Divas

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows divas

poster All Dolled Up
All Dolled Up
(3.0/5)
50mn - Comedy, Drama
The department store clerk Mary prevents a robbery at the store where she works, involving a necklace belonging to a rich unmarried woman named Eva Bandy. Later, she manages via a misunderstanding to prev…
poster The World and Its Woman
The World and Its Woman
70mn - Drama
A Russian peasant girl rises to fame as an operatic diva. She becomes beloved of a Russian prince. When the 1917 revolution overthrows the czar's government, the pair attempts to cross the icy steppes and…
poster Teaserama
Teaserama
69mn - Documentary
A collection of numerous burlesque acts from the 1950s, including strippers, and cult character Betty Page introducing the acts.
poster A Modern Cinderella
A Modern Cinderella
17mn - Drama
This Cinderella is up to date. She and her sister Jane receive an invitation to a reception. Jane, selfish and arrogant, is carried away with her own vanity and anticipation of making a "hit" and being th…
poster The Worldly Madonna
The Worldly Madonna
(2.6/5)
62mn -
Ms. Young portrays two roles. As Janet, a convent novitiate, she agrees to exchange places with her sister, Lucy, a cabaret dancer, who believes she has killed a man.
poster Die Serpentintänzerin
Die Serpentintänzerin
1mn - Documentary
A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.
poster The Gibson Goddess
The Gibson Goddess
10mn - Comedy
A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the stockings have been stuffed with cotton to make her limb…
poster Keeping Up with the Joneses: Women's Styles
Keeping Up with the Joneses: Women's Styles
3mn - Comedy, Animation
A domestic comedy about the McGinis family--husband Aloysius, wife Clarice, daughter Julie, and housemaid Belladonna. Pa is appalled at the latest fashionable dresses worn by the women in his household.
poster The Untold Truth: Dodi and Diana
The Untold Truth: Dodi and Diana
43mn - Documentary
The following Summer after her divorce from Prince Charles, Diana, Princess of Wales, began dating Dodi Al-Fayed. The relationship between the two is shrouded in mystery. Was she falling in love or was it…
poster The Vain Parlor Maid
The Vain Parlor Maid
(2.7/5)
4mn - Comedy
A housemaid is cleaning a studio. When she sees a sculpture of a nude woman in life-size, lying on a couch, she starts to compare this idealized body with her own. She takes off her clothes one by one, th…
poster Annabelle Butterfly Dance
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
(3.0/5)
1mn - Documentary
Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has a pair of wings attached to her back, to suggest a butterfly. As she dances, she uses her long, flowing…
poster Ten Ladies in an Umbrella
Ten Ladies in an Umbrella
(2.8/5)
3mn -
The scene is similar to that seen at Coney Island, where a number of shows are constantly going on.
poster Trapeze Disrobing Act
Trapeze Disrobing Act
2mn - Comedy
The stage of a vaudeville theatre. A lady in evening costume is performing on a trapeze. Two Rubes are seated in a box. The lady begins to disrobe, and here the fun commences. As she removes her garments …
poster La ribalta
La ribalta
5mn -
A woman and a mistress fight.
poster The Chinese Shadows
The Chinese Shadows
3mn - Comedy, Animation
At the beginning of this film two women come onstage dressed in Oriental fashion. They present a shadow play theatre.
poster Antosha, Ruined by a Corset!
Antosha, Ruined by a Corset!
15mn - Comedy
Taking advantage of his wife's temporary leave, Anton and his female friends are having fun. In the midst of all the revelry, he receives a telegram that she is to return this morning. General turmoil ens…
poster Annabelle Serpentine Dance
Annabelle Serpentine Dance
(3.3/5)
1mn - Documentary
In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of the flowing cloth. She moves to her right and left acr…
poster Cinderella
Cinderella
(2.8/5)
7mn - Animation
Cinderella, the "ash girl," is kept in menial labor by her two wicked stepsisters. Meanwhile the handsome prince of the territory is out hunting bears. His father invites everyone in the country to a ball…
poster Eugénie, Stand Up Straight!
Eugénie, Stand Up Straight!
4mn - Comedy
Poor Eugénie! She's humpbacked and everyone wants to straighten her out, but when success finally comes, she's too tall not to cause disasters. To solve the problem, the help of a sword swallower is urgen…
poster Beauty's Worth
Beauty's Worth
(3.2/5)
76mn - Drama
Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir fa…
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