MGM's Three Little Words is a "twin" musical biopic, covering the lives and careers of songwriters Bert Kalmar and...
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1950
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Lana Turner stars as an ambitious model who seeks her fortune in New York City. She is befriended by over-the-hill cover-girl...
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1950
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This musical romance is set during the Great Depression and centers upon the rocky marriage between a flapper script girl...
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1948
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With The Outlaw still being withheld from general release, Young Widow represented the first time that most filmgoers ever...
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1946
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The wonderful newfangled world of television provides the backdrop for this musical. The tale begins as an advertising...
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1946
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This neat, fast-paced perfectly cast film noir reflects the hard-boiled, grim wit of the author of its screenplay,...
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1946
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In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a...
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1945
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Billy Wilder's searing portrait of an alcoholic features an Oscar-winning performance by Ray Milland as Don Birnam, a writer...
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1945
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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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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1945
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If Penthouse Rhythm is paced more like a two-reel comedy than a mini-musical, it may be because the director was...
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1945
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Louise Allbritton, a talented but neglected film star of the 1940s, plays the oldest sister in a large motherless family....
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1944
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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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1944
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And The Angels Sing is an odd smorgasbord of musical-comedy and romance -- part screwball comedy, part backstage musical,...
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1944
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According to this exuberant Paramount musical, famed pre-Civil War minstrel performer Daniel Decatur Emmett looked and...
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1943
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In this romantic musical, a chipper radio crooner does everything she can and is still unable to get a break. Later her...
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1943
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In this charming episodic comedy, a giddy group of adolescent girls form a movie-star fan club. Their favorite pastime is...
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1943
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In this musical, a San Francisco musician encounters the son of an pal. The young man has a real dilemma and asks the advice...
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1943
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In this musical comedy set during WW II, a circus aerialist desires to be closer to her lover, a soldier. When she finds...
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1942
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Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire star in Holiday Inn as a popular nightclub song-and-dance team. When his heart is broken by his...
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1942
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Victor Mature plays an arrogant champion boxer who opts for an acting career on Broadway. He falls in love with his costar...
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1942
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In this lighthearted musical comedy, Marjory Stuart (Mary Martin) is a girl who works in the hatcheck room at a Manhattan...
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1942
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In this, the third screen adaptation of the musical revue Sailor Beware, William Holden plays Casey Kirby, a shy sailor who...
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1942
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Very much a product of its times, Priorities on Parade was disliked by everyone but the public when it was first released in...
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1942
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1941
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Hal Roach's first Technicolor production was the 48-minute musical Fiesta. The story takes place on the Mexican ranch owned...
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1941
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Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is invited by his boss Mr. Dithers (Jonathan Hale) to accompany Dithers on an ocean cruise to...
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1941
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Next to Ann Miller, few Columbia contractees made more B musicals than Jinx Falkenberg. In Sing for Your Supper, Falkenberg...
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1941
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Rather shaky as history, Birth of the Blues delivers the goods in terms of entertainment, thanks to the unbeatable star...
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1941
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In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from...
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1941
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1940
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Rhythm Romance is the television title for the 1939 Bob Hope comedy Some Like It Hot (the change was made to avoid confusion...
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1939
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1938
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1938
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Dick Powell stars as a Brooklynite who becomes a cowboy in spite of himself. Drifting into a small western town, Powell takes...
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1938
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Chronic gambler Joe Beebe (Bing Crosby) is a source of great consternation for his loving mother (Elizabeth Patterson), who...
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1938
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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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1937
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1936
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Social butterfly Rena Allen (Doris Nolan) is bored unto tears by her stuffy fiance Throckton Van Cortland...
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1936
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In this tuneful crime drama, a falsely convicted man escapes from prison and hides out with a comely chorine. She discovers...
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1935
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1935
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1935
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Hollywood Party was planned as a lavish, star-studded MGM musical titled Hollywood Revue of 1933. Under the...
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1934
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1932
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This was the next-to-last entry of the Cohens and Kellys series, which were becoming increasingly more tiresome with each...
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1932
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This drama is set at Notre Dame and follows the exploits of a great football coach (patterned after Knute Rockne) who is...
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1931
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William Wellman's landmark gangster movie traces the rise and fall of prohibition-era mobster Tom Powers. We are first shown...
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1931
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Intended as Universal Pictures' entry in the "all-star musical" cycle of the early talkie era, King of Jazz is certainly the...
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1930
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