Volume five of this ten-volume set celebrates the sounds of the popular 1940s big band music era. Its performance clips...
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1998
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This biography of musical legend Benny Goodman contains testimonials from various contemporaries and scholars, and offers...
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1993
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1989
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The Swing era conjures up images of sophisticated ladies, debonair gentlemen, and the big bands who entertained them with a...
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1987
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The Swing era conjures up images of sophisticated ladies, debonair gentlemen, and the big bands who entertained them with a...
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1987
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1985
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1985
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Original artists playing their hits make for a pleasant trip down memory lane. "Sentimental Journey" and "Rhapsody in Blue"...
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1985
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1985
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1984
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1984
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Although penned by the same screenwriter, David S. Ward, this sequel to The Sting (1973) is tarnished by comparisons to its...
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1983
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1966
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Comedian Jerry Lewis began directing movies in 1960, and this often unkind satire on the nature of American womanhood is one...
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1961
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Shipped out on a double bill with Summer Love, Universal's The Big Beat is another of those "rock & roll salads" so popular...
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1958
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1957
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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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Himself
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1956
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Steve Allen makes his dramatic film debut in The Benny Goodman Story. Outside of Goodman's conflicts with his parents over...
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1955
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Few classical vocalists have captured the attention of pop music fans the way Mario Lanza did at the peak of his fame in the...
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1954
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Taken from the television variety show of the same name, this collection features a number of episodes from the program. ~...
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1953
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Himself
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1950
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Also known as A Miracle Can Happen, On Our Merry Way is a multipart comedy linked by inquiring reporter Burgess Meredith. It...
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1948
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Auteur theorists who've charted the career of "cult" director Edgar G. Ulmer have seldom mentioned Carnegie Hall, simply...
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1947
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The second of Perry Como's two starring vehicles for 20th Century-Fox, If I'm Lucky is an easygoing remake of 1937's...
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Earl Gordon
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1946
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That new-fangled swing music is the focus of this musical comedy. The trouble begins when a music school dean boards a train...
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Barry Clayton
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1946
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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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1944
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1944
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Five original cast members of the hit Broadway musical Best Foot Forward appear in this Technicolor MGM screen adaptation....
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1943
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1942
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This musical chronicles the history of jazz music and features many of the most popular musical acts from the early 1940s,...
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1942
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In this lighthearted musical comedy from legendary director Busby Berkeley, Henry Bowers (Dick Powell) is a saxophonist in a...
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1937
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