Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
On the Town (1949)
- Dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly - Exuberant musical about three sailors enjoying a day's leave in New York is about as good as this stuff gets. The cast almost bounce off the screen.
Take Me Out To The Ball Game (Everybody's Cheering) (1949)- Dir. Busby Berkeley
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly - An excellent warm–up for ON THE TOWN with Sinatra and Kelly playing vaudeville buddies in the early–1900s who yuck it up in variety…
Young Man With a Horn (Young Man of Music) (1949)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, Lauren Bacall… - Sharp biopic based on legendary jazz trumpeteer Bix Beiderbecke (played here by Kirk Douglas), who rose from obscurity to possess one of the most…
Easter Parade (1948)- Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Fred Astaire, Amy Miller, Judy Garland - Big–scale musical treat by Irving Berlin, has Fred Astaire swapping dance–partner Amy Miller for celebrity plus Judy Garland, in a role…
Pirate, The (1948)- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Judy Garland, Vincente Minnelli, Gene Kelly - Real–life partnership Judy Garland and Vincente Minelli reteam for a fine musical that also boasts Gene Kelly's footwork and Cole Porter's…
Red Shoes, The (1948)- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, Marius Goring… - Beloved dance classic is a strikingly realised story of a young ballerina who, in an echo of the Hans Christian Andersen story, becomes torn between…
Down To Earth (1947)- Dir. Alexander Hall
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks, James Gleason… - Musical comedy sequel to HERE COMES MR. JORDAN starring Rita Hayworth as Greek Goddess Terpsichore who comes down to Earth to join a Broadway…
Good News (1947)- Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall… - Toe–tapping MGM musical based on the 1927 stage production of the same name. Set on a collage campus, where a football star falls in love…
Perils of Pauline, The (1947)- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy DeWolfe… - Showbiz melodrama in which Hutton plays true–life actress Pearl White, who graduated from being a lowly–paid seamstress to queen of the…
Jolson Story, The / Jolson Sings Again (1946)- Dir. Alfred E. Green, Henry Levin
Feat. Larry Parks - An American success story in song, accomplished biography traces the career of mammy–singing Al Jolson. Larry Parks offers a flawless…
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