Musicals
Feel Free to Sing-Along, preferably while Dancing Along.
These joyous escapist films might be just what we need these days.
They deserve to be bright and colorful.
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Delightfully Dangerous (1945) Jane Powell
Jane Powell stars in this 1945 film as an aspiring singer, Sherry Williams, who travels to New York City to visit her sister Jo (Constance Moore), whom Sherry believes is a Broadway star. Before you can say "Gypsy Rose Lee" Sherry discovers that Jo is actually a stripper, and they're both in love...
Extras
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Something To Sing About (1937) Cagney Sings and Dances!
Jimmy Cagney fronts a Musical! He sings and dances his way to happy land.
The costs of this production almost sunk Grand National Pictures. William Frawley and Dwight Frye support! -
Glorifying the American Girl (1929) Florenz Ziegfeld Follies
A 1929 musical comedy film produced by Florenz Ziegfeld highlighting Ziegfeld Follies performers. The last third of the film is basically a Follies production, with appearances by Rudy Vallee, Helen Morgan and Eddie Cantor.
The script for the film was written by J.P. McEvoy and Millard Webb and ...
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The.Jazz.Singer (1927)
The fictional story of a young man who defies the traditions of his devout Jewish family. After singing popular tunes in a beer garden, he is punished by his father, a cantor (Warner Oland), prompting him to run away from home. Some years later, now calling himself Jack Robin, he has become a ta...
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Hi De Ho (1947) Cab Calloway
Hi De Ho is stars an all African American cast led by Cab Calloway. It first showed at the Squire Theatre in New York and would be shown in the more than 500 African-American theaters in the US.
Numbers include "Minnie Was a Hepcat" (a capella) (Calloway and His Orchestra)
"St. James Infirmary" (... -
Doll Face (1946) Perry Como, Carmen Miranda
Doll Face is based on a 1943 play The Naked Genius written by Gypsy Rose Lee. Mary “Doll Face” Carroll (Blaine) hopes to break out of burlesque and into the big time. When she is turned down due to her performing background, her manager Michael Hannigan (O’Keefe) decides to have a ghost written a...
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Private Buckaroo (1942) Shemp Howard, The Andrews Sisters
A usical in the same vein as Buck Privates. Besides Shemp, don;t miss appearances by Huntz Hall and a young Donald O'Connor.
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Dixie Jamboree (1944) Frances Langford
Disreputable sharps try to steal the formula for a booze-like elixir from a riverboat captain. Dixie Jamboree (PRC, 1944) is a fun musical loaded with character actors. It stars Frances Langford, Guy Kibbee, Eddie Quillen, and Charles Butterworth, Lyle Talbot, Frank Jenks, Louise Beavers, Fifi Do...
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All-American Coed (1941) Hal Roach Musical Comedy, Frances Langford
All-American Co-ed is a 1941 American musical film produced and directed by Leroy Prinz as a Hal Roach Streamliner for release by United Artists. It stars Frances Langford, Johnny Downs, Noah Beery Jr., Harry Langdon, and The Tanner Sisters.
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Career Girl (1944) Frances Langford
Frances Langford stars in a musical centered on a theatrical rooming house for women.