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1958
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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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1957
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Ann Blyth plays famed "torch singer" Helen Morgan, from her humble beginnings as a carnival dancer to the height of her...
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1957
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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1956
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Lucky Me is a mixed-bag musical from Warner Bros., adhering to a tried-and-true formula that was wearing just a bit thin in...
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1954
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1953
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Though it isn't obvious at first glance, Three Sailors and a Girl is the fourth screen version of the George S. Kaufman stage...
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1953
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1953
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This tuneful biography of operatic soprano Grace Moore begins as she prepares to perform on opening night. While awaiting...
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1953
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1953
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Eddie Cantor, beloved "banjo eyed" entertainer who conquered stage, films, radio and television, is given the Hollywood...
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1953
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She's Working Her Way Through College is a completely depoliticized remake of the liberal-minded comedy The Male Animal...
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1952
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Thanks to a bureaucratic blunder, the US State Department invites brassy showgirl Doris Day to attend a chi-chi arts festival...
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1952
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1952
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About Face is a musicalized remake of the old stage and film comedy Brother Rat. The basic story remains the same, as...
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1952
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The ultra-sentimental I'll See You in My Dreams is based on the life and work of composer Gus Kahn. The story is told from...
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1951
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Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams, coupled with his Penrod stories, were incorporated in the script of the 1951 Warner Bros....
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1951
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Starlift was Warner Bros' attempt to revive the "all-star patriotic musical" format which had worked so well during WW II....
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1951
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Painting the Clouds with Sunshine was a remake of the 1929 musical Gold Diggers of Broadway, which no longer exists for...
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1951
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Warner Bros. made good use of its backlog of Harry Warren/Al Dubin tunes in its 1951 Doris Day musical Lullaby of Broadway....
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1951
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Tea for Two is a Technicolor adaptation of the 1924 Broadway musical No No Nanette, previously filmed under its own title in...
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1950
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This Gay-90s musical interweaves a number of fictional characters with real-life theatrical impresario Tony Pastor (played by...
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1950
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James Cagney delivers a vibrant performance as a down-on-his-luck Broadway musical director in The West Point Story,...
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1950
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1949
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1949
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The short but colorful life of American musical comedy star Marilyn Miller is given the standard prettified Hollywood...
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1949
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Milton Berle was enjoying the first flush of his television success when his musical-comedy movie vehicle Always Leave Them...
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1949
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April Showers stars Jack Carson and Ann Sothern as a pair of small-time vaudevillians whose act gets nowhere until their...
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1948
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In this western-musical comedy, a remake of Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938), two vaudevillians find themselves stranded on a...
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1948
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Based on a play and novel by Margaret Kennedy, Escape Me Never is a remake of the same-named 1935 British film. Largely set...
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1947
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The Warner Bros. musical My Wild Irish Rose purports to tell the life story of popular 19th century balladeer Chauncey...
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1947
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Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson, the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope of Burbank, star in the Warner Bros. musical The Time, the Place...
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1946
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Faced with the challenge of writing a screenplay based on the life of fabulously wealthy, fabulously successful composer Cole...
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1946
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There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh!...
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1945
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In his final epic Western, Errol Flynn plays cattleman Clay Hardin, who, on a trek south of the border, has discovered that...
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1945
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Complete with a final production number filmed in Technicolor, this tuneful musical depicts the highly fictive ups and downs...
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1944
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The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film...
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1944
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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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1943
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More so than most wartime films, Mission to Moscow must be viewed within the context of its times. Requested by President...
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1943
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Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky...
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1943
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1943
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In this dark drama an iron-willed older sister forcibly thrusts her only modestly talented younger sister into a Broadway...
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1942
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1942
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Hal Roach's first Technicolor production was the 48-minute musical Fiesta. The story takes place on the Mexican ranch owned...
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1941
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1941
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A strong lineup of guest stars enhances the enjoyment of the Columbia B-plus musical Time Out for Rhythm. The somewhat...
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1941
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This 48-minute Hal Roach "streamliner" represents a rare directorial assignment for veteran Hollywood choreographer...
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1941
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1940
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Now immortalized as the film on which Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz met, Too Many Girls is a faithful adaptation of the...
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1940
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To fully appreciate Buck Benny Rides Again, one must have some familiarity with Jack Benny's radio programs of the 1939-40...
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1940
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In this lively programmer a con man hires a character actor to masqueraded as the recently assassinated dictator of a tiny...
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1939
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Dorothy Lamour had been playing "sarong girls" long enough to parody her screen character in 1939's Best of the Blues. Tired...
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1939
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The old David Belasco theatrical warhorse Zaza, which starred Mrs. Leslie Carter way back in 1899, had already been filmed by...
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1939
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Jack Benny goes to London in this frothy musical. He plays a Broadway producer and while in London begins pining for the...
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1939
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In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert....
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1939
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1938
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Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland, a popular Paramount screen team specializing in south-sea extravaganzas, don "civilized" garb...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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In this lively musical, an eccentric philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 with the stipulation...
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1937
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Another of Paramount's efforts to transform Metropolitan Opera diva Gladys Swarthout into a popular movie star, Champagne...
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1937
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This Way Please marked Betty Grable's first appearance under her new Paramount contract. The fact that Grable plays the new...
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1937
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High, Wide and Handsome almost defies classification: Perhaps it's best referred to as a historical musical western comedy...
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1937
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Department store owner Elliot Dinwiddy (Charlie Ruggles) never makes a decision without first consulting his astrologer Dr....
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1937
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Paramount's final "Big Broadcast" musical had perhaps the least exciting musical lineup of the series (Tito Guizar,...
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1937
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Paramount spent a record one million dollars on its 1937 Mae West vehicle Every Day's a Holiday. La West portrays a...
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1937
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"Camp Romance," a place for the romantically challenged, provides the setting of this musical. The story centers on a frumpy...
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1937
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Jack Benny had one of his first starring film roles in this breezy comedy with plenty of music. Benny plays Mac Brewster, an...
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1937
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This happy-go-lucky musical comedy is set in beautiful Hawaii and follows a public relations man who works for a pineapple...
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1937
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In this backwoods musical, two feudin' families provide the basis of the action. The tale begins as the head of one family...
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1937
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Anything Goes is a fun-filled but hardly faithful adaptation of the same-named Cole Porter Broadway musical, with additional...
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1936
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1936
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The quaint genetic theories of the 1930s are satirized in College Holiday. Dotty matron Mary Boland runs a ramshackle summer...
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1936
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The third film of Paramount's "Big Broadcast" series follows the pattern of the first two titles: negligible plot with plenty...
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1936
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Former child actor Johnny Downs acts his first adult lead in this nonsensical but charming little musical which benefits...
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1935
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A follow-up to the highly successful Bolero, this lively romantic drama stars George Raft as Joe Martin, a Cuban-American...
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1935
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In this bouncy musical, a sax-playing ex-convict joins a swing band and embarks upon a cross-country tour. He does really...
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1935
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Gary Cooper stars in this rousing adventure saga of three British officers of the 41st Regiment of Bengal Lancers of India....
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1935
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Paramount Pictures decided in 1935 to create a new romantic team, thus cast singing stars Carl Brisson and Mary Ellis in the...
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1935
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After a false start in 1932, Paramount's Big Broadcast series was jump-started in late 1935 with The Big Broadcast of 1936....
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1935
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Back in the 1930s, the "Search for Beauty" contests were designed to scout the hinterlands of America and England for...
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1934
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Paramount Pictures' annual college musical of 1934 is a pip, as they used to say. Jack Oakie plays Finnegan, a conceited...
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1934
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1934
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Bolero stars George Raft as Raoul de Barre, an arrogant dancer who rises to fame in the years prior to, during, and after WW...
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1934
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Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as...
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1933
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There can never be Too Much Harmony in a Bing Crosby picture, not even in a bucolic backstage musical like this. Crosby plays...
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1933
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The second of Cecil B. DeMille's talkies (as well as his second for MGM), Madam Satan is an exercise in incoherence, but this...
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1930
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In this drama, a junkman, Maurice Chevalier in his American film debut, rescues a drowning boy from the Seine. The boy's...
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1929
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