Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Orchestra Wives (1942)- Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. Ann Rutherford, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari… - Swing–era musical featuring the Glenn Miller orchestra, with Miller himself playing the leader of a band. When the trumpet player…
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)- Dir. Robert Z. Leonard
Feat. James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr… - A star–sudded MGM musical melodrama featuring musical numbers staged by Busby Berkeley, highlighted by "You Stepped Out of a Dream". Set in the…
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
- Dir. Henry King
Feat. Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche… - Irving Berlin contributes over two dozen songs as well as the screenplay for this rousing story of the history of (white) jazz music from ragtime to…
Roberta (1935)- Dir. William A. Seiter
Feat. Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers… - An unsuccessful American Football player inherits his Aunt's Parisian fashion house. One of the weaker Rogers/Astaire efforts.
Blonde Venus (1932)- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall… - Director Josef von Sternberg reunites with muse Marlene Dietrich in this sweeping melodrama about a German chanteuse turned struggling housewife who…
Applause (1929)- Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Helen Morgan, Jack Cameron, Joan Peers… - Early sound musicial about a fading burlesque queen who sends her daughter to a convent in an attempt to remove her from the sleazy theatre world she…
Blind Husbands / The Great Gabbo (1919-1929)- Dir. Erich von Stroheim, James Cruze
Feat. Erich von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland, Sam De Grasse… - Two feature films on one disc featuring visionary Austrian–American silent filmmaker and actor Erich von Stroheim. Blind Husbands (directed…
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