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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The 1940s was a monumental decade for the United States. Amid World War II, economic recovery, and the start of the Cold...
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2001
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Volume five of this ten-volume set celebrates the sounds of the popular 1940s big band music era. Its performance clips...
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1998
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Songwriter
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1990
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This documentary, made for PBS' American Masters series, explores the life and career of the renowned screenwriter and...
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1990
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This standard, tongue-in-cheek, gangsters and good guys saga is carried on the star power and screen presence of...
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Songwriter
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1984
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This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho...
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1976
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In this violent drama, two hippies head for the wilds of California to find a good buddy and end up assaulted and raped by...
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1974
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Have you ever longed for the day when James Brown, Martha Raye, and Col. Harland Sanders would appear in a movie together?...
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1970
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Singer Rudy Vallee guests in this episode as H.A. Smith, a powerful industrialist who has journeyed from Erie, Pennsylvania...
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1969
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Singing stars from two very different generations appear in Live A Little, Love A Little. Elvis Presley plays Greg, a...
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Penlow
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1968
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Narrator Rudy Vallee announces that he knows we are a "real high class audience," thus he has "some swell story to tell."...
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1968
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Jasper B. Biggley
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1967
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1964
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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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This evening of musical magic includes some of the greatest jazz artists and their exciting performances. ~ Rovi...
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1956
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In this tuneful, romantic sequel to the classic Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, two gorgeous brown-haired Broadway chorines head...
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1955
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Marjorie Main is the whole show in the Universal programmer Ricochet Romance. Playing the outspoken new cook at a rundown...
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1954
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Wanda Hendrix is awfully cute as a WAVE officer who is endlessly pursued by lascivious men. Ex-airmen Edmond O'Brien,...
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Mr. Pettigrew
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1950
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First came 20th Century-Fox's Mother Was a Freshman; then, a few months later, the same studio's Father Was a Fullback....
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Mr. Jessop
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1949
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Charles Hingleman
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1949
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Prof. John Heaslip
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1949
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George Stevens's charming film version of Kathryn Forbes' collection of short stories entitled Mama's Bank Account features...
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1948
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Charles Harris
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1948
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Preston Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours is a typically witty and wild screwball comedy starring Rex Harrison as a symphony...
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August Henshler
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1948
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Radio humorist Henry Morgan made his film debut in So This is New York. Based on The Big Town, a collection of stories by...
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Herbert Daley
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1948
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Judge Myrna Loy decides that the best way to curb the excesses of playboyish art teacher Cary Grant is to force him to do...
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Tommy Chamberlain
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1947
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Absent from films since 1938 (except as producer of a brace of RKO Radio features), silent-screen comedy favorite...
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1947
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Art Linkletter had only recently taken over the popular audience-participation radio series People are Funny from Art Baker...
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Ormsby Jamison
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1946
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Barbara Britton is as cute as can be as the title character in Republic's The Fabulous Suzanne. The plot, which bears a faint...
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Hendrick Courtney, Jr.
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1946
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Based on the popular Russian novel The Twelve Chairs, this stars Fred Allen as flea-circus impresario Fred Floogle. Learning...
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1945
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Man Alive is an inventive and consistently amusing farce dominated by stars Pat O'Brien and Adolphe Menjou. The former plays...
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Gordon Tolliver
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1945
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As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not...
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John D. Hackensacker III
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1942
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In this lighthearted musical comedy, Marjory Stuart (Mary Martin) is a girl who works in the hatcheck room at a Manhattan...
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Alfred Monroe
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1942
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One wonders if the title Too Many Blondes was inspired by the well-publicized romantic peccadilloes of the film's star, Rudy...
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Dick Kerrigan
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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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Daniel Collins
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1941
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Sonja Henie, the Norwegian skating star, reportedly played second fiddle to no one at Fox in the late '30s, and this...
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Roger Maxwell
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1939
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The last and least of Warner Bros.' Gold Diggers musicals, Gold Diggers in Paris at least has the novelty of a Gallic...
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Terry Moore
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1938
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Rudy Vallee made his third feature-film starring appearance in the breezy Warner Bros. musical Sweet Music. Vallee is...
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Skip Houston
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1935
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Legendary Broadway impresario George White made his Hollywood debut with this musical, which he wrote, co-directed, and...
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Jimmy Martin
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1934
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Hollywood responded to the exigencies of the Depression with such glorious nonsense as International House. The plot is...
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Himself
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1933
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1932
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In this musical short, Rudy Vallee is the "Judge of Musical Discretion" presiding over the "Court of Musical Justice." With...
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1931
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1931
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Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld brought his legendary "Follies" to the silver screen in Glorifying the American Girl....
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1930
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1929
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In his movie debut, Rudy Valley portrays the crooning saxophone player who falls in love with a beautiful young woman....
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Rudy Bronson
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1929
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