This installment in the Hollywood Singing and Dancing documentary series takes a look at the musicals of the 1920's,...
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2009
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Art Carney plays the title role, so to speak, in this live, 90-minute Playhouse 90 adaptation of Brandon Thomas' classic...
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Donna Lucia d'Alvadorez
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1957
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1950
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In this drama, an embittered widow, a former concert singer, can't help but blame Lassie for her son's death. Needing help...
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Helen Lorfield Winter
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1949
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Jeanette MacDonald made her first screen appearance in five years in the MGM confection Three Daring Daughters. Looking at...
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Louise Rayton Morgan
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1948
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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1944
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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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Marcia Warren
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1942
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Anna Zador/Brigitta
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1942
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Adapted from the warhorse stage tearjerker by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin, this 1941 film version of Smilin' Through is even...
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Moonyean Clare
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1941
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Previously filmed in 1933, Noel Coward's sentimental operetta Bitter Sweet was transformed by MGM seven years later into a...
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Sarah Millick
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given...
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Marianne de Beaumanoir
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1940
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Mary Hale
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1939
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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Gwen Marlowe
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1938
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Mary Robbins
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1938
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Nina Maria Azara
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1937
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Marcia Morney/Miss Morrison
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1937
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Marie de Flor
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1936
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to...
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Mary Blake
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1936
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Princess Marie de Namours de la Bonfain, "Marietta Fr
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1935
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Shirley
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1934
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1932 through 1934 saw the production of "Hollywood on Parade" shorts by Paramount Studios, featuring nearly every big star...
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1934
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Sonia
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1934
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Colette Bertier
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1932
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Colette Bertier
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1932
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One of the most technically accomplished and sophisticated movie musicals of the 1930's, Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight...
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Princess Jeanette
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1932
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This French-style farce is set at a large party. There a young misogynist explains why he cannot trust women. A man...
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Jeanne Drake
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1931
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In this screwball comedy, Annabelle Leigh (Jeanette MacDonald) happily spends the $5,000 sent her each month by her husband,...
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Annabelle Leigh
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1931
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Joan Wood
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1930
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This sprightly romantic comedy chronicles the delightfully unlikely and tempestuous relationship between an opera diva and a...
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1930
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Countess Vera von Conti
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1930
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The legend of renegade French poet Francois Villon was dramatized in the 1901 Justin McCarthy play If I Were King. This...
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Katherine de Vaucelles
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1930
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Carlotta Manson
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1930
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Based on "Bride 66", a tone poem by composer Herbert Stothart, The Lottery Bride takes place in a distinctly Hollywoodized...
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Jenny Swanson
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1930
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Director Ernst Lubitsch's first talking picture, The Love Parade was a witty souffle about a royal "marriage of state."...
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Queen Louise
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1929
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