This two-part documentary pays tribute to some of the great songwriters of the Broadway stage and Hollywood musicals....
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2003
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Singing her way through life as life sings back at her, little orphaned Heidi (voice by Margery Gray) is bounced around from...
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Songwriter
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1980
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Vincente Minnelli directed, and Alan Jay Lerner adapted the stage musical he had written with Burton Lane, for this this...
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From Musical by
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1970
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Nearly 20 years after it opened on Broadway, the E.Y. Harburg/Fred Saidy musical Finian's Rainbow was committed to film. Set...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1968
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In this collection of clips from The Judy Garland Show, which ran for 26 episodes on CBS television in 1963 and 1964, the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1963
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Although the talented cast in this uninspired comedy do the best they can with their lines, nothing quite brings The...
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Songwriter
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1961
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In this suspenseful crime drama the trouble begins when the healthy wife of a crippled plantation owner prepares to leave...
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Screenwriter
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1957
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Esther Williams' long association with MGM came to an abrupt end with Jupiter's Darling, which even she will admit was her...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1955
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After providing excellent support in previous MGM musicals, the singing-dancing team of Marge and Gower Champion were...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1953
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1951
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No one will ever know what possessed MGM's reigning screen queen Norma Shearer to select the tired old stage farce Her...
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Songwriter
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1942
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This MGM musical lifts the premise of Pride and Prejudice and plunks it down into the early 1900s. S.Z. Sakall is a...
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Songwriter
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1942
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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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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1941
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Songwriter
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1939
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This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he...
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Songwriter
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1939
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In this high-flying drama, a foolhardy, free-spirited pilot throws his responsibilities as a mail pilot to the wind when he...
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Songwriter
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1939
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When mild-mannered bank clerk Wilbur Meely (Joe Penner) finds himself stuck in a speeding trailer after a bank robbery gone...
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Songwriter
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1938
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Songwriter
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1938
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Unusually adult in tone, this excellent Hopalong Cassidy Western features Gwen Gaze as Lorna Drake, an aristocratic British...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1938
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Two brothers exchange lifestyles in this drama. The older brother, a gambler, wants to lead a clean, crime-free life while...
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Songwriter
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1937
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Akim Tamiroff, Paramount Pictures' resident crime lord, runs all illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter...
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Songwriter
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1937
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In this lively musical, an eccentric philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 with the stipulation...
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Songwriter
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1937
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Johnny Downs takes a break from his usual campus musicals to play a small-town songsmith in Blonde Trouble. Attempting to...
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Songwriter
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1937
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Songwriter
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1937
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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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