This installment of Swing Era features music by Artie Shaw & His Orchestra, The Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, and many...
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2003
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Afro-Cuban music throughout the world is profiled in this video tracing its path from African and Spain into the Caribbean,...
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1990
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Woody Allen's gentle and nostalgic tribute to the glory days of radio and coming-of-age during World War II plays like...
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Songwriter
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1987
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1984
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In this crime drama, a Vietnam vet goes to his California hometown and discovers that two Mexicans have murdered his...
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Songwriter
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1970
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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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1959
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Bandleader Xavier Cugat and his then-wife, sultry songstress Abbe Lane, are the principal attractions of the Spanish...
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1957
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Donatela (Elsa Martinelli) is a poor girl who works as personal secretary to wealthy Guido (Walter Chiari). When Donatela's...
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Composer (Music Score), Himself
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1956
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This video features a collection of episodes from popular game shows from the '50s, including "The $64,000 Challenge,"...
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1956
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Tyrone Power stars in this tear-jerking biography of the beloved but short-lived pianist and bandleader Eddy Duchin....
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1956
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Alberto Sordi plays the title character in the Spanish-Italian Lo Scapolo (The Bachelor). Forever on the verge of marriage,...
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1955
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Benny Chico
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1955
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1951
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1949
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MGM whipped up another musical salad with Luxury Liner, featuring a glittering lineup of contractees including Jane Powell,...
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1948
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The title of this MGM musical alone should tip you to the fact that Esther Williams is the star. In this one, she plays a...
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1948
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1948
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In this aqueous musical comedy, an opera singer brings his son to Michigan's Mackinac Island where the son falls in love with...
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Himself
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1947
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In this WWII musical, a young hero and his buddy decide to celebrate his receiving the Medal of Honor by partying. He is...
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1946
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Too long by at least two reels, Holiday in Mexico is nevertheless one of the more enjoyable MGM Technicolor musicals of the...
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Himself
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1946
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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1945
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This aquatic musical is set at a mountain resort in the beautiful Sierra Nevadas where a heroic Army Air Corpsman has come...
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1945
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If you've never seen a '40s singing, swimming musical this may be the one to catch. Featuring a mammoth cast, including such...
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1944
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Two Girls and a Sailor is another of those all-star, no-plot wartime musicals turned out by the bushel basket in the 1940s....
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1944
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This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising...
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1943
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After an absence of three years, Mae West returned to the screen in the musical comedy The Heat's On. La West is cast as Fay...
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1943
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1942
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The second and last of the Fred Astaire-Rita Hayworth vehicles, You Were Never Lovelier takes place in Argentina (courtesy of...
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Himself
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1942
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1936
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In this haunting low-budgeter, Bela Lugosi stars as Murder Legendre, a shadowy character who exercises supernatural powers...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1932
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Originally filmed under the title The House of Troy, In Gay Madrid was one of four 1930 MGM operettas designed to show off...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1930
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