl they selected without informing the other until they head back across the Atlantic by liner - with each man having brought his choice along! It becomes a stormy crossing as each man has to tell his 'find' that she might not get the role after all.
Woman's World (1954) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Woman's World
director: Jean Negulesco actor: Clifton Webb / June Allyson
other title: Il mondo è delle donne / Die Welt gehört der Frau
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.
Anything Goes (1936) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Anything Goes
director: Lewis Milestone actor: Bing Crosby / Ethel Merman
other title: Todo vale / Transatlantic Follies
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.
Swing Time (1936) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Swing Time
director: George Stevens actor: Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers
other title: Follie d'inverno / Ritmo Louco
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.