Herbert Ross

Herbert Ross
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 24 (Director)
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Boys on the Side
Jane is a night club singer, out of work and looking for a ride-share to accompany her to Los Angeles... (imdb)
+5
Footloose
A city boy comes to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned. (imdb)
+4
Pennies from Heaven
It's the depression era and Chicago. Sheet music salesman Arthur Parker is trying to sell his products but it's not easy to convince unwilling music store owners to buy them (imdb)
Undercover Blues
A wise-cracking husband and wife team of ex-Spies arrive in New Orleans on maternity leave with their baby girl... (imdb)
Play It Again, Sam
A neurotic film critic tries to get over his wife leaving him by dating again, much by the help of a married couple and his alter ego, Humphrey Bogart. (imdb)
+4
The Goodbye Girl
A divorced dancer and her daughter are forced to move in with an off-off-Broadway actor. (imdb)
+5
The Turning Point
When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family. (imdb)
Steel Magnolias
Based on a true incident of screenwriter Harling's mother and sister. The story is set in a small-town beauty shop near New Orleans, and spans several years in the lives of the shop's owner and her customers.
+3
The Sunshine Boys
A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a TV special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other. (imdb)
+4
My Blue Heaven
An all too uptight FBI agent must protect a larger than life mobster with a heart of gold, currently under witness protection in the suburbs. (imdb)
+2
True Colors
Best friends from law school to election night, their friendship is sorely tested when one learns of another's betrayal. (imdb)
The Secret of My Success
A talented young man can't get an executive position without rising through the ranks, so he comes up with a shortcut, which also benefits his love life. (imdb)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud. (imdb)
+2
Max Dugan Returns
Nora is a single mother who lives with her son Michael in a small house. They don't have much money but at least they have each other. Out of the blue comes Nora's father Max Dugan, who left her and Nora's mother when Nora was nine years old. (imdb)
Nijinsky
Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of Vaslav Nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong premier danseur and aspiring choreographer of the Ballets Russes... (imdb)
California Suite
4 totally different and seperated stories of guests in a hotel. Maggie Smith and Michael Caine came from England to attend the Oscars; Jane Fonda came from New York, Alan Alda is her ex who lives in California; in the slapsticky part Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor and their wives come to the hotel to relax and play tennis and find there is only one room vacant... (imdb)
+4
The Owl and the Pussycat
Can a bickering odd couple in Manhattan become friends and maybe more? Owlish Felix is an unpublished writer who vents his frustration by reporting to the super that the woman in a neighboring flat takes the occasional payment for sex... (imdb)
+3
The Last of Sheila
Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run car accident following a party one night. A year later her multi-millionaire husband, Clinton, invites a group of her friends to spend a week on a his yacht. He's a notorious practical joker and insists his guests play a mystery game where each has been assigned a crime for the others to discover.(imdb)
+2
Protocol
Sweet, unsophisticated Sunny is working as a cocktail waitress. She saves a visiting dignitary and as a reward she gets a top-office job in the Washington beehive. She has to fight against a devious protocol officer but with her charms, she saves the day when she gets involved in an arms deal with an Arab country. (imdb)
Funny Lady
1930s in New York. The famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the depression she has trouble finding work as an artist but meets Billy Rose, a newcomer who writes lyrics and owns his own nightclub. (imdb)
+2
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
In this updated musical version of the James Hilton novel, Peter O'Toole plays Chips, the shy professor who falls in love with a musical-comedy actress (played by Petula Clark), complete with flamboyant friends and a racy past. Directorial debut of Herbert Ross ("The Turning Point"). (imdb)
I Ought to Be in Pictures
Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York cemetery for six years and Dad has been out of Libby's life for 16 of her 19 years. Libby arrives in LA on a Tuesday and phones Dad the one night that Stephanie, who does Jane Fonda's hair, stays over. Stephanie is there the next morning when Libby decides she needs to tell her story face-to-face. (imdb)
T.R. Baskin
An idealistic young woman arrives in Chicago with hopes of finding romance, adventure and a fulfilling career.
Dancers
A successful aging dancer takes a young female protegee. (imdb)
+8