Directed by Rick McKay, who traveled across five continents during the documentary's production, Broadway: The Golden Age is...
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2004
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The comedienne who shot to stardom as "the world's worst housewife" offers an intimate look at her life and career on the...
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2004
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The life and career of 1940s sex symbol Rita Hayworth (1918-1987) is affectionately but uncompromisingly recounted in this...
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2003
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David Lynch wrote and directed this look at two women who find themselves walking a fine line between truth and deception in...
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Coco Lenoix
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2001
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This is a documentary film about the work of a legendary producer of musicals. After winning his laurels in 1939 as the...
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1996
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In 1974, MGM Studios released its first compilation of musical highlights from 45 years of Hollywood extravaganzas. Entitled...
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1994
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This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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Tom Ewell plays a busy attorney who wishes to be closer to his son. To do this, he becomes manager of the boy's little league...
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Mrs. Doris Patterson
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1956
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The Opposite Sex is an opulent musical remake of Clare Booth Luce's The Women (1939). June Allyson stars in the old Norma...
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Gloria Dell
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1956
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Hit the Deck is the second film version of the same-named 1927 hit Broadway musical. Though updated for the 1950s, the basic...
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1955
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1954
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Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate is a musical within a musical -- altogether appropriate, since its source material, Shakespeare's...
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Lois Lane
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1953
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Lisa Bellmount
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1953
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The reason the 1935 Astaire/Rogers film version of Roberta was unavailable for years was that, in 1952, MGM bought the...
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1952
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Joyce Campbell
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1951
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Sunshine Jackson
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1951
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Miss Lucky Vista
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1950
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Claire Huddesen
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1949
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Fred Astaire had announced his retirement before the cameras began to roll on Easter Parade, but he decided to accept the...
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Nadine Hale
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1948
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In this period musical, Ricardo (Frank Sinatra) is the son of a Mexican innkeeper who has come to California to take over a...
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1948
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This A-minus musical stars Evelyn Keyes in the uncharacteristically comic role of Vicki Dean, the divorce-bound wife of...
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Linda Lorens
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1946
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Eve Porter
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1945
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New chorus member Eadie Allen (Ann Miller) is the only thing that's good or lively or fresh in a run-down burlesque revue run...
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Eadie Allen
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1945
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In his final starring film, bandleader Kay Kyser is cast as bandleader Kay Kyser. Picking up where Kyser's previous RKO Radio...
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Julie Carver
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1944
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Musical star Ann Miller plays a Broadway leading lady coaxed into reteaming with Larry Parks, her former producer. Parks is...
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Winnie Clark
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1944
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Within its brisk 78 minutes, Jam Session manages to accommodate the singing, dancing and acting talents of Ann Miller, a...
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Terry Baxter
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1944
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Beverly Ross (nn Miller) is a would-be radio personality, but the closest she gets to being on the air is running the...
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Beverly Ross
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1943
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Ann Miller goes through her usual twinkle-toed paces in the quickie Columbia musical What's Buzzin', Cousin? The pencil-thin...
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Ann Crawford
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1943
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In this musical comedy set during WW II, a circus aerialist desires to be closer to her lover, a soldier. When she finds...
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Vicki Marlow
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1942
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Very much a product of its times, Priorities on Parade was disliked by everyone but the public when it was first released in...
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Donna D'Arcy
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1942
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Taking a vacation from her "Blondie" movies, Penny Singleton plays an Eastern girl who follows Horace Greeley's advice and...
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Lola
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1941
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A strong lineup of guest stars enhances the enjoyment of the Columbia B-plus musical Time Out for Rhythm. The somewhat...
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Kitty Brown
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1941
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In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio...
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Annabelle Potter
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1940
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Now immortalized as the film on which Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz met, Too Many Girls is a faithful adaptation of the...
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Pepe
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1940
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Beautifully restored to its original theatrical length of 84 minutes by the Gene Autry Foundation, Melody Ranch is a bright,...
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Julie Shelton
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1940
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Set in New York City's famed music hall and featuring an all-star cast, this musical chronicles the desperate search of two...
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1938
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Based upon Arthur Kober's play (which was subsequently musicalized onstage as Wish You Were Here, Having Wonderful Time stars...
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1938
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Essie Carmichael
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1938
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Having paid $255,500 for the rights to John Murray and Allen Boretz' Broadway hit Room Service, RKO Radio then scouted about...
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Hilda Manney
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1938
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This RKO Radio "expose" film is loosely based on the career of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, who'd previously gotten the...
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Violet McMaster
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1938
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New Faces of 1937 was supposed to be the vanguard of a series of annual musical comedies -- RKO Radio's latest attempt to...
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1937
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In this musical comedy, an irresponsible young heir is betrothed to the singing daughter of a wealthy matron. Unfortunately,...
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1937
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1937
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This musical tells the story of Campo wooing Damita from Keating with songs "So Divine," "Out of the Hills," "The Love...
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1936
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