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On V-J Day in 1945, a massive celebration in a New York City nightclub is underway, music provided by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.While there, selfish and smooth-talking saxophone player Jimmy Doyle (De Niro) meets small-time USO singer Francine Evans (Minnelli), who, although lonely, still wants nothing to do with Jimmy, who keeps pestering her for her phone number.
Highest-grossing films of 1977 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Star Wars: 20th Century Fox: $221,280,994 2 Smokey and the Bandit: Universal: $126,737,428 3 Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Columbia: $116,395,460 4 Saturday Night Fever: Paramount: $94,213,184 5 The Goodbye Girl: MGM / Warner Bros. $83,700,000 6 A Bridge Too Far ...
New York, New York is a musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb and Lin-Manuel Miranda, and a book by David Thompson and Sharon Washington. Inspired by and loosely based on the 1977 film of the same name by Martin Scorsese , [ 1 ] the musical premiered on Broadway on April 26, 2023.
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in New York City, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of films and documentaries set in New York, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to the city. The list is sorted by the year the film was released.
4. Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Cast: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn Rating: NR Director: George Seaton Run time: 96 minutes Reviews: Rotten Tomatoes 96% | IMDb 7.9/10 Genre: Comedy ...
New York City subways were covered with graffiti until the concerted cleanup initiatives and broken windows enforcement of the 1980s. [1] Ed Koch won the 1977 New York City mayoral election at one of the lowest points in the city's history. NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell is a 2007 documentary directed by Henry Corra that originally aired on VH1 ...
Looking at NY, NY, I was amazed to see that virtually every pictorial device invented by the old masters of non-representational art and reproduced ad nauseam by the academicians and mannerists of the school, for the last forty years or more, makes its appearance, alive, glowing, intensely significant, in the sequences of Mr. Thompson's film.
Immediately after World War II, New York City became known as one of the world's greatest cities. [1] However, after peaking in population in 1950, the city began to feel the effects of suburbanization brought about by new housing communities such as Levittown, a downturn in industry and commerce as businesses left for places where it was cheaper and easier to operate, an increase in crime ...