87% (2) Lili 81 min, PASSED, [Drama, Musical, Romance] [Charles Walters] [10 Jul 1953]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 8 nominations.
Actors: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Writer: Helen Deutsch (screen play), Paul Gallico (based on a story by)
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Plot: Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl. Who can she turn to but the puppets, singing to them her troubles, forgetting that there are puppeteers. A crowd gathers around Lili as she sings. The circus has a new act. She now has a job. Will she get her heart's desire?
Rotten Tomatoes: Based on the story by Paul Gallico, Lili stars Leslie Caron as the title character, a 16-year-old waif who runs off to join a carnival. Embittered, crippled puppeteer Mel Ferrer treats Lili with contempt; only by speaking through his puppets is Ferrer able to express his genuine love for the girl. Before this happens, however, Caron must overcome her crush on magician Jean-Pierre Aumont, who is married to the contentious Zsa Zsa Gabor. Though not a musical (as was Carnival, the 1961 Broadway version of Lili), the film affords Leslie Caron the opportunity for a dream ballet, and also accommodates the lilting Bronislaw Kaper/Adolph Deutsch hit song "Hi Lili, Hi Lo". Legend has it that professional curmudgeon H.L. Mencken, who considered movies a waste of time and never bothered to see them, was persuaded to attend a showing of Lili--and loved every minute of it!
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74% (2) Moulin Rouge 119 min, Not Rated, [Biography, Drama, Music, Romance] [John Huston] [10 Apr 1953]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, Rotten Tomatoes: 78%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 10 nominations.
Actors: Claude Nollier, José Ferrer, Suzanne Flon, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Writer: Pierre La Mure (novel), Anthony Veiller (screenplay), John Huston (screenplay)
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Plot: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec frequently visits the Moulin Rouge, where he drinks cognac and draws sketches of the dancers and singers. Though the son of a French count, Henri's legs were badly deformed by a childhood fall, and his personal life is often unhappy as a result. While he is going home one night, a spirited young woman of the streets, Marie, asks him for help. He falls in love with her, and the two become involved in a tumultuous relationship. It becomes increasingly difficult for Toulouse-Lautrec to balance his personal feelings, his artistic abilities, and his family name and position.
Rotten Tomatoes: The year is 1899, and Christian, a young English writer, has come to Paris to follow the Bohemian revolution taking hold of the city's drug and prostitute infested underworld. And nowhere is the thrill of the underworld more alive than at the Moulin Rouge, a night club where the rich and poor men alike come to be entertained by the dancers, but things take a wicked turn for Christian as he starts a deadly love affair with the star courtesan of the club, Satine. But her affections are also coveted by the club's patron: the Duke. A dangerous love triangle ensues as Satine and Christian attempt to fight all odds to stay together but a force that not even love can conquer is taking its toll on Satine.
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69% (1) Death of a Scoundrel 119 min, Approved, [Crime, Drama, Film-Noir] [Charles Martin] [31 Oct 1956]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, External Reviews
Actors: George Sanders, Victor Jory, Yvonne De Carlo, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Writer: Charles Martin
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Plot: When Clementi Suborin is found murdered, his secretary recounts to the police the story of his rise from Czech refugee to ultra-rich New Yorker. The tale of betrayal, womanising and fraud confirms that almost everyone who knew him wanted him dead.
Rotten Tomatoes: A contemptuous and self-serving immigrant, Clementi Sabourin (George Sanders) pulls himself up by his bootstraps by instrumenting a series of cons and seductions which bilk several very wealthy persons out of most of their money. Most of the action is related in a series of flashbacks after Sabourin's body is found dead in a Park Avenue apartment. Death of a Scoundrel is a fictionalized adaptation of the life and mysterious death of Serge Rubenstein.
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64% (1) The Girl in the Kremlin 81 min, UNRATED, [Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery] [Russell Birdwell] [11 Apr 1957]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, External Reviews
Actors: Jeffrey Stone, Lex Barker, Maurice Manson, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Writer: DeWitt Bodeen (story), Gene L. Coon, Robert Hill, Harry Ruskin (story)
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Plot: In Moscow 1953, four terrified women prisoners are brought before Joseph Stalin, who chooses the beautiful Dasha. He punishes her by shaving off her long hair. Moments later, a plastic surgeon leads Stalin into the operating room and transforms his face so that he is unrecognizable.
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60% (1) 3 Ring Circus 103 min, Approved, [Comedy] [Joseph Pevney] [22 Jan 1955]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 60%, External Reviews
Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Joanne Dru, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Writer: Don McGuire (story and screenplay)
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Plot: Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money, looking for some job. They finally find one as workers in a circus, but Jerry has different dreams. He wants to become a clown.
Rotten Tomatoes: According to some eyewitness reports, the feud between Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis was at its peak during the filming of Three Ring Circus. Other observers have noted that the boys behaved with thorough professionalism throughout the shoot. Whatever the case, the film offers a comparatively relaxed Martin and Lewis, wandering through a thinnish plot with amiable finesse. The boys play a couple of ex-GIs who use their discharge money to finance a trip to Florida, where Jerry Hotchkiss (Lewis) hopes to land a job as a circus clown. Pete Nelson (Martin) isn't quite as ambitious, though he decides to stick around when he meets gorgeous circus owner Jill Brent (Joanne Dru). As the plot rolls merrily on, Pete finds himself assisting temperamental aerialist Saadia (Zsa Zsa Gabor), while Jerry does his best (which is none too good) as the assistant to lion tamer Schlitz (Sig Ruman). When Puffo the Clown (Gene Sheldon) drinks himself into oblivion, Jerry takes Puffo's place, proving his worth by getting a crippled child to laugh. The songs are mostly forgettable, with the exception of the now-standard "It's a Great, Wide, Wonderful World."
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53% (1) Picture Mommy Dead 82 min, UNRATED, [Horror, Thriller] [Bert I. Gordon] [12 Sep 1969]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 53%, External Reviews
Actors: Don Ameche, Martha Hyer, Susan Gordon, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Writer: Robert Sherman (screenplay)
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Plot: Teenaged Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her glamorous socialite mother. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money left to him by Zsa Zsa. Susan is still haunted by her mother's memory, and her stepmother is conspiring with her lover, Maxwell Reed, to trick the troubled girl to lead them to Zsa Zsa's missing diamond necklace.
Rotten Tomatoes: A young girl is institutionalized after the horrible death of her mother. Years later, she is released and immediately comes into conflict with father's new wife, a cruel golddigger. This thriller follows the daughter's efforts to resist the evil stepmother, who hopes to drive the girl back into insanity.
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