Jule StyneFilmography

Radio Days

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Mia Farrow, Seth Green, Julie Kavner, Josh Mostel, Michael Tucker

Synopsis: Woody Allen's gentle and nostalgic tribute to the glory days of radio and coming-of-age during World War II plays like Fellini's Amarcord filtered through Neil Simon. The nominal star is Seth Green as Joe, a teenage Jewish boy, growing up with a house full of relatives in Brooklyn. Allen cuts Read More

Thieves

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Marlo Thomas, Charles Grodin, Irwin Corey, Hector Elizondo, Mercedes McCambridge

Synopsis: In this comedy based on a play by Herb Gardner, a zany, disparate couple tries to beat the odds and stay together. The man runs a posh private school and cannot see why his lover prefers teaching in the Lower East Side where they were raised. The two temporarily split, and each of them has an Read More

Funny Girl

Crew: Composer (Music Score), From Musical by, Screenwriter

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon

Synopsis: "Hello, gorgeous!" was Barbra Streisand's first comment to the Oscar statuette which she won for her performance in this biopic of entertainer Fanny Brice. This is also her first line in the film itself, the catalyst for a movie-long flashback. Repeating her Broadway role, Streisand stars as Read More

The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Cyril Ritchard, Vic Damone, Eric Burdon

Synopsis: Originally aired on the ABC Television Network on November 28, 1975, this leisurely musical comedy stars stage great Liza Minnelli in a modernized re-imagining of the Little Red Riding Hood fable. Everyone knows the tale of the little girl who was on her way to grandma's house when she encountered Read More

Judy Garland: Judy Garland & Friends

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this collection of clips from The Judy Garland Show, which ran for 26 episodes on CBS television in 1963 and 1964, the legendary singer and actress performs a number of songs, several of them collaborations with up-and-comer Barbra Streisand, grand dame Ethel Merman, and Garland's own daughter Read More

Gypsy

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Paul Wallace, Betty Bruce, Ann Jillian

Synopsis: This Stephen Sondheim/Jules Styne/Arthur Laurents musical comedy Gypsy had been a Broadway smash with Ethel Merman in the lead. Based on the autobiography of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, it centers on the antics of Mama Rose (here played by Rosalind Russell), the Stage Mother from Hell who Read More

Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Having made a bundle on their 130-episode package of Mr. Magoo TV cartoons, the folks at UPA studios decided to star Magoo in a 60-minute musical version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. First telecast over the NBC network on December 18, 1962, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol deftly uses the Read More

Bells Are Ringing

Crew: Composer (Music Score), From Musical by, Songwriter

Actors: Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy, Jr., Jean Stapleton

Synopsis: Judy Holliday re-creates her Broadway role of flibbertigibbet telephone operator Ella Peterson in Bells are Ringing. Ella works for Susanswerphone, a hole-in-the-wall answering service run by her cousin Sue (Jean Stapleton). Our girl Ella can't help but become involved in the lives of her Read More

Have Rocket, Will Travel

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Curly Joe DeRita, Jerome Cowan, Anna-Lisa

Synopsis: Joe De Rita makes his debut as the third Stooge in this rollicking slapstick comedy that has the three bunglers accidentally locking themselves into a rocket ship and blasting off to Venus. Once on the second planet they find fantastic life forms, including a verbose unicorn. They also find Read More

Juke Box Rhythm

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jo Morrow, Jack Jones, Brian Donlevy, George Jessel, Hans Conried

Synopsis: A European princess and her aunt come to New York to buy clothes for the royal coronation, Riff Manson (Jack Jones) is employed by unknown clothier and former junkman Brodine (Hans Conried) to sway the royals to purchase his designs. Broadway revue rehearsals and parties provide the backdrop for Read More

Ruggles of Red Gap

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Imogene Coca, David Wayne

Saturday Spectacular: High Button Shoes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Nanette Fabray and Joey Faye repeat their original Broadway roles in this live, 90-minute TV adaptation of the 1948 Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn musical comedy hit High Button Shoes. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Stephen Longstreet, the story is set in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in the year Read More

My Sister Eileen

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznar

Synopsis: My Sister Eileen is a Technicolor, musicalized remake of the 1942 comedy of the same name. It is not, however, the film version of the 1949 Broadway musical Wonderful Town, which was also based on the 1942 film. Adapted from the short stories of Ruth McKinney, the film stars Betty Garrett as Read More

Three Coins in the Fountain

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Maggie McNamara

Synopsis: Adapted by playwright John Patrick from a novel by famed globetrotter/filmmaker John H. Secondari, Three Coins in the Fountain offers the splendors of Rome in Technicolor, CinemaScope and Stereophonic Sounds. For all its lovely picture-postcard images, the film is at base a reworking of 20th Read More

Living It Up

Crew: From Musical by

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Fred Clark

Synopsis: The 1954 Martin-and-Lewis romp Living It Up is an amusing remake of the 1937 comedy classic Nothing Sacred. More specifically, it is the film version of the Broadway musical Hazel Flagg, which was based on Nothing Sacred. The heroine of the original undergoes a sex change to become feckless Homer Read More

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan

Synopsis: Second-billed Marilyn Monroe is the blonde in question in this second film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Miss Lorelei Lee, whose philosophy is "diamonds are a girl's best friend." Together with her best human friend Dorothy (top-billed Jane Russell), showgirl Lorelei embarks upon a boat Read More

Double Dynamite

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, Frank Sinatra, Don McGuire, Howard Freeman

Synopsis: One man's good luck leaves a very bad impression in this comedy. Johnny Dalton (Frank Sinatra) and Mildred Goodhug (Jane Russell) are two tellers working at the same bank who have fallen in love and want to get married. However, neither is making much money, and Johnny doesn't want to set a date Read More

Meet Me After the Show

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Betty Grable, MacDonald Carey, Rory Calhoun, Eddie Albert, Fred Clark

Synopsis: Delilah and Jeff (Betty Grable and MacDonald Carey) are a successful show-business team, but less successful as husband and wife. Finding that her producer hubby is unfaithful, musical-comedy star Delilah walks out on him, heading for Miami, where she got her start. In the process, Delilah feigns Read More

The Dakota Kid

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Michael Chapin, Eilene Janssen, James Bell, Margaret Field

Synopsis: The Dakota Kid was the first of four Republic westerns built around the talents of preteen performers Michael Chapin and Eilene Jansen. In each of these films, Chapin played Red, the grandson of sheriff Tom White (James Bell), while Jansen co-starred as Judy, the boy's best friend and severest Read More

It's a Great Feeling

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Bill Goodwin, Irving Bacon

Synopsis: Billy Wilder's future partner I.A.L. Diamond concocted the storyline for this Dennis Morgan/Jack Carson/Doris Day tunefest. Morgan and Carson, Warner Bros.' answer to Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, appear as themselves. Attempting to line up a director for their next picture, the boys find themselves Read More

The Golden Stallion

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Pat Brady, Douglas Evans

Synopsis: Part of the Roy Rogers series, this film focuses on Roy Roger's horse, Trigger, and his infatuation with a handsome palomino mare. When Trigger discovers the mare being beaten by her lowlife owner, he kills him, leaving Rogers to take the blame. However, it seems that Trigger's new girlfriend Read More

Romance on the High Seas

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Doris Day, Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Oscar Levant

Synopsis: This cute film is Doris Day's film debut and in it she plays Georgia Garrett, a substitute traveller on an ocean cruise. Her friend Elvira Kent (Janis Paige) had scheduled the cruise but at the last minute cancels when she suspects that her husband is cheating on her and she decides to stay at Read More

Ladies' Man

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Eddie Bracken, Cass Daley, Virginia Welles, Johnny Coy, Virginia Field

Synopsis: No relation to the 1961 Jerry Lewis comedy of the same name, the 1947 musical Ladies' Man stars Eddie Bracken as the title character. It all begins when rural rube Henry Haskell (Bracken) inherits an oil fortune in Oklahoma. Enjoying his newfound wealth, Henry goes on a sightseeing tour of New Read More

Earl Carroll Sketchbook

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Constance Moore, William Marshall, Bill Goodwin, Johnny Coy, Vera Vague

Synopsis: Though Republic had decided to forego plans for an annual film edition of Earl Carroll's Vanities, their reciprocal deal with the Broadway impresario was still very much in effect in 1946: Hence the creation of the musical extravaganza Earl Carroll Sketchbook. The highly forgettable plot involves Read More

The Kid from Brooklyn

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, Eve Arden

Synopsis: Danny Kaye's The Kid From Brooklyn is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of Harold Lloyd's The Milky Way (1936), with music and Technicolor added to the proceedings. Kaye is cast as timid milkman Burleigh Sullivan, who through a fluke knocks out prizefighting champion Speed McFarlane (Steve Read More

Behind City Lights

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Lynne Roberts, Peter Cookson, Jerome Cowan, Esther Dale, William Terry

Synopsis: This Republic programmer stars Lynne Roberts as a country gal who is slickered by a couple of city-fied jewel thieves, played by Peter Cookson and Jerome Cowan. Roberts is set up for a patsy by these two rogues, and nearly ends up in jail-and later on, narrowly escapes being rubbed out by Read More

Tonight and Every Night

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman, Janet Blair, Marc Platt, Leslie Brooks, Florence Bates

Synopsis: Based on a play by Leslie Storm, Tonight and Every Night is a musical wartime morale booster in which star Rita Hayworth is but one of a lively ensemble. Set in battle-scarred Britain, the action takes place in a seedy old music hall, which never misses a performance even at the height of the Read More

Anchors Aweigh

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: This mammoth musical is at base the story of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. Brash Joseph Brady (Gene Kelly) has promised his shy pal Clarence Doolittle (Frank Sinatra) that he will introduce Clarence to all the glamorous movie starlets whom he allegedly knows so well. Actually, the only Read More

Carolina Blues

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Ann Miller, Victor Moore, Jeff Donnell, Howard Freeman

Synopsis: In his final starring film, bandleader Kay Kyser is cast as bandleader Kay Kyser. Picking up where Kyser's previous RKO Radio film Around the World left off, Columbia's Carolina Blues finds Kay and his band returning to America after a worldwide USO tour. Phineas J. Carver (Victor Moore), the Read More

Janie

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Robert Benchley, Alan Hale

Synopsis: Janie, adapted from the Broadway play by Josephine Bentham and Herschel Williams, was one of a 1940s cycle of stage-to-film comedies about teenagers. Joyce Reynolds stars as Janie, a typical teen whose life is turned topsy turvy by the installation of a military base near her home town. Edward Arnold Read More

Follow the Boys

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: George Raft, Vera Zorina, Charles Grapewin, George Macready, Charles Butterworth, Regis Toomey, Grace McDonald

Synopsis: Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars making cameo appearances. Tony West (George Raft), his sister Kitty (Grace McDonald), and their father Nick (Charles Grapewin) tour together as The Three Wests, a failing act Read More

Knickerbocker Holiday

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn, Constance Dowling, Shelley Winters, Ernest Cossart, Johnnie Davis, Percy Kilbride

Synopsis: The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of Read More

Step Lively

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Frank Sinatra, George Murphy, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria de Haven, Eugene Pallette, Walter Slezak

Synopsis: Previously filmed as a so-so Marx Brothers vehicle in 1938, the John Murray-Alan Boretz Broadway hit Room Service was effectively musicalized in 1944 as Step Lively. The plot remains intact: Fly-by-night theatrical producer Gordon Miller (Groucho Marx in the 1938 film, George Murphy in the remake) Read More

Casanova in Burlesque

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Joe E. Brown, June Havoc, Dale Evans, Lucien Littlefield, Ian Keith

Synopsis: In this effervescent musical comedy, a stuffy college professor secretly works as a burlesque comedian during the summer. He, a professor of Shakespeare, manages to keep his secret, until a stripper shows up and threatens to blow his cover unless he gives her a starring role in his latest Read More

Jam Session

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ann Miller, Jess Barker, Charles D. Brown, Eddie Kane, George Eldredge

Synopsis: Within its brisk 78 minutes, Jam Session manages to accommodate the singing, dancing and acting talents of Ann Miller, a romantic main plot, a comic subplot-and no fewer than six big-name orchestras. The story is the old saw about a small-town girl named Terry Baxter (Miller), who wins a trip to Read More

Youth on Parade

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Hubbard, Ruth Terry, Martha O'Driscoll, Ivan Simpson

Synopsis: In this musical, a gang of college students decide to play a little trick by creating the perfect student. The fictional gal has everything a university would ever want. The trouble begins when the campus psych professor becomes determined to meet this girl. If the gang cannot bring her forward Read More

Change of Heart

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: John Carroll, Susan Hayward, Gail Patrick, Eve Arden, Melville Cooper, Dorothy Dandridge

Synopsis: Change of Heart is the reissue title of the Republic musical Hit Parade of 1943. The studio had been turning out these annual Hit Parade extravaganzas since 1941, but only the 1943 edition truly hit the bullseye. The plot, wherein fading songwriter John Carroll steals a tune from aspiring composer Susan Hayward Read More

Henry Aldrich Swings It

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jimmy Lydon, Charles Smith, John Litel, Olive Blakeney, Mimi Chandler

Synopsis: For this entry in the popular Henry Aldrich series, bumbling typical high school student Henry (Jimmy Lydon) catches sight of the new band teacher Louise Elliott (Marian Hall) and really likes what he sees. Quickly developing a mad crush on her, Henry goes so far as to join the band just to be Read More

Sweater Girl

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Eddie Bracken, June Preisser, Phillip Terry, Nils Asther, Frieda Inescort

Synopsis: Sweater Girl is an okay remake of 1935's College Scandal, and like its predecessor is that rare bird, a "musical mystery". Someone is stalking a midwestern college campus, murdering students left and right. Among the victims is campus radio personality Miles Tucker (Kenneth Howell) and aspiring Read More

Priorities on Parade

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ann Miller, Johnny Johnston, Jerry Colonna, Betty Jane Rhodes, Vera Vague

Synopsis: Very much a product of its times, Priorities on Parade was disliked by everyone but the public when it was first released in 1942. The story takes place in a wartime aircraft plant, where a group of entertainers secure jobs putting on shows for the workers during lunch and dinner breaks. The Read More

Beyond the Blue Horizon

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Dorothy Lamour, Richard Denning, Jack Haley, Walter Abel, Helen Gilbert

Synopsis: It's Dorothy Lamour again, sarong and all, in the South Seas wish-dream Beyond the Blue Horizon. Lamour plays Tama, a daughter of the jungle who heads to the US to claim an inheritance. For publicity purposes, press agent Squidge (Jack Haley) tries to team Tama with his client, circus lion tamer Read More

Gauchos of El Dorado

Crew: From Musical by, Songwriter

Actors: Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Rufe Davis, Lois Collier, Duncan Renaldo

Synopsis: It's "The Three Mesquiteers" again, this time played by Bob Steele (as Tucson Smith), Tom Tyler (as Stony Brooke) and Rufe Davis (as Lullaby Joslin). It all begins when young bank robber Gaucho (played by ex-Mesquiteer Duncan Renaldo) is mortally wounded during a holdup. As the lad lays dying, he Read More

Angels with Broken Wings

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Binnie Barnes, Gilbert Roland, Mary Lee, Billy Gilbert, Jane Frazee

Synopsis: Widowed mother Charlotte Lord (Katherine Alexander) would like to marry wealthy Guy Barton (Sidney Blackmer), but Bartons' avaricious ex-wife Sybil (Binnie Barnes) insists upon contesting their recent Mexican divorce. Charlotte's daughters Jane (Jane Frazee), Leni (Leni Lynn), and Marilyn (Marilyn Hare Read More

Sailors on Leave

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: William Lundigan, Shirley Ross, Chick Chandler, Ruth Donnelly, Mae Clarke

Synopsis: Sailors on Leave stars William Lundigan as sailor Chuck Stephens, who has borrowed so much money from his fellow gobs that he's in debt up to his eyelids. Chuck's shipmates decide to get even with him by arranging a "fake" marriage with cafe songstress Shirley Ross that turns out to be genuine. Read More

Hit Parade of 1941

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kenny Baker, Frances Langford, Hugh Herbert, Mary Boland, Ann Miller

Synopsis: In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking for sponsors. He finds one with a department store owner who will only lend him the money if he will allow his daughter, an aspiring tap-dancer and Read More

The House Across the Bay

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: George Raft, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Nolan, Gladys George, Walter Pidgeon

Synopsis: Producer Walter Wanger's House Across the Bay serves as an excellent showcase for Wanger's then-wife Joan Bennett. She is cast as nightclub singer Brenda Bentley, the wife of high-rolling gambler Steve Lawrett (George Raft). When Steve is railroaded into Alcatraz by duplicitous attorney Slant Read More

Melody Ranch

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, Ann Miller, Barton MacLane, Barbara Jo Allen

Synopsis: Beautifully restored to its original theatrical length of 84 minutes by the Gene Autry Foundation, Melody Ranch is a bright, tuneful, and at times quite action-packed piece of B-Western extravaganza, Republic style. The victim of both a drop in ratings and a tardy leading lady, radio star Gene Read More

Slightly Honorable

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Edward Arnold, Broderick Crawford, Ruth Terry, Claire Dodd

Synopsis: The successful producer-director combination of Walter Wanger and Tay Garnett served up another winner with Slightly Honorable. Adapted from F. G. Presnell's novel Send Another Coffin, the story concerns the efforts made by corrupt politician Cushing (Edward Arnold) to frame honest attorney John Read More

Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ruth Terry, Johnny Downs, Barbara Jo Allen, Billy Gilbert, Claire Carleton

Synopsis: In this musical, a con man makes a good living by promoting bogus charity shows. He gets the communities all revved up and then skips town with all their money. But then he meets three earnest people wanting to garner financial support for an orphanage. This time the con man's loyal assistant Read More

Girl from Havana

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Victor Jory, Steffi Duna, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: No relation to the 1929 Fox talkie of the same name, Republic's The Girl From Havana offers blonde-bombshell Claire Carleton (normally relegated to supporting roles) as the title character. The film charts the exploits of two oil-drilling buddies, Woody Davis (Dennis O'Keefe) and Tex Moore (Victor Read More

Stop, Look, and Love

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jean Rogers, William Frawley, Robert Kellard, Eddie Collins

Synopsis: In this domestic comedy, a young woman's mother keeps frightening her beaus right out the door with her incessant critical comments. Naturally this is quite frustrating to the girl. But when the maiden falls in love with one of the boy friends, she goes to her father for assistance. He obliges by Read More

Pack up Your Troubles

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jane Withers, The Ritz Brothers [Al, Jimmy, Harry], Lynn Bari, Joseph Schildkraut, Stanley Fields

Synopsis: In this comedy set during WW I, two crazy vaudevillians try their new act out on their agent. He thinks it is a real dud and the boys end up working as mule skinners in France. While there, they meet a French officer's American daughter. Mayhem ensues when they are mistaken German spies Read More