Soundies: A Musical History collects a number of short musical films that played on a film jukebox called Panoram in the...
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2007
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On the short list of great cinema dancers, Gene Kelly led a multi-faceted career that included acting, directing, and...
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2002
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First shown on American Movie Classics, Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days covers the production of "Something's Got to Give," a...
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2001
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Family, friends, and associates recall "The Chairman of the Board" in this compilation video that salutes the world renowned,...
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1999
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The 1940s was a monumental decade for the United States. Amid World War II, economic recovery, and the start of the Cold...
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1998
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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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1995
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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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Host
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1994
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There have been quite a few spoofs of Hollywood, and a similar number of spoofs about filmmaking in general. This is one of...
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1990
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1990
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A dance instruction series from the Fred Astaire Studios, with instructors Lee and Peggy Santos. ~ Rovi...
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1989
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1989
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1988
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The opening episode of Murder She Wrote's second season marks the first occasion in which matronly mystery writer and amateur...
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1985
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1985
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The made-for-TV Portrait of an Escort stars Susan Anspach as a divorcee in financial straits, has a daughter to support. She...
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1980
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Also known as Seven Cities to Atlantis, this is a youth-oriented, British-produced adventure fantasy which uses rather...
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1978
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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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"Mom" is Connie Stevens, who stars in this made-for-TV comedy. Stevens plays a small-town waitress who is appointed the...
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1972
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Louise Henderson
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1967
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Columbia Pictures tried to create a tongue-in-cheek American James Bond with this, the first of five motion pictures based on...
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Sarita
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1966
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Danger and romance are in plentiful supply in one of Europe's most beautiful cities in this sophisticated thriller. Shelley...
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1965
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One of Hollywood's great directors, Vincente Minnelli, turns a jaundiced eye towards the film industry in this drama about...
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Carlotta
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1962
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This Ernie Kovacs cult comedy was the last film directed by Mario Zampi and follows the exploits of Aldo Bondi (Kovacs) who...
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Baronessa Sandra
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1961
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Black Tights is a filmed ballet anthology divided into four all-dance episodes. "The Diamond Cruncher" spotlights...
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1960
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Produced for the Armed Forces overseas, this is a holiday spectacular created for Christmas. Fifty of the top stars of...
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1958
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Vicki Gaye (Cyd Charisse) is a dancer at a night club in early 1930's Chicago. A healthy cynic who still possesses some...
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Vicki Gaye
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1958
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Charlotte King
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1958
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Ninotchka
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1957
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A whole slew of guest stars makes Meet Me in Las Vegas a special treat for movie buffs. The central plot concerns wealthy...
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Maria Corvier
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1956
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Jackie Leighton
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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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Fiona Campbell
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1954
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1954
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1953
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This tuneful romantic melodrama is set in a tiny Mexican village and is comprised of three storylines. One tale concerns a...
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Lola de Torrano
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1953
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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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Gaby Gerard
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1953
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Filmed on location in Canada, The Wild North stars Stewart Granger as renegade trapper Jules Vincent. Forced to kill in...
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Indian girl
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1952
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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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1952
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Manuella
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1951
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Director Mervyn Leroy lends a burnished MGM gloss to this sordid tale of infidelity among rich New York East Siders....
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Rosa Senta
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1949
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Mary Chanler
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1949
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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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The title of this MGM musical alone should tip you to the fact that Esther Williams is the star. In this one, she plays a...
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Yvonne Torro
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1948
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An aspiring ballerina begins following a prima ballerina hoping that she will become her replacement. Unfortunately, another...
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Mlle. Ariane Bouchet
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1947
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1947
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Even if the film had been released without opening and closing titles, it wouldn't have been hard to identify Three Wise...
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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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1946
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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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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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Dance Specialty
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1946
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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This backstage musical offers a peek at vaudeville behind-the-scenes. The story centers on a recently divorced woman who...
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1943
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