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Featured Music
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1987
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Jack Nicholson first put his well-documented enthusiasm for basketball to good use in this film, which he wrote and directed...
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Featured Music
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1971
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In this comedy, an aspiring singer finds herself single and pregnant. The story begins when she is rushed to the hospital to...
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Featured Music
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1967
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A mother who wants only the best for her challenged daughter faces a number of new and unexpected dilemmas in this romantic...
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Producer
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1962
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Judy Holliday re-creates her Broadway role of flibbertigibbet telephone operator Ella Peterson in Bells are Ringing. Ella...
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Producer
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1960
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Producer
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1960
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Producer
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1958
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Producer
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1957
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MGM's Invitation to the Dance was the fruition of Gene Kelly's long-standing dream to create a plotless "concert" feature....
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Producer
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1956
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Producer
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1955
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This fourth film version of the warhorse Edward Knoblock theatrical piece Kismet was based on the Broadway musical version of...
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Producer
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1955
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Reportedly, Vincente Minnelli turned down the opportunity to film Brigadoon on location in Scotland insisting that MGM's...
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Producer
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1954
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One of the most subtle and sophisticated of the musical comedies that came out of MGM's Arthur Freed Unit in the '40s and...
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Producer
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1953
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Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) is the toast of...
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Composer (Music Score), Lyricist, Producer
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1952
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A lesser Fred Astaire effort, Belle of New York is set during the turn of the century. Astaire plays a footloose and...
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Producer
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1952
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Producer
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1951
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Two real-life events were incorporated into the plot of the 1951 MGM musical Royal Wedding. One, the marriage of...
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Producer
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1951
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Gene Kelly does his patented Pal Joey bit as Jerry Mulligan, an opportunistic American painter living in Paris' "starving...
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Producer
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1951
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Producer, Songwriter
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1950
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Cary Grant's utter credibility in the role of a brilliant, world-famous brain surgeon Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson is the...
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Producer
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1950
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Judy Garland was originally slated to star in MGM's film version of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, but she was forced to...
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Producer
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1950
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Producer
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1949
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So baseball pictures never make money, eh? Try telling that to MGM, which raked in a box office gross of $4 million on their...
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Producer
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1949
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The Barkleys of Broadway became Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' "reunion" picture purely by accident. Originally conceived as...
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Producer
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1949
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In this light drama, Clark Gable once again played his stock-in-trade role of a rogue with a heart of gold. Charlie King...
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Producer
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1949
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Producer
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1948
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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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Producer
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1948
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Producer
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1948
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Producer
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1948
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Producer
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1947
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This glorified Technicolor commercial for the Fred Harvey restaurants stars Judy Garland as a 19th-century mail-order bride....
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Producer
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1946
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MGM's Till the Clouds Roll By is the musicalized, and highly fictionalized, life story of beloved composer Jerome Kern, who...
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Producer
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1946
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The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
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Composer (Music Score), Producer
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1946
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The Clock was designed by MGM as a "small" picture--though characteristically, it was a bigger production than most "A"...
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Producer
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1945
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Yolanda and the Thief has long been considered the nadir of Arthur Freed's years as an MGM musical producer. Unappreciated at...
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Producer, Songwriter
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1945
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Sally Benson's short stories about the turn-of-the-century Smith family of St. Louis were tackled by a battalion of MGM...
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Producer
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1944
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With This Happy Breed, playwright Noel Coward hoped to glorify the British working class in the same manner that he'd...
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Songwriter
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1944
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The racy, ribald Cole Porter musical Du Barry Was a Lady is here given a thorough dry-cleaning by prudish MGM....
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Producer
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1943
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MGM knew it would take a bath on its all-black musical Cabin in the Sky (few Southern theaters of 1943 would touch the film),...
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Producer
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1943
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Five original cast members of the hit Broadway musical Best Foot Forward appear in this Technicolor MGM screen adaptation....
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Producer
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1943
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This second film version of the George and Ira Gershwin's Broadway hit Girl Crazy stars reigning MGM musical prince and...
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Producer
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1943
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Producer
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1942
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For Me and My Gal, a leisurely period musical, represents the first on-screen dancing of MGM's new star Gene Kelly....
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Producer
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1942
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The 1924 George Gershwin stage hit Lady Be Good was brought to the screen by MGM; any resemblance (beyond the Gershwin score)...
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Producer
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1941
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Advertised as a sort of sequel to MGM's Babes in Arms (1939), Babes on Broadway reunites the two stars of the earlier film:...
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Producer
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1941
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Judy Garland performs her only on-screen death scene early in the proceedings of Little Nellie Kelly. But despair not!...
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Producer
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1940
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Hey, gang! Let's put on a swell show and call it Strike Up the Band! Yes, it's the irrepressible Mickey Rooney, teamed up...
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Producer
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1940
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Producer, Songwriter
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1939
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This third entry in MGM's "Broadway Melody" series may not have been the biggest or best, but thanks to a masterpiece of...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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Songwriter
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1937
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Young Roger Calverton (Ronald Sinclair) and his uncle Sir Peter Calverton (Sir C. Aubrey Smith) bring their prize race-horse...
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Songwriter
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1937
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The Devil Is a Sissy deserves an historical footnote as the only film to team three of the biggest child stars of the 1930s:...
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Songwriter
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1936
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Songwriter
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1936
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The Broadway Melody of 1936 was designed as the first of many annual follow-ups to "MGM"'s early-talkie triumph...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1935
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MGM's Sadie McKee is a superb example of how the "committee" system of moviemaking in the 1930s could sometimes yield...
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Songwriter
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1934
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Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1933
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There's nothing wrong with Hold Your Man that a little editing wouldn't cure. Clark Gable plays a raffish young petty crook...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1933
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In this romantic comedy, a middle-aged woman married to a much older man begins a harmless flirtation with an artistically...
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Songwriter
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1933
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Reportedly at the request of Marion Davies herself, Bing Crosby was borrowed from Paramount for the MGM Davies vehicle...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1933
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After the death of her circus-aerialist husband, Kitty Lorraine (Alice Brady) dedicates herself to transforming her daughter...
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Songwriter
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1933
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Songwriter
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1932
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In this romantic comedy-drama, a wealthy San Francisco businessman becomes the guardian of a sexy young Polynesian woman. At...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1931
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Composer (Music Score)
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1931
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Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown star in this high budget horse opera from M-G-M. She is Joan Prescott, a spoiled...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1930
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Songwriter
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1930
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In this early talkie, a musical, a Polynesian storekeeper bears his chest and sings. He also falls in love with an island...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1929
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This landmark MGM backstage musical of the early sound era about broken dreams on the Great White Way features a bevy of...
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Composer (Music Score), Lyricist
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1929
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