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1) Blue Jasmine
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After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger's humble apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
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A New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance is a rousing success.
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Irene, an eccentric, wealthy Manhattanite, wins a society-ball scavenger hunt after finding a "forgotten man" -- an apparent down-and-out drifter -- at a dump. She gives him work as the family butler and soon falls head over heels for him. Her attempts to both woo Godfrey and indoctrinate him in the household's dysfunction make for a string of madcap high jinks.
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"Platinum blonde is a glorious spoof of the newspaper business in New York City during the Depression; Ann Schuyler, a wealthy socialite, meets reporter "Stew" Smith and the two fall madly in love. The comedy begins as she tries to transform him from a ruffian newsman into a convincing gentleman."--Container.
5) Buddy
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Gertrude Lintz, a New York socialite who believes that animals should not be caged, raises a gorilla named Buddy and reluctantly realizes that he is not suited for city life.
6) The walker
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Washington, D.C. Carter Page is a popular socialite who serves as confidant, companion and card partner to the wives of the most powerful men in America. When Carter's dearest friend finds herself on the brink of a scandal, he covers for her. Suddenly, he finds himself the chief suspect in a criminal investigation and this well-connected man-about-town becomes an outcast, hounded by the police and forced to hunt down the true culprit in order to clear...
7) Factory girl
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Edie Sedgwick, a beautiful, wealthy young party girl, drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality.
8) Humoresque
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Glamorous socialite Helen Wright takes what she wants - clothes, alcohol, men - and uses them up and tosses them aside. Then she meets a brilliant young violinist, Paul Boray. But this is one toy she can't break.
10) On the avenue
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Mona Merrick infuriates an heiress by savagely portraying her in a hit play. When the show's producer begins a love affair with the heiress, jealous Mona makes her satirical performance even more scathing, setting off fireworks between the couple.
11) If a man answers
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Bobby Darin stars as Eugene Wright, a photographer, who marries a beautiful socialite, Sandra Dee, who sets about training him to become the ideal husband.
12) Dark victory
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A beautiful and head-strong heiress suddenly learns that she has only six months to live. Defiant and rebellious at first, she conquers this stroke of fate by the power of great love and ultimately finds peace and happiness in the brief span of life allotted to her.
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My man Godfrey: "A wacky scavenger hunt leads dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump where she meets Godfrey, a derelict. She hires him as family butler. Godfrey soon discovers the Bullocks are as nutty as the proverbial fruitcake" ... Swing high, swing low: "While hoofing it in Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and agrees to a date. The date turns into a nightclub brawl that ends with Maggie missing...
14) Wei xian guan xi
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In Shanghai, an aging socialite's infatuation with her ex-boyfriend manifests itself as a risky game, where her former lover agrees to seduce, and then abandon a naive young woman.
15) The razor's edge
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Adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novel. A rich young man spends his time between WWI and WWII searching for essential truth, eventually landing in India.
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"A romantic comedy about finding love (and hate) in the most unlikely places. When bored socialite Helen auditions for a coveted theater role, she is offered a seemingly impossible bargain: receive a marriage proposal from gruff big-game hunter Jack in the next three days and the part is hers. During their whirlwind (and disastrous) romance, Helen quickly discovers that love is not a game, its all-out war!"--
17) Lady for a night
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Jenny Blake is the owner of a riverboat casino, but aspires to live a life of high society. Jack Morgan is her business partner and the two are in love, but Jenny decides to leave him and the business so she can marry socialite Alan Anderson for prestige. Her new in-laws are infuriated by this marriage and do everything in their power to ruin Jenny in the eyes of society.
18) My man Godfrey
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Follows the madcap antics of a ditzy debutante who stumbles upon a 'forgotten man' at the city dump. Determined to help Godfrey out, she offers him work in her household and he soon becomes the perfect butler for her eccentric family. As the family's antics grow increasingly more absurd, it is only a matter of time before Godfrey's secret past is revealed.
20) One, two, three
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Berlin, after the Second World War: C.R. MacNamara presides over the German branch of Coca-Cola, dreaming of being promoted to London, by capturing the untapped Russian market. His plans for advancement run into a snag, when he is asked to watch over the boss' ditsy, impulsive 17 year-old daughter Scarlett on her European vacation. Unsurprisingly, she almost immediately gets into trouble of the worst kind by slipping across the border to East Germany,...
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