Comedy; Musical

Arts patron Mrs. Claypool (Margaret Dumont) intends to pay pompous Opera Star Lassparri $1,00 per performance. Hey, maybe that's why they call it grand opera! This is grand comedy, too, as Groucho, Chico, and Harpo cram a ship's stateroom and more with wall-to-wall gags,...

<p>A young and captivating Judy Garland and that bundle of energy, Mickey Rooney (who was nominated for an Oscar ), are the sweethearts in Babes in Arms. This swingtime song-and-dance hit, based on the Broadway smash by Rodgers and Hart, also received an Oscar...

<p>According to Variety, in 1942, Babes on Broadway had it all..."youthful zest, heart-tug, infectious rhythm, constant amusement, stirring performances, substantial story interest, captivating music and lavish production." Babes on Broadway still has it all, with 16 song -and-dance numbers that run the gamut from...

<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>The canneries stand empty now that the sardines have abandoned the waters, but life continues on the Row. Here you'll find Doc (Nick Nolte), a marine biologist and community mentor; Suzy (Debra Winger), a good-hearted newcomer gone astray; and Mack, Hazel and all the...

<p>A young and captivating Judy Garland and that bundle of energy, Mickey Rooney (who was nominated for an Oscar ), are the sweethearts in Babes in Arms. This swingtime song-and-dance hit, based on the Broadway smash by Rodgers and Hart, also received an Oscar...

<p>Step up to the plate for Damn Yankees, the rousing movie of the 1,019-performance Broadway grand slam that imports nearly all the original New York lineup, including Tony Award-winning stars Gwen Verdon as luscious vamp Lola and Ray Walston as her slyly Satanic boss...

Step up to the plate for Damn Yankees, the rousing movie of the 1,019-performance Broadway grand slam that imports nearly all the original New York lineup, including Tony Award -winning stars Gwen Verdon as luscious vamp Lola and Ray Walston as her slyly Satanic...

<p>Superstar magician Cameron Black (Jack Cutmore-Scott) grew up on the stage with his twin brother, Jonathan. When his career is ruined by scandal and his brother is framed for murder, Cameron has only one place to go to clear his brother's name and practice...

<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>Mickey Rooney. Judy Garland. Gershwin music. And Tommy Dorsey to play it. Who could ask for anything more? From Garland's rendition of "But Not for Me" to the grand finale of "I Got Rhythm," Girl Crazy is one of the most buoyant tunefests ever...

<p>Spring break in Fort Lauderdale. It's the perfect time and place for a girl, a guy and a beach blanket -- and for a box-office bonanza when Elvis Presley goes Girl Happy. Rock and roll's first icon was ranked 6th among the top box-office...

<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>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>Struggling singer Nino Donelli wants to make it big and when a sympathetic opera diva helps him out financially, he is soon the toast of the town. Soon Nino falls in love with his costar Lydia Lubov, but their relationship is threatened when conniving...

<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...

Mr. Dinkle and Jack (Abbott and Costello) accept a babysitting job, but soon find the child reading the story of Jack and the Beanstalk to them. Jack falls into a deep slumber where he is the young Jack of the fairy tale. In his...

<p>Considered the best of the many Laurel and Hardy films, JITTERBUGS finds the legendary comic duo fronting the traveling Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band. In their travels, they find themselves taking a young woman, Susan (Vivian Blaine), under their wing when she relates...

<p>When two squabbling ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical The Taming of the Shrew, life imitates art and art imitates life. It all proves no musical comedy imitates Kiss Me Kate, the backstage/onstage delight from the 1948 Broadway smash, featuring...

<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>"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...

St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. Seventeen-year old Esther has fallen in love with John, the boy next door who has just moved in. He, however, barely notices her at first. The family is...

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>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...

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>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>Betty Grable, famed WWII-era pin-up girl, stars as Lorry Jones, a shy USO canteen secretary who falls for heroic soldier Tommy Dooley (John Harvey). In order to be near him, she pretends to be a famous entertainer... but when she's hired as an entertainer...

<p>Pot o' Gold -- Digitally Remastered. In this showbiz comedy, a down-on-his-luck man with a love of music befriends the orchestra of a wildly popular radio program, much to his family's disapproval. Jimmy Stewart, one of the greatest screen legends of all time, stars...

<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>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>In SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS, three New York cousins machinist Blossom (Vivian Blaine), showgirl Chiquita (Carmen Miranda), and con man Harry (Phil Silvers) inherit Magnolia Manor, a Texas plantation. A charming family summer house, right? Wrong: This particular parcel is plagued by termites, taxes,...

<p>Her girl-next-door looks combined with a sultry singing voice made Alice Faye one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the Golden Age of Cinema. Don Ameche and Alice Faye pair up as husband and wife, Baron and Baroness Duarte and head to South America in...

<p>Danny Kaye (Georgi) is an illiterate member of a wandering family led by Yakov (Walter Slezak). Georgi escapes from a travelling medicine show when he says that the elixir they're selling is a fraud. Tired and hungry, he wanders into the town of Brodny...

<p>Labor and management at the Sleeptite Pajama Factory aren't sleeping much lately: A proposed 7 1 2-cent hourly wage increase is why -- and a strike may result. But negotiations here involve snappy stars, terrific tunes and dynamic dances as Doris Day, John Raitt...

<p>Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick return to their award-winning roles in the hilariously funny film of the record-breaking Broadway smash-hit. Scheming producer Max Bialystock (Lane) and his mousy accountant, Leo Bloom (Broderick), discover that under the right circumstances they could make more money by...

<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>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>A successful stage dancer gets a screen test and his wife steps in to help with a scene and she gets the studio contract instead of him. She goes on to become a major movie star and he returns to his career as a...