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Play Author
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1925
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After literally inventing the movie musical with The Jazz Singer, Warner Bros. purchased the motion picture rights to the...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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Show Boat was a part-silent, part-talkie adaptation of the book by Edna Ferber. The film traces the life of Magnolia Hawkes...
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From Musical by
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1929
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Broadway star Marilyn Miller's second starring film was an adaptation of her 1925 stage hit Sunny. Flashing her celebrated...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1930
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This early musical was filmed in color and centers upon the love affair between a young composer and the woman he wants to...
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Screenwriter, Songwriter
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1930
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Composer (Music Score)
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1930
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Based upon an ambitious but unsuccessful stage operetta by Oscar Hammerstein and Vincent Youmans, Song of the West is set in...
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From Musical by
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1930
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This lavish musical is based on a play by Oscar Hammerstein II and tells the story of a young girl who inadvertently causes a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1930
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Advertised variously as a "musical romance" and an "operetta style drama", Children of Dreams was the last of three Warner...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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From Musical by
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1934
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1935
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Songwriter
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1935
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Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter
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1936
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1936
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1937
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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In this drama, a former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1938
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The Great Waltz was the first of two films bearing the same title which told the life story of Austrian "Waltz King" Johann...
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Songwriter
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1938
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Screenwriter
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1939
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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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From Musical by
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1940
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Sunny was one of three RKO Radio Broadway-musical adaptations tailored to the talents of British favorite Anna Neagle by her...
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1941
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Songwriter
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1943
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The plot of the overinflated MGM musical Broadway Rhythm can be summed up briefly: Musical comedy producer Jonnie Demming...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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Screenwriter, Songwriter
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1945
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Otto Preminger directed this romantic musical (something of a change of pace for the rather serious-minded director) set in...
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Songwriter
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1946
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Mickey Rooney returned to his "home" studio MGM, after a three-year absence, in the location-filmed melodrama The Strip....
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Composer (Music Score)
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1951
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Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
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1951
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A genuine novelty, MGM's Main Street to Broadway offers the modern viewer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of the 1953...
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1953
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From Musical by
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1953
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Songwriter
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1954
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From Musical by
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1954
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Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 Broadway musical was considered revolutionary for a multitude of reasons, not least of which...
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From Musical by
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1955
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Book (Musical), Lyricist
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1955
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Carousel was adapted from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical of the same name--which, in turn, was based on...
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From Musical by
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1956
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From Musical by
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1956
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From Musical by
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1958
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The only Rodgers and Hammerstein cinemadaptation to be produced by Universal Pictures, Flower Drum Song was, alas, also the...
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From Musical by
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1961
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This is the third time around for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The action takes place in urban Texas instead of the...
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Screenwriter
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1962
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In this collection of clips from The Judy Garland Show, which ran for 26 episodes on CBS television in 1963 and 1964, the...
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Featured Music
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1963
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Lesley Ann Warren plays the title role in this television production of the classic Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein III...
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From Musical by
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1964
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Featured Music
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1965
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One of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music is based on the true story of the Trapp Family...
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From Musical by
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1965
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Can an independent, contemporary woman find happiness with a guy who sells pickles? Isabelle Grossman (Amy Irving) is an...
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Featured Music
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1988
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Seen on ABC's Wonderful World of Disney, this $12-million production is the only musical Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote for...
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From Musical by
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1997
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Before hitting it big stateside in 2000's X-Men, Hugh Jackman impressed London audiences with his performance as Curly in...
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Book Author
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1999
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In this animated adaptation of the popular musical, British widow Anna Leonowens (voiced by Miranda Richardson, with singing...
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From Musical by
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1999
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Composer (Music Score)
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2007
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