Musical

<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>He wears a ratty old cardigan instead of tails, a battered felt hat in place of a topper -- but one glimpse of those agile feet and you know he's Fred Astaire. The great entertainer sang and danced his last musical lead in Finian's...

<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>The get-up in New York's get-up-and-go comes from the switchboard operators of Susanswerphone. Need a wakeup 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>When Gene Kelly teams with Arthur Freed, Stanley Donen, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, the result is pure movie-musical alchemy: On the Town, Singin' in the Rain and It's Always Fair Weather. Sparkling with wit and exuberant numbers, It's Always Fair Weather centers on...

<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...

<p>Roaring '20s songstress Ruth Etting had everything -- the looks, the wiles, the smokey jazz voice, the it. She also had Chicago racketeer Martin "The Gimp" Snyder, who, even as he propelled her career, afflicted her. Laced with Doris Day's vibrant performance of songs...

<p>Hollywood's first all-black film since The Green Pastures tells the vibrant fable of rascally Little Joe, torn between the love of his good wife Petunia and the wiles of good-time bad-girl Georgia Brown...and caught in a tug-of-war between emissaries from the Lord and Satan....

<p>You'd think chilled borscht pulses in her veins. She's Ninotchka 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 Ninotchka's Cold War. She meets Steve...

<p>In Stop the World -- I Want to Get Off, all the world is Littlechap's stage -- and the beleaguered, wisecracking hero of this captivating "new-style" musical by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley is your guide for the tuneful life's journey of an average...

<p>This musical comedy is based upon the play Brother Rat and follows the exploits of young cadets trying to make it through Southern Military Institute and keep one-step-ahead of a stern old professor. One of the fellows must also keep his newly pregnant wife...

<p>After surviving a flood as an infant, the buoyant Molly Brown sets out to find her way in life. She assures a saloon owner she can sing and play piano and before long becomes the bride of up-and-comer Johnny Brown. After throwing a disastrous...

<p>A man impersonating a woman on stage? Piece of cake. But a woman whose livelihood depends on pretending to be a man who pretends to be a woman? Now you've got problems! You've also got laughs when Julie Andrews plays Victor and Victoria in...

<p>Deanna Durbin lifts her voice in laughter and song in this lighthearted musical comedy costarring Kay Francis and Walter Pidgeon. When Broadway star Georgia Drake (Francis) heads for Honolulu to prepare for her latest show, her daughter Pam (Durbin) wins the lead in the...

<p>The Broadway production was an acclaimed winner of three Tony Awards. The espionage trial that inspired David Henry Hwang's powerful play was a global sensation, a windfall of stunning revelations. Now M Butterfly soars again in a provocative film directed by David Cronenberg (A...

<p>He wears a ratty old cardigan instead of tails, a battered felt hat in place of a topper -- but one glimpse of those agile feet and you know he's Fred Astaire. The great entertainer sang and danced his last musical lead in Finian's...

<p>Both Marion Davies and Billie Dove were one-time Ziegfeld chorus girls, so they became a natural fit as pals and romantic rivals when Davies' chum, two-time Academy Award winner* Frances Marion (with input on dialogue from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes author Anita Loos), fashioned Davies'...

<p>Set decades before the brassy, bustling contemporary Busby Berkeley musicals to follow three years later, 1930's period pre-code musical The Florodora Girl might also be called Gold Diggers of 1900. Sharpie showgirls of the Florodora Sextette cast their nets wide for rich husbands while...

<p>In these three anthology films, RKO Pictures plumbed their library of musical and comedy shorts to cull together a series of celluloid variety shows that are toe-tapping and rib-tickling. Comedian Gil Lamb hosts Make Mine Laughs and delivers up musical and comedic delights from...

<p>Deep in the mighty big heart of Two Guys from Texas is a 15-gallon Technicolor hatful of Western spoofery and song, starring ace cowpokes -- and song-and-dance men -- Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson. Stranded by car trouble on a dude ranch, struggling entertainers...

<p>Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson lead the charge in a battle between operatic highbrows and showbiz sharpies in the fun-loving "let's put on a show" Warner Bros. tradition. Their team spirit infuses this Technicolor treat, in which nightclub operators run afoul of their stuffy...

<p>The Two Tymes, Joe ( Jack Carson) and June (Ann Sothern), need to change up their dogeared vaudeville act -- fast! Cue their son Buster (Robert Ellis), a cocky hoofer who bolts from boarding school and joins his parents, propelling the trio into the...