Musical - DVD

<p>Newlywed swimming teacher Cynthia Delbar has everything a girl could want for her honeymoon: a posh mountain lodge, glorious weather and a drop-dead trousseau. The only thing missing is her tycoon groom, who chose closing a deal in DC over cuddling with his brand-new...

<p>Goodbye, Polynesia: Half-Tahitian beauty Mimi Bennett is eager to leave the easygoing life of Tahiti for the excitement and bustle of the U.S.A. Hello, romance: Ohioan Hazard Endicott arrives to begin life anew on the island, sparking events that may turn Mimi's travel plans...

<p>James Sullivan works the carny circuit, promoting the likes of a boxing kangaroo or grappling bear. Then the wheeler-dealer meets a million-dollar idea: beautiful swimming champ Annette Kellerman. She'll churn through a Thames River PR stunt. Cause a bathing-suit scandal among Boston blue bloods....

<p>You won't find a pool in a bullring. But you will find glamorous Esther Williams, who, except for one brief water sequence in the lively and colorful film Fiesta, forsakes her trademark swimsuit for the matador's red cape and black montera. Hollywood's Chlorine Queen...

<p>Consummate tenor Mario Lanza and Kathryn Grayson star in this colorful, song-filled romance. Lush settings, lighthearted comedy and soaring music flow freely in this lively tale of a Cajun fisherman who leaves the bayou and falls in love with a beautiful New Orleans opera...

<p>Aspiring diva Prudence Budell (Kathryn Grayson) knew what she wanted in a singing partner and she found it on the street! Mario Lanza, already a recording sensation in 1949, made his screen debut in this glowing box-office success. As singing truck driver Johnny Donnetti,...

<p>Jingles Collins (Jack Carson) and Bob Grant (Robert Hutton) are Tin Pan Alley's greatest pair of undiscovered and unpublished songmen. So much so that Bob has decided to pack it in and head back to Small Town, USA. Meanwhile, on the other side of...

<p>When spoiled heiress Connie Casey goes off to college, her father secretly sends along four Ivy League football stars as her bodyguards. In no time, they turn tiny Pottawatomie U into a gridiron powerhouse! Fast-paced and infectiously funny, Too Many Girls is celebrated for...

<p>The incomparable Fred Astaire teams with lithesome and beguiling Vera-Ellen in this lavish turn-of-the-century musical delight. Cast as a free-spirited playboy, Astaire narrowly escapes marriage to a showbiz siren before chancing upon a delectable Bowery mission worker (Vera-Ellen). This time, buoyed by the wings...

<p>It takes someone a lot more important than a studio mogul to get Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Gene Nelson, Virginia Mayo, Jane Wyman, Randolph Scott and more Hollywood celebrities to costar in the same movie. It takes an...

<p>The State Department wants Ethel Barrymore to represent the American theater at an arts exposition in Paris. But Miss Ethel Barrymore's invitation goes instead to Miss Ethel "Dynamite" Jackson, a very blonde, very brassy chorus girl. And she's going to give Paris an Eiffel!...

<p>A husband-and-wife songwriting team (Robert Young and Ann Sothern) sure know how to turn out the hits, from "Lady Be Good" to "The Last Time I Saw Paris." But when it comes to marriage, they can't seem to hit anything but sour notes. Red...

<p>A Broadway producer has the talent, the tunes, the theater and everything else he needs to put on a show -- except the dough. Not to worry, say Ginger Rogers and the other leggy chorines decked out in giant coins. Everyone will soon be...

<p>In an earlier time, East Coast spring break pleasure seekers overran Fort Lauderdale. And for Easter Week West, busloads of teens would converge on California's desert playground for a wild Palm Springs Weekend. Troy Donahue headlines this romp as Jim Munroe, captain of the...

<p><strong>Bombshell:</strong> Glamour queen Lola (Harlow) is quitting the movie biz -- something her manipulative press agent (Lee Tracy) can't allow!</p>

<p>Working class stenographer Sheba Miller (Alice White) thinks she's heading for a dull, luxury-less married life with her Regular Joe beau, Jack (William Bakewell), a soda jerk that works for Sheba's father, cigar store owner Pa Miller (Richard Carlyle). Trying to show Sheba a...

<p>The "Broadway Musketeers" -- a trio of chorus girls -- are all for one and one for all in this musical drama about their quest for the golden groom. At the wild end of the Roaring '20s, when Prohibition still forces alcohol into underground...

<p>Not since Judy met the boy next door in St. Louis has there been a heaping of tuneful, romantic Midwestern American life like this! Doris Day and Gordon MacRae team for spoonin', croonin' and swoonin' On Moonlight Bay, based on Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories....

<p>The stars come out when the night shimmers like this! Young lovers Doris Day and Gordon MacRae return in a moonlit sequel to On Moonlight Bay. Rosemary DeCamp, Mary Wickes and Billy Gray rejoin them in this remembrance of World War I-era Americana. There's...

<p>Helen Morgan has beauty, talent, success. Yet they mean nothing to her without the love of Larry Maddux, the bootlegger who leads Helen on and drops her so often she finally hits bottom. Set in the roaring '20s, The Helen Morgan Story is also...

<p>There's an unusual harvest at Falbury Farm: beans, hay show tunes. It's a bumper crop, too, with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly leading all the hoofing, singing and sparking. In her final MGM musical, Garland plays Jane Falbury, a farm owner more than a...

<p>"Bravo," say critics about an entertainer's tell-all memoir chronicling her days in the cabaret act Barry Nichols and Les Girls. "Libel!," cries another of Les Girls, setting in motion a talons-and-fact-baring litigation that proves Les Girls will be girls and that Cole Porter movie...

<p>The "getup" in New York's get-up-and-go comes from the switchboard operators of Susanswerphone. Need a wake-up call? Your appointments? Encouragement from "Mom"? A racetrack bet? It all comes from that dutiful nerve -- or noive -- center that keeps enterprises enterprising and, maybe, wedding...

<p>Wealthy, stagestruck Nan Carter strikes a bet that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she gets the $25,000 to back a Broadway musical vehicle for herself. She's determined, even if it means saying "no" when the fella she...

<p>Betty Hutton (as Annie Oakley) and Howard Keel (as Frank Butler) star in this sharpshootin' funfest based on the 1,147-performance Broadway smash boasting Irving Berlin's beloved score, including "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly," "I Got the Sun in the Morning" and the anthemic "There's No...

<p>With a secondhand trumpet and the loving guidance of a brilliant bluesman, a lonely boy grows into manhood as a superb musician whose talent carries him from honky-tonks to posh supper clubs. But his desperate search for an elusive high note -- trapped in...

<p>Talent agent Doug Blake (Jack Carson) is giving 100% to earn his 10%. He walks away from his arrogant singing star (Lee Bowman) and scrambles to discover another who will shine even brighter. He finds effervescent songstress Martha Gibson. Doris Day plays Martha. Think...

<p>Bon voyage! Georgia Garrett's singing career may not be going anywhere, but she is. She's on a cruise, sailing under the name Mrs. Elvira Kent while the real Elvira secretly stays home to spy on her presumably philandering hubby. Meanwhile, the husband hires a...

<p>No director. No leading lady. No problem. If no one will work with hambitious actor Jack Carson (played by good-natured Carson), he'll just pull his own movie together. Good buddy Dennis Morgan can be hoodwinked into costarring. And there's a talented kid in the...

<p>"You could be a perfectly wonderful dancer if you wanted to," Irene tells the vaudeville second banana who will someday be her husband. They were even more wonderful together. Vernon and Irene Castle became King and Queen of the Ballroom, creating the Castle Walk,...

<p>The Gold Diggers are headed for Paris, bringing their feathers, frills, New Yawk tawk -- and ballet shoes! A French diplomat has mistaken 43rd Street's Club Balle for the American Academy Ballet, and the chorus cuties aren't going to turn down a free trip...

<p>Broadway impresario Chuck Daly (Dick Powell) has suffered through a string of flops. But the kids at his alma mater don't know that. They're counting on Chuck to turn their varsity show hash into a smash! Powell leads an A+ cast of coed cuties...

<p>Fun's in fashion when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (plus Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott) enter the ultrachic Parisian world of high fashion in Roberta. The third Astaire/Rogers film is a silky adaptation of the 1933 Broadway hit (whose original cast included Bob Hope,...

<p>If you love music, check into Hollywood Hotel. The story's about a filmland newbie (Dick Powell) caught between a spoiled star (Lola Lane) and her likable look-alike (Lola's sister Rosemary Lane). But the movie's about Busby Berkeley's ace direction -- and music, music, music....

<p>What's a chorine to do after her show flops? Become a gold digger! The cuties do so en masse as the Gold Diggers of 1937, kicking Depression Era blues in the keister. Dick Powell plays an insurance agent with musical ambitions, Joan Blondell is...

<p>Chalk up another success for psychiatrist Tony Flagg (Fred Astaire). Amanda Cooper (Ginger Rogers), his wedding-phobic patient, is now crazy to get married as long as the groom is Tony! With its antic comedy (Ginger, zombied out on psychotherapy and love, heaves a nightstick...

<p>Jack Webb stars as a Kansas City jazz cornetist, and when he takes on a vicious gang lord (Edmond O'Brien), the only thing faster than his famed deadpan delivery is the rapid-fire action. And the only thing more dynamic than the film's Dixieland- and...

<p>A Broadway chorine (Joan Crawford) needs a little help with her hoofing, so her dance director (Clark Gable) gets an idea. A good idea. "Do you feel like going through that opening number with Mr. Astaire?" And Fred Astaire, making his screen debut, shows...

<p>Three beautiful women visit record executive Morris Levy with one thing in mind: to claim the music royalties earned by their husband, the late, great '50s rock icon Frankie Lymon. They say good things and bad news always travel in threes: Looks like the...

<p>Yankee Doodle Dandy Academy Award winner* James Cagney puts on his dancing shoes again for this merry musical comedy packed with spirited star power and lively tunes by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. Cagney's Broadway showman is down on his luck, but full of...

<p>You'd think chilled borscht pulses in her veins. She's Nina Yoshenka, a lovely yet severe Soviet envoy sent to Paris to rescue wayward comrades from the perils of champagne and capitalism. But there may be a thaw in Nina's Cold War. She meets Steve...

<p>"We'll show them a thing or three," Honey Hale (Ginger Rogers) says as she and Fred Ayres (Fred Astaire) take to the dance floor to do the carioca. As events turned out, Astaire and Rogers showed us three times three more, making nine other...

<p>In the Good Old Summertime -- a tale of squabbling music-shop clerks who don't know they're romantic pen pals -- shares a celebrated movie lineage that includes James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan in The Shop Around the Corner and Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan...

<p>Lillian Roth has it all: youth, beauty, movie and Broadway fame, and a devoted fiance. Then her fiance dies, and Lillian takes one drink to ease her grief. Then another. Then ten. Then thousands. And soon her youth, her career and her life are...

<p>Vittles, songs and dance are amply ladled out when Judy Garland headlines The Harvey Girls, a joyous musical slice of Americana celebrating the restaurants that brought extra helpings of civilization to Old West rail passengers. Highlights include Garland holding saloon patrons at jittery gunpoint...

<p>After 10 years apart, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers reteam in their final film pairing, cleverly written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and smoothly directed by Charles Walters. The story, per many sources, mirrors real-life creative tensions the two shared. Astaire plays driven...

<p>As soon as 1956's Rock Around the Clock sounded the opening notes of the first-ever rock 'n' roll movie, others were sure to follow. Did they ever: 1956 and 1957 boogie-woogied, doo-wopped and shimmy-shaked with, among others, Jailhouse Rock, Shake, Rattle and Rock and...

<p>It's the rags-to-riches story of Danny, a talented cat whose lifelong goal of movie stardom is sidetracked when he discovers that only humans get the good roles in Hollywood. On the big screen, animals can bark, meow or moo, but cats don't dance. With...

<p>Director Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves) delivers a provocative mix of drama and musical theater in this acclaimed movie that won 2000 Cannes Film Festival Best Picture and Best Actress honors (for lead actress Bjork). Rural factory worker Selma (Bjork) is a single...

<p>Sheila E., Run-DMC, the Fat Boys and Kurtis Blow star in this feature-film romp through New York's teen subculture. They're talented street-savvy urbanites on the move after hooking up with a new record label. But with their success comes ego trips and greed that...