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Jimmy, the untold true story of America’s most-beloved actor and the iconic role that saved him, focuses on the most transformative season in Jimmy Stewart’s life—from winning the Academy Award® for Best Actor in The Philadelphia Story to enlisting and becoming a combat pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps at the beginning of World War II. He flew twenty missions over Europe, rising to the rank of colonel by the end of the war, only to return home broken and disheartened. Then George Bailey and It’s a Wonderful Life came calling…
Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in Swinging London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown. As she prepares for the show, battles with management, charms musicians and reminisces with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine through. Even her dreams of love seem undimmed as she embarks on a whirlwind romance with Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband. Featuring some of her best-known songs, the film celebrates the voice, the capacity for love, and the sheer pizzazz of “the world’s greatest entertainer.”
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A biopic about the "Saturday Night Live" cast member and film star who died of a drug overdose in 1982 at age 33.
A biopic of rock icon Janis Joplin.
Boxer Joe Louis becomes a symbolic figure in boxing during early global tensions leading to World War II.
A biopic on boxer Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight champion.
Jesse Holley overcomes a poverty-ridden upbringing and multiple personal obstacles and goes from working as a security guard to being an NFL wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, when he is invited to Cowboys training camp after winning "4th and Long," a reality series.
Set during the last nine days of musician, singer, and songwriter Jimi Hendrix's life.
The movie will follow the quarterback's career from Bear Bryant's football program at the University of Alabama to the New York Jets of the NFL to his guarantee that his Jet would defeat the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. All this while Broadway Joe battled knee problems so bad that he was actually denied entry into the Vietnam War. Of course, he went on to win the Super Bowl and become a cultural icon.
Iowa born John William Carson grows up to be a successful late night talk show host. He adopts a casual, conversational approach with extensive interaction with his guests. But his personal life is more tumultuous and he goes through three divorces and marries four times.