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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This program features a compilation of promotional film shorts produced during the 1930s as part of the Hollywood on Parade...
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2000
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A music performance video with various French singers performing their most popular hits. ~ Rovi...
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1996
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This documentary about the history of popular music in America focuses on music hall style, taking a look back at the...
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1976
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Made for French television, Marcel Ophüls' four-hour-plus documentary explores the average French citizen's memories of the...
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1971
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The Aristocats was the first Disney Studios animated feature to be produced after Walt Disney's death. A wealthy woman leaves...
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1970
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A man begins monkeying around with his new farm with hilarious results in this comedy for the whole family. American Hank...
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Father Sylvain
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1966
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Philip Dulaine
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1964
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A man falls for an exotic "bad girl," unaware he's already met the nice girl lurking beneath the surface, in this romantic...
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1963
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Prof. Jacques Paganel
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1962
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Based on Flora Sandstrom's novel The Midwife of Pont Clery, this lightweight sexual farce involves the effect that Jessica...
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Father Antonio
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1962
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Frank Pagano, mobster and head of Pagano Enterprises, needs to lose $500,000 within thirty days to avoid paying a large sum...
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1962
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Fanny was adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the final chapter of Marcel Pagnol's...
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Panisse
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1961
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Based on the Ferenc Molnar play Olympia, A Breath of Scandal serves as an elegant vehicle for a ravishing Sophia Loren. The...
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Prince Philip
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1960
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This musical performance features the streets of Paris and the girls of the French Can-Can. ~ Rovi...
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1960
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Cole Porter's Gay Paree musical about the introduction in Montmartre in 1896 of the notorious Can-Can dance, is brought to...
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Paul Barriere
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1960
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Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by...
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1960
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Black Tights is a filmed ballet anthology divided into four all-dance episodes. "The Diamond Cruncher" spotlights...
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1960
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This routine drama is helped by good acting and well-known stars like Rossano Brazzi as an unfaithful French husband,...
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Duc de St. Cloud
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1959
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Honore Lachaille
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1958
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Claude Chavasse
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1957
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An old French count who keeps an index of all his past loves is surprised one day by a young woman who claims to be his...
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1956
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Count Andre
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1954
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This romantic Italian anthology film is comprised of six episodes that deal with a century of love. The first vignette,...
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1954
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Like many of its Hollywood counterparts, the German all-star musical Schlagerparade (Hit Parade) is more memorable for its...
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1953
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In this comedy, a charming (at least he thinks so) king comes to Paris to sign a treaty and quickly learns more about French...
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1950
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Ma Pomme is not only the title of this charming Gallic comedy, but also the name of its principal character, a carefree...
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Ma Pomme
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1950
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In this drama, a free-spirited vagabond's life changes dramatically when he learns that he has inherited a fortune....
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1950
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Though it took Maurice Chevalier a long time to regain his American popularity after WW II, he remained a favorite in France....
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The King
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1949
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Originally released in France under the title Le Silence est D'Or, Man About Town is set in the Paris of the early 1900s....
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Emile
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1947
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In this dark drama, the mysterious disappearance of several Parisian women cause the police to hire the roommate of the...
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Songwriter, Robert Fleury
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1939
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What a combination! Break the News boasted the talents of English stage star Jack Buchanan, French entertainer...
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Francois Verrier
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1939
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Filmed in 1936, Maurice Tourneur's Avec le Sourire (With a Smile) finally attained an American release in 1939. The film...
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Victor Larnois
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1936
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Filmed in 1936 but not released in the US until 1940, Julien Duvivier's Man of the Hour (L'Homme du Jour) was, believe it or...
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Screenwriter, Himself
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1936
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1936
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In this tuneful and sentimental romance, a young architect from France falls in love with his employer's daughter....
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Paragot
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1936
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Eugene Charlier
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1935
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1935
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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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Prince Danilo
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1934
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This musical comedy stars Maurice Chevalier as (what else?) a Parisian playboy with a song and a kiss for every beautiful...
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Rene
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1933
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1933
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In this romantic musical, a carnival knife thrower's assistant falls for a Parisian tour guide who earns money wearing a...
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Francois
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1933
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Dr. Andre 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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Maurice Courtelin
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1932
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Joan Blondell, borrowed for the occasion from Warner Bros., earned top-billing in this delightful Hollywood parable, but the...
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1932
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Dr. Bertier
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1932
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Lt. Niki
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1931
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1931
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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Guest Star
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1930
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In this sparkling musical comedy, a bungling waiter (Maurice Chevalier) loses his job at a tony restaurant. His employment...
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Albert Loriflan
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1930
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1930
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Albert Loriflan
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1930
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Le Grande Mare is the French-language version of Paramount's The Big Pond (1930), with Maurice Chevalier and...
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Pierre Mirande
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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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Maurice Marny
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1929
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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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Count Alfred Renard
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1929
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1923
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1923
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1922
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