The man who assembled the remarkable documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey had the benefit of knowing the subject...
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1984
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The time is WW II in the Emilia-Romagna countryside in Italy, and an American pilot's plane has just broken down near the...
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1981
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James Hilton's beloved fantasy novel about the land of Shangri-La was given an awkward musical treatment in this...
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1973
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Julie Andrews made a bid to change her squeaky clean image with this elaborately mounted World War I musical. Lili Smith...
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1970
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Nearly 20 years after it opened on Broadway, the E.Y. Harburg/Fred Saidy musical Finian's Rainbow was committed to film. Set...
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1968
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Tony Curtis stars as The Great Leslie, a hero among heroes whose purity of heart is manifested by his spotlessly white...
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1965
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1964
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1963
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In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic...
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1963
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The only Rodgers and Hammerstein cinemadaptation to be produced by Universal Pictures, Flower Drum Song was, alas, also the...
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1961
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1961
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Cole Porter's Gay Paree musical about the introduction in Montmartre in 1896 of the notorious Can-Can dance, is brought to...
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1960
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1959
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1959
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Only one of three films directed by screenwriter Charles Lederer, known for movies as disparate as The Thing (1951) and...
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1959
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1957
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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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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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1955
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Esther Williams' long association with MGM came to an abrupt end with Jupiter's Darling, which even she will admit was her...
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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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1954
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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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1953
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Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate is a musical within a musical -- altogether appropriate, since its source material, Shakespeare's...
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1953
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The reason the 1935 Astaire/Rogers film version of Roberta was unavailable for years was that, in 1952, MGM bought the...
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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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1951
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1951
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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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1950
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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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The Barkleys of Broadway became Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' "reunion" picture purely by accident. Originally conceived as...
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1949
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That Lady in Ermine tells two parallel stories, both taking place in the small Mittel-European duchy of Bergamo, but one set...
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1948
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In this musical set in late 19th-century Boston, a suffragette secretary finds that her political beliefs are standing in the...
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1947
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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now is the heavily laundered musical biopic of sentimental songwriter Joe E. Howard. As played by...
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1947
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Jed Potter (Fred Astaire) is a popular radio personality who was once a famous dancer. He also used to be friends with Johnny...
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1946
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The real Diamond Horseshoe was a Las Vegas nightclub created by impresario Billy Rose, which spotlighted old-time stars from...
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1945
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This Technicolor musical biopic stars Argentina-born Dick Haymes as Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball. Climbing to fame...
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1944
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Despite the film's title, Pin-Up Girl offers surprisingly few glimpses of the famed Betty Grable "gams." This lively...
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1944
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1943
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Though a lesser 20th Century-Fox musical, Hello, Frisco, Hello was one of the studio's most successful wartime efforts. John...
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1943
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Everything clicks in this tuneful, colorful and profitable Betty Grable musical. The star plays Katie Farley, a gyrating...
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1943
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One of the shortest and sweetest of Betty Grable's Technicolor musicals, Song of the Islands casts the Leggy One as Eileen,...
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1942
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A musical remake of the 1936 comedy Second Honeymoon and the starring debut of Betty Grable, Springtime in the Rockies tells...
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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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A pregnant Alice Faye was forced to bow out of this colorful Fox musical, which instead went to Rita Hayworth, whom the...
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1942
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Based on the Ben Hecht/Charlie McArthur play Chicago, Roxie Hart is a short-but-sweet satire of highly publicized court...
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1942
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In this musical, the cruise that salesgirl Nan Spencer (Alice Faye) worked so hard to pay for is cut tragically short when...
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1941
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1941
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Jack Oakie is near the top of his form as Boley Bolenciecwcz, the best college football player to come down the pike in a...
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1941
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Skating star Sonja Henie and the Glenn Miller Orchestra share the spotlight in Sun Valley Serenade. Henie plays a Norwegian...
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1941
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1941
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The first of several remakes of 1938's Three Blind Mice, the Technicolor musical Moon Over Miami stars Betty Grable and...
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1941
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Though not the best of the Fred Astaire musicals, Second Chorus is the most easily accessible thanks to its current...
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1940
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1939
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1938
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Set in New York City's famed music hall and featuring an all-star cast, this musical chronicles the desperate search of two...
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1938
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Fred Astaire's first RKO musical without his longtime partner Ginger Rogers is one of his best from any period -- even though...
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1937
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The seventh of RKO's Fred Astaire--Ginger Rogers musicals, Shall We Dance casts Astaire as a world-renowned ballet dancer and...
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1937
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This lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave....
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1936
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Based on a novel by Netta Syrett, A Woman Rebels is the story of Pamela Thistlewaite (Katharine Hepburn), whose mission in...
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1936
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The sixth of RKO's Fred Astaire -Ginger Rogers pairings of the 1930s, Swing Time starts off with bandleader Astaire getting...
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1936
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If Columbia could make an acceptable movie star out of opera-diva Grace Moore, then RKO Radio could do the same with...
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1935
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1935
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In this musical campus comedy, trouble ensues when a meddlesome, overprotective father enrolls in the same college as his...
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1935
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After suffering a nervous breakdown (at least that's what she calls it), imperious movie star Carol Corliss (Ginger Rogers)...
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1935
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1935
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1934
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