Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Musical: 146 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…
- Great Waltz, The (The Life of Johann Strauss) (1938)
- Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Fernand Gravey, Luise Rainer, Lionel Atwill
- The lIfe story of Johann Strauss is given a rich if somewhat corny treatment in this otherwise well–mounted musical biopic.
- 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…