In this installment in the All You Need Is Love documentary series, filmmakers examine the musical phenomenon of Tin Pan...
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1976
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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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Sayonara takes its own sweet time to unfold; in so doing, it permits us to make intimate acquaintance with its characters, so...
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Songwriter
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1957
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Eleven years after scoring one of the biggest hits on the Broadway stage, Irving Berlin's musical comedy Annie Get Your Gun...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1957
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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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1955
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White Christmas, Paramount's belated follow-up to the 1942 hit Holiday Inn, was the studio's first VistaVision production. A...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1954
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Like Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), 20th Century-Fox's There's No Business Like Show Business is a "catalogue" film, its...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1954
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1953
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Editor
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1953
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Judy Garland was originally slated to star in MGM's film version of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, but she was forced to...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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Fred Astaire had announced his retirement before the cameras began to roll on Easter Parade, but he decided to accept the...
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Songwriter
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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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Songwriter
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1948
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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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Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter
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1946
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1943
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The splashy, star-studded This is the Army is based on the Irving Berlin Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was...
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Lyricist, Play Author, Songwriter
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1943
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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"It's box office poison," producer Samuel Goldwyn is said to have exclaimed when he heard the idea of filming the life story...
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Songwriter
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1942
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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Sonja Henie, the Norwegian skating star, reportedly played second fiddle to no one at Fox in the late '30s, and this...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1939
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1938
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Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter, Songwriter
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1938
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Prospectors Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy head to the western town of Brushwood Gulch, two men on a top-secret mission. The...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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Director Roy Del Ruth and singing star Dick Powell were raided from the Warner Bros. stables for this frothy musical comedy...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1937
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In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business...
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Songwriter
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1936
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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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Composer (Music Score)
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1936
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Songwriter
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1935
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In this elaborate big-budget musical, a handsome businessman follows a beautiful woman aboard a luxury liner and begins to...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1931
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Two-reel comedy favorites Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made their feature-film debut (excluding their guest appearances in...
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Songwriter
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1931
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Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love...
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Composer (Music Score), Play Author
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1930
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Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld brought his legendary "Follies" to the silver screen in Glorifying the American Girl....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1930
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The rise and fall of a popular entertainer provides the basis of this musical drama. Harry Raymond (played by nightclub...
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1930
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Composer (Music Score), Play Author
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1929
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Hallelujah! was, for its time, an impressive achievement. Director King Vidor, anxious to make a "personal" project for the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1929
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