Twenty-seven-year-old Barbra Streisand seemed an inappropriate choice for middle-aged, match-making widow Dolly Levi, but her...
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1969
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Touted by 20th Century-Fox as a follow-up to their enormously successful The Sound of Music, Star! reteams that earlier...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Arrangement
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1968
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In his only MGM film, Humphrey Bogart plays the commanding officer of a M*A*S*H unit during the Korean War. Bogart runs his...
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1953
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1953
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Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) is the toast of...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1952
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Though completed in 1950, Love Is Better Than Ever was held back from release until 1952, due in great part to the "political...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1952
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Director Gerry Mayer, nephew of MGM-head Louis B. Mayer, proved that nepotism had nothing to do with his hiring by turning...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1951
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Strictly Dishonorable is a musicalized version of Preston Sturges' cynical Broadway comedy of the same title, previously...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1951
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Farley Granger plays a casually larcenous New York City mailman who steals a shipment of money. Granger's excitement over...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1950
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Incoming MGM production head Dore Schary ramrodded Battleground into the studio's schedule over the virulent protests of MGM...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1949
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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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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1949
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In this light drama, Clark Gable once again played his stock-in-trade role of a rogue with a heart of gold. Charlie King...
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1949
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1949
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1948
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1948
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1948
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When he was first offered the film version of the best-selling Frederick Wakeman novel The Hucksters, Clark Gable turned it...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1947
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Despite MGM's insistence that star Gene Kelly, just returning from military service in 1947, appear exclusively in big-budget...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1947
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1947
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The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1946
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This glorified Technicolor commercial for the Fred Harvey restaurants stars Judy Garland as a 19th-century mail-order bride....
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1946
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MGM's Till the Clouds Roll By is the musicalized, and highly fictionalized, life story of beloved composer Jerome Kern, who...
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Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision
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1946
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Yolanda and the Thief has long been considered the nadir of Arthur Freed's years as an MGM musical producer. Unappreciated at...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1945
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MGM's musical extravaganza Meet the People top-bills two future powerful TV executives: Dick Powell and Lucille Ball. Ball...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1944
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In her seventh outing as irrepressible vaudeville entertainer Maisie Revere, Ann Sothern aided the war effort by working the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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In this wartime comedy drama an ultra-macho but aging Marine sergeant does all he can to keep his men intimidated and towing...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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Five original cast members of the hit Broadway musical Best Foot Forward appear in this Technicolor MGM screen adaptation....
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1943
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Jean-Pierre Aumont (billed simply as Pierre Aumont) makes his American film debut in Assignment in Brittany. Set during WW2,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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Pilot No. 5 is an oddly liberal-minded film to come from conservative old MGM. Franchot Tone plays an army pilot stationed in...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1943
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This happy musical chronicles the exploits of a suicidal composer who is desolate after someone swiped his newest musical...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1942
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Edward Arnold made the first of his two screen appearances as Bayard Kendrick's blind detective Captain Duncan McLain in...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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The combination of Ann Sothern and Red Skelton pays off in giggles, chortles and guffaws in Maisie Gets Her Man. Broke and...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas' (Charles Laughton) spoken tribute to "the finest Naval officer I knew" provides the framework...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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First filmed in 1914, Edgar Selwyn's venerable North Country yarn Pierre of the Plains was thawed out once more in 1942....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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This Irving Asher production was that rarity, a genuine B-movie from posh MGM. Set in a pre-Pearl Harbor United States, Nazi...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1942
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MGM was doing so well in 1941 that it could afford the occasional "prestige" film with little box-office appeal. Based on the...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1941
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Married Bachelor is a cute little MGM situation comedy, designed for the bottom half of the studio's double bills....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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The Vanishing Virginian was adapted from the autobiographical bestseller by Rebecca Yancey Williams. Newcomer...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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By 1941, Wallace Beery was pretty much confined to playing two characters: The reprobate with the heart of gold, or the...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1941
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Reportedly at the request of Marion Davies herself, Bing Crosby was borrowed from Paramount for the MGM Davies vehicle...
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Musical Direction/Supervision
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1933
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