Larry Weinstein's Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen is about the final years of the great songwriter. As a heavily...
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Featured Music
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2003
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As is not uncommonly the case, American jazz performers find a welcoming home and are honored in Europe long after they have...
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Featured Music
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1989
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After his mother's death, Fred P. Cheney (Bob Goldthwaith) must share the family financial business with his scheming...
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Featured Music
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1988
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Featured Music
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1988
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Considered one of the great box-office turkeys of its decade, Ishtar was an attempt by writer/director Elaine May and stars...
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Featured Music
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1987
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A French music lover befriends a once-great American jazz artist and attempts to save him from self-destruction in this moody...
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Featured Music
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1986
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This standard, tongue-in-cheek, gangsters and good guys saga is carried on the star power and screen presence of...
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Featured Music
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1984
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Director Michael Ritchie's ongoing satirical spin on the American Dream is dressed up in quasi-documentary fashion in...
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Songwriter
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1969
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The most interesting aspect of The Swinger is the name of the character played by Ann-Margret: the former Ann Margaret Olsson...
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Songwriter
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1966
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Songwriter
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1965
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A who's who of acclaimed musicians and vocalists including Dinah Shore, Gretchen Wyler, Duke Ellington, and Gordon MacRae...
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1965
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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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In this 1963 holiday episode of The Judy Garland Show, a large crop of guest stars, including Judy Garland's three children,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1963
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Irregularly scheduled on NBC from 1954 through 1957, Producers' Showcase was a series of lavish, full-color 90 minute...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1956
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Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) is an unsuccessful model and actress who believes that a jolt of publicity will do her career a...
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Songwriter
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1954
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The 1954 musical remake of A Star is Born could have been titled A Star is Reborn, in that it represented the triumphal...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1954
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Bing Crosby does the Academy Award-bid bit in the atypical role of a self-pitying alcoholic, but it was his co-star, a...
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Songwriter
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1954
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Composer (Music Score)
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1953
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This colorful musical comedy was obviously inspired by the success of Broadway's South Pacific. Army Captain Bill Willoby...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1953
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1951
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Ezio Pinza stars as the title character, a prince who falls for nightclub singer Fredda Barlo (Lana Turner) when the two meet...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1951
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In this musical comedy with dramatic touches, Jack and Molly Moran (Dan Dailey and Betty Grable) are a show business couple...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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Summer Stock represented Judy Garland's swan song at MGM. Garland plays the owner of a New England farm which entrepreneur...
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Songwriter
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1950
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Casbah is a musical remake of the 1938 film Algiers, which was itself a remake of the French film Pepe Le Moko. Tony Martin...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1948
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Though Republic had decided to forego plans for an annual film edition of Earl Carroll's Vanities, their reciprocal deal with...
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Songwriter
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1946
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This peppy wartime musical stars Bing Crosby as radio crooner Johnny Cabot, the heartthrob of millions. To escape his...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1944
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Oriental Dream is the TV title for the 1944 Technicolor version of Kismet. Ronald Colman plays Hadji, "king of beggars" in...
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Songwriter
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1944
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It is said that producer Sam Goldwyn had a habit of addressing his new star of the 1940s, Danny Kaye, as "Eddie", confusing...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1944
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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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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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1943
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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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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Songwriter
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1942
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Bob Hope's first starring vehicle for producer Sam Goldwyn borrows the title of Bob's 1942 autobiography They Got Me Covered...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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The big-band mystique of the 1940s was explored by Blues in the Night. Future directors Richard Whorf and Elia Kazan star as,...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1941
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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A distinct letdown from their previous MGM films, the Marx Bros.' At the Circus nonetheless contains intermittent moments of...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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Songwriter
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1939
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Musical comedy star Eddie Cantor stars in this story, well suited to his talents, as Eddie Pink, a meek gentleman who works...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1936
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