An American girl finds love and laughter in the City of Lights in this romantic comedy. Maggie Scott (Ann-Margret) works as...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1966
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Composer (Music Score)
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1966
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One of Elvis Presley's most popular vehicles, Girl Happy is also one of the most typical. Elvis plays Rusty Wells, the leader...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1965
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An American rancher--who doubles as an undercover agent--is needed in the rescue of a kidnapped senator in this animated...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1965
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Viva Las Vegas, one of Elvis Presley's most popular vehicles, adheres as rigidly to formula as a Kabuki dance. Elvis plays a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1964
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Popular singer Connie Francis stars in this romantic musical-comedy as Libby Caruso, an aspiring young entertainer who yearns...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1964
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This light romantic comedy finds a young widow with three young boys investigated by the Navy. Amy Martin (Shirley Jones) has...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1963
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1962
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1962
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1961
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Composer (Music Score)
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1960
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This was popular tenor Mario Lanza's last film before he died in Rome of a heart attack at the age of thirty-eight. The story...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1959
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Roy Rowland directs the musical Arrivederci Roma (The Seven Hills of Rome), intended as a showcase for the talents of famous...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1958
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A rare comedy effort by director Robert Wise, This Could Be the Night is based on a series of short stories Cordelia Baird...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1957
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Dean Martin's first solo film after his split with Jerry Lewis was very nearly his last. Dino plays Ray Hunter, a Conrad...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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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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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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One of the gutsiest movie musicals of the 1950s, Love Me or Leave Me is the true story of 1930s torch-singer Ruth Etting,...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1955
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Edmund Purdom plays Prince Karl, but Mario Lanza sings the bold tunes coming out of Purdom's mouth, in this MGM remake of the...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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Filmed on location in Europe, Flame and the Flesh is nothing more nor less than a vehicle for the glamorous Lana Turner. The...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1954
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1953
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Esther Williams stars in this button-cute musical about a health-conscious family of swimmers who fall in with con man Windy...
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1953
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1953
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1953
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Authentic New Orleans locations enhance the overall enjoyment of the prizefight melodrama Glory Alley. A mere few seconds...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1952
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1952
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Excuse My Dust is one of the few Red Skelton musicals in which Skelton is not obliged to share screen space with the likes of...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1951
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Mickey Rooney returned to his "home" studio MGM, after a three-year absence, in the location-filmed melodrama The Strip....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1951
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1951
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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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Ann Sothern closed out her MGM contract with the Technicolor musical Nancy Goes to Rio. As Frances Elliot, Sothern is billed...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1950
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Two Weeks With Love is set in a Catskills resort in the early 1900s. Seventeen-year-old vacationer Patti Robinson...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1950
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1950
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This formula Esther Williams musical casts the star as Midwestern carnival swimmer Christine Duncan, in love with bandleader...
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1950
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1949
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1949
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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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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1948
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MGM's all-purpose title The Big City was deployed once more for this treacly 1948 drama. To prevent orphaned Midge...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1948
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1948
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MGM whipped up another musical salad with Luxury Liner, featuring a glittering lineup of contractees including Jane Powell,...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1948
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Jeanette MacDonald made her first screen appearance in five years in the MGM confection Three Daring Daughters. Looking at...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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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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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1948
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In this aqueous musical comedy, an opera singer brings his son to Michigan's Mackinac Island where the son falls in love with...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1947
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In this WWII musical, a young hero and his buddy decide to celebrate his receiving the Medal of Honor by partying. He is...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1946
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Too long by at least two reels, Holiday in Mexico is nevertheless one of the more enjoyable MGM Technicolor musicals of the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1946
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This aquatic musical is set at a mountain resort in the beautiful Sierra Nevadas where a heroic Army Air Corpsman has come...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1945
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This mammoth musical is at base the story of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. Brash Joseph Brady (Gene Kelly) has promised...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1945
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This tender but fluffy romantic comedy centers on the romantic travails of a beautiful European princesss who goes to New...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1945
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Two Girls and a Sailor is another of those all-star, no-plot wartime musicals turned out by the bushel basket in the 1940s....
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1944
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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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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1944
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Musical producer Joe Pasternak moved from Universal to MGM in the early 1940s, taking his pet director Henry Koster (the two...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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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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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1943
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In most of his movie vehicles, bandleader Kay Kyser played a bandleader named Kay Kyser. In Swing Fever, however, Kyser is...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1943
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1943
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In later years, director Vincente Minnelli would dismiss I Dood It as his worst picture, though a more deserving candidate...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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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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Musical Direction/Supervision
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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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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1943
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1942
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This musical -- a concoction of comedy, songs, dancing, and war-time patriotism mixed together with a spy spoof plot -- opens...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1942
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Written by real-life intelligence agent Ladislas Fodor, Cairo is both a spoof of espionage thrillers and a good-natured...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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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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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1942
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All that MGM's Ziegfeld Girl lacks is Technicolor; otherwise, the film has talent and "sock" entertainment value in...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1941
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Number ten in MGM's heart-warming (and immensely profitable) "Andy Hardy" series was the 1941 entry Life Begins for Andy...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1941
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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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Musical Direction/Supervision
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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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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1941
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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In the last of the Marx Brothers' MGM films, The Big Store, Groucho Marx plays two-bit detective Wolf J. Flywheel, hired by...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1941
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1940
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Two Girls on Broadway is an updated reworking of MGM's Oscar-winning 1929 musical Broadway Melody. Joan Blondell and...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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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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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1940
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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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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1940
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The third and definitive film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy, this musical adventure is a genuine...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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George Burns and Gracie Allen made their last screen appearance together in the 1939 MGM musical Honolulu; indeed, it would...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1939
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This remake of Penthouse (33) stars Walter Pidgeon as a smooth attorney with a few embarrassing friends. One of these is a...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1939
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1938
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Bing Crosby plays the melodic medico of the title. To help cover for his ailing policeman pal (Andy Devine), Crosby takes the...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1938
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A Mississippi flood saves the life of a petty crook who is about to be lynched for a murder he did not commit. After he...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1937
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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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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1937
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Paramount spent a record one million dollars on its 1937 Mae West vehicle Every Day's a Holiday. La West portrays a...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1937
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In this drama, a Boy Scout leader hosts a local gossip show. Trouble ensues when he predicts a politician's murder just...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1937
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1936
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In his only visit to Columbia Pictures, Paramount's resident crooner Bing Crosby stars in a sentimental musical drama. In...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1936
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