One of Broadway's most legendary stars, Gordon MacRae of Oklahoma! and Carousel (b. 1921, d. 1926), toplines this compilation...
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1965
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Pierre/Red Shadow
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1955
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Backed by the "American GI Chorus", Nelson Eddy made his final screen appearance in the unusually elaborate Republic musical...
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Capt. James Laurence
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1947
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In his first postwar animated feature, Walt Disney attempted to repeat the Fantasia formula, substituting "pop" music for the...
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1946
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1946
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The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this...
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Songwriter, Brom Broeck
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1944
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Anatole Garron
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1943
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Count Willie Palaffi
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1942
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Karl Lang
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1941
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Previously filmed in 1930 with Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore, the robust Sigmund Romberg operetta New Moon was given...
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Charles, Duc de Villiers
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1933, Noel Coward's sentimental operetta Bitter Sweet was transformed by MGM seven years later into a...
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Carl Linden
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1940
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Originally filmed in Sepiatone, Let Freedom Ring is a satisfying Nelson Eddy musical with patriotic overtones. Set in the...
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Steve Logan
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1939
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In this romantic musical, a Russian prince sees a lovely singer in a town cafe and falls head-over-heels. Realizing that he...
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Prince Peter Karagin
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1939
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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Ernest Lane
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1938
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Dick Thorpe
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1938
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Ramerez/Lieutenant Johnson
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1938
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Paul Allison
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1937
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Sgt. Bruce
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1936
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Capt. Richard Warrington
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1935
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Student Tour looks like an MGM musical two-reeler that was expanded to feature length as it went along. Charles Butterworth...
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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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Broadway to Hollywood is a through-the-years saga about a show business family. Frank Morgan and Alice Brady play vaudeville...
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1933
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