(1929-2019)
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more.
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their Favourite musical moments from the studio’s 50-year history.
Some of MGM’s musical stars review the studio’s history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) to Brigadoon (1954), from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain (1952), are examined.
Synopsis by IMDB.