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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Gaiety George (Showtime) (1946)- Dir. George King, Leontine Sagan
Feat. Richard Greene, Ann Todd, Peter Graves… - Victorian–era musical about Irishman George Howard, who moves to London and purchases a theatre, aiming to enhance the local entertainment…
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…
Man I Love, The (1946)- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Bruce Bennett… - Romantic drama about a New York lounge singer who becomes homesick and decides to visit her siblings on the West Coast, where she unexpectedly falls…
Night and Day (1946)- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Jane Wyman - Somewhat unreliable biography of Cole Porter that gets by on it's soundtrack and Cary Grant's amiable performance.
Anchors Aweigh (1945)- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly - Wartime tale of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. A milestone due to the combination of gene Kelly's live–action choreography coupled with…
Dolly Sisters, The (1945)- Dir. Irving Cummings
Feat. Betty Grable, John Payne, June Haver - Flash, energetic musical biopic on Hungarian–born sisters Jennie and Rosie Dolly, who conquered Broadway in the early 1900s. Ravishing…
Harvey Girls, The (1945)- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger… - A much–loved, if rather formless musical about the heyday of the railroad in the Old West and the Harvey House restaurants which sprang up…
- Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
- Dir. Irving Rapper
Feat. Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith… - George Gershwin's life and work is given a good glossing over from Hollywood, but the magical music keeps things sprightly for over two hours.
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