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Swing TimeSwing Time (1936) Recommended
Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
A fine example of Fred and Ginger's magical screen partnership, their sixth together, weaving the music of Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, into…
Gold Diggers of 1935Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Dir. Busby Berkeley
Feat. Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart
Summer season at New England's Wentworth Plaza hotel..the rich will come out to play, and so will the golddiggers! Dick Powell heads up this…
Naughty Marietta (1935)
Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy
The first vehicle for onscreen singing duo Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy – both hugely popular in their day – is a rehash of an…
Phantom Empire, ThePhantom Empire, The (1935)
Feat. Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Smiley Burnette
Oddball children's serial from the thirties has singing cowboy Autry discovering the last remaining inhabitants of the lost continent of Mu living…
RobertaRoberta (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.
Top HatTop Hat (1935) Recommended
Dir. Mark Sandrich
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Magically irrepressible musical with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers enacting some brilliant toe–tapping routines to the tunes of Irving Berlin…
Belle of the NinetiesBelle of the Nineties (1934)
Dir. Leo McCarey
Feat. Mae West
Mae's first post–production code outing: she plays a sultry cabaret singer lusted after by a myriad of Missippian males. Duke Ellington also…
DamesDames (1934)
Dir. Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley
Feat. Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, ZaSu Pitts
This blissful musical battle between stage–hopefuls and a disapproving decency group is often referred to by critics as the 'Gold Diggers of…
Gay Divorcee, TheGay Divorcee, The (1934)
Dir. Mark Sandrich
Feat. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers received top–billing for the first time in this excellent revision of Cole Porter's Broadway musical. Songs…
March of the Wooden SoldiersMarch of the Wooden Soldiers (Babes In Toyland) (1934) Recommended
Dir. Gus Meins, Charles R. Rogers
Feat. Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Imaginative musical fantasia also makes the most of Laurel and Hardy's comic genius – as dim–witted toymakers whose mistaken order for…

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