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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Though she was pushing 50 at the time, Paulette Goddard still looked quite fetching in harem duds in the independently...
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Hassan
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1952
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Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his...
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Col. Jones
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1943
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An unusually sentimental endeavor from rough-and-ready Monogram pictures, Road to Happiness stars former 20th Century-Fox...
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1942
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Universal and producer/director Henry Koster had plans to make Diana Barrymore, the daughter of John Barrymore, into another...
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Steven Forbes
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1942
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At one time Universal's "prestige" director, James Whale had slipped off the A-list by the end of the 1930s; even so, his...
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Jim Taylor
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1938
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Herman Bahr's German play The Yellow Nightingale from 1907 became Paramount's 1938 entry in the then-popular operetta cycle....
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Antal Kovach
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1938
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The plot of She Married an Artist is summed up by the title, as was often the case in such 1930s romantic comedies. European...
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Lee Thornwood
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1938
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Alexander Drew
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1937
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Produced by Sam Goldwyn, this second film version of Olive Higgins Prouty's Stella Dallas is by far the best. The combined...
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Stephen Dallas
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1937
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This musical parody follows the exploits of American performers in Hungary. The story begins as a Yankee wrestling trainer...
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Robert Densmore
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1937
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After several light comedy roles, Rosalind Russell proved her salt as a dramatic film actress in this 1936 adaptation of...
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Walter Craig
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1936
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In her much vaunted screen debut, Metropolitan Opera star Gladys Swarthout takes on David Belasco's 30-year-old operetta...
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1936
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The real "message to Garcia" was delivered by an American lieutenant to Cuban rebel General Garcia, asking for the General's...
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Lt. Andrew Rowan
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1936
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One of the last Fox releases before the studio's merger with 20th Century, Redheads on Parade stars John Boles and Dixie Lee...
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John Bruce
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1935
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The title may be Orchids to You, but the plot is motivated by a camellia -- to be exact, Camelia Rand (Jean Muir). About to...
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Thomas Bentley
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1935
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Edward Morgan
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1935
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The old Edward Peble play The Littlest Rebel was gussied up in 1935 as a Shirley Temple vehicle. The curly-topped child star...
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Capt. Herman Cary
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1935
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Carl Hausmann
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1934
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This off-beat romantic melodrama contains elements of comedy not usually found in the genre as it tells the story of the love...
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Steve Miller
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1934
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In this tepid melodrama, an aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search...
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Michael Harrison
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1934
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At his 1875 engagement party, Newland Archer (John Boles) is surprised to meet his childhood friend Ellen (Irene Dunne), now...
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Newland Archer
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1934
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Dedicated to "the memory of Florence Nightingale," White Parade might have been better dedicated to the cliche experts at Fox...
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Ronald Hall III
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1934
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In this tear-jerking adaptation of Louis Bromfield's novel A Good Woman, the title character stands tall in the face of small...
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John Shadwell
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1934
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Based on an idea by Will Rogers, the story concerns the efforts by the President of the United States to get the public's...
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himself
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1934
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Bruno Mahler
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1934
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In his only musical-comedy appearance, Spencer Tracy stars as fast-buck promoter Smoothie King. Our hero's latest scam is to...
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Hal Reed
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1934
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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James Stanton Emerson
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1933
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On the outs at Paramount, musical comedy star Nancy Carroll was "punished" by being sent to Columbia for the lachrymose Child...
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Paul Vanderkill
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1933
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The Hollywood debut of German star Lillian Harvey, this film operetta was held back in favor of Harvey's second outing,...
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King Rupert
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1933
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Based on a best-selling novel by Fannie Hurst, Back Street concerns an ill-starred couple, Rae (Irene Dunne) and Walter...
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Walter Saxel
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1932
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In this off-beat sci-fi film, an outspoken diplomat is murdered during an international trade conference. This is a terrible...
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Karl Kranz
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1932
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In this romance, a homely country girl makes herself over into a gorgeous New York Fashion model. Suddenly men flock to her...
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Stephen Illington
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1932
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Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov
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1931
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Samuel Goldwyn attempted to turn British operetta star Evelyn Laye into another Jeanette MacDonald with this cardboard...
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Count Mirko Tibor
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1931
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In this three-hanky melodrama, an aspiring writer abandons his wife and five children to work more closely with a beautiful...
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Bart Carter
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1931
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Still regarded as the definitive film version of Mary Shelley's classic tale of tragedy and horror, Frankenstein made unknown...
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Victor Moritz
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1931
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High-class call girls provide the focus of this intelligent romantic comedy that takes a rather scathing look at the...
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1931
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This French epic chronicles the French Revolution as seen by Rouget de Lisle, the man who composed the French national...
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Rouget de Lisle
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1930
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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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Guest
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1930
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Based upon an ambitious but unsuccessful stage operetta by Oscar Hammerstein and Vincent Youmans, Song of the West is set in...
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Capt. Stanton
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1930
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In this mystery, a producer reopens a theater where five years before, a lead actor was killed on stage during a...
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1929
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After literally inventing the movie musical with The Jazz Singer, Warner Bros. purchased the motion picture rights to the...
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The Red Shadow
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1929
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Rio Rita, an expensive filmization of the legendary Florenz Ziegfeld-produced Broadway musical of 1928, was the first major...
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Capt. Jim Stewart
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1929
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In this early sound drama, an ex-socialite is forced to get a job after hard times cause her to lose her fortune. In her new...
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Maurice
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1929
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Romance of the Underworld was adapted from a barnstorming stage piece by Paul Armstrong. Forced by circumstance into a life...
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Stephen Ransome
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1929
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We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well,...
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1928
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1928
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Based on Zane Grey's Collier's short story, this fine Paramount Western starred the underrated Nancy Carroll as an Eastern...
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Bert Durland
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1928
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The piquant Leatrice Joy starred in this frothy marital comedy about a wife who leaves her boring husband (John Boles) to be...
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1928
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Director Howard Hawks never attempted another Valentinoesque melodrama like Fazil. Beautiful Fabienne (Greta Nissen) is wooed...
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1928
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Previously filmed in 1920, Harold Bell Wright's "backwoods" novel Shepherd of the Hills was remade in 1928. The story is...
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Young Matt
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1927
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1927
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Paul Judson
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1927
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Lieutenant Shaw
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1925
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This domestic comedy-drama seems to owe a lot of its spirit to filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, who made quite a few similar...
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1924
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