1928

• Moulin Rouge
  Moulin Rouge (1928 film)
  Moulin Rouge is a 1928 British black and white musical film, by British International Pictures. It is a romantic drama and has a running time of 90 minutes. It was Ewald André Dupont's last silent film...
  
  
• The Singing Fool
  The Singing Fool
  The Singing Fool is a 1928 musical drama Part-Talkie motion picture which was released by Warner Brothers. The film starred Al Jolson and was a follow-up to his previous film, The Jazz Singer...
  
  
• My Man
  My Man
  "My Man" is a 1982 single by Yoko Ono from the album It's Alright in a New Wave/calypso style. The minimalist "Let The Tears Dry" appeared on the B-side....
  
  

1929

• Applause
  Applause (film)
  Applause is a 1929 black-and-white backstage musical film, shot during the early years of sound films. It is very notable as one of the few films of its time to break free from the restrictions of sound technology. Based on a novel by Beth Brown, the film was staged and directed by Rouben...
  
  
• The Battle of Paris
  The Battle of Paris
  The Battle of Paris is a 1929 black and white American musical film.-Plot:Gertrude Lawrence plays a singer in Paris during World War I...
  
  
• Broadway
  Broadway (1929 film)
  Broadway is a 1929 film directed by Pál Fejös from the play of the same name by George Abbott and Philip Dunning. It stars Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Paul Porcasi, Robert Ellis, Merna Kennedy and Thomas E...
  
  
• Broadway Babies
  Broadway Babies
  Broadway Babies, aka Broadway Daddies and Ragazze d'America , is a black and white 1929 American musical film. This was Alice White's first ever talking movie.-Taglines:The film's various taglines include:...
  
  
• The Broadway Melody
  The Broadway Melody
  The Broadway Melody is a 1929 American musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929-1930...
  
  
• Broadway Scandals
  Broadway Scandals
  Broadway Scandals, aka Scandalo di Broadway is a 1929 American black and white musical film.-Cast:* Sally O'Neil - Mary* Jack Egan - Ted Howard* Carmel Myers - Valeska* J...
  
  
• Close harmony
  Close Harmony (1929 film)
  Close Harmony is a black and white American comedy-drama musical film released by Paramount Pictures.-Plot:A musically talented young woman named Marjorie who is part of a stage show, meets a warehouse clerk named Al West who has put together an unusual jazz band...
  
  
• The Cocoanuts
  The Cocoanuts
  The Cocoanuts is the first feature-length Marx Brothers film, produced by Paramount Pictures. The musical comedy stars the four Marx Brothers, Oscar Shaw, Mary Eaton, and Margaret Dumont. Produced by Walter Wanger and the first sound movie to credit more than one director , and was adapted to the...
  
  
• The Cock-Eyed World
  The Cock-Eyed World
  The Cock-Eyed World is a musical film made by Fox Film Corporation, directed and written Raoul Walsh, based on the Flagg and Quirt story by Maxwell Anderson, Tom Barry, Wilson Mizner and Laurence Stallings...
  
  
• The Dance of Life
  The Dance of Life
  The Dance of Life is the first of three film adaptations of the popular Broadway play Burlesque, the others being Swing High, Swing Low and When My Baby Smiles at Me . The Dance of Life was made with Technicolor sequences, directed by John Cromwell and A...
  
  
• Devil-May-Care
  Devil-May-Care
  Devil-May-Care is a sound American musical film with Technicolor sequences released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on 27 December 1929...
  
  
• The Desert Song
  The Desert Song (1929 film)
  The Desert Song is a musical operetta film photographed partly in two-color Technicolor. This was the first movie released by Warner Bros. to be in color. Although some of the songs from the show have been omitted, the film is otherwise virtually a duplicate of the stage production...
  
  
• Footlights and Fools
  Footlights and Fools
  Footlights and Fools is a sound film billed by Warner Brothers as an all-talking musical film, released in Vitaphone with Technicolor sequences.-Production background:...
  
  
• The Forward Pass
  The Forward Pass
  The Forward Pass, also known as To match tis doxis in Greece, is a 1929 black-and-white American football musical film directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Loretta Young. John Wayne was an uncredited extra in the film. The film is believed to be lost.-Cast:* Douglas...
  
  
• Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
  Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
  Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 was a black-and-white and color American musical film released by Fox Film Corporation.-Preservation status:...
  
  
• Glorifying the American Girl
  Glorifying the American Girl
  Glorifying the American Girl is a 1929 musical comedy film produced by Florenz Ziegfeld that highlights Ziegfeld Follies performers. The last third of the film is basically a Follies production, with cameo appearances by Rudy Vallee, Helen Morgan and Eddie Cantor.The script for the film was...
  
  
• Gold Diggers of Broadway
• Great Gabbo, The
  The Great Gabbo
  The Great Gabbo is an American early sound film musical drama film directed by James Cruze, based on a story by Ben Hecht and starring Erich von Stroheim and Betty Compson....
  
  
• Hallelujah!
  Hallelujah! (1929 film)
  Hallelujah! is a 1929 MGM musical directed by King Vidor, starring Daniel L. Haynes and the then unknown Nina Mae McKinney.Filmed in Tennessee and Arkansas and chronicling the troubled quest of a sharecropper, Zeke Johnson , and his relationship with the seductive Chick , Hallelujah! was one of the...
  
  
• Happy Days
  Happy Days (1929 film)
  Happy Days is an 80 minute musical film, notable for being the first feature film shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world. Happy Days (1929) is an 80 minute musical film, notable for being the first feature film shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world. Happy Days (1929) is an...
  
  
• Hearts in Dixie
  Hearts in Dixie (film)
  Hearts in Dixie , is one of the first all-talkie, big-studio production to boast a predominantly African-American cast.-Synopsis:Hearts in Dixie unfolds as a series of sketches of life among American blacks. It featured characters with dignity, who took action on their own, and who were not slaves...
  
  
• It's a Great Life
  It's a Great Life
  It's a Great Life is an American situation comedy which aired on NBC from 1954 to 1956...
  
  
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929
  The Hollywood Revue of 1929
  The Hollywood Revue of 1929 is a 1929 part Technicolor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer American musical-comedy film. It was the studio's second feature-length musical, and one of the earliest ventures into the talkie format. Produced by Harry Rapf and directed by Chuck Riesner, the film brought together some...
  
  
• Honky Tonk
  Honky Tonk (1929 film)
  Honky Tonk is a 1929 American musical film starring Sophie Tucker in her film debut. The film was a flop when released and is now lost, although the soundtrack for the trailer still exists...
  
  
• Hot for Paris
  Hot for Paris
  Hot for Paris is a 1929 American black-and-white romantic adventure musical film. This film is believed to be lost. The film is also known as Fifì dimmi di sì in Italy and Un marido afortunado in Spain...
  
  
• Innocents of Paris
  Innocents of Paris
  Innocents of Paris is a 1929 black and white American musical film. Directed by Richard Wallace and is based on the play Flea Market, the film was the first musical production by Paramount Pictures.-Cast:*Maurice Chevalier - Maurice Marney...
  
  
• Is Everybody Happy?
• Jail House Blues
  Jail House Blues
  Jailhouse Blues is a motion picture released by Columbia Pictures. This musical short film features Mamie Smith, who was a top star in Black Vaudeville and a recording artist with Okeh Records, although by the time Jailhouse Blues was made her contract with Okeh had ended.-Synopsis:Mamie is...
  
  
• Little Johnny Jones
  Little Johnny Jones
  For the blues pianist, see Little Johnny Jones Little Johnny Jones is a musical by George M. Cohan. The show introduced Cohan's tunes "Give My Regards to Broadway" and "The Yankee Doodle Boy." The "Yankee Doodle" character was inspired by real-life Hall of Fame jockey Tod Sloan.-Background:The...
  
  
• The Love Parade
  The Love Parade
  The Love Parade is a 1929 musical comedy film about the marital difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania and her consort, Count Alfred Renard...
  
  
• Lucky boy
• Lucky in love
• Marianne
• Married In Hollywood
  Married in Hollywood
  Married in Hollywood is an American musical film. The only known footage to survive is a 12-minute fragment from the final reel in Multicolor at UCLA Film and Television Archive. The film is also known as Maritati ad Hollywood in Italy and Pantremmenoi sto Hollywood in Greece...
  
  
• Melody Lane
  Melody Lane (1929 film)
  Memory Lane is a 1929 black and white American musical film. It is an adaption to the play The Understander, written by Jo Swerling.-Cast:*Eddie Leonard - Des Dupree*Josephine Dunn - Dolores Dupree*Rose Coe - Constance Dupree*George E...
  
  
• Mother's Boy
  Mother's Boy (1929 film)
  Mother's Boy is a 1929 American black-and-white musical film.-Cast:*Morton Downey - Tommy O'Day*Beryl Mercer - Mrs.O'Day*John T. Doyle - Mr.O'Day*Brian Donlevy - Harry O'Day*Helen Chandler - Rose Lyndon*Osgood Perkins - Jake Sturmberg...
  
  
• On with the Show
  On with the Show (1929 film)
  On with the Show! is a 1929 American musical film released by Warner Bros. The film is noted as the first ever all-talking all-color feature length movie, and the second color movie released by Warner Bros.; the first was a partly color, black-and-white musical, The Desert Song . -Plot:With unpaid...
  
  
• Paris
  Paris (1929 film)
  Paris is a black-and-white musical comedy film with Technicolor sequences: four of ten reels were originally photographed in Technicolor. Paris was the fourth color movie released by Warner Bros.; the first three were The Desert Song, On With the Show and Gold Diggers of Broadway, all released in...
  
  
• The Painted Angel
  The Painted Angel
  The Painted Angel is a 1929 black and white American film. The storyline is based on a story by Fannie Hurst. "Give the Little Girl a Hand" The film is known as La favorita di Broadway in Italy. The tagline was: Do you want to know the Truth about NIGHT CLUB HOSTESSES?This film is believed lost...
  
  
• Pointed Heels
  Pointed Heels
  __notoc__Pointed Heels is an early sound musical film from Paramount Pictures starring William Powell, Helen Kane, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, and Fay Wray. This movie was originally filmed in color sequences by Technicolor, but today those color sequences only survive in black-and-white...
  
  
• Queen of the Night Clubs
  Queen of the Night Clubs
  Queen of the Night Clubs is a sound musical-drama film produced and directed by Bryan Foy and distributed by Warner Brothers. It is now considered a lost film.-Cast:*Texas Guinan - Texas Malone*John Davidson - Don Holland...
  
  
• Red Hot Rhythm
• The Rainbow Man
  The Rainbow Man
  The Rainbow Man is a 1929 black and white American musical film.-Cast:*Eddie Dowling - Rainbow Ryan*Marian Nixon - Mary Lane*Frankie Darro - Billy Ryan*Sam Hardy - Doc Hardy*Lloyd Ingraham - Colonel Lane...
  
  
• Rio Rita
  Rio Rita (1929 film)
  Rio Rita is a 1929 RKO Pictures musical comedy starring Bebe Daniels and John Boles along with the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey. The film is based on the 1927 stage musical produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, which originally united Wheeler and Woolsey as a team and made them famous...
  
  
• Sally
• Say It with Songs
  Say It with Songs
  Say It With Songs is a 1929 All-Talking musical drama motion picture which was released by Warner Bros.. The film starred Al Jolson and was a follow-up to his previous film, The Singing Fool .-Production:...
  
  
• Show Boat
  Show Boat (1929 film)
  Show Boat is a film based on the novel by Edna Ferber. This version was released by Universal in two editions, one a silent film for movie theatres still not equipped for sound, and one a part-talkie with a sound prologue...
  
  
• The Show of Shows
• Smiling Irish Eyes
  Smiling Irish Eyes
  Smiling Irish Eyes , known as Hymyilevät silmät in Finland, is a sound American musical film with Technicolor sequences.The film is now considered a lost film, however the Vitaphone discs still exist.-Plot:...
  
  
• So This Is College
• The Song of Love
• Street Girl
  Street Girl
  Street Girl is a musical comedy/drama film directed by Wesley Ruggles and released by RKO Radio Pictures, it's the first official production of RKO but was released soon after Syncopation the second production of RKO.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• Sunnyside Up
• Sweetie
• Syncopation
  Syncopation
  In music, syncopation includes a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected in that they deviate from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak but also powerful beats in a meter . These include a stress on a normally unstressed beat or a rest where one would normally be...
  
  
• Tanned Legs
• The Time, the Place and the Girl
  The Time, the Place and the Girl (1929 film)
  The Time, the Place and the Girl is a 1929 American black-and-white musical film. The original concept was developed by the creative staff as a musical comedy which opened on Broadway in 1907...
  
  
• The Vagabond Lover
  The Vagabond Lover
  The Vagabond Lover is a 1929 American black-and-white, comedy-drama musical film about a small-town boy who finds fame and romance when he joins a dance band. The film is directed by Marshall Neilan, and is based on the novel of the same name, written by James Ashmore Creelman who also wrote the...
  
  
• Why Bring That Up?
  Why Bring That Up?
  Why Bring That Up? is a 1929 American black-and-white musical film starring minstrel show comedians Charles Mack and George Moran.-Cast:*Charles Mack - Mack*George Moran - Moran*Evelyn Brent - Betty*Harry Green - Irving*Bert Swor - Bert...
  
  
• Words and Music
  Words and Music (1929 film)
  Words and Music is a 1929 American musical comedy film, directed by James Tinling, and starring Lois Moran, David Percy, Helen Twelvetrees, and Frank Albertson...
  
  

1930

• A Lady's Morals
  A Lady's Morals
  A Lady's Morals is a 1930 film offering a highly fictionalized account of singer Jenny Lind. The movie features Grace Moore as Lind, Reginald Denny as a lover, and Wallace Beery as P. T. Barnum; Beery would play Barnum again four years later in The Mighty Barnum...
  
  
• Animal Crackers
  Animal Crackers (film)
  Animal Crackers is a 1930 American comedy film, in which mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding. The film was both a critical and commercial success upon initial release, and remains one of the Marx...
  
  
• Big Boy
• Bride of the Regiment
• Call of the Flesh
  Call of the Flesh
  Call of the Flesh is an American musical film directed by Charles Brabin. The film stars Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, and Renée Adorée...
  
  
• Chasing Rainbows
  Chasing Rainbows
  Chasing Rainbows is a 1930 American romantic musical film directed by Charles Reisner, starring Bessie Love and Charles King, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.- Film preservation :...
  
  
• Cheer Up and Smile
  Cheer Up and Smile
  Cheer Up and Smile is a 1930 American musical film directed by Sidney Lanfield. The film starred Arthur Lake, Dixie Lee and Olga Baclanova and a 23-year old John Wayne had a minor uncredited role.-Cast:*Arthur Lake as Eddie Fripp*Dixie Lee as Margie...
  
  
• Children of Pleasure
  Children of Pleasure
  Children of Pleasure is a 1930 American MGM musical comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont originally released with Technicolor sequences. It was adapted from Crane Wilbur's stage success of 1929 The Song Writer.-Plot:...
  
  
• The Cuckoos
  The Cuckoos
  The Cuckoos is a musical comedy film, released by RKO Radio Pictures and partially filmed in two-strip Technicolor. It features the comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey.-Plot:...
  
  
• Dixiana
• The Floradora Girl
• Follow Thru
  Follow Thru
  Follow Thru is a 1930 musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was the second all-color all-talking feature to be produced by Paramount Pictures. The film was based on the popular 1929 Broadway play of the same name by Frank Mandel and Laurence Schwab. The play ran from January...
  
  
• Free and Easy
  Free and Easy
  Free and Easy is a 1941 film directed by George Sidney. It stars Robert Cummings and Ruth Hussey.-Cast:*Robert Cummings as Max Clemington*Ruth Hussey as Martha Gray*Judith Anderson as Lady Joan Culver*C. Aubrey Smith as Duke Colver...
  
  
• Good News
  Good News (films)
  Good News is the title of two American MGM musical films based on the 1927 stage production of the same name.The first, released in 1930, was directed by Nick Grinde. The cast included Bessie Love, Cliff Edwards and Penny Singleton. The film was shot in black-and-white, although the finale was in...
  
  
• Great Day (unfinished)
• Hit the Deck
  Hit the Deck (1930 film)
  Hit the Deck is a 1930 musical film directed by Luther Reed, starred Jack Oakie, and featured Technicolor sequences. It was based on the musical Hit the Deck. It was one of the most expensive productions of RKO Radio Pictures up to that time, and one of the most expensive productions of 1930. This...
  
  
• Hold Everything
  Hold Everything (1930 film)
  Hold Everything is a 1930 early all-talking film. It was the first musical comedy film to be released that was photographed entirely in early two-color Technicolor. It was adapted from the DeSylva-Brown-Henderson Broadway musical of the same name that had served as a vehicle for Bert Lahr and...
  
  
• King of Jazz
  King of Jazz
  King of Jazz is a 1930 motion picture starring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. The film's title was taken from Whiteman's controversial, self-conferred appellation...
  
  
• In Gay Madrid
  In Gay Madrid
  In Gay Madrid is an American musical comedy, directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring Ramón Novarro and Dorothy Jordan, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.-Production:...
  
  
• Kismet
  Kismet (1930 film)
  Kismet was a 1930 costume drama photographed entirely in an early widescreen process using 65mm film that Warner Bros. called Vitascope. The film was based on Edward Knoblock's play Kismet, and was previously filmed as a silent film in 1920 which also starred Otis Skinner.-Production:Warner Bros....
  
  
• A Lady's Morals
  A Lady's Morals
  A Lady's Morals is a 1930 film offering a highly fictionalized account of singer Jenny Lind. The movie features Grace Moore as Lind, Reginald Denny as a lover, and Wallace Beery as P. T. Barnum; Beery would play Barnum again four years later in The Mighty Barnum...
  
  
• Leathernecking
• Let's Go Native
  Let's Go Native
  Let's Go Native, is a 1930 American black-and-white musical comedy film, directed by Leo McCarey and released by Paramount Pictures.A very memorable, witty quote is when Jerry comments on being the only man on an island populated by women...
  
  
• Lord Byron of Broadway
  Lord Byron of Broadway
  Lord Byron of Broadway , also known as What Price Melody?, is an American musical drama film, directed by Harry Beaumont and William Nigh...
  
  
• The Lottery Bride
  The Lottery Bride
  The Lottery Bride is a movie musical starring Jeanette MacDonald, John Garrick, Zasu Pitts, and Joe E. Brown. The film was produced by Arthur Hammerstein, based on the musical by Rudolf Friml, and released by United Artists....
  
  
• Love in the Rough
• Madam Satan
  Madam Satan
  Madam Satan is a dramatic pre-Code musical film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille for MGM, one of the few DeMille made for the Culver City studio...
  
  
• Mammy
  Mammy (1930 film)
  Mammy is a musical drama film with Technicolor sequences, released by Warner Brothers. The film starred Al Jolson and was a follow-up to his previous film, Say It With Songs ....
  
  
• The March of Time
  The March of Time (MGM musical)
  The March of Time was the title of a planned Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film originally scheduled to be released in September 1930. Production of this early film, which would have been one of the first musicals filmed in two-color Technicolor, was abandoned, although a number of musical numbers...
  
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• Montana Moon
  Montana Moon
  Montana Moon is a 1930 film starring Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown , and Ricardo Cortez.-Plot:Joan Prescott, , a vacuous daughter of a wealthy, Montana rancher, meets Larry , a Texas cowboy. Joan and Larry fall for one another and are engaged...
  
  
• Monte Carlo
  Monte Carlo (1930 film)
  Monte Carlo is a 1930 American musical comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It stars Jeanette MacDonald as Countess Helene Mara. The film is also notable for the song "Beyond the Blue Horizon", which was written for the film and was performed by Jeanette MacDonald. The film was also hailed by...
  
  
• New Moon
  New Moon (1930 film)
  New Moon is the name of two different film versions of the operetta The New Moon with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and others. The original stage version premiered on Broadway in 1928...
  
  
• New Movietone Follies of 1930
  New Movietone Follies of 1930
  New Movietone Follies of 1930 is a 1930 American musical film released by Fox Film Corporation, directed by Benjamin Stoloff. The film stars El Brendel and Marjorie White who also costarred in Fox's Just Imagine in 1930....
  
  
• No, No Nanette
• Oh, For a Man!
  Oh, For a Man!
  Oh, For a Man! is a 1930 American black-and-white musical comedy film. Filming of this film began on September 13, 1930.-Cast:*Jeanette MacDonald - Carlotta Manson*Reginald Denny - Barney McGann*Warren Hymer - 'Pug' Morini...
  
  
• Life of the Party
• Paramount on Parade
  Paramount on Parade
  Paramount on Parade is a all-star revue released by Paramount Pictures, directed by several directors including Edmund Goulding, Dorothy Arzner, Ernst Lubitsch, Rowland V. Lee, A. Edward Sutherland, Victor Heerman, Lothar Mendes, Otto Brower, Edwin H...
  
  
• Puttin' on the Ritz
  Puttin' on the Ritz (film)
  Puttin' on the Ritz is a musical film, directed by Edward Sloman and starred Harry Richman, Joan Bennett, and James Gleason. The screenplay was written by James Gleason and William K. Wells, based on a story by John W...
  
  
• Queen High
  Queen High
  Queen High is the title of an early musical-comedy produced by Paramount Pictures in 1930.Based upon a stage musical by Buddy DeSylva, Lewis Gensler, and Laurence Schwab, the storyline loosely concerns a rivalry between two businessmen that results in a game of poker...
  
  
• Reaching for the Moon
  Reaching for the Moon (film)
  Reaching for the Moon is an American 1930 black and white musical film. Originally released at 91 minutes; surviving versions are usually cut to 62 minutes. A 74-minute version aired in 1998 on USA cable channel AMC. The DVD version runs just under 72 minutes. The film's workingtitle was Lucky...
  
  
• The Rogue Song
  The Rogue Song (film)
  The Rogue Song is a 1930 romantic musical film which tells the story of a Russian bandit who falls in love with a princess, but takes his revenge on her when her brother rapes and kills his sister. It was directed by Lionel Barrymore and Hal Roach and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
  
  
• Showgirl In Hollywood
• Song of the West
  Song of the West (film)
  Song of the West is a musical operetta film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was based on the 1928 musical play Rainbow by Oscar Hammerstein II and Laurence Stallings and was the first all-color all-talking feature to be filmed entirely outdoors. The film starred John Boles, Joe E. Brown...
  
  
• Song of the Flame
• Spring Is Here
  Spring Is Here
  "Spring is Here" is a 1938 popular song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart for the musical I Married an Angel , where it was introduced by Dennis King and Vivienne Segal.-Notable recordings:...
  
  
• Sunny
  Sunny (1930 film)
  Sunny is a 1930 musical comedy film released by Warner Brothers. The movie was based on the Broadway stage hit, Sunny, produced by Charles Dillingham, which played from September 22, 1925 to December 11, 1926. Marilyn Miller, who had played the leading part in the Broadway production, was hired by...
  
  
• Sweet Kitty Bellairs
• They Learned About Women
  They Learned About Women
  They Learned About Women is a 1930 American black and white sports drama musical film. Though this film is a "talkie", MGM also issued this movie in a silent version, with Alfred Block writing the titles. The film was remade in 1949 as Take Me Out to the Ball Game...
  
  
• Top Speed
  Top Speed
  Top Speed is a 1930 American musical comedy film released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers.-Production:The film was completed as a full musical...
  
  
• Under A Texas Moon
• The Vagabond King
  The Vagabond King (1930 film)
  The Vagabond King is a 1930 American musical operetta film photographed entirely in two-color Technicolor. The plot of the film was based on the 1925 operetta of the same name, which was based on the 1901 play If I Were King by Justin Huntly McCarthy. The play told the story of a renegade French...
  
  
• Whoopee!
  Whoopee! (film)
  Whoopee is a 1930 "All-Talking All-Color" musical comedy film photographed in two-color Technicolor. The plot of the film closely followed the stage show produced by Florenz Ziegfeld in 1928.-Production:...
  
  

1931

• Bright Lights
• Children of Dreams
• The Cuban Love Song
• Fifty Million Frenchmen
  Fifty Million Frenchmen
  Fifty Million Frenchmen is a musical comedy with a book by Herbert Fields and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It opened on Broadway in 1929 and was adapted for a film two years later...
  
  
• Flying High
  Flying High (1931 film)
  Flying High , also known as George White's Flying High, is a musical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by George White with lyrics by B. G. DeSylva and Lew Brown, music by Ray Henderson, with additional songs by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh .The film opened on November 14, 1931...
  
  
• Her Majesty, Love
• Hot Heiress
• Kiss Me Again
  Kiss Me Again (1931 film)
  Kiss Me Again is a musical operetta film filmed entirely in Technicolor. It was originally released in the United States as Toast of the Legion late in 1930, but was quickly withdrawn when Warner Bros. realized that the public had grown weary of musicals. The Warner Bros...
  
  
• Le Million
  Le Million
  Le Million is a 1931 French musical comedy film directed by René Clair. The story was adapted by Clair from a play by Georges Berr and Marcel Guillemand.-Plot:...
  
  
• Men of the Sky
  Men of the Sky
  Men of the Sky is a 1931 all-talking musical drama film which was produced by Warner Bros. in 1930 and released in 1931. Filming began in July 1930 and concluded in mid-September. The film is now considered a lost film since no film elements are known to survive. No copies of the film are known to...
  
  
• No Limit
  No Limit (1931 film)
  No Limit is a 1931 comedy film starring Clara Bow, Norman Foster, Stuart Erwin, Thelma Todd, Dixie Lee, and Mischa Auer.-Cast:*Clara Bow - Helen 'Bunny' O'Day*Norman Foster - Douglas Thayer*Stuart Erwin - Ole Olson*Dixie Lee - Dotty 'Dodo' Potter...
  
  
• Palmy Days
  Palmy Days
  Palmy Days is a 1931 musical comedy written by Eddie Cantor, Morrie Ryskind, and David Freedman, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, and choreographed by Busby Berkeley...
  
  
• The Prodigal
  The Prodigal
  The Prodigal is a 1955 Biblical epic film made by MGM. It was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Charles Schnee.The Maurice Zimm screenplay was adapted by Joseph Breen, Jr. and Samuel James Larsen from the New Testament story of the selfish son who leaves his family in search of riches...
  
  
• The Smiling Lieutenant
  The Smiling Lieutenant
  The Smiling Lieutenant is an American film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert, and released by Paramount Pictures.-Production background:...
  
  
• Viennese Nights

1932

• The Big Broadcast
  The Big Broadcast
  The Big Broadcast is a musical comedy film produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by Frank Tuttle, and starring Bing Crosby, Stuart Erwin, and Leila Hyams, with George Burns and Gracie Allen in supporting roles...
  
  
• Blondie of the Follies
  Blondie of the Follies
  Blondie of the Follies is a 1932 comedy film directed by Edmund Goulding and written by Anita Loos and Frances Marion.-Cast :*Marion Davies as Blondie McClune*Robert Montgomery as Larry Belmont...
  
  
• Girl Crazy
  Girl Crazy (1932 film)
  Girl Crazy is a 1932 musical film adaptation of the stage play of the same name. The film was very unlike the stage play except for its score. It was tailored for the comic talents of Wheeler & Woolsey, a popular comedy team...
  
  
• The Girl from Calgary
  The Girl from Calgary
  The Girl from Calgary is a 1932 American musical comedy film directed by Phil Whitman.- Cast :*Fifi D'Orsay as Fifi Follette*Paul Kelly as Larry Boyd*Robert Warwick as Bill Webster*Edwin Maxwell as Earl Darrell*Astrid Allwyn as Mazie Williams...
  
  
• The Kid from Spain
  The Kid from Spain
  The Kid from Spain is a 1932 comedy film directed by Leo McCarey starring Eddie Cantor involving bullfighting. Songs were composed by Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar. Noteworthy are the musical scenes, directed and choreographed by Busby Berkeley....
  
  
• Love Me Tonight
  Love Me Tonight
  Love Me Tonight is a 1932 musical comedy film produced and directed by Rouben Mamoulian, with music by Rodgers and Hart. It stars Maurice Chevalier as a tailor who poses as a nobleman and Jeanette MacDonald as a princess with whom he falls in love...
  
  
• Manhattan Parade
• Odds 777
  Odds 777
  Odds 777 is a 1932 Danish family film directed by George Schnéevoigt. The film stars Liva Weel and Inger Stender.-Cast:*Liva Weel as Hansy Hansen*Emanuel Gregers as Godsejer Rosen*Inger Stender as Inga Rosen*Angelo Bruun as Hans Berg...
  
  
• One Hour with You
  One Hour with You
  One Hour with You is a 1932 American film. It was produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and written by Samson Raphaelson, from the Lothar Schmidt play Only a Dream....
  
  
• The Phantom President
  The Phantom President
  The Phantom President is a 1932 film directed by Norman Taurog, and starring George M. Cohan, Claudette Colbert and Jimmy Durante.According to Richard Rodgers, George M. Cohan deeply resented having to work with Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart on the film...
  
  

1933

• A Bedtime Story
  A Bedtime Story
  A Bedtime Story is a 1933 romantic comedy film starring Maurice Chevalier. Chevalier plays a Parisian playboy who finds himself obliged to care for an abandoned baby...
  
  
• Broadway to Hollywood
  Broadway to Hollywood (1933 film)
  Broadway to Hollywood is a film directed by Willard Mack, produced by Harry Rapf, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film features many of MGM's stars of the time, including Frank Morgan, Alice Brady, Madge Evans, Jimmy Durante, Mickey Rooney, and Jackie Cooper...
  
  
• 42nd Street
  42nd Street (film)
  -Cast:*Warner Baxter as Julian Marsh, director*Bebe Daniels as Dorothy Brock, star*George Brent as Pat Denning, Dorothy's old vaudeville partner*Ruby Keeler as Peggy Sawyer, the newcomer*Guy Kibbee as Abner Dillon, the show's backer...
  
  
• Dancing Lady
  Dancing Lady
  Dancing Lady is a 1933 musical film starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, and featuring Franchot Tone, the fourth of eight collaborations between Crawford and Gable. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, produced by John W. Considine Jr. and David O. Selznick, and was based on the novel of the...
  
  
• Duck Soup
• Flying Down to Rio
  Flying Down to Rio
  Flying Down to Rio is a 1933 RKO musical film noted for being the first screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Astaire and Rogers were not the stars of the film, however, Dolores del Río and Gene Raymond were top-billed. Among the featured players Franklin Pangborn and Eric Blore are...
  
  
• Footlight Parade
  Footlight Parade
  -Cast:*James Cagney as Chester Kent, creator of musical prologues*Joan Blondell as Nan Prescott, his secretary*Ruby Keeler as Bea Thorn, dancer turned secretary turned dancer*Dick Powell as Scott 'Scotty' Blair, juvenile lead, former protege of Mrs...
  
  
• Going Hollywood
  Going Hollywood
  Going Hollywood is an American black-and-white musical film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Marion Davies and Bing Crosby, written by Donald Ogden Stewart, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film tells the story of Sylvia , a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love...
  
  
• Gold Diggers of 1933
  Gold Diggers of 1933
  Gold Diggers of 1933 is a pre-code Warner Bros. musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin , staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley...
  
  
• The Good Companions
  The Good Companions (1933 film)
  The Good Companions is a 1933 comedy film directed by Victor Saville starring Jessie Matthews and John Gielgud. It is based on the novel of the same name.-Cast:* Jessie Matthews - Susie Dean* Edmund Gwenn - Jess Oakroyd* John Gielgud - Inigo Jollifant...
  
  
• Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
  Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (film)
  Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is a 1933 American musical comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone in the Depression.The film stars Al Jolson as Bumper, a popular New York tramp, and both romanticizes and satirizes the hobo lifestyle that many people were forced into by the economic conditions of the time....
  
  
• Moonlight and Pretzels
  Moonlight and Pretzels
  Moonlight and Pretzels is a musical film directed by Karl Freund, and is about a man who puts on a Broadway show. The film was released by Universal Studios, and featured Mary Brian and William Frawley who was later cast in I Love Lucy. Freund was also the cinematographer for I Love Lucy...
  
  
• Roman Scandals
  Roman Scandals
  Roman Scandals is a 1933 black-and-white American musical film starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Edward Arnold and David Manners. It was directed by Frank Tuttle....
  
  
• Too Much Harmony
  Too Much Harmony
  Too Much Harmony , aka Musik skal der til in Denmark, is a black and white American musical film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and released by Paramount Pictures...
  
  
• Torch Singer
  Torch Singer
  Torch Singer is a 1933 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Alexander Hall and George Somnes, and starring Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez and David Manners and Lyda Roberti.The screenplay was written by Lenore J...
  
  

1934

• Ayer y Hoy
  Ayer y Hoy (film)
  Ayer y hoy is a 1934 Argentine musical romantic drama film directed by Enrique Susini and written by José B. Cairola. The film premiered on 25 May 1934 in Buenos Aires....
  
  
• Babes in Toyland
  Babes in Toyland (1934 film)
  Babes in Toyland is a Laurel and Hardy musical film released in November 1934. The film is also known by its alternate titles Laurel and Hardy in Toyland, Revenge Is Sweet , March of the Wooden Soldiers and Wooden Soldiers .Based on Victor Herbert's popular 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland, the film...
  
  
• Bright Eyes
• Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
  Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
  Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho is a 1934 American musical short film.On 13 February 2001, the film was reissued by Kino International in the DVD collection The Best of Jazz and Blues ....
  
  
• Caravan
  Caravan (1934 film)
  Caravan is a film made by Fox Film Corporation, directed by Erik Charell. The film stars Charles Boyer, Loretta Young and Jean Parker. Fox also produced a French language version of this film, Caravane starring Boyer, Annabella, and Conchita Montenegro.-Cast:*Charles Boyer as Latzi*Loretta...
  
  
• The Cat and the Fiddle
• Dames
  Dames
  Dames is a 1934 Warner Bros. musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright with dance numbers created by Busby Berkeley. The film stars Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, ZaSu Pitts, and Hugh Herbert...
  
  
• Evergreen
  Evergreen (film)
  Evergreen is a 1934 Gaumont British musical film, starring Jessie Matthews as a music hall singer, based on the 1930 musical Ever Green, also starring Matthews. Matthews had a dual role as both mother and daughter....
  
  
• Fashions of 1934
  Fashions of 1934
  -Cast:*William Powell as Sherwood Nash*Bette Davis as Lynn Mason*Frank McHugh as Snap*Reginald Owen as Oscar Baroque*Verree Teasdale as Grand Duchess Alix*Hugh Herbert as Joe Ward*Henry O'Neill as Duryea...
  
  
• Flirtation Walk
  Flirtation Walk
  Flirtation Walk is a 1934 romantic musical film written by Delmer Daves and Lou Edelman, and directed by Frank Borzage. It focuses on a soldier who falls in love with a general's daughter during the general's brief stop in Hawaii, but she leaves with her father for the Philippines before their...
  
  
• The Gay Divorcee
  The Gay Divorcee
  The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 American film based on the musical play Gay Divorce written by Dwight Taylor, Kenneth S. Webb, Samuel Hoffenstein, with screenplay by George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost and Edward Kaufman, from an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners...
  
  
• George White's Scandals
• Here is My Heart
  Here is My Heart
  Here Is My Heart is a 1934 American musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby who plays a famous singer who pretends to be a penniless waiter to get close to the woman of his dreams...
  
  
• Hollywood Party
  Hollywood Party (1934 film)
  Hollywood Party is a musical film starring Jimmy Durante. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film had no director credited, although it has been asserted that Richard Boleslawski, Allan Dwan, Edmund Goulding, Russell Mack, Charles Reisner, Roy Rowland, George Stevens and Sam Wood...
  
  
• Idols of the Radio
• Jolly Fellows
  Jolly Fellows (1934 film)
  Jolly Fellows , also translated Happy-Go-Lucky Guys and Moscow Laughs, is a 1934 Soviet musical film, directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and starring his wife Lyubov Orlova, a gifted singer and the first recognized star of Soviet cinema....
  
   (Russian)
• Kid Millions
  Kid Millions
  Kid Millions is an American film directed by Roy Del Ruth, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and starring Eddie Cantor.-Plot:The story features Eddie, a kid from Brooklyn, New York,...
  
  
• Little Miss Marker
  Little Miss Marker
  Little Miss Marker is a 1934 American drama film directed by Alexander Hall. The screenplay was written by William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, and Gladys Hellman after a short story by Damon Runyon. The film stars Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, and Dorothy Dell in a story about a little girl held...
  
  
• Melody Cruise
  Melody Cruise
  Melody Cruise is Slipping Stitches first full length release. Michael Monroe of Hanoi Rocks fame appears on the bonus tracks as producer, lyricist, and vocalist.-Credits:Band* Cashmire Starz – vocals, Guitar, Keyboard...
  
  
• Melody in Spring
• The Merry Widow
  The Merry Widow (1934 film)
  The Merry Widow is a 1934 film adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Franz Lehár. It was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starred Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald...
  
  
• Moulin Rouge
  Moulin Rouge (1934 film)
  Moulin Rouge is a 1934 film starring actress Constance Bennett. It contained the songs Coffee in the Morning and Kisses in the Night and Boulevard of Broken Dreams with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Al Dubin. Lucille Ball is an uncredited show girl in the film...
  
  
• Murder at the Vanities
  Murder at the Vanities
  Murder at the Vanities is a musical film based on the 1933 Broadway musical with music by Victor Young, made in the pre-Code era, and released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Mitchell Leisen, stars Carl Brisson, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, Gertrude Michael, Toby Wing, and Jessie Ralph...
  
  
• One Night of Love
  One Night of Love
  One Night of Love is a 1934 romantic musical film set in the opera world, starring Grace Moore and Tullio Carminati. It was written by James Gow, S.K. Lauren and Edmund H. North, from the story, Don't Fall in Love, by Charles Beahan and Dorothy Speare...
  
  
• She Loves Me Not
  She Loves Me Not (1934 film)
  She Loves Me Not is a 1934 comedy film adapted from the novel of the same name by Edward Hope. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and starred Miriam Hopkins and Bing Crosby...
  
  
• Sing as We Go
  Sing as We Go
  Sing As We Go is a 1934 British musical film starring Gracie Fields and Stanley Holloway. The script was written by Gordon Wellesley and J. B. Priestley; it was directed by Basil Dean....
  
  
• Stand Up and Cheer!
  Stand Up and Cheer!
  Stand Up and Cheer! is a 1934 American musical film directed by Hamilton MacFadden. The screenplay by Lew Brown and Ralph Spence was based upon a story idea by Will Rogers and Philip Klein. The film is about efforts undertaken during the Great Depression to boost the morale of the country...
  
  
• Student Tour
• 365 Nights in Hollywood
  365 Nights in Hollywood
  365 Nights in Hollywood is a 1934 American drama film starring Alice Faye and James Dunn. The film was directed by George Marshall.-Cast:* James Dunn as James 'Jimmy' Dale* Alice Faye as Alice Perkins* Frank Mitchell as Percy* Jack Durant as Clarence...
  
  
• Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
• We're Not Dressing
  We're Not Dressing
  We're Not Dressing is a 1934 screwball comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, Burns and Allen, Ethel Merman, and Ray Milland. Based on the 1902 J. M. Barrie play, The Admirable Crichton, the movie was directed by Norman Taurog.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Wonder Bar
  Wonder Bar
  Wonder Bar is a 1934 pre-code movie adaptation of a Broadway musical of the same name directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers created by Busby Berkeley...
  
  

1935

• Amphitryon
• The Big Broadcast of 1936
  The Big Broadcast of 1936
  The Big Broadcast of 1936 is a Paramount Pictures production, directed by Norman Taurog, and is the second in the series of Big Broadcast movies...
  
  
• Broadway Melody of 1936
  Broadway Melody of 1936
  Broadway Melody of 1936 is a musical released by MGM in 1935. It was a follow up of sorts to the successful The Broadway Melody, which had been released in 1929, although, beyond the title and some music, there is no story connection with the earlier film.The film was written by Harry W. Conn, Moss...
  
  
• Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party
  Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party
  Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party is a 1935 American musical short film which was released by Paramount Pictures...
  
  
• Curly Top
  Curly Top
  Curly Top is an American musical film directed by Irving Cummings. The screenplay by Patterson McNutt and Arthur J. Beckhard focuses on the adoption of a young orphan by a wealthy bachelor and his romantic attraction to her older sister .Together with The Littlest Rebel, another Temple vehicle,...
  
  
• Every Night at Eight
  Every Night at Eight
  Every Night at Eight is a 1935 American comedy musical film starring George Raft and Alice Faye and made by Walter Wanger Productions Inc. and Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Raoul Walsh and produced by Walter Wanger from a screenplay by C...
  
  
• First a Girl
  First a Girl
  First a Girl is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews. First a Girl was adapted from the 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria written and directed by Reinhold Schünzel...
  
  
• George White's 1935 Scandals
  George White's 1935 Scandals
  George White's 1935 Scandals is an American musical film, written by Jack Yellen and produced in 1935 by Fox Film Corporation . It was a follow-up to the 1934 release, George White's Scandals.-Plot:The film centers on real-life stage and screen producer George White as he gathers acts for his new...
  
  
• Go Into Your Dance
  Go Into Your Dance
  Go Into Your Dance is a 1935 musical film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, Glenda Farrell, and Helen Morgan.-Plot:...
  
  
• Gold Diggers of 1935
  Gold Diggers of 1935
  Gold Diggers of 1935 is a Warner Bros. musical film directed and choreographed by Busby Berkeley and starring Dick Powell, Gloria Stuart, Adolphe Menjou, Winifred Shaw, Alice Brady, Hugh Herbert and Frank McHugh...
  
  
• Harmony Lane
  Harmony Lane
  Harmony Lane is a 1935 American film directed by Joseph Santley, being based upon the life of Stephen Foster.- Cast :*Douglass Montgomery as Stephen Foster*Evelyn Venable as Susan Pentland*Adrienne Ames as Jane McDowell...
  
  
• Here Comes the Band
  Here Comes the Band
  Here Comes the Band is an album by Trinidadian Soca artist Machel Montano and his band Xtatik released in 2000. The album's 22 tracks feature different singers on each, with the album covering a diverse range of styles...
  
  
• I Dream Too Much
  I Dream Too Much
  I Dream Too Much is a 1935 romantic comedy film directed by John Cromwell. It stars Henry Fonda, Lily Pons, and Lucille Ball in one of her earliest roles. It has been described as a "somewhat wispy operetta." Songs are by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields...
  
  
• The Little Colonel
  The Little Colonel
  The Little Colonel is a 1935 American comedy drama film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by William M. Conselman was adapted from a novel of the same name by Annie Fellows Johnston, and focuses on the reconciliation of an estranged father and daughter in the years following the American...
  
  
• The Littlest Rebel
  The Littlest Rebel
  The Littlest Rebel is a 1935 American dramatic film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by Edwin J. Burke was adapted from a play of the same name by Edward Peple and focuses on the tribulations of a plantation-owning family during the American Civil War...
  
  
• Melody Trail
• Metropolitan
  Metropolitan (1935 film)
  Metropolitan is a 1935 back-stage drama film interlaced with songs and musical segments from opera.Directed by Ryszard Bolesławski , it featured the famous baritone Lawrence Tibbett , with Virginia Bruce as his leading lady...
  
  
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)
  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1935 film directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, produced by Henry Blanke and Hal Wallis, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr...
  
  
• Mississippi
• Music Is Magic
  Music Is Magic
  Music Is Magic is a 1935 Fox musical film directed by George Marshall. The movie stars Alice Faye and Bebe Daniels and is based on a play by Jesse Lasky Jr. and Gladys Unger. The movie was Daniels' last American screen appearance.-Plot:...
  
  
• Naughty Marietta
• A Night at the Opera
  A Night at the Opera (film)
  A Night at the Opera is a 1935 American comedy film starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx, and featuring Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman, and Walter Woolf King. It was the first film the Marx Brothers made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after their departure from...
  
  
• The Night Is Young
• The Old Homestead
  The Old Homestead
  The Old Homestead is a 1935 American romantic western musical film directed by William Nigh.-Cast:*Mary Carlisle ... Nancy Abbott*Lawrence Gray ... Bob Shackleforth*Willard Robertson ... Uncle Jed*Dorothy Lee ... Elsie Wilson...
  
  
• Puente Alsina
  Puente Alsina (film)
  Puente Alsina is a 1935 Argentine musical film directed and written by José A. Ferreyra. It is a tango musical and premiered on 6 August 1935 in Buenos Aires.-Main cast:*Salvador Arcella*Alberto Bello*Pedro Bibe*Pierina Dealessi*Alfredo Distasio...
  
  
• Reckless
  Reckless (1935 film)
  Reckless is a 1935 American musical film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Jean Harlow, William Powell and Franchot Tone. The story was based on the scandal of the 1931 marriage between torch singer Libby Holman and tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds and his subsequent alleged...
  
  
• Roberta
  Roberta (1935 film)
  Roberta is a 1935 musical film by RKO starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott. It was an adaptation of a 1933 Broadway theatre musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller...
  
  
• Sagebrush Troubadour
• The Soul of the Accordion
• Stolen Harmony
  Stolen Harmony
  Stolen Harmony is a 1935 film about a saxophone-player/dancer who joins a Big Band upon his release from jail. The movie climaxes with an exciting car chase and was directed by Alfred L...
  
  
• Stowaway
  Stowaway (1936 film)
  Stowaway is a 1936 American musical film directed by William A. Seiter. The screenplay by William M. Conselman, Nat Perrin, and Arthur Sheekman is based on a story by Samuel Engel. The film is about a young orphan called 'Ching Ching' who stows away on a ship and is adopted by Tommy Randall and...
  
  
• Sweet Adeline
• Thanks a Million
  Thanks A Million
  Thanks a Million is a 1935 musical film produced and released by 20th Century Fox and directed by Roy Del Ruth. It stars Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak and Fred Allen, and features Patsy Kelly, David Rubinoff and Paul Whiteman and his band with singer/pianist Ramona. The script by Nunnally Johnson was...
  
  
• Top Hat
  Top Hat
  Top Hat is a 1935 screwball comedy musical film in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick . He meets and attempts to impress Dale Tremont to win her affection...
  
  
• Two for Tonight
  Two for Tonight
  Two for Tonight is a 1935 musical comedy film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Frank Tuttle, produced by Douglas MacLean. The film stars Bing Crosby and Joan Bennett. The music is by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel.-Cast:...
  
  

1936

• Anything Goes
• The Big Broadcast of 1937
  The Big Broadcast of 1937
  The Big Broadcast of 1937 is a 1936 Paramount Pictures production directed by Mitchell Leisen, and is the third in the series of Big Broadcast movies. The musical comedy stars Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bob Burns, Martha Raye, Shirley Ross, Ray Milland, Benny Fields, Frank Forest and...
  
  
• The Bohemian Girl
  The Bohemian Girl
  The Bohemian Girl is an opera composed by Michael William Balfe with a libretto by Alfred Bunn. The plot is loosely based on a Cervantes tale, La Gitanilla.The opera was first produced in London at the Drury Lane Theatre on November 27, 1843...
  
  
• Born to Dance
  Born to Dance
  Born to Dance is an American musical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and directed by Roy Del Ruth.The film stars dancer Eleanor Powell and was a follow-up to her successful debut in Broadway Melody of 1936...
  
  
• Cain and Mabel
  Cain and Mabel
  Cain and Mabel is a 1936 romantic comedy film designed as a vehicle for Marion Davies in which she co-stars with Clark Gable and Robert Paige ....
  
  
• Canillita
  Canillita
  Canillita is a 1936 Argentine musical film directed and written by Lisandro de la Tea and Manuel Roneima. The film starred Amanda Ledesma and premiered on 26 March 1936 in Buenos Aires.-Cast:*Amanda Ledesma*Adolfo Alsina*Príncipe Azul...
  
  
• Captain January
• Circus
  Circus (1936 film)
  Circus is a 1936 Soviet melodramatic comedy musical film. It was directed by Grigori Aleksandrov at the Mosfilm studios. In his own words, it was conceived as "an eccentric comedy...a real side splitter."...
  
   (Russian)
• The Devil on Horseback
• Dimples
  Dimples (film)
  Dimples is a 1936 American musical film directed by William A. Seiter. The screenplay was written by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman. The film is about a young mid-nineteenth century street entertainer who is separated from her pickpocket grandfather when given a home by a wealthy New York City...
  
  
• Follow the Fleet
  Follow the Fleet
  Follow the Fleet is a 1936 Hollywood musical comedy film with a nautical theme and stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, and Astrid Allwyn, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Lucille Ball and Betty Grable also appear, in small supporting roles...
  
  
• Follow Your Heart
  Follow Your Heart (1936 film)
  - Cast :*Marion Talley as Marian Forrester*Michael Bartlett as Michael Williams*Nigel Bruce as Henri Forrester*Luis Alberni as Tony Masetti*Henrietta Crosman as Madame Bovard*Vivienne Osborne as Gloria Forrester*Walter Catlett as Joe Sheldon...
  
  
• Gold Diggers of 1937
  Gold Diggers of 1937
  Gold Diggers of 1937 is a 1936 Warner Bros. movie musical directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley, and starring Dick Powell and Joan Blondell, who were married at the time, and Victor Moore. The film features songs by the teams of Harold Arlen and E.Y...
  
  
• The Great Ziegfeld
  The Great Ziegfeld
  The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 musical film produced by MGM. A fictionalized biography of Florenz Ziegfeld from his show business beginnings to his death, it showcases a series of spectacular musical productions. The film includes original music by Walter Donaldson and Irving Berlin...
  
  
• Hats Off
  Hats Off (1936 film)
  Hats Off is an American film directed by Boris Petroff, and originally released by Grand National Pictures. The film is now in the public domain.- Cast :*Mae Clarke as Jo Allen*John Payne as Jimmy Maxwell*Helen Lynd as Ginger Connolly...
  
  
• Hearts Divided
  Hearts Divided
  Hearts Divided is a 1936 musical film about the real-life marriage between American Elizabeth 'Betsy' Patterson and Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon. It starred Marion Davies and Dick Powell as the couple...
  
  
• Help Me To Live
  Help Me To Live
  Help Me to Live is a 1936 Argentine romantic drama musical directed and written by José A. Ferreyra with Libertad Lamarque. Starring Libertad Lamarque and Santiago Gómez Cou, the film premiered on 26 August 1936 in Buenos Aires....
  
  
• Let's Sing Again
  Let's Sing Again
  Let's Sing Again is a 1936 American film directed by Kurt Neumann.- Cast :*Bobby Breen as Billy Gordon*Henry Armetta as Joe Pasquale*George Houston as Leon Alba*Vivienne Osborne as Rosa Donelli*Grant Withers as Jim 'Diablo' Wilkins...
  
  
• King of Burlesque
  King of Burlesque
  King of Burlesque is a 1936 musical film about a former burlesque producer played by Warner Baxter who moves into a legitimate theatre does very well, until he marries a socialite...
  
  
• One in a Million
• Pennies from Heaven
  Pennies from Heaven (1936 film)
  Pennies from Heaven is a 1936 musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby and featuring Louis Armstrong in a supporting role. The movie was directed by Norman Z. McLeod and the screenplay was written by Jo Swerling from a story by William Rankin based on the novel The Peacock Feather by Katherine...
  
  
• Pigskin Parade
• Poor Little Rich Girl
  Poor Little Rich Girl (1936 film)
  The Poor Little Rich Girl is a 1936 American musical film directed by Irving Cummings. The screenplay by Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman, and Harry Tugend was based on stories by Eleanor Gates and Ralph Spence, and on the 1917 Mary Pickford vehicle of the same name...
  
  
• Rhythm on the Range
  Rhythm on the Range
  Rhythm on the Range is a 1936 Paramount Pictures musical film directed by Norman Taurog.-Plot:Doris Halliday is the daughter of wealthy banker Robert Halliday. She is about to marry a man she doesn't love, so the family will become richer...
  
  
• Rose Marie
• San Francisco
  San Francisco (film)
  San Francisco is a 1936 musical-drama directed by Woody Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film, which was the top grossing movie of that year, stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy. The then very popular singing of MacDonald helped make this film...
  
  
• Show Boat
  Show Boat (1936 film)
  Show Boat is a 1936 film based on the musical play by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II , which the team adapted from the novel by Edna Ferber....
  
  
• Sing Baby, Sing
• The Singing Kid
• Stowaway
  Stowaway (1936 film)
  Stowaway is a 1936 American musical film directed by William A. Seiter. The screenplay by William M. Conselman, Nat Perrin, and Arthur Sheekman is based on a story by Samuel Engel. The film is about a young orphan called 'Ching Ching' who stows away on a ship and is adopted by Tommy Randall and...
  
  
• Swing Time
  Swing Time
  Swing Time is a 1936 RKO musical comedy film set mainly in New York City and stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, Eric Blore and Georges Metaxa, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields...
  
  
• Three Smart Girls
  Three Smart Girls
  Three Smart Girls is a 1936 musical comedy film. The Craig sisters, played by Barbara Read, Nan Grey and Deanna Durbin in her first feature film role, travel to New York City to prevent their father from remarrying....
  
  
• Walking on Air

1937

• Ali Baba Goes to Town
  Ali Baba Goes to Town
  Ali Baba Goes to Town is a 1937 movie starring Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, and Roland Young. Cantor plays a hobo named Aloysius "Al" Babson, who walks into the camp of a movie company that is making the Arabian Nights. He falls asleep and dreams he is in Baghdad as an advisor to the Sultan...
  
  
• Así es el tango
  Así es el tango
  Así es el tango is a 1937 Argentine romantic drama film musical directed and written by Eduardo Morera, based on a play by Florencio Chiarello. Starring Tita Merello and Tito Lusiardo...
  
  
• Artists and Models
• Bewitching Kisses
• Broadway Melody of 1938
  Broadway Melody of 1938
  Broadway Melody of 1938 is a 1937 musical film, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film is essentially a backstage musical revue, featuring high-budget sets and cinematography in the MGM musical tradition...
  
  
• A Damsel in Distress
  A Damsel in Distress (film)
  A Damsel in Distress is a 1937 English-themed Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns, and Gracie Allen. With a screenplay by P. G...
  
  
• A Day at the Races
  A Day at the Races (film)
  Further reading* Elisabeth Buxbaum: Veronika, der Lenz ist da. Walter Jurmann – Ein Musiker zwischen den Welten und Zeiten. Mit einem Werkverzeichnis von Alexander Sieghardt. Edition Steinbauer, Wien 2006, ISBN 3-902494-18-2-External links:*...
  
  
• Double or Nothing
  Double or Nothing (1937 film)
  Double or Nothing is a 1937 musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Martha Raye, Andy Devine, Mary Carlisle, William Frawley, Samuel S. Hinds, and Frances Faye. The most famous song from the film is "The Moon Got In My Eyes".-Plot synopsis:...
  
  
• The Firefly
  The Firefly (film)
  The Firefly is a 1937 musical film starring Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones. The film is an adaptation of the operetta of the same name by composer Rudolf Friml and librettist Otto A. Harbach that premiered on Broadway in 1919...
  
  
• The Girl Said No
• Heidi
  Heidi (1937 film)
  Heidi is a 1937 American dramatic film directed by Allan Dwan. The screenplay by Julien Josephson and Walter Ferris was based on the 1880 children's story of the same name by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. The film is about an orphan named Heidi who is taken from her grandfather to live as a...
  
  
• High, Wide, and Handsome
  High, Wide, and Handsome
  High, Wide, and Handsome is a 1937 American musical film starring Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Alan Hale, Sr., Charles Bickford, and Dorothy Lamour....
  
  
• Hollywood Hotel
  Hollywood Hotel (film)
  Hollywood Hotel is a 1937 American film, directed by Busby Berkeley. It stars Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, and Ted Healy. Ronald Reagan, Benny Goodman and Harry James also appear....
  
  
• In Old Chicago
  In Old Chicago
  In Old Chicago is a 1937 American drama film directed by Henry King. The screenplay by Sonya Levien and Lamar Trotti was based on the Niven Busch story, "We the O'Learys." The film is a fictionalized account about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and stars Alice Brady as Mrs. O'Leary, the owner of...
  
  
• The Life of the Party
• Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
  Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
  Manhattan Merry-Go-Round was a NBC musical variety radio program of the 1930s. Described as a "musical revue," it was produced by Frank and Anne Hummert. Sponsored by Dr...
  
  
• Maytime
• New Faces of 1937
  New Faces of 1937
  New Faces of 1937, aka Young People is a black and white 1937 American musical film.-Cast:*Joe Penner - Seymore Seymore*Milton Berle - Wallington 'Wally' Wedge*Harry Parke - Parkyakarkus 'Parky'...
  
  
• Nobody's Baby
  Nobody's Baby
  Nobody's Baby is a 2001 comedy film written and directed by David Seltzer and starring Gary Oldman and Skeet Ulrich.-Cast:* Skeet Ulrich as Billy Raedeen* Gary Oldman as Buford Bill* Radha Mitchell as Shauna Louise* Mary Steenburgen as Estelle...
  
  
• On the Avenue
  On the Avenue
  On the Avenue is a 1937 American musical film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll, and Alice Faye. All of the songs in this film were composed by Irving Berlin.-Plot:...
  
  
• One Hundred Men and a Girl
  One Hundred Men and a Girl
  One Hundred Men and a Girl is a 1937 musical comedy film, written by Charles Kenyon, Bruce Manning and James Mulhauser from a story by Hanns Kräly and directed by Henry Koster...
  
  
• Ready, Willing, and Able
  Ready, Willing, and Able (film)
  Ready, Willing, and Able is a 1937 musical film starring Ruby Keeler and Ross Alexander. It also featured Lee Dixon, Allen Jenkins, Winifred Shaw, Louise Fazenda, and Carolyn Hughes. The director was Ray Enright....
  
  
• Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
• Rosalie
  Rosalie (film)
  Rosalie is an MGM film adaptation of the 1928 stage musical of the same name. The film was released in December 1937. The film follows the story of the musical but replaces most of the Broadway score with new songs by Cole Porter...
  
  
• Shall We Dance
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated film based on Snow White, a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It was the first full-length cel-animated feature in motion picture history, as well as the first animated feature film produced in America, the first produced in full...
  
   (animated)
• Thin Ice
  Thin Ice (1937 film)
  Thin Ice is a United States comedy/romance film directed by Sidney Lanfield starring Tyrone Power and figure skater Sonja Henie.-Plot:...
  
  
• Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
  Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
  Thoroughbreds Don't Cry is a 1937 film directed by Alfred E. Green. It stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in their first film together. Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to the local...
  
  
• Waikiki Wedding
  Waikiki Wedding
  Waikiki Wedding is a 1937 musical film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Bing Crosby. Bing plays the part of Tony Marvin, a PR man charged with extolling the virtues of Hawaii. The female lead is Shirley Ross....
  
  
• Wake Up and Live
  Wake Up and Live
  Wake Up and Live is a 1937 Fox musical film directed by Sidney Lanfield and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. The movie stars Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie and Alice Faye and was based upon the self-help bestseller by Dorothea Brande...
  
  
• You Can't Have Everything
  You Can't Have Everything
  You Can't Have Everything is a 1937 Fox musical film directed by Norman Taurog and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. The movie stars Alice Faye and Don Ameche, and was the film debut for Gypsy Rose Lee.-Plot:...
  
  
• You're a Sweetheart
  You're a Sweetheart
  You're a Sweetheart is a 1937 Universal musical film directed by David Butler. The movie stars Alice Faye, George Murphy and Ken Murray and was remade in 1943 under the title Cowboy in Manhattan....
  
  

1938

• Alexander's Ragtime Band
  Alexander's Ragtime Band (film)
  Alexander's Ragtime Band is a film released by Twentieth Century Fox that takes its name from the 1911 Irving Berlin song "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to tell a story of a society boy who scandalizes his family by pursuing a career in Ragtime instead of in "serious" music...
  
  
• Artists and Models Abroad
• The Big Broadcast of 1938
  The Big Broadcast of 1938
  The Big Broadcast of 1938 is a Paramount Pictures film featuring W.C. Fields and Bob Hope. Directed by Mitchell Leisen, the film is the last in a series of Big Broadcast movies that were variety show anthologies...
  
  
• Carefree
  Carefree (film)
  Carefree is a 1938 musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. With a plot similar to screwball comedies of the period, Carefree is the shortest of the Astaire-Rogers films, featuring only four musical numbers...
  
  
• Champagnegaloppen
  Champagnegaloppen
  Champagnegaloppen is a 1938 Danish musical film directed by George Schnéevoigt. The film based on a musical by Hans Christian Lumbye and play by Paul Holck-Hofmann and stars Svend Methling and Valdemar Møller. It is named after the famous light classical piece composed by Hans Christian Lumbye,...
  
  
• College Swing
  College Swing
  College Swing, also known as Swing, Teacher, Swing in the U.K., is a 1938 comedy film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, and Bob Hope...
  
  
• Dr. Rhythm
• The Duke is Tops
  The Duke is Tops
  The Duke Is Tops is a 1938 American musical film released by Million Dollar Productions and directed by William Nolte. The film was later released in 1943 under the title The Bronze Venus, with Lena Horne given top billing....
  
  
• Everybody Sing
  Everybody Sing (film)
  Everybody Sing is a 1938 musical comedy film starring Judy Garland, Allan Jones, Fanny Brice, Reginald Owen and Billie Burke.-Plot:Young Judy Bellaire has trouble fitting in at school, causing trouble by introducing her jazzy style into music class and being expelled as a result...
  
  
• The Girl of the Golden West
• Give Me a Sailor
  Give Me a Sailor
  Give Me a Sailor is a 1938 film directed by Elliott Nugent. It stars Martha Raye and Bob Hope.-Cast:*Martha Raye as Lett Larkin*Bob Hope as Jim Brewster*Betty Grable as Nancy Larkin*Jack Whiting as Walter Brewster*Clarence Kolb as Captain Tallant...
  
  
• Going Places
• Gold Diggers in Paris
  Gold Diggers in Paris
  Gold Diggers in Paris is a 1938 Warner Bros. movie musical directed by Ray Enright with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Rudy Vallee, Rosemary Lane, Hugh Herbert and Allen Jenkins.-Plot:...
  
  
• Goodbye Buenos Aires
  Goodbye Buenos Aires
  Adiós Buenos Aires is a 1938 Argentine musical film directed and written by Leopoldo Torres Ríos. The film starred Tito Lusiardo and a 19 year old Amelia Bence....
  
  
• The Goldwyn Follies
  The Goldwyn Follies
  The Goldwyn Follies is a 1938 Technicolor film written by Ben Hecht, Sid Kuller, Sam Perrin and Arthur Phillips, with music by George Gershwin, Vernon Duke, and Ray Golden, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Some sources credit Kurt Weill as one of the composers, but this is apparently incorrect...
  
  
• The Great Waltz
  The Great Waltz (film)
  The Great Waltz is a 1938 American biographical film based very loosely on the life of Johann Strauss II. It starred Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravet and Miliza Korjus. Rainer received top billing at the producer's insistence, but her role is comparatively minor as Strauss' wife, Poldi Volgelhuber...
  
  
• Happy Landing
  Happy Landing
  Happy Landing was a 1962 R&B recording by Motown Records singing group The Miracles , issued on that label's Tamla Records subsidiary label . It was recorded in November of 1962, and appeared on their album The Fabulous Miracles...
  
  
• Hawaii Calls
  Hawaii Calls (film)
  - Cast :*Bobby Breen as Billy Coulter*Ned Sparks as Strings*Irvin S. Cobb as Captain O'Hare*Warren Hull as Commander Milburn*Gloria Holden as Mrs. Milburn*Juanita Quigley as Doris Milburn*Mamo Clark as Hina*Pua Lani as Pua*Raymond Paige as Himself...
  
  
• Just Around the Corner
  Just Around the Corner
  Just Around the Corner is a 1938 American musical film directed by Irving Cummings. The screenplay by Ethel Hill, Darrell Ware, and J. P. McEvoy was based on the novel Lucky Penny by Paul Girard Smith. The film focuses on the tribulations of little Penny Hale and her architect father after he is...
  
  
• Listen, Darling
• Little Miss Broadway
  Little Miss Broadway
  Little Miss Broadway is a 1938 American musical film directed by Irving Cummings. The screenplay was written by Harry Tugend and Jack Yellen. The film stars Shirley Temple in a story about a theatrical boarding house and its occupants, and was originally titled Little Lady of Broadway...
  
  
• Mad About Music
  Mad About Music
  Mad About Music is a 1938 musical film about a girl at an exclusive boarding school who invents an exciting father. When her schoolmates doubt his existence, she has to produce him...
  
  
• My Lucky Star
• Radio City Revels
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
  Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938 film)
  Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a 1938 American musical film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, and Bill Robinson. The screenplay by Don Ettlinger and Karl Tunberg is loosely based on Kate Douglas Wiggin's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm...
  
  
• Sally, Irene and Mary
  Sally, Irene and Mary
  Sally, Irene, and Mary is a 1925 film starring Constance Bennett, Sally O'Neil, and Joan Crawford. The film takes a behind-the-scenes look at the romantic lives of three chorus girls and the way their preferences in men affect their lives....
  
  
• Sing You Sinners
  Sing You Sinners (1938 film)
  Sing You Sinners is a 1938 black-and-white American musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray, Donald O'Connor, and Ellen Drew. The movie was written by Claude Binyon and directed by Wesley Ruggles...
  
  
• Songs and Saddles
  Songs and Saddles
  - Cast :*Gene Austin as Gene Austin*Lynne Berkeley as Carol Turner*Henry Roquemore as Lawyer Jed Hill*Walter Wills as Pop Turner*Ted Claire as Mark Bower*Joan Brooks as Lucy*Karl Hackett as Banker George Morrow*Charles King as Road boss Falcon...
  
  
• Sweethearts
  Sweethearts (film)
  Sweethearts is a 1938 musical romance directed by W.S. Van Dyke, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The screenplay, by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, uses the “play within a play” device: a contemporary Broadway production of the 1913 Victor Herbert operetta is the setting for...
  
  
• Thanks for the Memory
• That Certain Age
  That Certain Age
  That Certain Age is a 1938 Universal musical film directed by Edward Ludwig and written by Billy Wilder.-Plot:Alice Fullerton is the 15-year-old daughter of newspaper publisher Bill. She becomes involved with a group of boy scouts, who is led by Ken Warren. Ken wants to put on a show to raise money...
  
  

1939

• At the Circus
  At the Circus
  At the Circus is a 1939 Marx Brothers comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in which they save a circus from bankruptcy...
  
  
• Babes in Arms
  Babes in Arms
  Babes in Arms is a 1937 musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Rodgers and Hart. It concerns a teen-age boy who puts on a show with his friends to avoid being sent to a work farm.- Production history:...
  
  
• Balalaika
  Balalaika (film)
  Balalaika is a 1939 American musical romance film based on the 1936 London stage musical of the same name. Produced by Lawrence Weingarten and directed by Reinhold Schunzel, it starred Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey....
  
  
• Broadway Serenade
  Broadway Serenade
  Broadway Serenade is a 1939 musical drama film distributed by MGM, and directed and produced by Robert Z. Leonard. The screenplay was written by Charles Lederer, based on story by Lew Lipton, John Taintor Foote and Hanns Kräly...
  
  
• East Side of Heaven
• Escape to Paradise
  Escape to Paradise
  - Cast :*Bobby Breen as Roberto Ramos*Kent Taylor as Richard Fleming*Marla Shelton as Juanita*Rudolph Anders as Alexander Komac*Joyce Compton as Penelope Carter*Pedro de Cordoba as Don Miguel*Rosina Galli as Brigida, the Dueña...
  
  
• Everything's on Ice
  Everything's on Ice
  Everything's on Ice is a 1939 American film directed by Erle C. Kenton.The film is also known as Frolics on Ice - Cast :*Irene Dare as Irene Barton*Edgar Kennedy as Joe Barton*Roscoe Karns as Felix Miller...
  
  
• Fast and Furious
  Fast and Furious
  Fast & Furious is a 2009 street racing action film directed by Justin Lin. It is the fourth film in The Fast and the Furious film series and the third installment in terms of chronology. The plot connects with the original film of the series from which Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez,...
  
  
• First Love
  First Love (1939 film)
  First Love is a 1939 Oscar nominated Universal musical film directed by Henry Koster. The film is a rewriting of the fairy tale Cinderella. It was released on both VHS and DVD .-Plot:...
  
  
• Giliw Ko
  Giliw Ko
  Giliw Ko is a 1939 Filipino movie. A musical romance, Giliw Ko had a radio theme, and was first production of the Filipino company, LVN Pictures. It is notable for being a gift from Australia to the Filipino people to commemorate 100 years of independence...
  
   (Philippines)
• Goodbye Argentina
  Goodbye Argentina
  Adiós Argentina is a 1930 Argentine musical film directed and written by Mario Parpagnoli. The film starred Ada Cornaro and Pierina Dealessi. Libertad Lamarque also made an appearance at the age of 22 as the Bride of the Homeless.Although a silent film, Adiós Argentina was the first Argentine...
  
   (Argentina)
• Honolulu
• The Ice Follies of 1939
  The Ice Follies of 1939
  The Ice Follies of 1939 is a 1939 motion picture directed by Reinhold Schünzel, and starring Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres and Lewis Stone...
  
  
• Just Around the Corner
  Just Around the Corner
  Just Around the Corner is a 1938 American musical film directed by Irving Cummings. The screenplay by Ethel Hill, Darrell Ware, and J. P. McEvoy was based on the novel Lucky Penny by Paul Girard Smith. The film focuses on the tribulations of little Penny Hale and her architect father after he is...
  
  
• La Modelo de la calle Florida
  La Modelo de la calle Florida
  La Modelo de la calle Florida is a 1939 Argentine musical film directed by Julio Irigoyen. The tango film premiered in Buenos Aires....
  
  
• Let Freedom Ring
• The Little Princess
• Paris Honeymoon
• Puerta cerrada
  Puerta cerrada
  Puerta cerrada is a 1939 Argentine musical film tango directed by John Alton and Luis Saslavsky. The film premiered in Buenos Aires and starred Warly Ceriani....
  
  
• Rose of Washington Square
  Rose of Washington Square
  Rose of Washington Square is a 1939 American musical drama film. Set in 1920s New York City, it focuses on singer Rose Sargent and her turbulent relationship with con artist Barton DeWitt Clinton, whose criminal activities threaten her professional success in the Ziegfeld Follies.Although the names...
  
  
• Second Fiddle
  Second Fiddle (1939 film)
  Second Fiddle is a 1939 American musical romance film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallee and Lyle Talbot. The score was composed by Irving Berlin. A Hollywood publicity agent falls in love with a new actress he helped to discover. The film parodies the...
  
  
• Some Like It Hot
  Some Like It Hot (1939 film)
  Some Like It Hot is a 1939 comedy film starring Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, and Gene Krupa. The movie was directed by George Archainbaud, and the screenplay was written by Wilkie C. Mahoney and Lewis R. Foster, based on the play The Great Magoo by Ben Hecht and Gene Fowler, which performed briefly on...
  
  
• St. Louis Blues
  St. Louis Blues (1939 film)
  St. Louis Blues is a 1939 musical film directed by Raoul Walsh that was set on a Mississippi River showboat. Although the plot was not related to the song, the "St. Louis Blues" was sung as one of the numbers. Artists included jazz singer Maxine Sullivan and composer/singer/actor Hoagy Carmichael...
  
  
• The Star Maker
  The Star Maker
  The Star Maker is a 1995 Italian language motion picture. It was produced by Rita Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, while the title role was played by Sergio Castellitto.It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-Plot:In 1953, Joe...
  
  
• The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
  The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
  The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is an American biographical musical comedy, released in 1939 and directed by H.C. Potter. The film stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, and Walter Brennan....
  
  
• Swanee River
  Swanee River (film)
  Swanee River is a biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out...
  
  
• That’s Right You’re Wrong
  That’s Right You’re Wrong
  That's Right You're Wrong is a musical film, directed by David Butler and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film starred Kay Kyser and his band, with a cast that included Adolphe Menjou, Lucille Ball, Edward Everett Horton, Roscoe Karns, and Ginny Simms .-Cast:*Kay Kyser as Kay Kyser*Adolphe...
  
  
• The Three Musketeers
  The Three Musketeers (1939 film)
  The Three Musketeers is a 1939 musical comedy film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas, père's novel of the same name. Don Ameche stars as D'Artagnan, with the Ritz Brothers as his cowardly helpers.-Cast:*Don Ameche as D'Artagnan...
  
  
• Three Smart Girls Grow Up
  Three Smart Girls Grow Up
  Three Smart Girls Grow Up is a 1939 musical comedy film starring Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey and Helen Parrish as the title sisters, with Durbin and Grey reprising their roles from Three Smart Girls, and Parrish replacing Barbara Read in the role of the middle sister.-Cast:*Deanna Durbin as Penelope...
  
  
• The Wizard of Oz
  The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
  The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs...
  
  

1940

• A Little Bit of Heaven
• Americaner Shadchen
• Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
  Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
  Andy Hardy Meets Debutante is a 1940 American family comedy film directed by George B. Seitz. The film stars Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden and Judy Garland...
  
  
• Bitter Sweet
  Bitter Sweet (1940 film)
  Bitter Sweet is a 1940 Technicolor American musical film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, based on the operetta by Noel Coward and previously filmed in 1933; see Bitter Sweet . It was nominated for two Academy Awards, one for Best Cinematography and the other for Best Art Direction by Cedric Gibbons and...
  
  
• The Boys from Syracuse (film)
  The Boys from Syracuse (film)
  The Boys from Syracuse is a 1940 musical film directed by A. Edward Sutherland, based on a stage musical by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, which in turn was based on the play The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare...
  
  
• Broadway Melody of 1940
  Broadway Melody of 1940
  Broadway Melody of 1940 is a 1940 MGM movie musical starring Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell and George Murphy. It was directed by Norman Taurog and features music by Cole Porter, including "Begin the Beguine"....
  
  
• Down Argentine Way
  Down Argentine Way
  Down Argentine Way is a 1940 Technicolor musical film made by Twentieth Century Fox. It made a star of Betty Grable in her first leading role for the studio, and introduced American audiences to Carmen Miranda. The film also starred Don Ameche, The Nicholas Brothers, Charlotte Greenwood, and J....
  
  
• Go West
• Hit Parade of 1941
• Hullabaloo
  Hullabaloo (film)
  Hullabaloo is a 1940 musical comedy film directed by Edwin L. Marin and written by Nat Perrin. It stars Frank Morgan, Virginia Grey, Dan Dailey, Billie Burke, Donald Meek, Reginald Owen and Connie Gilchrist...
  
  
• If I Had My Way
  If I Had My Way
  If I Had My Way is a 1940 musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby and Gloria Jean. The film was directed by David Butler.-Plot:Buzz Blackwell, Fred Johnson and Axel Swenson are construction workers who are building a bridge. They are good friends and Buzz and Axel even help Fred raising his...
  
  
• Irene
• It's a Date
  It's a Date
  It's a Date is a 1940 Universal musical film directed by William A. Seiter. The film was remade in 1950 as Nancy Goes to Rio.-Plot:The movie begins with Georgia Drake performing on the stage singing, "Gypsy Lullaby" while her daughter, Pamela , watches with her boyfriend Freddie Miller...
  
  
• Lillian Russell
  Lillian Russell (film)
  Lillian Russell is a 1940 biographical film of the life of the singer and actress. The screenplay was by William Anthony McGuire. The film was directed by Irving Cummings and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It starred Alice Faye in the title role, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda and Edward Arnold as Diamond...
  
  
• Little Nellie Kelly
  Little Nellie Kelly
  Little Nellie Kelly is a 1940 musical comedy film based on the stage musical by George M. Cohan which was a hit on Broadway in 1922 and 1923. The film was written by Jack McGowan and directed by Norman Taurog...
  
  
• Melody and Moonlight
  Melody and Moonlight
  Melody and Moonlight is a 1940 American film starring Jane Frazee....
  
  
• Melody Ranch
  Melody Ranch
  Melody Ranch is a 1940 Western film which tells the story of a singing cowboy who returns to his hometown to restore order when his former childhood enemies take over the frontier town.-Movie:...
  
  
• Music in My Heart
• New Moon
• Pinocchio
  Pinocchio (1940 film)
  Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the story The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. It is the second film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, and it was made after the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and was released to theaters by...
  
   (animated)
• Rhythm on the River
  Rhythm on the River
  Rhythm on the River is a 1940 musical comedy film starring Bing Crosby and Mary Martin as ghostwriters whose songs are credited to a composer played by Basil Rathbone. James V...
  
  
• Road to Singapore
  Road to Singapore
  Road to Singapore is a 1940 Paramount Pictures film starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, and Bob Hope, which marked the debut of the long-running and popular "Road to …" series of pictures spotlighting the trio.-Plot:...
  
  
• Second Chorus
  Second Chorus
  Second Chorus is a Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire, Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard, Artie Shaw, and Charles Butterworth, with music by Artie Shaw, Bernie Hanighen, Hal Borne and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The film was directed by H. C...
  
  
• Spring Parade
  Spring Parade
  Spring Parade is a 1940 musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster. It was nominated for four Academy Awards in 1941.-Cast:* Deanna Durbin as Ilonka Tolnay* Robert Cummings as Corporal Harry Marten* Mischa Auer as Gustav...
  
  
• Strike Up the Band
  Strike Up the Band (film)
  Strike Up the Band is a 1940 American black and white musical film. It is directed by Busby Berkeley and stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland.A very famous, memorable quote from the film is "Take that boy on the street...
  
  
• Tin Pan Alley
  Tin Pan Alley (film)
  Tin Pan Alley is a 1940 musical film starring Alice Faye and Betty Grable as vaudeville singers/sisters and John Payne and Jack Oakie as songwriters in the years before World War I.Alfred Newman received the 1940 Academy Award for his work on the film...
  
  
• Too Many Girls
  Too Many Girls (musical)
  Too Many Girls is a Broadway musical comedy and a 1940 film version of the show, starring Lucille Ball.-Broadway version:Too Many Girls opened October 18, 1939, with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by George Marion Jr. It was produced by George Abbott...
  
  
• Two Girls on Broadway
  Two Girls on Broadway
  Two Girls on Broadway is a 1940 musical film directed by S. Sylvan Simon, and starring Lana Turner and Joan Blondell. The film is a remake of The Broadway Melody .-Plot:...
  
  
• You'll Find Out
  You'll Find Out
  You'll Find Out is a 1940 comedy film directed by David Butler and starring Boris Karloff. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1941 for Best Original Song...
  
  
• Young People
  Young People (film)
  Young People is a 1940 film directed by Allan Dwan. It stars Shirley Temple and Jack Oakie.-Cast:*Shirley Temple as Wendy Ballantine*Jack Oakie as Joe Ballentine*Charlotte Greenwood as Kit Ballentine*Arleen Whelan as Judith...
  
  

1941

• All-American Co-Ed
  All-American Co-Ed
  - Plot summary :Mar Brynn college is failing, as a scheme to perk-up attendance a newspaper reporter stages a show featuring "Odd girls" from all over the country. For publicity Mar Brynn's President Aunt Matilda Collinge begins poking fun of the Quincton college Zeta frat. For revenge the...
  
  
• Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
  Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
  Andy Hardy's Private Secretary is a 1941 American family film comedy directed by George B. Seitz. The film stars Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Kathryn Grayson, Ann Rutherford and Fay Holden.-Plot:...
  
  
• Babes on Broadway
  Babes on Broadway
  Babes on Broadway is a 1941 musical film starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland and directed by Busby Berkeley, with Vincente Minnelli directing Garland's big solo numbers. The film, which features Fay Bainter and Virginia Weidler, was the third in the "Backyard Musical" series about kids who put...
  
  
• The Big Store
  The Big Store
  The Big Store is a Marx Brothers comedy film in which Groucho, Chico and Harpo work to save the Phelps Department Store, owned by Martha Phelps . Groucho plays her detective and bodyguard Wolf J...
  
  
• Birth of the Blues
• Blues in the Night
  Blues in the Night (1941 film)
  Blues in the Night is a 1941 American musical drama film released by Warner Brothers, directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Priscilla Lane, Richard Whorf, Betty Field, Lloyd Nolan, Elia Kazan, and Jack Carson...
  
  
• Buck Privates
  Buck Privates
  Buck Privates is the 1941 comedy/World War II film that turned Bud Abbott and Lou Costello into bonafide movie stars. It was the first service comedy based on the peacetime draft of 1940. The comedy team made two more service comedies before the United States entered the war...
  
  
• Dumbo
  Dumbo
  Dumbo is a 1941 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released on October 23, 1941, by RKO Radio Pictures.The fourth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, Dumbo is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Pearl for the prototype of a...
  
   (animated)
• The Chocolate Soldier
  The Chocolate Soldier (film)
  -Cast:* Nelson Eddy as Karl Lang, aka Vassily Vassilievitch* Risë Stevens as Maria Lanyi, Karl's Wife* Nigel Bruce as Bernard Fischer, Critic* Florence Bates as Madame 'Pugsie' Helene* Dorothy Raye as Magda...
  
  
• Fiesta
  Fiesta (1941 film)
  Fiesta is a 1941 American Technicolor film directed by LeRoy Prinz that was one of Hal Roach's Streamliners. The film was the motion picture debut of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera star Anne Ayars....
  
  
• The Great American Broadcast
  The Great American Broadcast
  The Great American Broadcast is a 1941 musical comedy film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Alice Faye and John Payne.-Cast:*Alice Faye as Vicki Adams*John Payne as Rix Martin*Jack Oakie as Chuck Hadley*Cesar Romero as Bruce Chadwick...
  
  
• Hold That Ghost
  Hold That Ghost
  Hold That Ghost is a 1941 comedy horror film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello and featuring Joan Davis, Evelyn Ankers, and Shemp Howard....
  
  
• In the Navy
  In The Navy (film)
  -Plot:Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts , a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world.Aboard the battleship...
  
  
• It Started with Eve
  It Started with Eve
  It Started with Eve is a 1941 musical romantic comedy film. A man's dying father wants to meet his new fiancée, but she is unavailable, so he substitutes a hat-check girl. Then the father unexpectedly recovers.Charles Previn and Hans J...
  
  
• Lady Be Good
  Lady Be Good (1941 film)
  Lady Be Good is the title of an MGM musical film which was released in 1941.The film starred dancer Eleanor Powell along with Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore, and Red Skelton. It was directed by Norman Z. McLeod and produced by Arthur Freed...
  
  
• Las Vegas Nights
• Louisiana Purchase
  Louisiana Purchase (film)
  Louisiana Purchase is a 1941 film adaptation of the musical theater play, Louisiana Purchase. A Paramount Pictures production, the film was directed by Irving Cummings with Robert Emmett Dolan serving as musical director as he had done for the play. Starring comedian Bob Hope, the film featured...
  
  
• Moon Over Miami
  Moon Over Miami (film)
  Moon Over Miami is a 1941 Technicolor musical film directed by Walter Lang, with Betty Grable and Don Ameche in leading roles and co-starring Robert Cummings, Carole Landis, Jack Haley, and Charlotte Greenwood. It was one of Haley's last appearances in a major, large-budgeted film; after 1943 he...
  
  
• Moonlight in Hawaii
  Moonlight in Hawaii
  Moonlight in Hawaii is a 1941 American musical film comedy starring Jane Frazee.-Cast:*Johnny Downs ... Pete*Jane Frazee ... Toby*Leon Errol ... Spencer*Mischa Auer ... Clipper*Charles Coleman ... Butler*Sunnie O'Dea ... Gloria...
  
  
• Moulin Rouge
• Nice Girl?
• Playmates
  Playmates (1941 film)
  Playmates is a comedy film directed by David Butler, and starring Kay Kyser and John Barrymore. This was Barrymore's final film.-Cast:*Kay Kyser as Kay Kyser*John Barrymore as John Barrymore*Lupe Vélez as Carmen Del Toro...
  
  
• Road to Zanzibar
  Road to Zanzibar
  Road to Zanzibar is a 1941 Paramount Pictures comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, and marked the second picture in the popular "Road to …" series made by the trio....
  
  
• San Antonio Rose
  San Antonio Rose (film)
  San Antonio Rose is a 1941 American black-and-white musical film starring Jane Frazee and featuring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Shemp Howard as a one-shot comedy team .-Cast:*Jane Frazee - Hope Holloway*Robert Paige - Con Conway...
  
  
• Sing Another Chorus
  Sing Another Chorus
  Sing Another Chorus is a 1941 American film starring Jane Frazee....
  
  
• Smilin' Through
  Smilin' Through (1941 film)
  Smilin' Through is a 1941 MGM musical film based on the 1919 play of the same name by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin.The film was a remake of a previous 1932 version by MGM and was the third and final film version of the play. It starred Jeanette MacDonald, Brian Aherne and Ian Hunter...
  
  
• Sun Valley Serenade
  Sun Valley Serenade
  Sun Valley Serenade is a 1941 musical film starring Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller, Milton Berle, and Lynn Bari. It features The Glenn Miller Orchestra as well as dancing by The Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge, performing "Chattanooga Choo Choo", which was nominated for an Academy...
  
  
• Sunny
  Sunny (1941 film)
  Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny...
  
  
• That Night in Rio
  That Night in Rio
  That Night in Rio is a 1941 musical comedy film starring Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda and Don Ameche . It is one of several film adaptations of a play called The Red Cat by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler...
  
  
• They Meet Again
  They Meet Again
  - Cast :*Jean Hersholt as Dr. Paul Christian*Dorothy Lovett as Judy Price*Robert Baldwin as Roy Davis*Maude Eburne as Mrs. Hastings*Neil Hamilton as Governor John C...
  
  
• They Met in Argentina
• Time Out for Rhythm
  Time Out for Rhythm
  Time Out for Rhythm is a 1941 musical comedy film starring Rudy Vallée, Ann Miller and The Three Stooges. Alan Hale, Jr., best known for his role as Skipper Jonas Grumby on Gilligan's Island, also makes a brief appearance early on, marking one of his first film appearances.To date, there has been...
  
  
• Week-End in Havana
  Week-End in Havana
  Week-End in Havana is a 1941 Fox musical film directed by Walter Lang. The movie stars Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda. It was the second of three pictures the two stars made together and the second Faye film to have a Latin-American theme, typical for Fox musicals of the early 1940s...
  
  
• You'll Never Get Rich
  You'll Never Get Rich
  You'll Never Get Rich is a 1941 Hollywood musical comedy film with a wartime theme starring Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, Cliff Nazarro, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The film was directed by Sidney Lanfield...
  
  
• Ziegfeld Girl
  Ziegfeld Girl (film)
  Ziegfeld Girl is a 1941 American film starring James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, and Lana Turner, and co-starring Tony Martin, Jackie Cooper, Eve Arden, and Philip Dorn. Released by MGM, it was directed by Robert Z...
  
  

1942

• Academia El Tango Argentino
• Always in My Heart
• Born to Sing
  Born to Sing
  -Album:-Singles:"—" denotes releases that did not chart.-Personnel:Information taken from Allmusic.*arranging – Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy*art direction – Bob Defrin...
  
  
• Broadway
  Broadway (1942 film)
  Broadway is a 1942 film about Broadway theatre with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Janet Blair, Broderick Crawford, Marjorie Rambeau, Anne Gwynne, and S.Z. Sakall. Raft plays himself, recalling an incident early in his pre-movie career as a dancer. The movie was directed by William A....
  
  
• Cairo
  Cairo (film)
  Cairo is a 1942 musical comedy film made by MGM and Loew's, and directed by W. S. Van Dyke. The screenplay was written by John McClain, based on idea by Ladislas Fodor about a news reporter shipwrecked in a torpedo attack, who teams up with a Hollywood singer and her maid to foil Nazi spies. The...
  
  
• The Fleet's In
  The Fleet's In
  The Fleet's In is a movie musical produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by Victor Schertzinger, and starring Dorothy Lamour and William Holden. Although sharing the title of the 1928 Paramount film starring Clara Bow and Jack Oakie, it was not a remake...
  
  
• Footlight Serenade
  Footlight Serenade
  Footlight Serenade is a 1942 musical comedy film directed by Gregory Ratoff, starring Betty Grable, John Payne and Victor Mature-Plot:Tommy Lundy is an arrogant ex-champion boxer who tries for an acting career on Broadway. He falls in love with his costar , who's secretly married to actor John...
  
  
• For Me and My Gal
  For Me and My Gal (film)
  For Me and My Gal is a 1942 American musical film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly – in his screen debut – and George Murphy, and featuring Martha Eggerth and Ben Blue. The film was written by Richard Sherman, Fred F...
  
  
• Four Jacks and a Jill
  Four Jacks and a Jill
  Four Jacks and a Jill is a South African folk rock ensemble. They originally formed in 1964 without a "Jill" under a different name. Later they added lead singer Glenys Lynne and changed the group's name. In South Africa, they had a hit song, "Timothy". In 1968 they cracked the American charts with...
  
  
• Holiday Inn
  Holiday Inn (film)
  Holiday Inn is a 1942 American musical film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, with music by Irving Berlin. The film has twelve songs written expressly for the film, the most notable being "White Christmas"...
  
  
• I Married an Angel
  I Married an Angel
  I Married An Angel is a musical comedy by Rodgers and Hart. It was adapted from a play by Hungarian playwright János Vaszary, entitled Angyalt Vettem Felesegul. The book was by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, with music by Rodgers and lyrics by Hart. The story concerns a wealthy banker who,...
  
  
• Iceland
  Iceland (film)
  Iceland is a 20th Century Fox musical film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone set in Iceland, starring skater Sonja Henie and John Payne as a U.S. Marine posted in Iceland during World War II...
  
  
• Moonlight in Havana
  Moonlight in Havana
  Moonlight in Havana is a 1942 American film starring Jane Frazee....
  
  
• My Favorite Blonde
  My Favorite Blonde
  My Favorite Blonde is a 1942 American comedy film starring Bob Hope and Madeleine Carroll.The movie depicts a vaudeville performer who gets mixed up with British and German secret agents in the days just before America enters World War II.-Cast:...
  
  
• My Favorite Spy
  My Favorite Spy
  My Favorite Spy is a 1951 comedy film starring Bob Hope and Hedy Lamarr. The movie was directed by Norman Z. McLeod.-Cast:*Bob Hope as Peanuts White/Eric Augustine*Hedy Lamarr as Lily Dalbray*Francis L...
  
  
• My Gal Sal
  My Gal Sal
  My Gal Sal is a 20th Century Fox musical starring Rita Hayworth and Victor Mature. The film is a biopic of 1890s composer and songwriter Paul Dresser and singer, Sally Elliot. The story it was based on was written by Paul Dresser's brother, novelist Theodore Dreiser...
  
  
• Orchestra Wives
  Orchestra Wives
  Orchestra Wives is a 1942 American musical film by 20th Century Fox starring Ann Rutherford, George Montgomery, and Glenn Miller. The film was the second and last film to feature The Glenn Miller Orchestra, and is notable among the many swing era musicals because its plot is more serious and...
  
  
• Panama Hattie
  Panama Hattie
  Panama Hattie is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Herbert Fields and B. G. DeSylva. It is also the title of a 1942 MGM musical based upon the play...
  
  
• Priorities on Parade
• Private Buckaroo
  Private Buckaroo
  Private Buckaroo is a 1942 American Musical film directed by Edward F. Cline and starring The Andrews Sisters, Dick Foran, Harry James, Shemp Howard, Joe E...
  
  
• Ride 'em Cowboy
  Ride 'Em Cowboy
  Ride 'Em Cowboy is a 1942 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.-Plot:The author of best-selling western novels, Bronco Bob Mitchell , has never set foot in the west. A newspaper article has exposed this fact to his fans, and his image is suffering because of it. He decides to make...
  
  
• Rio Rita
  Rio Rita (1942 film)
  Rio Rita is a 1942 comedy film starring Abbott and Costello. It was based upon the 1927 Flo Ziegfeld Broadway musical, which was previously made into a 1929 film also titled Rio Rita that starred the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey.-Plot:...
  
  
• Road to Morocco
  Road to Morocco
  Road to Morocco is an 1942 American comedy film about two fast-talking guys tossed up on a desert shore and sold into slavery to a beautiful princess...
  
  
• Roxie Hart
  Roxie Hart (film)
  Roxie Hart is a 1942 film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Nigel Bruce, Phil Silvers, William Frawley, and Spring Byington....
  
  
• Seven Sweethearts
• Ship Ahoy
  Ship Ahoy
  Ship Ahoy is the title of a 1942 musical-comedy film produced by MGM, starring Eleanor Powell and Red Skelton.-Background:This was the first of two films in which Powell and Skelton co-starred...
  
  
• Sing Your Worries Away
• Song of the Islands
  Song of the Islands
  Song of the Islands is a 1942 musical comedy film starring Betty Grable and Victor Mature. It was directed by Walter Lang and released through 20th Century Fox.-Plot:...
  
  
• Springtime in the Rockies
  Springtime in the Rockies
  Springtime in the Rockies is a Technicolor musical comedy film released by Twentieth Century Fox in 1942. A Betty Grable vehicle, with support from John Payne, Carmen Miranda, Cesar Romero, Charlotte Greenwood, and Edward Everett Horton. Also in the cast was Grable's future husband Harry James, and...
  
  
• Star Spangled Rhythm
  Star Spangled Rhythm
  Star Spangled Rhythm is a 1943 all-star cast musical film made by Paramount Pictures during World War II as a morale booster. Many of the Hollywood studios produced such films during the war, generally musicals, frequently with flimsy storylines, and with the specific intent of entertaining the...
  
  
• Sweater Girl
  Sweater girl
  Sweater girl describes a fashion look made popular in the 1940s and 1950s by Hollywood actresses such as Lana Turner and Jane Russell which was exemplified by a tight sweater which emphasized the wearer's bustline...
  
  
• True to the Army
• The Vanishing Virginian
• Yankee Doodle Dandy
  Yankee Doodle Dandy
  Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 American biographical musical film about George M. Cohan, known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway". It stars James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, and Richard Whorf, and features Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney.The movie was written by...
  
  
• You Were Never Lovelier
  You Were Never Lovelier
  You Were Never Lovelier is a 1942 Hollywood musical comedy film, set in Buenos Aires. It starred Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou and Xavier Cugat, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The film was directed by William A...
  
  
• Saludos Amigos
  Saludos Amigos
  Saludos Amigos is a 1942 animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the 6th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It is the first of six package films made by the Disney studio in the 1940s...
  
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1943

• The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
  The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
  The Amazing Mrs. Holliday is a 1943 film starring Deanna Durbin as a missionary who goes to great lengths, even posing as "Mrs. Holliday", in order to get some Chinese war orphans into the United States. Director Jean Renoir was replaced by Bruce Manning partway through production...
  
  
• Around the World
• Best Foot Forward
• Cabin in the Sky
  Cabin in the Sky
  Cabin in the Sky is a 1943 American musical film with music by Vernon Duke, lyrics by John La Touche, and a musical book by Lynn Root. The musical premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 25, 1940. It closed on March 8, 1941 after a total of 156 performances...
  
  
• Campus Rhythm
• Coney Island
  Coney Island (1943 film)
  Coney Island is a 1943 American Technicolor musical film released by Twentieth Century Fox and starring Betty Grable in one of her biggest hits. A "gay nineties" musical it also featured George Montgomery, Cesar Romero, and Phil Silvers, was choreographed by Hermes Pan, and was directed by Walter...
  
  
• The Desert Song
  The Desert Song (1943 film)
  The Desert Song is a 1943 epic musical film. It was directed by Robert Florey and starred Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning and Bruce Cabot. It is based on the 1926 operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg...
  
  
• Dixie
• DuBarry Was a Lady
  DuBarry Was a Lady
  DuBarry Was a Lady is a Broadway musical, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and the book by Herbert Fields and B.G. DeSylva. The musical starred Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman and Betty Grable, and the song "Friendship" was one of the highlights...
  
  
• The Gang's All Here
• Girl Crazy
  Girl Crazy (1943 film)
  Girl Crazy is a 1943 musical film produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Based on the stage musical of the same name, Girl Crazy stars Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in their ninth of ten pairings, partly filmed on location near Palm Springs, California...
  
  
• Happy Go Lucky
• Hello, Frisco, Hello
  Hello, Frisco, Hello
  Hello, Frisco, Hello is a film starring Alice Faye, John Payne, Lynn Bari, and Jack Oakie. The film was made in Technicolor and released by 20th Century-Fox. This was one of the last musicals made by Faye for Fox, and in later interviews Faye said it was clear Fox was promoting Betty Grable as her...
  
  
• Hers to Hold
• Higher and Higher
  Higher and Higher (film)
  Higher and Higher is a 1943 musical film starring Michèle Morgan, Jack Haley, and Frank Sinatra, loosely based on a 1940 Broadway musical written by Gladys Hurlbut and Joshua Logan. The film, however, written by Jay Dratler and Ralph Spence with additional dialogue by William Bowers and Howard...
  
  
• His Butler's Sister
  His Butler's Sister
  His Butler's Sister is a 1943 comedy film directed by Frank Borzage. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording His Butler's Sister is a 1943 comedy film directed by Frank Borzage. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording His Butler's Sister is a 1943...
  
  
• Hit Parade of 1943
  Hit Parade of 1943
  Hit Parade of 1943 also known as Change of Heart is a 1943 musical film made by Republic Pictures. It was directed by Albert S. Rogell and produced by Albert J. Cohen from a screenplay by Frank Gill Jr. and Frances Hyland....
  
  
• I Dood It
  I Dood It
  I Dood It is a 1943 MGM musical-comedy film starring Red Skelton and Eleanor Powell, and directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay is by Fred Saidy and Sig Herzig and the film features Richard Ainley, Patricia Dane, Lena Horne and Hazel Scott...
  
  
• Is Everybody Happy?
  Is Everybody Happy? (1943 film)
  Is Everybody Happy? is an American black and white musical film.The taglines for the film were: "18 of the grand songs made famous by the High-Hatted Tragedian of Song'", "A FAST-STEPPING MUSICAL JAMBOREE!", "GET HAPPY! - Here comes the sweetest show in town!" and "IT'S GAY IN A GREAT BIG WAY!".-...
  
  
• Let's Face It
• Moonlight in Vermont (film)
  Moonlight in Vermont (film)
  Moonlight in Vermont is the title of a 1943 movie.Released on 24 December, it was directed by Edward C. Lilley and written by Eugene Conrad. It is a drama/musical.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Phantom of the Opera
  Phantom of the Opera (1943 film)
  Phantom of the Opera is a 1943 Universal horror film starring Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster and Claude Rains, directed by Arthur Lubin, and filmed in Technicolor. The original music score was composed by Edward Ward....
  
  
• Presenting Lily Mars
  Presenting Lily Mars
  Presenting Lily Mars is an American musical motion picture produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and released in 1943. The film starred Judy Garland and Van Heflin and was based on the novel by Booth Tarkington...
  
  
• Reveille with Beverly
  Reveille with Beverly
  Reveille with Beverly is an American film starring Ann Miller, Franklin Pangborn, and Larry Parks directed by Charles Barton, released by Columbia Pictures, based on the Reveille with Beverly radio show hosted by Jean Ruth Hay...
  
  
• Sweet Rosie O'Grady
  Sweet Rosie O'Grady
  Sweet Rosie O'Grady is a 1943 musical film about an American singer who attempts to better herself by marrying an English duke, but is harassed by a reporter...
  
  
• The Sky's the Limit
• Something to Shout About
  Something to Shout About (film)
  Something to Shout About is a 1943 Columbia musical film directed by Gregory Ratoff. The movie stars Don Ameche and Janet Blair and was nominated for two Oscars.-Plot:...
  
  
• Stage Door Canteen
  Stage Door Canteen
  Stage Door Canteen is a musical film produced by Sol Lesser Productions and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Frank Borzage and features many cameo appearances by celebrities, and the majority of the film is essentially a filmed concert although there is also a storyline to the...
  
  
• Stormy Weather
  Stormy Weather (1943 film)
  Stormy Weather is a 1943 American musical film produced and released by 20th Century Fox. The film is one of two major Hollywood musicals produced in 1943 with primarily African-American casts, the other being MGM's Cabin in the Sky, and is considered a time capsule showcasing some of the top...
  
  
• Swing Fever
• Thank Your Lucky Stars
• They Got Me Covered
  They Got Me Covered
  They Got Me Covered is a 1943 film starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. The comedy movie was directed by David Butler. Otto Preminger appears in a supporting role.-Cast:*Bob Hope as Robert Kittredge*Dorothy Lamour as Christina Hill...
  
  
• This is the Army
  This Is the Army
  This Is the Army is a 1943 American wartime motion picture produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, and directed by Michael Curtiz, and a wartime musical designed to boost morale in the U.S. during World War II, directed by Sgt. Ezra Stone...
  
  
• Thousands Cheer
  Thousands Cheer
  Thousands Cheer is a 1943 American comedy musical film released by MGM. Produced at the height of the Second World War, the film was intended as a morale booster for American troops and their families.-Plot:The film is essentially a two-part program...
  
  
• What's Buzzin', Cousin?
• Wintertime
  Wintertime
  Wintertime is a 1943 Twentieth Century-Fox musical film starring Sonja Henie and Cesar Romero, and featuring Woody Herman and His Orchestra.-Cast:*Sonja Henie ... Nora Ostgaard*Jack Oakie ... Skip Hutton*Cesar Romero ... Brad Barton...
  
  

1944

• Atlantic City
  Atlantic City (1944 film)
  Atlantic City is a 1944 musical romance directed by Ray McCarey. The film concerns the formative years of Atlantic City, New Jersey. Vaudeville acts are re-created in the story of how Atlantic City became a famous resort.-Plot:...
  
  
• Bathing Beauty
  Bathing Beauty
  Bathing Beauty is a 1944 musical starring Red Skelton, Basil Rathbone and Esther Williams and directed by George Sidney.Although this was not William's screen debut, it was her first Technicolor musical. The film was initially to be titled "Mr. Co-Ed" with Red Skelton having top billing...
  
  
• Belle of the Yukon
  Belle of the Yukon
  Belle of the Yukon is a 1944 film directed by William A. Seiter. It stars Randolph Scott and Gypsy Rose Lee. It was nominated for two Academy Awards in 1946.-Cast:*Randolph Scott as Honest John Calhoun aka Gentleman Jack*Gypsy Rose Lee as Belle De Valle...
  
  
• Broadway Rhythm
  Broadway Rhythm
  Broadway Rhythm is an MGM Technicolor musical film. It was produced by Jack Cummings and directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film was originally announced as Broadway Melody of 1944 to follow MGM's Broadway Melody films of 1929, 1936, 1938, and 1940. The movie was originally slated to star Eleanor...
  
  
• Can't Help Singing
  Can't Help Singing
  Can't Help Singing is a 1944 musical Western filmed in Technicolor starring Deanna Durbin. The film was produced by Felix Jackson and directed by Frank Ryan. The score was by Jerome Kern with lyrics by E. Y. Harburg.-Plot:...
  
  
• Carolina Blues
• Champagne Charlie
  Champagne Charlie (film)
  Champagne Charlie is a 1944 British musical film made by Ealing Studios. It is based on an 1860s play that depicted the real life rivalry between George Leybourne, who first performed the song of that name, and Alfred Vance....
  
  
• Christmas Holiday
• Cover Girl
  Cover Girl (1944 film)
  Cover Girl is a 1944 American musical film starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly. The film tells the story of a chorus girl given a chance at stardom when she is offered an opportunity to be a highly-paid cover girl...
  
  
• Dixie Jamboree
  Dixie Jamboree
  -Cast:*Frances Langford as Susan Jackson*Guy Kibbee as Capt. Jackson of the 'Ellabella'*Eddie Quillan as Jeff Calhoun*Charles Butterworth as Professor*Fifi D'Orsay as Yvette*Lyle Talbot as Anthony 'Tony' Sardell*Frank Jenks as Jack 'Curly' Berger...
  
  
• Follow the Boys
• Four Jills in a Jeep
  Four Jills in a Jeep
  Four Jills in a Jeep is a 1944 film starring Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye, and Mitzi Mayfair as themselves, re-enacting their USO tour of Europe and North Africa during World War II.-Cast:*Kay Francis as Herself*Carole Landis as Herself...
  
  
• Going My Way
  Going My Way
  Going My Way is a 1944 film directed by Leo McCarey. It is a light-hearted musical comedy-drama about a new young priest taking over a parish from an established old veteran . Crosby sings five songs in the film. It was followed the next year by a sequel, The Bells of St. Mary's. This picture was...
  
  
• Greenwich Village
  Greenwich Village (film)
  Greenwich Village is a 1944 film from Twentieth Century Fox directed by Walter Lang. It stars Carmen Miranda and Don Ameche.-Plot:Set in 1922 a speakeasy owner steals a serious young composers songs so he can produce a music.-Songs:...
  
  
• Here Come the WAVES
  Here Come the Waves
  Here Comes the Waves is a 1944 film directed by Mark Sandrich. It stars Bing Crosby and Betty Hutton. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1946.-Cast:*Bing Crosby as Johnny Cabot*Betty Hutton as Susan / Rosemary Allison...
  
  
• Hey, Rookie
• Hollywood Canteen
  Hollywood Canteen (1944 film)
  Hollywood Canteen is a 1944 Warner Bros. film starring Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, and Dane Clark. The film was written and directed by Delmer Daves, and is notable for featuring many stars in cameo roles...
  
  
• I'm from Arkansas
  I'm from Arkansas
  - Cast :*Slim Summerville as Juniper Jenkins aka Pa*El Brendel as Oly*Iris Adrian as Doris*Bruce Bennett as Bob Hamline*Maude Eburne as Matilda Alden Jenkins aka Ma*Cliff Nazarro as Willie Childs*Al St. John as Farmer*Carolina Cotton as Abigail 'Abby' Alden...
  
  
• Jam Session
  Jam Session (film)
  Jam Session is a 1942 short film, directed by Josef Berne, which shows Duke Ellington and his orchestra performing C Jam Blues.In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed the 3-minute, black-and-white film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for...
  
  
• Knickerbocker Holiday
  Knickerbocker Holiday
  Knickerbocker Holiday is a musical written by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson ; it was directed by Joshua Logan. Among the songs introduced was the "September Song", now considered a pop standard.- History :...
  
  
• Lady in the Dark
  Lady in the Dark (film)
  Lady in the Dark is a 1944 Technicolor musical film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Ginger Rogers. It was nominated for three Academy Awards; for Best Cinematography, Best Music and Best Art Direction ....
  
  
• Lady, Let's Dance
  Lady, Let's Dance
  Lady, Let's Dance is a 1944 black-and-white film directed by Frank Woodruff that was nominated for two Oscars. Produced by Monogram Studios, the film is unique as an ice skating musical....
  
  
• Meet Me in St. Louis
  Meet Me in St. Louis
  Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 musical film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which tells the story of an American family living in St. Louis at the time of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair in 1904...
  
  
• Meet Miss Bobby Socks
• Meet the People
  Meet the People
  Meet the People was a 1944 MGM patriotic film made during World War II with Lucille Ball and Dick Powell that took its title from a successful Los Angeles stage revue...
  
  
• Men on Her Mind
  Men on Her Mind
  Men on Her Mind is a 1944 musical drama film directed by Wallace Fox, produced by Alfred Stern. The screenplay was written by Raymond L. Schrock...
  
  
• Music for Millions
  Music for Millions
  Music for Millions is a 1944 musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1946.-Plot:"Mike" , age 6, arrives in New York to stay with her sister Barbara Ainsworth , who lived together with a group of girls, her co-players in a symphony orchestra...
  
  
• Pin Up Girl
  Pin Up Girl (film)
  Pin Up Girl is a 1944 20th Century Fox Technicolor musical romantic comedy motion picture starring Betty Grable, John Harvey, Martha Raye, and Joe E. Brown.Directed by H...
  
  
• Sensations of 1945
  Sensations of 1945
  Sensations of 1945 is a 1944 American musical-comedy film which was released by United Artists.This film was an attempt to recapture the ensemble style of films such as Broadway Melody of 1936 by showcasing a number of top musical and comedy acts of the day, in a film linked together by a loose...
  
  
• She's a Sweetheart
  She's a Sweetheart
  She's a Sweetheart is a 1944 American film starring Jane Frazee....
  
  
• Shine On, Harvest Moon
  Shine On, Harvest Moon
  "Shine On, Harvest Moon" is the name of a popular early-1900s song credited to the married vaudeville team Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. It was one of a series of moon related Tin Pan Alley songs of the era. The song was debuted by Bayes and Norworth in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1908 to great acclaim...
  
  
• Show Business
  Show Business (1944 film)
  Show Business is a movie musical film starring Eddie Cantor, George Murphy, Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly, and Constance Moore. The film was directed by Edwin L. Marin and released by RKO Radio Pictures.-Cast:*Eddie Cantor ... Eddie Martin...
  
  
• Something for the Boys
  Something for the Boys
  Something for the Boys is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields. Produced by Mike Todd, the show opened on Broadway in 1943 and starred Ethel Merman in her fifth Cole Porter musical.-Productions:...
  
  
• Step Lively
  Step Lively (1944 film)
  Step Lively is a 1944 musical film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Frank Sinatra. Step Lively was based on the play Room Service, by Allen Boretz and John Murray.-Cast:* Frank Sinatra - Glenn Russell* George Murphy - Gordon Miller...
  
  
• Swing Hostess
  Swing Hostess
  Swing Hostess is a 1944 American musical comedy film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Martha Tilton, Iris Adrian, Charles Collins, Betty Brodel, Cliff Nazarro and Harry Holman.- Plot summary :...
  
  
• Two Girls and a Sailor
  Two Girls and a Sailor
  Two Girls and a Sailor is a 1944 musical film about two singing sisters who are helped to set up a canteen to entertain soldiers by a mysterious wealthy admirer. It featured a host of celebrity performances, including Jimmy Durante doing his hallmark "Inka Dinka Doo", Gracie Allen, and Lena Horne...
  
  
• Up in Arms
  Up in Arms
  Up in Arms is a 1944 film directed by Elliott Nugent. It stars Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore. It was nominated for two Academy Awards in 1945.-Cast:*Danny Kaye as Danny Weems*Dinah Shore as Nurse Lt. Virginia Merrill*Dana Andrews as Joe Nelson...
  
  
• The Three Caballeros
  The Three Caballeros
  The Three Caballeros is a 1944 American animated feature film, produced by Walt Disney and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The film premiered in Mexico City on December 21, 1944. It was released in the United States on February 3, 1945...
  
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1945

• A Song for Miss Julie
  A Song for Miss Julie
  - Cast :*Shirley Ross as Valerie Kimbro*Barton Hepburn as George Kimbro*Jane Farrar as Julie Charteris*Roger Clark as Stephen Mont*Cheryl Walker as Marcelle Conway*Elisabeth Risdon as Mrs...
  
  
• Anchors Aweigh
  Anchors Aweigh (film)
  Anchors Aweigh is a 1945 American musical comedy film directed by George Sidney in which two sailors go on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood, accompanied by music and song, meet an aspiring young singer and try to help her get an audition at MGM...
  
  
• The Bells of St. Mary's
  The Bells of St. Mary's
  The Bells of St. Mary's is a 1945 American film which tells the story of a priest and a nun at a school who set out, despite their good-natured rivalry, to save the school from being shut down. It stars Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman...
  
  
• The Big Show-Off
  The Big Show-Off
  -Cast:*Arthur Lake as Sandy Elliott, Shy Pianist*Dale Evans as June Mayfield, Night Club Singer*Lionel Stander as Joe Bagley, Club Owner*George Meeker as Wally Porter, Club MC*Paul Hurst as The Devil, Masked Wrestling Champion*Marjorie Manners as Mitzi...
  
  
• Birth of a Star
• Delightfully Dangerous
  Delightfully Dangerous
  -Cast:*Jane Powell as Sherry Williams*Ralph Bellamy as Arthur Hale*Constance Moore as Josephine 'Jo' Williams / Bubbles Barton*Morton Gould as Himself - Bandleader*Arthur Treacher as Jeffers, Hale's Butler*Louise Beavers as Hannah, Jo's Maid...
  
  
• Diamond Horseshoes
• The Dolly Sisters
  The Dolly Sisters
  The Dolly Sisters is a 1945 American biographical film about the Dolly Sisters, identical twins who became famous as entertainers on Broadway and in Europe in the early years of the twentieth century. It starred Betty Grable as Jenny and June Haver as Rosie.-Cast:*Betty Grable as Yansci "Jenny"...
  
  
• Eadie Was a Lady
• El Alma de un tango
  El Alma de un tango
  El Alma de un tango is a 1945 Argentine musical tango film directed and written by Julio Irigoyen. It premiered on 29 April 1945....
  
  
• Eve Knew Her Apples
• George White's Scandals
• Hello Moscow!
  Hello Moscow!
  Hello Moscow! is a 1945 Soviet musical film directed by Sergei Yutkevich. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Oleg Bobrov - Oleg* Sergei Filippov - Brikin, the accordionist* Pavel Kadochnikov* Nikolai Leonov - Kolya...
  
  
• Her Lucky Night
• Incendiary Blonde
  Incendiary Blonde
  Incendiary Blonde is a 1945 American musical drama film of 1920s nightclub star Texas Guinan. Filmed in Technicolor by director George Marshall, it starred actress Betty Hutton in the title role. The music was written by Robert Emmett Dolan...
  
  
• It's a Pleasure
• Lady on a Train
  Lady on a Train
  Lady on a Train is a 1945 comedy film noir, starring Deanna Durbin and based on a story by Leslie Charteris.-Plot:Debutante Nikki Collins, an enthusiastic reader of detective stories, witnesses a murder in a building while passing by on a train entering New York's Grand Central Station. She goes to...
  
  
• Nob Hill
  Nob Hill (1945 film)
  Nob Hill is a 1945 technicolor film about a Barbary Coast saloon keeper starring George Raft and Joan Bennett. Part musical and part drama, the movie was directed by Henry Hathaway.-Cast:*George Raft as Tony Angelo*Joan Bennett as Harriet Carruthers...
  
  
• Out of This World
• Rhapsody in Blue
  Rhapsody in Blue (film)
  Rhapsody in Blue is a 1945 fictionalized screen biography of the American composer and musician George Gershwin . Starring Robert Alda as Gershwin, the film features a few of Gershwin's acquaintances playing themselves...
  
  
• Song of the Sarong
  Song of the Sarong
  Song of the Sarong is a 1945 musical film starring Nancy Kelly and William Gargan. The film was written by Gene Lewis and directed by Harold Young.-Plot:...
  
  
• State Fair
  State Fair (1945 film)
  State Fair is a 1945 film directed by Walter Lang. The film a musical adaptation of the 1933 film of the same name, with original music by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The film starred Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine, Fay Bainter and Charles Winninger...
  
  
• The Stork Club
  The Stork Club (1945 film)
  - Plot summary :Judy Peabody saves an old man from drowning. He turns out to be Jerry Bates, "J.B." to his lawyer Curtis, "Pop" to Judy, who mistakenly believes the wealthy old-timer to be poor....
  
  
• Swing Out, Sister
  Swing Out, Sister
  Swing Out, Sister is a 1945 American musical comedy film starring Rod Cameron and Billie Burke. Two people get jobs anonymously at a jazz club without telling their upper class families.The band Swing Out Sister took its name from this movie.-Cast:...
  
  
• Thrill of a Romance
  Thrill of a Romance
  Thrill of a Romance was an American romance film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1945, starring Van Johnson, Esther Williams and Carleton G. Young, with musical performances by opera singer Lauritz Melchior...
  
  
• Tonight and Every Night
  Tonight and Every Night
  Tonight and Every Night is a 1945 musical film starring Rita Hayworth and Lee Bowman, about wartime romance and tragedy in a London music hall that was determined not to miss a single performance during the Blitz...
  
  
• Where Do We Go From Here?
• Wonder Man
  Wonder Man (film)
  Wonder Man is a 1945 film starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. It is based on a short story by Arthur Sheekman, adapted for the screen by a staff of writers led by Jack Jevne and Eddie Moran, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and directed by H. Bruce Humberstone...
  
  
• Yolanda and the Thief
  Yolanda and the Thief
  Yolanda and the Thief is a 1945 MGM musical-comedy film set in a fictional Latin American country, and stars Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, Ludwig Stossel and Mildred Natwick, with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Arthur Freed...
  
  
• Ziegfeld Follies
  Ziegfeld Follies (film)
  Ziegfeld Follies is a 1945 Hollywood musical comedy film directed by Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Vincente Minnelli, Merrill Pye, George Sidney and Charles Waters...
  
  

1946

• Because of Him
• Beware
• Blue Skies
  Blue Skies (film)
  Blue Skies is a 1946 Hollywood musical Technicolor comedy film, released by Paramount Pictures and starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Joan Caulfield, Olga San Juan and Billy De Wolfe, with music, lyrics and story by Irving Berlin; most of the songs were recycled from earlier works. The film was...
  
  
• Cuban Pete
  Cuban Pete (film)
  Cuban Pete is a 1946 black-and-white musical comedy film released in the United States. It was directed by Jean Yarbrough and starred the Cuban-born actor and musician Desi Arnaz....
  
  
• Doll Face
• Easy to Wed
  Easy to Wed
  Easy to Wed is a 1946 American musical comedy film directed by Edward Buzzell. The screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley is an updated adaptation of the screenplay of the 1936 film Libeled Lady by Maurine Dallas Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers, and George Oppenheimer.-Plot:Financier J.B...
  
  
• The Great Morgan
  The Great Morgan
  The Great Morgan is an American musical-comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is considered one of the more unusual in the MGM canon in that it is a compilation film built around a slight plot line, with a running time of less than 60 minutes.The film was produced for overseas The...
  
  
• The Harvey Girls
  The Harvey Girls
  The Harvey Girls is a 1946 MGM musical film based on a 1942 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams about Fred Harvey's famous Harvey House restaurants. Directed by George Sidney, the film stars Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury, Virginia O'Brien, Ray Bolger, and Marjorie Main...
  
  
• Holiday in Mexico
• The Jolson Story
  The Jolson Story
  The Jolson Story is a 1946 musical biography which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson. It stars Larry Parks as Jolson, Evelyn Keyes as "Julie Benson" , William Demarest as his manager, Ludwig Donath and Tamara Shayne as his parents, and Scotty Beckett as the young Jolson.The...
  
  
• The Kid from Brooklyn
  The Kid from Brooklyn
  The Kid from Brooklyn is a 1946 comedy film starring Danny Kaye and co-starring Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, and Eve Arden, about a milkman who becomes world boxing champion....
  
  
• It's Great to Be Young
  It's Great to Be Young (1946 film)
  It's Great to Be Young is a 1946 film directed by Del Lord, starring Leslie Brooks, Jimmy Lloyd, Jeff Donnell, Bob Haymes, Jack Williams, Jack Fina, Frank Orth, Ann Codee, Pat Yankee, Frank Sully and Milton Delugg....
  
  
• Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
  Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
  Love Laughs at Andy Hardy is a 1946 American film directed by Willis Goldbeck starring Mickey Rooney.The film is also known under its American promotional title Uncle Andy Hardy.- Plot summary :...
  
  
• Make Mine Music
  Make Mine Music
  Make Mine Music is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on August 15, 1946. It is the eighth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series....
  
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• Mantan Messes Up
• Monsieur Beaucaire
  Monsieur Beaucaire (1946 film)
  Monsieur Beaucaire is a 1946 comedy film starring Bob Hope as the title character, the barber of King Louis XV of France. It is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Booth Tarkington.-Cast:*Bob Hope as Monsieur Beaucaire*Joan Caulfield as Mimi...
  
  
• Murder in the Music Hall
  Murder in the Music Hall
  Murder in the Music Hall is a 1946 musical mystery starring Vera Ralston, William Marshall, Helen Walker, and Nancy Kelly...
  
  
• Night and Day
• No Leave, No Love
  No Leave, No Love
  No Leave, No Love is a 1946 American musical film directed by Charles Martin and starring Van Johnson, Keenan Wynn and Patricia Kirkwood. A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover his fiancee has married someone else...
  
  
• The Road to Hollywood
  The Road to Hollywood
  The Road to Hollywood is a 1947 American film released by Astor Pictures that is a combination of several of Bing Crosby's Educational Pictures short subjects. The title was designed to exploit the Paramount Pictures Crosby, Hope and Lamour Road to.....
  
  
• Road to Utopia
  Road to Utopia
  Road to Utopia, filmed in 1943 but not released until 1946, is the fourth film of the "Road to …" series starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.-Plot:After the credits we see Sal and Chester Hooton, an old married couple...
  
  
• Song of the South
  Song of the South
  Song of the South is a 1946 American musical film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is based on the Uncle Remus cycle of stories by Joel Chandler Harris. The live actors provide a sentimental frame story, in which Uncle Remus relates the folk tales of the...
  
  
• Swing Parade of 1946
  Swing Parade of 1946
  Swing Parade of 1946 is musical comedy film. In it the Three Stooges help an aspiring singer, Carol Lawrence , and a nightclub owner, Danny Warren , find love...
  
  
• Three Little Girls in Blue
  Three Little Girls in Blue
  Three Little Girls in Blue is a 1946 20th Century Fox musical-comedy film that starred June Haver along with George Montgomery, Vivian Blaine, Celeste Holm, and Vera-Ellen. The film was a re-make of the 1938 play "Three Blind Mice" and 1941's movie musical Moon Over Miami...
  
  
• The Thrill of Brazil
• Till the Clouds Roll By
  Till the Clouds Roll By
  Till The Clouds Roll By is a 1946 American musical film made by MGM. The film is a fictionalized biography of composer Jerome Kern, who was originally involved with the production of the film, but died before it was completed...
  
  
• The Time, the Place and the Girl
  The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946 film)
  The Time, the Place and the Girl is a 1946 American musical film. It is unaffiliated with the 1929 film with the same title. Alternate names include: Der Himmel voller Geigen , Aika, paikka ja tyttö , Här kommer Broadway , Krieg nach Noten , L'ora, il luogo e la ragazza , La fille et le garçon...
  
  
• Three Little Girls in Blue
  Three Little Girls in Blue
  Three Little Girls in Blue is a 1946 20th Century Fox musical-comedy film that starred June Haver along with George Montgomery, Vivian Blaine, Celeste Holm, and Vera-Ellen. The film was a re-make of the 1938 play "Three Blind Mice" and 1941's movie musical Moon Over Miami...
  
  
• Two Sisters from Boston
  Two Sisters from Boston
  Two Sisters from Boston is a 1946 musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster. Starring Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, Lauritz Melchior, Jimmy Durante and Peter Lawford....
  
  

1947

• Beat the Band
  Beat the Band
  Beat the Band was a musical quiz show heard on NBC radio from 1940 to 1944 in two distinctly different series. The program popularized the show business catch phrase, "Give me a little traveling music," often uttered on TV a decade later by Jackie Gleason....
  
  
• Calendar Girl (1947 film)
  Calendar Girl (1947 film)
  Calendar Girl is a 1947 American musical comedy film directed by Allan Dwan. The film is also known as Star Dust and Sweet Music...
  
  
• Carnegie Hall
• Carnival in Costa Rica
  Carnival in Costa Rica
  Carnival in Costa Rica is an American musical film directed by Gregory Ratoff and written by Samuel Hoffenstein, John Larkin, and Elizabeth Reinhardt. It was released in Technicolor by Twentieth Century Fox...
  
  
• Cinderella
  Cinderella (1947 film)
  Cinderella is a 1947 Soviet musical film by Lenfilm studios.It is a classical story about Cinderella, her evil Stepmother, and a Prince.-Cast:* Cinderella - Yanina Zheymo* Prince - Aleksei Konsovsky* King - Erast Garin...
  
  
• Copacabana
• Ebony Parade
• The Fabulous Dorseys
  The Fabulous Dorseys
  The Fabulous Dorseys is a 1947 fictionalized biographical film which tells the story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, from their boyhood in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion....
  
  
• Fiesta
  Fiesta (1947 film)
  Fiesta was an American Technicolor musical-drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1947, starring Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalbán, Mary Astor and Cyd Charisse. The film was directed by Richard Thorpe and written by George Bruce and Lester Cole...
  
  
• Good News
  Good News (films)
  Good News is the title of two American MGM musical films based on the 1927 stage production of the same name.The first, released in 1930, was directed by Nick Grinde. The cast included Bessie Love, Cliff Edwards and Penny Singleton. The film was shot in black-and-white, although the finale was in...
  
  
• Hi De Ho
• I'll Be Yours
  I'll Be Yours
  I'll Be Yours is a 1947 musical comedy film starring Deanna Durbin and directed by William A. Seiter. It was adapted by Felix Jackson from the screenplay for the 1935 non-musical film The Good Fairy by Preston Sturges, which was based on the play A jó tündér by Ferenc Molnár as translated and...
  
  
• It Happened in Brooklyn
  It Happened in Brooklyn
  It Happened in Brooklyn is a 1947 MGM musical romantic comedy film directed by Richard Whorf and starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford, and Jimmy Durante and featuring Gloria Grahame and Marcy McGuire...
  
  
• Living in a Big Way
  Living in a Big Way
  Living in a Big Way is an American musical comedy film starring Gene Kelly and Marie McDonald as a couple who marry during World War II after only knowing each other a short time.- Synopsis :...
  
  
• Look-Out Sister
• Mother Wore Tights
  Mother Wore Tights
  Mother Wore Tights is a 1947 musical film starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey as married vaudeville performers. This was Grable and Dailey's first film together, based on a book of the same name by Miriam Young. It was the highest grossing film of Grable's career up to that time, earning more...
  
  
• New Orleans
  New Orleans (1947 film)
  New Orleans is a 1947 musical drama featuring Billie Holiday as a singing maid and Louis Armstrong as a bandleader; supporting players Holiday and Armstrong perform together and portray a couple becoming romantically involved...
  
  
• Northwest Outpost
• The Perils of Pauline
  The Perils of Pauline (1947 film)
  The Perils of Pauline is a 1947 American film directed by George Marshall and released by Paramount Pictures. The movie is a fictionalized Hollywood account of silent film star Pearl White's rise to fame, starring Betty Hutton as White....
  
  
• Reet, Petite, and Gone
  Reet, Petite, and Gone
  - Cast :*Louis Jordan as Schyler Jarvis / Louis Jarvis*June Richmond as June*Milton Woods as Sam Adams*Bea Griffith as Honey Carter / Lovey Linn*David Bethea as Dolph the butler*Lorenzo Tucker as Henry Talbot*Vanita Smythe as Rusty*Mabel Lee as Mabel...
  
  
• Road to Rio
  Road to Rio
  Road to Rio is a 1947 comedy film, directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bing Crosby as Scat Sweeney, Bob Hope as "Hot Lips" Barton, and Dorothy Lamour as Lucia Maria de Andrade. It was the fifth of the "Road to …" series.-Plot:...
  
  
• Rhythm in a Riff
  Rhythm in a Riff
  Rhythm in a Riff is a 1947 musical film starring Hortense Allen, Ann Baker, Billy Eckstine, Sarah Harris, and Emmett Wallace....
  
  
• Sepia Cinderella
  Sepia Cinderella
  Sepia Cinderella is a 1947 American race film directed by Arthur H. Leonard. The film is notable for musical number by vocalist Billy Daniels and for a guest appearance by former child star Freddie Bartholomew.- Plot summary :...
  
  
• The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
  The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
  The Shocking Miss Pilgrim is a 1947 American musical comedy film written and directed by George Seaton, starring Betty Grable and Dick Haymes...
  
  
• Something in the Wind
  Something in the Wind
  Something in the Wind is an American feature film directed by Irving Pichel, released by Universal Studios, and starring Donald O'Connor and Deanna Durbin....
  
  
• This Time for Keeps
  This Time for Keeps
  This Time for Keeps is an American romantic musical film released in 1947 and produced by MGM. It is about a soldier, returning home from war who does not wish to work for his father's opera company or to continue his relationship with his pre-war lover. It stars Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante,...
  
  
• The Unfinished Dance
  The Unfinished Dance
  The Unfinished Dance is a 1947 drama film directed by Henry Koster. It is set in a ballet company, and is a remake of the 1937 French film La mort du cygne . It won two awards at the 1948 Locarno International Film Festival....
  
  
• Variety Girl
  Variety Girl
  Variety Girl is an all-star movie musical produced by Paramount Pictures. Numerous Paramount contract players and directors make cameos or perform songs, with particularly large amounts of screen time featuring Bing Crosby...
  
  
• Welcome Stranger
  Welcome Stranger (film)
  Welcome Stranger is a 1947 film directed by Elliott Nugent. It stars Bing Crosby and Joan Caulfield.-Plot:Crusty Dr. McRory Joan Caulfield. of Fallbridge, Maine hires a replacement for his vacation sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing doctor Jim Pearson Bing Crosby don't hit it off; but...
  
  
• Fun and Fancy Free
  Fun and Fancy Free
  Fun and Fancy Free is a 1947 animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures on September 27, 1947. It was one of the "package films" that the studio produced in the 1940s...
  
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1948

• Big City
• Casbah (film)
  Casbah (film)
  Casbah is a musical film directed by John Berry, starring Yvonne DeCarlo and Tony Martin, and released by Universal Studios.-Plot:...
  
  
• The Countess of Monte Cristo
  The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948 film)
  The Countess of Monte Cristo is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Frederick De Cordova and starring Sonja Henie, Olga San Juan and Dorothy Hart.-Cast:* Sonja Henie - Karen Kirsten* Olga San Juan - Jenny Johnsen* Dorothy Hart - Peg Manning...
  
  
• A Date with Judy
  A Date with Judy
  A Date with Judy was a comedy radio series aimed at a teenage audience which had a long run from 1941 to 1950.The show began as a summer replacement for Bob Hope's show, sponsored by Pepsodent and airing on NBC from June 24 to September 16, 1941, with 14-year-old Ann Gillis in the title role...
  
  
• Easter Parade
• The Emperor Waltz
  The Emperor Waltz
  The Emperor Waltz is a 1948 American musical film directed by Billy Wilder. The screenplay by Wilder and Charles Brackett was inspired by a real-life incident involving Franz Joseph I of Austria.- Plot :...
  
  
• For the Love of Mary
• Julia Misbehaves
  Julia Misbehaves
  Julia Misbehaves is a 1948 romantic comedy film. It stars Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon as a married couple who are soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when the daughter he has raised, played by Elizabeth Taylor, invites her mother to her wedding...
  
  
• Killer Diller
  Killer Diller (1948 film)
  Killer Diller is a 1948 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Josh Binney and released by All American.The movie features The Clark Brothers , Nat King Cole, Moms Mabley, Dusty Fletcher, Butterfly McQueen, the Andy Kirk Orchestra and the Four Congaroos .-Plot summary:Dusty Fletcher plays a...
  
  
• The Kissing Bandit
  The Kissing Bandit (film)
  The Kissing Bandit is a 1948 film starring Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson. The supporting cast includes Ricardo Montalban, Ann Miller, and Cyd Charisse. The movie was directed by Laslo Benedek.-Cast:Frank Sinatra ... RicardoKathryn Grayson ......
  
  
• Ladies of the Chorus
  Ladies of the Chorus
  Ladies of the Chorus is a 1948 Hollywood film produced by Columbia Pictures. It stars Marilyn Monroe in her first major role as Peggy Martin, a dancer who falls in love with a wealthy man portrayed by Rand Brooks...
  
  
• Luxury Liner
  Luxury Liner (film)
  Luxury Liner is a 1948 romantic musical comedy film made by MGM. It was directed by Richard Whorf, and written by Richard Connell, Karl Kamb and Gladys Lehman...
  
  
• On an Island With You
  On an Island with You
  On an Island with You is a 1948 musical romantic comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe. It stars Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalbán, Cyd Charisse and Kathryn Beaumont....
  
  
• One Touch of Venus
  One Touch of Venus (film)
  One Touch of Venus is a film directed by William A. Seiter, starring Robert Walker and Ava Gardner, released by Universal Studios, and based on the Broadway musical of the same name, book written by S. J. Perelman and Ogden Nash, with music composed by Kurt Weill...
  
  
• The Paleface
• The Pirate
• The Red Shoes
• Romance on the High Seas
  Romance on the High Seas
  Romance on the High Seas is a 1948 Technicolor musical romantic comedy film starring Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, and Doris Day in her film debut....
  
  
• A Song is Born
  A song is born
  "A Song Is Born" was a collaboration between Ayumi Hamasaki and Keiko for the Song Nation non-profit project by Avex, which was created to raise funds to help the victims of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center...
  
  
• Summer Holiday
  Summer Holiday (1948 film)
  Summer Holiday is a 1948 American musical film, starring Mickey Rooney and Gloria DeHaven. It is based on the play Ah, Wilderness! by Eugene O'Neill, which had been filmed as Ah, Wilderness! by MGM in 1935.-Cast:...
  
  
• Three Daring Daughters
  Three Daring Daughters
  Three Daring Daughters is a 1948 musical film made by MGM, and directed by Fred M. Wilcox. The screenplay was written by Albert Mannheimer, Frederick Kohner, Sonya Levien and John Meehan.-Plot:...
  
  
• Two Guys from Texas
  Two Guys from Texas
  Two Guys from Texas is a 1948 musical comedy film starring Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, and Dorothy Malone. The movie was directed by David Butler, written by Allen Boretz and I.A.L. Diamond, produced by Alex Gottlieb, and released by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 4, 1948...
  
  
• Up in Central Park
  Up in Central Park
  Up in Central Park is a Broadway musical with a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and music by Sigmund Romberg...
  
  
• Words and Music
  Words and Music (1948 film)
  Words and Music is a 1948 movie loosely based on the creative partnership of the composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart. The film starred Mickey Rooney, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett, and Ann Sothern, It is best remembered for the final screen pairing between Rooney and Judy...
  
  
• Melody Time
  Melody Time
  Melody Time is a 1948 animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on May 27, 1948. Made up of several sequences set to popular music and folk music, the film is, like Make Mine Music before it, the popular music version of Fantasia Melody Time is a 1948...
  
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1949

• The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
  The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
  The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a 1949 animated feature produced by Walt Disney. The film was released to theaters on October 5, 1949 by RKO Radio Pictures and is the eleventh animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series...
  
   (animated)
• The Barkleys of Broadway
  The Barkleys of Broadway
  The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 musical film from the Arthur Freed unit at MGM that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers after ten years apart...
  
  
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film)
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a 1949 musical comedy film adaptation of the Mark Twain novel of the same name that was distributed by Paramount Pictures.-Plot:...
  
  
• Dancing in the Dark
• The Great Lover
  The Great Lover (1949 film)
  The Great Lover is a 1949 comedy film starring Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, and Roland Young. A scout leader takes his troop on an ocean cruise, pursues a beautiful duchess and is stalked by a murderer.-Cast:*Bob Hope as Freddie Hunter...
  
  
• In the Good Old Summertime
  In the Good Old Summertime
  In the Good Old Summertime is a 1949 musical film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. It starred Judy Garland, Van Johnson and S.Z. Sakall.The film is a musical adaptation of the 1940 film, The Shop Around the Corner, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan, and...
  
  
• The Inspector General
  The Inspector General (film)
  The Inspector General is a 1949 musical comedy film. It stars Danny Kaye and was directed by Henry Koster. The film also stars Walter Slezak, Gene Lockhart, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Alan Hale Sr. and Rhys Williams. Original music by Sylvia Fine and Johnny Green.-Premise:The film is loosely...
  
  
• It's a Great Feeling
  It's a Great Feeling
  It's a Great Feeling is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Doris Day, Jack Carson, and Dennis Morgan in a spoof of what goes on behind-the-scenes in Hollywood movie-making. The screenplay by Jack Rose and Melville Shavelson was based upon a story by I.A.L. Diamond. The film was directed by...
  
  
• Jolson Sings Again
  Jolson Sings Again
  Jolson Sings Again is the 1949 film sequel to The Jolson Story, both of which cover the life of singer Al Jolson.-Synopsis:In this follow-up to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife has left him and the...
  
  
• Look for the Silver Lining
  Look for the Silver Lining (film)
  Look for the Silver Lining is a 1949 film directed by David Butler. It stars June Haver and Ray Bolger. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1950.-Cast:*June Haver as Marilyn Miller*Ray Bolger as Jack Donahue*Gordon MacRae as Frank Carter...
  
  
• Make Mine Laughs
• My Dream Is Yours
  My Dream Is Yours
  My Dream Is Yours is a 1949 musical romantic comedy film starring Doris Day, Jack Carson and Lee Bowman.The film is perhaps best remembered today for an extended dream sequence combining animation and live action which featured a cameo appearance by Bugs Bunny, dancing with Jack Carson and Doris...
  
  
• Neptune's Daughter
  Neptune's Daughter (1949 film)
  Neptune's Daughter is a 1949 musical romantic comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalbán, Betty Garrett, Keenan Wynn, Xavier Cugat and Mel Blanc...
  
  
• On the Town
  On the Town (film)
  On the Town is a 1949 musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It is an adaptation of the Broadway stage musical of the same name produced in 1944, although many changes in script and score were made from the original stage...
  
  
• So Dear to My Heart
  So Dear to My Heart
  So Dear to My Heart is a 1948 feature film produced by Walt Disney, released in Chicago on November 29, 1948 and nationwide on January 19, 1949 by RKO Radio Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. Like 1946's Song of the South, the film combines animation and live action...
  
  
• The Sun Comes Up
  The Sun Comes Up
  The Sun Comes Up is a 1949 MGM Lassie picture.-Plot:Ex-opera singer Helen Lorfield Winter rents a house in the small town of Brushy Gap, in the hills not too far from the Smokies, Blue Ridge, and Atlanta Georgia with her dog, Lassie, after the tragic death of her son. There she befriends Jerry, a...
  
  
• That Midnight Kiss
  That Midnight Kiss
  That Midnight Kiss was the screen debut of tenor Mario Lanza, also starring Kathryn Grayson, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Among the supporting cast were Ethel Barrymore, conductor/pianist Jose Iturbi , Keenan Wynn, J. Carroll Naish, and Jules Munshin...
  
  
• Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  Take Me Out to the Ball Game (film)
  Take Me Out to the Ball Game is a 1949 Technicolor musical film starring Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, and Gene Kelly. The movie was directed by Busby Berkeley. The title and nominal theme is taken from the unofficial anthem of American baseball, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"...
  
  
• Top o' the Morning

1950

• Al Compás de tu Mentira
  Al Compás de tu Mentira
  Al compás de tu mentira is a 1950 black-and-white Argentine musical film directed by Héctor Canziani. The film adapted from the play The Importance of being Earnest written by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. Abel Santacruz adapted the script for the film...
  
  
• Annie Get Your Gun
  Annie Get Your Gun (film)
  Annie Get Your Gun is a 1950 American musical comedy film loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. The Metro Goldwyn Mayer release, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon based on the 1946 stage musical of the same name, was directed by George Sidney...
  
  
• At War with the Army
  At War With The Army
  At War with the Army is a 1950 musical comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis. It was filmed from July through August 1949, and released on December 30, 1950 by Paramount...
  
  
• Bólidos de acero
  Bólidos de acero
  Bólidos de acero is a 1950 Argentine romantic drama film musical directed and written by Carlos Torres Ríos with music by Ástor Piazzolla.The film is based on tango dancing, an integral part of Argentine culture.-Cast:...
  
  
• Catskill Honeymoon
• Cinderella
  Cinderella (1950 film)
  Cinderella is a 1950 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the fairy tale "Cendrillon" by Charles Perrault. Twelfth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film had a limited release on February 15, 1950 by RKO Radio Pictures. Directing credits go to Clyde Geronimi,...
  
   (animated)
• The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
  The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
  The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady is a 1950 film directed by David Butler. It stars June Haver and Gordon MacRae.-Cast:*June Haver as Patricia O'Grady*Gordon MacRae as Tony Pastor*Debbie Reynolds as Maureen O'Grady*Gene Nelson as Doug Martin...
  
  
• Duchess of Idaho
  Duchess of Idaho
  Duchess of Idaho is a musical romantic comedy produced in 1950 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, it was the fourth film pairing Esther Williams and Van Johnson...
  
  
• Fancy Pants
• Filomena Marturano
  Filomena Marturano
  Filomena Marturano is a 1950 Spanish language Argentine musical film. It is based on the theatrical piece Filumena Marturano by the Neapolitan actor and author Eduardo De Filippo, which had been previously performed in Argentina with great success by the company of Tita Merello. It was adapted by...
  
  
• Hoedown
• Let's Dance
  Let's Dance (1950 film)
  Let's Dance is a 1950 musical romantic comedy film starring Betty Hutton and Fred Astaire. A war widow returns to work with her former dancing partner, but her upper class mother-in-law is aghast that her grandson is being exposed to show business and takes legal steps to gain custody.-Cast:*Betty...
  
  
• Love Happy
  Love Happy
  Love Happy was the 14th and last starring feature for the Marx Brothers. The film stars Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, and, in a smaller role than usual, Groucho Marx, plus Ilona Massey, Vera-Ellen, Paul Valentine, Marion Hutton, Raymond Burr, Bruce Gordon , and Eric Blore, with a walk-on by Marilyn Monroe...
  
  
• Mr. Music
• Nancy Goes to Rio
  Nancy Goes to Rio
  Nancy Goes to Rio is a musical comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1950. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard and produced by Joe Pasternak from a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon, based on a story by Ralph Block, Frederick Kohner and Jane Hall...
  
  
• Pagan Love Song
• Riding High
  Riding High (1950 film)
  Riding High is a black and white musical racetrack film featuring Bing Crosby and directed by Frank Capra in which the songs were actually sung as the movie was being filmed instead of the customary lip-synching to previous recordings. The movie is a remake of an earlier Capra film called...
  
  
• Summer Stock
• Tea for Two
  Tea for Two (film)
  Tea for Two is a 1950 American musical film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by Harry Clork and William Jacobs was inspired by the 1925 stage musical No, No Nanette, although the plot was changed considerably from the original book by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel, and the score by Harbach,...
  
  
• Three Little Words
  Three Little Words (film)
  Three Little Words is a 1950 American musical film biography of the Tin Pan Alley songwriting partnership of Kalmar and Ruby and stars Fred Astaire as lyricist Bert Kalmar, Red Skelton as composer Harry Ruby, along with Vera-Ellen and Arlene Dahl as their wives, with Debbie Reynolds in a small but...
  
  
• The Toast of New Orleans
  The Toast of New Orleans
  The Toast of New Orleans is a 1950 musical film directed by Norman Taurog and choreographed by Eugene Loring. It starred Mario Lanza, Kathryn Grayson, David Niven, J. Carroll Naish, James Mitchell and a teenaged Rita Moreno...
  
  
• Two Weeks with Love
  Two Weeks with Love
  Two Weeks with Love is a 1950 romantic musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Roy Rowland, based on story by John Larkin who co-wrote the screenplay with Dorothy Kingsley.Set in the early 1900s, the film focuses on the Robinson family...
  
  
• The West Point Story
  The West Point Story (film)
  The West Point Story is a 1950 musical comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Doris Day.-Plot:...
  
  
• Young Man with a Horn
  Young Man with a Horn (film)
  Young Man with a Horn is a 1950 drama film based on a biographical novel of the same name aboutBix Beiderbecke, the legendary jazz cornetist...
  
  

1951

• Alice in Wonderland
  Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)
  Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and based primarily on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with a few additional elements from Through the Looking-Glass. Thirteenth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film was released in New...
  
   (animated)
• An American in Paris
  An American in Paris (film)
  An American in Paris is a 1951 MGM musical film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guetary, and Nina Foch, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner...
  
  
• The Great Caruso
  The Great Caruso
  The Great Caruso is a 1951 biographical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Joe Pasternak with Jesse L. Lasky as associate producer from a screenplay by Sonya Levien and William Ludwig. The original music was by Johnny Green and the cinematography by...
  
  
• Grounds for Marriage
  Grounds for Marriage
  Grounds for Marriage is a 1951 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Written and produced by Samuel Marx, the film stars Van Johnson and Kathryn Grayson.-Plot:...
  
  
• Here Comes the Groom
  Here Comes the Groom
  Here Comes the Groom is a 1951 musical romantic comedy film starring Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman. Directed and produced by Frank Capra, the film was released by Paramount Pictures.-Plot:...
  
  
• I'll See You in My Dreams
• The Lemon Drop Kid
  The Lemon Drop Kid
  The Lemon Drop Kid is a 1951 comedy film based on the short story of the same name by Damon Runyon, starring Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell, and directed by Sidney Lanfield.The song "Silver Bells," sung by Hope and Maxwell, was introduced in the film...
  
  
• Lullaby of Broadway
  Lullaby of Broadway (film)
  Lullaby of Broadway is a musical romantic comedy film released by Warner Bros. in 1951. It starred Doris Day as Melinda Howard, an entertainer who travels to New York to see her mother, and Gene Nelson as Tom Farnham, a fellow entertainer and Melinda's love interest. Gladys George appears as...
  
  
• Mr. Imperium
  Mr. Imperium
  Mr. Imperium is a 1951 romantic drama film made by MGM. It was directed by Don Hartman who co-wrote the screenplay with Edwin H. Knopf, based on a play by Edwin H. Knopf. The music score is by Bronisław Kaper....
  
  
• On Moonlight Bay
  On Moonlight Bay (film)
  On Moonlight Bay is a 1951 musical film directed by Roy Del Ruth which tells the story of the Winfield family at the turn of the century. The movie is based loosely on the Penrod stories by Booth Tarkington. There was a 1953 sequel, By the Light of the Silvery Moon.-Plot:On Moonlight Bay centers on...
  
  
• On the Riviera
  On the Riviera
  On the Riviera is a 1951 musical comedy film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Walter Lang, produced by Sol C. Siegel from a screenplay by Valentine Davies and Phoebe and Henry Ephron, based on the play The Red Cat by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler, with dance sequences choreographed and...
  
  
• Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
  Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (film)
  Painting the Clouds with Sunshine is the title of a Technicolor musical film released in 1951, directed by David Butler and starring Dennis Morgan and Virginia Mayo...
  
  
• Rich, Young and Pretty
  Rich, Young and Pretty
  Rich, Young and Pretty is a 1951 musical film produced by Joe Pasternak for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Norman Taurog. It was written by Dorothy Cooper and Sidney Sheldon, starred Jane Powell, Danielle Darrieux, Wendell Corey, and Fernando Lamas, and introduced Vic Damone...
  
  
• Royal Wedding
  Royal Wedding
  Royal Wedding is a 1951 Hollywood musical comedy film known for Fred Astaire's dance performance on a ceiling and another with a coat rack. The story is set in London in 1947 at the time of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, and stars Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Sarah...
  
  
• Show Boat
  Show Boat (1951 film)
  Show Boat is a 1951 Technicolor film based on the musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II and the novel by Edna Ferber....
  
  
• The Tales of Hoffmann
  The Tales of Hoffmann (film)
  The Tales of Hoffmann is a 1951 British film adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann, written, produced and directed by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger working under the umbrella of their production company, The Archers...
  
  
• Texas Carnival
  Texas Carnival
  Texas Carnival is a 1951 musical film directed by Charles Walters. It stars Esther Williams, Red Skelton and Howard Keel.-Cast:*Esther Williams as Debbie Telford*Red Skelton as Cornie Quinell*Howard Keel as Slim Shelby*Ann Miller as Sunshine Jackson...
  
  
• Two Tickets to Broadway
  Two Tickets to Broadway
  Two Tickets to Broadway is a 1951 musical film directed by James V. Kern. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording .-Cast:* Tony Martin as Dan Carter* Janet Leigh as Nancy Peterson* Gloria DeHaven as Hannah Holbrook...
  
  

1952

• A Great New Star
  A Great New Star
  A Great New Star is a 1952 musical sponsored film starring Dinah Shore, with her singing "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet" . It starts off with her singing "It's a Most Unusual Day", and then shows an ephemeral film being made...
  
  
• Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
  Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
  Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick was a 1952 'hillbilly' movie made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Claude Binyon and produced by William Perlberg and George Seaton.It is based on a 1919 play by Walter Benjamin Hare...
  
  
• April in Paris
  April in Paris (film)
  April in Paris is a 1952 musical film starring Doris Day and Ray Bolger. It was directed by David Butler.-Synopsis:Winthrop Putnam is the Assistant Secretary to the Assistant to the Undersecretary of State, and was formerly Assistant Assistant Secretary to the Assistant to the Undersecretary of State...
  
  
• Because You're Mine
  Because You're Mine
  This article is about the 1952 musical comedy film. For other uses see Because You're Mine .Because You're Mine is a 1952 musical comedy film starring Mario Lanza. Directed by Alexander Hall, the film also stars Doretta Morrow, James Whitmore, and Dean Miller.-Plot:Opera singer superstar Renato...
  
  
• The Belle of New York
  The Belle of New York
  The Belle of New York is a 1952 Hollywood musical comedy film set in New York circa 1900 and stars Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Alice Pearce, Marjorie Main and Keenan Wynn, with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Johnny Mercer...
  
  
• Everything I Have is Yours
• The Greatest Show on Earth
• Hans Christian Andersen
  Hans Christian Andersen (film)
  Hans Christian Andersen is a 1952 Hollywood musical film directed by Charles Vidor, with words and music by Frank Loesser. The story was by Myles Connolly, its screenplay was by Moss Hart and Ben Hecht , and was produced by The Samuel Goldwyn Company...
  
  
• I Dream of Jeanie
• The Jazz Singer
  The Jazz Singer (1952 film)
  The Jazz Singer is a 1952 remake of the famous 1927 talking picture, The Jazz Singer. It starred Danny Thomas, Peggy Lee, and Eduard Franz and was nominated for an Oscar in 1953. The film follows about the same storyline as the version starring Al Jolson. It was also distributed by Warner Bros...
  
  
• Just for You
  Just for You (film)
  Just for You is a 1952 film directed by Elliott Nugent. It stars Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman. It was nominated for two Academy Awards in 1953.-Cast:*Bing Crosby as Jordan Blake*Jane Wyman as Carolina Hill*Ethel Barrymore as Alida De Bronkhart...
  
  
• Lovely to Look At
  Lovely to Look At
  Lovely to Look At, an adaptation of the Broadway musical Roberta, is a 1952 MGM musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy.-Plot:Tony Naylor, Al Marsh and Jerry Ralby are looking for backers for their new Broadway show. They have just run out of options when Al gets a letter from his Aunt's attorneys...
  
  
• Meet Danny Wilson
  Meet Danny Wilson (film)
  Meet Danny Wilson is a 1952 film starring Frank Sinatra and Shelley Winters. The movie was directed by Joseph Pevney and written by Don McGuire...
  
  
• Million Dollar Mermaid
  Million Dollar Mermaid
  Million Dollar Mermaid is a 1952 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer biographical musical film of the life of Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr. from a screenplay by Everett Freeman. The music score was by Adolph Deutsch, the...
  
  
• Moulin Rouge
  Moulin Rouge (1952 film)
  Moulin Rouge is a 1952 film directed by John Huston, produced by Sir John Woolf and James Woolf of Romulus Films and released by United Artists. The film is set in Paris in the late 19th century, following artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the city's bohemian sub-culture in and around the...
  
  
• Road to Bali
  Road to Bali
  Road to Bali is a 1952 comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. It was released by Paramount Pictures and is the sixth of the seven Road to … movies...
  
  
• Sailor Beware
• Singin' in the Rain
  Singin' in the Rain
  Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography...
  
  
• Skirts Ahoy
• Son of Paleface
  Son of Paleface
  Son of Paleface , is a western comedy film and sequel to The Paleface , directed by Frank Tashlin and written by Tashlin, Joseph Quillan and Robert L. Welch. It stars Bob Hope, Jane Russell and Roy Rogers.-Plot:...
  
  
• Stars and Stripes Forever
  Stars and Stripes Forever (film)
  Stars and Stripes Forever is a 1952 American biographical film about late 19th/early 20th Century composer John Philip Sousa, played by Clifton Webb...
  
  
• Where's Charley?
  Where's Charley?
  Where's Charley? is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by George Abbott. The story was based on the play Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas. The musical debuted on Broadway in 1948 and was revived on Broadway and in the West End...
  
  
• With a Song in My Heart
  With a Song in My Heart (film)
  With a Song in My Heart is a 1952 biographical film which tells the story of actress and singer Jane Froman, who was crippled by an airplane crash on February 22, 1943, when the Boeing 314 Pan American Clipper flying boat she was on suffered a crash landing in the Tagus River near Lisbon, Portugal....
  
  

1953

• The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
  The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
  The Affairs of Dobie Gillis is a black and white 1953 comedy musical film. The film is based on the same writings by Max Shulman as the subsequent television series, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis...
  
  
• All Ashore
  All Ashore
  All Ashore is a 1953 Technicolor musical comedy film directed by Richard Quine. It is the second of Mickey Rooney's three films for Columbia Pictures that was produced by Jonie Taps, directed by Richard Quine and written by Blake Edwards...
  
  
• The Band Wagon
  The Band Wagon
  The Band Wagon is a 1953 musical comedy film that many critics rank, along with Singin' in the Rain, as the finest of the MGM musicals, although it was only a modest box-office success. It tells the story of an aging musical star who hopes a Broadway play will restart his career...
  
  
• The Beggar's Opera
  The Beggar's Opera (film)
  The Beggar's Opera is a 1953 Technicolor film version of John Gay's 1728 ballad opera directed by Peter Brook and starring Laurence Olivier, Dorothy Tutin, Stanley Holloway and others. Olivier and Holloway do their own singing in this film, but Dorothy Tutin and several others were dubbed...
  
  
• By the Light of the Silvery Moon
  By the Light of the Silvery Moon (film)
  By the Light of the Silvery Moon is a 1953 musical film. It is the sequel to On Moonlight Bay. Like its predecessor, the movie is based loosely on the Penrod stories by Booth Tarkington.-Plot:...
  
  
• Calamity Jane
  Calamity Jane (1953 film)
  Calamity Jane is a "Wild West"-themed film musical released in 1953. It is loosely based on the life of Wild West heroine Calamity Jane and explores an alleged romance between Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in the American Old West. The film starred Doris Day as the title character and Howard...
  
  
• Call Me Madam
  Call Me Madam (film)
  Call Me Madam is a 1953 musical film directed by Walter Lang, with songs by Irving Berlin, based on the stage musical of the same name.The film, with a screenplay by Arthur Sheekman, starred Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen, Billy DeWolfe, George Sanders, and Walter Slezak...
  
  
• Dangerous When Wet
  Dangerous When Wet
  Dangerous When Wet is an Technicolor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical starring Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, and Jack Carson, directed by Charles Walters, and featuring an animated swimming sequence starring Williams with the famous cat-and-mouse duo, Tom and Jerry.-Plot summary:Katie Higgins is...
  
  
• The Desert Song
  The Desert Song (1953 film)
  The Desert Song is a 1953 film version in Technicolor of Sigmund Romberg's operetta. It is the third film version of the operetta, the third made by Warner Brothers, and the second in full three-strip Technicolor...
  
  
• Easy to Love
• The Eddie Cantor Story
• The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
  The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
  The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. is a musical fantasy film, the only feature film ever written by Theodor Seuss Geisel , who was responsible for the story, screenplay and lyrics...
  
  
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• The Glenn Miller Story
  The Glenn Miller Story
  The Glenn Miller Story is a 1954 American film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their first non-western collaboration.-Plot:...
  
  
• Here Come the Girls
  Here Come the Girls (1953 film)
  Here Come the Girls is a comedy film directed by Claude Binyon, filmed in Technicolor, produced by Hope's company Hope Productions Inc., and released by Paramount Pictures.-Storyline:...
  
  
• I Love Melvin
  I Love Melvin
  I Love Melvin is a 1953 comedy film directed by Don Weis and starring Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds.-Plot:Small-time actress Judy Schneider dreams of becoming a Hollywood star even as she struggles along playing a human football in a kitschy Broadway musical. One day in Central Park she bumps...
  
  
• Kiss Me, Kate
  Kiss Me, Kate
  Kiss Me, Kate is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It is structured as a play within a play, where the interior play is a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The original production starred Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk and Harold Lang.Kiss...
  
  
• Lili
  Lili
  Lili is an American film. An MGM release, it stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly naïve French girl, whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets...
  
  
• Ojōsan shachō
  Ojōsan shachō
  , lit. "Madame Company President", is a 1953 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Yuzo Kawashima.It is musical film.- Cast :* Hibari Misora as Madoka Ohara* Ichirō Arishima as Tetsutaro Kaitani* Takiko Egawa as musical actress...
  
   (Japan)
• Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
  Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
  Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor is a 1953 short musical film produced by Johnny Green. It won an Academy Award in 1954 for Best Short Subject ....
  
   (short)
• Pack Train
• Peter Pan
  Peter Pan (1953 film)
  Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J. M. Barrie. It is the fourteenth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and was originally released on February 5, 1953 by RKO Pictures...
  
   (animated)
• Scared Stiff
• Small Town Girl
  Small Town Girl (1953 film)
  Small Town Girl is a 1953 musical film directed by László Kardos and starring Jane Powell, Farley Granger, and Ann Miller. Busby Berkeley choreographed several dance numbers. Bobby Van performed the memorable "Street Dance", in which he hopped all around town. The film features song performances...
  
  
• So This Is Love
• Sombrero
• Stars of the Russian Ballet
  Stars of the Russian Ballet
  Stars of the Russian Ballet is a 1953 Soviet musical film directed by Gerbert Rappaport. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Galina Ulanova - Maris...
  
   (Russian)
• Three Sailors and a Girl
  Three Sailors and a Girl
  Three Sailors and a Girl is a 1953 musical film made by Warner Bros.. It was directed by Roy Del Ruth, and written by Devery Freeman and Roland Kibbee, based on the George S. Kaufman play The Butter and Egg Man...
  
  
• Walking My Baby Back Home
  Walking My Baby Back Home (film)
  Walking My Baby Back Home is a 1953 American musical comedy film starring Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, and Buddy Hackett. This was Hackett's film debut.-Cast:*Donald O'Connor as Clarence "Jigger" Miller*Janet Leigh as Chris Hall...
  
  

1954

• Athena
  Athena (film)
  Athena is a romantic musical comedy, starring Jane Powell, Edmund Purdom, Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone, Louis Calhern, and Norma Varden, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
  
  
• Brigadoon
  Brigadoon (film)
  Brigadoon is a 1954 MGM musical feature film made in CinemaScope and Ansco Color based on the Broadway musical of the same name by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and stars Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, and Cyd Charisse...
  
  
• Carmen Jones
  Carmen Jones
  Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical starring Muriel Smith in the title role, later made into a 1954 musical film; the play also ran for a season in 1991 at London's Old Vic and most recently in London's Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre in 2007. It is an updating of the Georges Bizet...
  
  
• Casanova's Big Night
  Casanova's Big Night
  Casanova's Big Night is a comedy film starring Bob Hope and Joan Fontaine, which is a spoof of swashbuckling historical adventure films. It was directed by Norman Z. McLeod.Hope plays a man who impersonates Giacomo Casanova, the great lover...
  
  
• The Country Girl
  The Country Girl (1954 film)
  The Country Girl is a 1954 drama film adapted by George Seaton from a Clifford Odets play of the same name, which tells the story of an alcoholic has-been actor struggling with the one last chance he's been given to resurrect his career. It stars Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and William Holden. Seaton,...
  
  
• Dayman Ma`ak
  Dayman Ma`ak
  Dayman Ma`ak is a 1954 Egyptian musical comedy romance film directed and co-written by Henry Barakat and starring Muhammad Fawzi, Salah Nazmi, Faten Hamama, and Abdel Waress Assar.- Plot :...
  
  
• Deep in My Heart
• French Cancan
  French Cancan
  French Cancan is a 1954 French musical film written and directed by Jean Renoir and starring Jean Gabin and María Félix.-Plot:Set in 1890s Paris, Henri Danglard is the owner of a cafe, which features his mistress, Lola, as a belly dancer...
  
  
• Give a Girl a Break
  Give a Girl a Break
  Give a Girl a Break is a 1953 musical comedy film directed by Stanley Donen, starring Debbie Reynolds and the dance team of Marge and Gower Champion. A young Bob Fosse has a featured role.-Plot:...
  
  
• Lucky Me
  Lucky Me (film)
  Lucky Me is a 1954 musical-comedy-romance film. The movie starred Doris Day, with co-stars, including, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Martha Hyer, and Eddie Foy, Jr..-Cast:*Doris Day as Candy Williams*Robert Cummings as Dick Carson...
  
  
• New Faces
  New Faces
  New Faces was a British television talent show popular in the 1970s and 1980s, presented originally by Derek Hobson. It was produced by ATV Network Limited for the ITV Network. The first run of the show was from 29 September 1973 to 2 April 1978 and was recorded at the ATV Centre, Birmingham...
  
  
• Red Garters
  Red Garters (film)
  Red Garters is a 1954 film starring Rosemary Clooney, Guy Mitchell, and Jack Carson. It was a musical spoof of Westerns. The director was George Marshall....
  
  
• Round Up of Rhythm
• Rose Marie
  Rose Marie (films)
  The 1924 Broadway musical Rose-Marie has been the basis of three MGM films of the same title. The best-known film adaptation was released in 1936; however, a silent version was released in 1928 and another film was released in 1954. All three versions are set in the Canadian wilderness...
  
  
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
• A Star Is Born
  A Star Is Born (1954 film)
  A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay written by Moss Hart was an adaptation of the original 1937 film, which was based on the original screenplay by Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell...
  
  
• The Student Prince
  The Student Prince
  The Student Prince is an operetta in four acts with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. It is based on Wilhelm Meyer-Förster's play Alt Heidelberg. The piece has elements of melodrama but lacks the swashbuckling style common to Romberg's other works...
  
  
• There's No Business Like Show Business
  There's No Business Like Show Business (film)
  There's No Business Like Show Business is a 20th Century Fox musical film that was released on December 16, 1954. The title is borrowed from the famous song in the stage musical Annie Get Your Gun....
  
  
• White Christmas
  White Christmas (film)
  White Christmas is a 1954 Technicolor musical film starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye that features the songs of Irving Berlin, including the titular "White Christmas"...
  
  
• Young at Heart
  Young at Heart (1954 film)
  Young at Heart is a 1954 film, directed by Gordon Douglas. It was a remake of the 1938 film Four Daughters, and it starred Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, Alan Hale, Jr and Dorothy Malone and was the first of five films that Gordon Douglas directed with Frank...
  
  

1955

• Artists and Models
• The Benny Goodman Story
  The Benny Goodman Story
  The Benny Goodman Story is a biographical film starring Steve Allen and Donna Reed, directed by Valentine Davies and released by Universal Studios in 1956. The film is based on the life of famed clarinetist Benny Goodman, who recorded most of the clarinet solos used in the film...
  
  
• Daddy Long Legs
  Daddy Long Legs (film)
  Daddy Long Legs is a Hollywood musical comedy film set in France, New York City, and the fictional college town of "Walston" in Massachusetts. The film was directed by Jean Negulesco, and stars Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Fred Clark, and Thelma Ritter, with music and lyrics by Johnny...
  
  
• Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
  Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
  Gentlemen Marry Brunettes is a 1955 musical film produced by Russ-Field productions, starring Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain, and released by United Artists...
  
  
• The Glass Slipper
  The Glass Slipper
  The Glass Slipper is a musical film adaptation of Cinderella, made by MGM, directed by Charles Walters and produced by Edwin H. Knopf from a screenplay by Helen Deutsch. The music score is by Bronislau Kaper, the cinematography by Arthur E. Arling, the art direction by Daniel B...
  
  
• Guys and Dolls
  Guys and Dolls (film)
  Guys and Dolls is a 1955 musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. The film was made by the Samuel Goldwyn Company and distributed by MGM. It was produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the screenplay...
  
  
• Hit the Deck
  Hit the Deck (1955 film)
  Hit the Deck is a 1955 musical film directed by Roy Rowland and starring Jane Powell. Tony Martin, Debbie Reynolds, Walter Pidgeon, Gene Raymond, Ann Miller, Russ Tamblyn,and Vic Damone. It was based on the musical of the same name.-Cast:...
  
  
• Interrupted Melody
  Interrupted Melody
  Interrupted Melody is a 1955 biographical film which tells the story of Australian opera singer Marjorie Lawrence's struggle with polio. The film was made by MGM, directed by Curtis Bernhardt and produced by Jack Cummings from a screenplay by Marjorie Lawrence, Sonya Levien, and William Ludwig.The...
  
  
• It's Always Fair Weather
  It's Always Fair Weather
  Fortunately, the original multitrack pre-recordings of the score survive to this day, having enabled Rhino Records to reissue the soundtrack in true stereo . The Original MGM soundtrack was released in 1991 by Sony Music....
  
  
• Jupiter's Darling
  Jupiter's Darling (film)
  Jupiter's Darling is a musical romance film released by MGM in 1955 and directed by George Sidney. It starred Esther Williams as the Roman woman Amytis, Howard Keel as Hannibal, the Carthaginian military commander and George Sanders as Fabius Maximus, Amytis's fiance...
  
  
• Kismet
  Kismet (1955 film)
  Kismet is an American musical film in Cinemascope and Eastman Color released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is the fourth movie version of Kismet—the first was released in 1920 and the second in 1930 by Warner Brothers—and the second released by MGM...
  
  
• Lady and the Tramp
  Lady and the Tramp
  Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released to theaters on June 22, 1955, by Buena Vista Distribution. The fifteenth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, it was the first animated feature filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen...
  
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• Love Me or Leave Me
  Love Me or Leave Me (film)
  Love Me or Leave Me is a 1955 biographical film which tells the life story of Ruth Etting, a singer who rose from dancer to movie star. It stars Doris Day as Etting, James Cagney as gangster Martin "Moe the Gimp" Snyder, her first husband and manager, and Cameron Mitchell as pianist/ arranger Myrl...
  
  
• My Sister Eileen
  My Sister Eileen
  My Sister Eileen originated as a series of short stories by Ruth McKenney that eventually evolved into a book, a play, a musical, a radio play , two films, and a CBS television series in the 1960-1961 season....
  
  
• Oklahoma!
• Paris Follies of 1956
  Paris Follies of 1956
  Paris Follies of 1956 is a 1955 American film directed by Leslie Goodwins.The film is also known as Fresh from Paris in the USA .- Cast :*Forrest Tucker as Dan Bradley*Margaret Whiting as Margaret Walton...
  
  
• Rhythm and Blues Revue
  Rhythm and Blues Revue
  Rhythm and Blues Revue is a 1955 American concert film directed by Joseph Kohn and Leonard Reed. It's available for free download at http://www.archive.org/details/rhythm_blues_review and is in Public Domain.- Cast :*Lionel Hampton*Faye Adams...
  
  
• Rock 'n' Roll Revue
  Rock 'n' Roll Revue
  Rock'n Roll Revue is a 1955 American film directed by Joseph Kohn.The film is also known as Harlem Rock 'n' Roll and Rock and Roll Review .- Cast :*Cholly Atkins as Himself...
  
  
• The Seven Little Foys
  The Seven Little Foys
  The Seven Little Foys is a 1955 film starring Bob Hope as Eddie Foy. James Cagney reprises his role as George M. Cohan for an energetic tabletop dance showdown sequence. In addition to the famous film, the story of Eddie Foy, Sr...
  
  
• So Young, So Bright
  So Young, So Bright
  is a 1955 color Japanese film directed by Toshio Sugie. It is a musical film.Production design was made by Shinobu Muraki and the sound recordist was Masanobu Miyazaki.- Cast :* Hibari Misora* Chiemi Eri* Izumi Yukimura* Shinji Yamada...
  
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• The Tender Trap
• Three for the Show
  Three for the Show
  Three for the Show is a 1955 musical comedy remake of Too Many Husbands. It starred actress Betty Grable in her last musical, opposite Jack Lemmon, Gower Champion and Marge Champion.-Cast:*Betty Grable as Julie Lowndes...
  
  

1956

• Anything Goes
  Anything Goes (1956 film)
  Anything Goes is a 1956 musical film adapted from the Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse stage production of the same title. The book was drastically rewritten for the second film version, also by Paramount, released in 1956...
  
  
• The Benny Goodman Story
  The Benny Goodman Story
  The Benny Goodman Story is a biographical film starring Steve Allen and Donna Reed, directed by Valentine Davies and released by Universal Studios in 1956. The film is based on the life of famed clarinetist Benny Goodman, who recorded most of the clarinet solos used in the film...
  
  
• The Best Things in Life Are Free
  The Best Things in Life Are Free (film)
  The Best Things in Life Are Free is a 1956 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz. The film starred, Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, Ernest Borgnine, and Sheree North....
  
  
• Bundle of Joy
  Bundle of Joy
  Bundle of Joy is a musical remake of the comedy film Bachelor Mother . It stars Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, and Adolphe Menjou. An unmarried salesgirl at a department store finds and takes care of an abandoned baby...
  
  
• Carousel
  Carousel (film)
  Carousel is a 1956 film adaptation of the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical of the same name which, in turn, was based on Ferenc Molnár's non-musical play Liliom. The 1956 Carousel film stars Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, and was directed by Henry King...
  
  
• The Court Jester
  The Court Jester
  The Court Jester is a 1956 musical-comedy film starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, and Angela Lansbury. The movie was co-written, co-directed, and co-produced by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama...
  
  
• Don't Knock the Rock
  Don't Knock the Rock
  Don't Knock the Rock is a 1957 rock and roll film starring Alan Dale as a rock star who returns to his hometown to rest up for the summer only to find that rock and roll has been banned there by disapproving adults...
  
  
• The Eddy Duchin Story
  The Eddy Duchin Story
  The Eddy Duchin Story is a 1956 biopic of band leader and pianist Eddy Duchin. It was directed by George Sidney-helmed film, written by Samuel A. Taylor, and starred Tyrone Power and Kim Novak. The musical soundtrack recording, imitating Duchin's style, was performed by pianist Carmen Cavallaro....
  
  
• The Girl Can't Help It
  The Girl Can't Help It
  The Girl Can't Help It is a 1956 comedy musical film starring Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, and Edmond O'Brien. It was produced and directed by Frank Tashlin, with a screenplay adapted by Tashlin and Herbert Baker from an uncredited novel Do Re Me by Garson Kanin...
  
  
• High Society
• Invitation to the Dance
  Invitation to the Dance (film)
  Invitation to the Dance is a 1956 anthology film consisting of three distinct stories, all starring and directed by Gene Kelly.The film is unusual in that it has no spoken dialogue, with the characters performing their roles entirely through dance and mime...
  
  
• It's Great to Be Young
  It's Great To Be Young
  It's Great to Be Young is a 1956 musical comedy film about a school music teacher, starring Cecil Parker and John Mills.-Cast:* John Mills as Mr. Dingle* Cecil Parker as Frome* John Salew as Routledge* Elizabeth Kentish as Mrs...
  
  
• The King and I
  The King and I (1956 film)
  The King and I is a 1956 musical film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musical The King and I, based in turn on the book Anna and the King...
  
  
• Love Me Tender
  Love Me Tender (1956 film)
  Love Me Tender is a 1956 American black-and-white CinemaScope motion picture directed by Robert D. Webb, and released by 20th Century Fox on November 21, 1956. The film, named after the song, stars Richard Egan, Debra Paget, and Elvis Presley in his film debut. It is in the Western genre with...
  
  
• Meet Me in Las Vegas
  Meet Me in Las Vegas
  Meet Me in Las Vegas is an MGM musical comedy produced by Joe Pasternak and directed by Roy Rowland filmed in Eastman Color and CinemaScope. The film has a running time of 112 minutes.-Cast and crew:...
  
  
• Once Upon a Honeymoon
• The Opposite Sex
  The Opposite Sex
  The Opposite Sex is a 1956 musical film.It is a remake of the 1939 classic comedy The Women. Both films are based on Claire Boothe Luce's original play...
  
  
• Rock Around the Clock
  Rock Around the Clock (film)
  Rock Around the Clock is the title of a 1956 Musical film that featured Bill Haley and His Comets along with Alan Freed, The Platters, Tony Martinez and His Band, and Freddie Bell and His Bellboys. It was produced by B-movie king Sam Katzman and directed by Fred F...
  
  
• Rock, Rock, Rock
  Rock, Rock, Rock (film)
  Rock, Rock, Rock is a 1956 black-and-white motion picture featuring performances from a number of early rock 'n' roll stars, such as Chuck Berry, LaVern Baker, Teddy Randazzo, The Moonglows, The Flamingos, and The Teenagers with Frankie Lymon as lead singer. Future West Side Story cast member David...
  
  
• Serenade
  Serenade (film)
  Serenade, a 1956 Warner Bros. release, was tenor Mario Lanza's fifth film, and his first on-screen appearance in four years. Directed by Anthony Mann and based on the 1937 novel of the same name by James M...
  
  
• Shake, Rattle and Rock
  Shake, Rattle & Rock! (1956 film)
  Shake Rattle and Rock! is a 1956 musical/comedy-drama film directed by Edward L. Cahn for American International Pictures.-Cast:*Touch Connors as Garry Nelson*Lisa Gaye as June Fitzdingle*Sterling Holloway as Albert "Axe" McAllister...
  
  
• The Vagabond King
  The Vagabond King (1956 film)
  The Vagabond King is a 1956 musical film remake of the 1925 operetta The Vagabond King by Rudolf Friml. It starred Kathryn Grayson and Oreste Kirkop , with early roles for Rita Moreno and Leslie Nielsen. Sir Cedric Hardwicke played a notable supporting role. It was Walter Hampden's last movie....
  
  

1957

• Bernardine
  Bernardine (film)
  Bernardine is a 1957 film directed by Henry Levin and starring Pat Boone, Terry Moore, Dean Jagger, Dick Sargent, and Janet Gaynor. The 1952 play upon which the movie is based was written by Mary Coyle Chase, the Denver playwright who also wrote the smash hit Broadway play Harvey...
  
  
• Calypso Heat Wave
• Funny Face
  Funny Face
  Funny Face is an American musical film released in 1957 in VistaVision Technicolor, with assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. The film was written by Leonard Gershe and directed by Stanley Donen. It stars Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and Kay Thompson...
  
  
• The Girl Most Likely
  The Girl Most Likely
  The Girl Most Likely is a musical about a young woman who ends up engaged to three men at the same time. The film, a remake of Tom, Dick and Harry , was directed by Mitchell Leisen, and stars Jane Powell, Cliff Robertson, and Keith Andes...
  
  
• The Good Companions
  The Good Companions (1957 film)
  The Good Companions is a 1957 British musical film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Eric Portman. It is based on the novel of the same name and is a remake of the 1933 film version.-Cast:* Eric Portman - Jess Oakroyd* Celia Johnson - Miss Trant...
  
  
• The Helen Morgan Story
  The Helen Morgan Story
  The Helen Morgan Story is a 1957 American biographical film directed by Michael Curtiz starring Ann Blyth and Paul Newman.The screenplay by Oscar Saul, Dean Riesner, Stephen Longstreet, and Nelson Gidding is based on the life and career of torch singer/actress Helen Morgan, with fictional touches...
  
  
• Jailhouse Rock
  Jailhouse Rock (1957 film)
  Jailhouse Rock is an American musical film directed by Richard Thorpe for MGM. The film stars Elvis Presley in his third film and MGM debut, Judy Tyler, and Mickey Shaughnessy....
  
  
• Jamboree
• The Joker is Wild
  The Joker Is Wild
  The Joker Is Wild is a film starring Frank Sinatra, Jeanne Crain, and Mitzi Gaynor, and Eddie Albert which tells the story of Joe E. Lewis, the popular singer and comedian who was a major attraction in nightclubs during 1920s to early 1950s....
  
  
• Les Girls
  Les Girls
  Les Girls, also known as Cole Porter's Les Girls, is a 1957 musical comedy film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by George Cukor, produced by Sol C...
  
  
• Let's Be Happy
  Let's Be Happy
  Let's Be Happy is a 1957 British musical film directed by Henry Levin, written by Dorothy Cooper and Diana Morgan. This is also Vera-Ellen's last film.-Credited cast:*Vera-Ellen ... Jeannie*Tony Martin ... Stanley Smith...
  
  
• Loving You
  Loving You
  Loving You is an American motion picture directed by Hal Kanter, released by Paramount Pictures on July 9, 1957. The film stars Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott and Wendell Corey...
  
  
• Mister Rock and Roll
  Mister Rock and Roll
  Mister Rock and Roll is a 12", vinyl record album by Gene Summers, issued by Lake County Records in 1977. It was Summers' second album released by the Swiss label.-Production and album credits:...
  
  
• The Pajama Game
  The Pajama Game
  The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where worker demands for a seven-and-a-half cents raise are going unheeded...
  
  
• Pal Joey
  Pal Joey (film)
  Pal Joey is a 1957 film, loosely adapted from the musical play of the same name, and starring Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, and Kim Novak. Jo Ann Greer sang for Hayworth, as she had done previously in Affair in Trinidad and Miss Sadie Thompson. Kim Novak's singing voice was dubbed by Trudy Erwin...
  
  
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin
  The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957 film)
  The Pied Piper of Hamelin is an American ninety-minute musical color television special originally shown by NBC on November 26, 1957, as their Thanksgiving Day offering for that year...
  
  
• Silk Stockings
  Silk Stockings (film)
  Silk Stockings is a 1957 MGM musical film remake of Ninotchka. It was directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starred Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse...
  
  
• Ten Thousand Bedrooms
  Ten Thousand Bedrooms
  Ten Thousand Bedrooms was Dean Martin's first movie in the wake of the dissolution of his partnership with Jerry Lewis in the team of Martin and Lewis....
  
  

1958

• Arrivederci Roma (The Seven Hills of Rome)
• Damn Yankees
  Damn Yankees
  Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League...
  
  
• Gigi
  Gigi (1958 film)
  Gigi is a 1958 musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is based on the 1944 novella of the same name by Colette...
  
  
• Jazzgossen
  Jazzgossen
  Jazzgossen is a 1958 Swedish musical film directed by Hasse Ekman. The film was an attempt to make a nostalgical cavalcade of the Swedish entertainment scene of the 1920s and 1930s, and featured many songs from that era.- Cast :...
  
  
• King Creole
  King Creole
  King Creole is a 1958 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Hal B. Wallis. The story was adapted from the Harold Robbins novel A Stone for Danny Fisher and featured Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, and Walter Matthau. The film tells the story of a nineteen-year-old who gets mixed...
  
  
• Merry Andrew
  Merry Andrew (film)
  Merry Andrew is a 1958 American musical film directed and choreographed by Michael Kidd. The screenplay by Isobel Lennart and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the short story "The Romance of Henry Menafee" by Paul Gallico...
  
  
• Musik ombord
  Musik ombord
  Musik ombord is a 1958 Swedish film directed by Sven Lindberg and starring Alice Babs.- Cast :*Alice Babs*Sven Lindberg*Lena Nyman*Mikael Bolin*Svend Asmussen*Ulrik Neumann*Lena Granhagen*Tage Severin*Douglas Håge*Paul Kuhn...
  
  
• St. Louis Blues
  St. Louis Blues (1958 film)
  St. Louis Blues is a 1958 film broadly based on the life of W. C. Handy. It starred jazz and blues greats Nat "King" Cole, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Eartha Kitt, and Barney Bigard, as well as gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and actress Ruby Dee...
  
  
• South Pacific
• tom thumb (film)
  Tom thumb (film)
  Deliberately uncapitalised, tom thumb is a 1958 fantasy-musical film directed by George Pal and released by MGM. It was based on the fairy tale of the same name...
  
  

1959

• The Five Pennies
  The Five Pennies
  The Five Pennies was a semi-biographical 1959 film starring Danny Kaye as cornet player and bandleader Red Nichols. Other cast members included Barbara Bel Geddes, Harry Guardino, Bob Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Susan Gordon, and Tuesday Weld...
  
  
• For the First Time
• The Gene Krupa Story
  The Gene Krupa Story
  The Gene Krupa Story is a 1959 biopic of American drummer and bandleader Gene Krupa. The conflict in the film centers around Krupa's rise to success and his corresponding use of marijuana.-Plot synopsis:...
  
  
• Go, Johnny, Go!
• Hier bin ich - hier bleib' ich (Here I Am, Here I Stay)
• A Hole in the Head
  A Hole in the Head
  A Hole in the Head is a comedy film released by United Artists. It was directed by Frank Capra and featured Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Keenan Wynn, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter, Dub Taylor and Joi Lansing. The film introduced the song "High Hopes", a Sinatra standard used...
  
  
• Li'l Abner
  Li'l Abner
  Li'l Abner is a satirical American comic strip that appeared in many newspapers in the United States, Canada and Europe, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished town of Dogpatch, Kentucky. Written and drawn by Al Capp , the strip ran for 43 years, from August 13, 1934 through...
  
  
• Never Steal Anything Small
  Never Steal Anything Small
  Never Steal Anything Small is a musical comedy film starring James Cagney, Shirley Jones, Roger Smith, Cara Williams, Nehemiah Persoff, Royal Dano, and Horace McMahon. The film was based on The Devil's Hornpipe by Maxwell Anderson and released by Universal Pictures.-Production details:Filmed in...
  
  
• Say One for Me
  Say One for Me
  Say One For Me is a film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Bing Crosby and Debbie Reynolds.-Cast:*Bing Crosby as Father Conroy*Debbie Reynolds as Holly LeMaise aka Conroy*Robert Wagner as Tony Vincent*Ray Walston as Phil Stanley...
  
  
• Sleeping Beauty
  Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)
  Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the fairy tale "La Belle au bois dormant" by Charles Perrault...
  
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• Some Like It Hot
  Some Like It Hot
  Some Like It Hot is an American comedy film, made in 1958 and released in 1959, which was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and George Raft. The supporting cast includes Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien and Nehemiah Persoff. The film is a remake by Wilder and I....
  
  
• Porgy and Bess
  Porgy and Bess
  Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. It was based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy and subsequent play of the same title, which he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward...
  
  
• Darby O'Gill and the Little People
  Darby O'Gill and the Little People
  Darby O'Gill and the Little People is a 1959 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery and Jimmy O'Dea, in a tale about a wily Irishman and his battle of wits with leprechauns. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and its screenplay written by...
  
  

1960

• Bells Are Ringing
  Bells Are Ringing (film)
  Bells Are Ringing is a 1960 romantic comedy-musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli. It stars Judy Holliday and Dean Martin.-Synopsis:Based on the successful 1956 Broadway production of the same name by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Jule Styne, the film focuses on Ella Peterson, who works in...
  
  
• Black Tights
  Black Tights
  Black Tights is a 1961 French film directed by Terence Young.The film is also known as Un deux trois quatre! in France .- Cast :*Zizi Jeanmaire as The Gold Digger / Carmen...
  
  
• Can-Can
  Can-Can (film)
  Can-Can is a 1960 musical film made by Suffolk-Cummings productions and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Walter Lang, produced by Jack Cummings and Saul Chaplin, from a screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley and Charles Lederer, loosely based on the musical play by Abe Burrows with music...
  
  
• Cinderfella
  Cinderfella
  Cinderfella is a comedy film version of the classic Cinderella story, with several of the roles reversed. It was released December 16, 1960 by Paramount Pictures and stars Jerry Lewis as Fella.-Plot:...
  
  
• Expresso Bongo
  Expresso Bongo
  Expresso Bongo, a 1958 West End musical and a 1959 film, was a satire of the music industry. It was first produced on the stage at the Saville Theatre, London on 23 April 1958. Its book was written by Wolf Mankowitz and Julian More, with music by David Heneker and Monty Norman, also the...
  
  
• G.I. Blues
  G.I. Blues
  G.I. Blues is a 1960 Elvis Presley musical motion picture played as a romantic comedy. It was filmed at Paramount's Hollywood studios, with some pre-production scenery shot on location in Germany before Presley's release from the army. The movie reached #2 on the Variety weekly national box office...
  
  
• High Time
  High Time (film)
  High Time is a 1960 collegiate comedic film, directed by Blake Edwards and starring Bing Crosby. The film is told from the perspective of a middle-aged man who enters the world of a new generation of postwar youth...
  
  
• Khovanshchina
  Khovanshchina (film)
  Khovanshchina is a 1960 Soviet film directed by Vera Stroyeva and based on the eponymous opera by 19th-century Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky....
  
  
• Jazz on a Summer's Day
  Jazz on a Summer's Day
  Jazz on a Summer's Day is a documentary film set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, and filmed and directed by noted commercial and fashion photographer Bert Stern and the film director Aram Avakian , who also edited the movie...
  
  
• Let's Make Love
  Let's Make Love
  Let's Make Love is a 1960 musical comedy film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by George Cukor and produced by Jerry Wald from a screenplay by Norman Krasna, Hal Kanter and Arthur Miller...
  
  
• 1-2-3-4 ou Les Collants noirs
• Pepe
  Pepe (film)
  Pepe is a 1960 film starring Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno in the title role, directed by George Sidney. A multitude of cameo appearances attempted to replicate the success of Mario Moreno's American debut, notably Around the World in Eighty Days, produced by Mike Todd in 1956.The film failed to...
  
  
• Where the Boys Are
  Where the Boys Are
  The kind of cool modern jazz popularized by such acts as Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, and Chico Hamilton, then in the vanguard of the college music market, features in a number of scenes with Basil...
  
  

1961

• One Hundred and One Dalmatians
  One Hundred and One Dalmatians
  One Hundred and One Dalmatians, often abbreviated as 101 Dalmatians, is a 1961 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith...
  
   (animated)
• Amorina
  Amorina
  Amorina is a 1961 Argentine black and white romantic musical film directed by Hugo del Carril and written by César Tiempo. It is based on a play by Eduardo Borrás...
  
  
• Babes in Toyland
  Babes in Toyland (1961 film)
  Babes in Toyland is a 1961 Christmas musical film in Technicolor, directed by Jack Donohue, produced by Walt Disney, and distributed to theatres by Buena Vista Distribution. It stars Ray Bolger as Barnaby, Annette Funicello as Mary Contrary, Tommy Sands as Tom Piper, and Ed Wynn as the Toymaker.The...
  
  
• Besito a Papa
• Blue Hawaii
  Blue Hawaii
  Blue Hawaii is a 1961 musical film set in the state of Hawaii and starring Elvis Presley. The screenplay by Hal Kanter was nominated by the Writers Guild of America in 1962 in the category of Best Written American Musical. The movie opened at no...
  
  
• Flower Drum Song
  Flower Drum Song (film)
  Flower Drum Song is a 1961 film adaptation of the 1958 Broadway musical Flower Drum Song, written by the composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The film and stage play were based on the 1957 novel of the same name by the Chinese American author C. Y...
  
  
• Gidget Goes Hawaiian
  Gidget Goes Hawaiian
  Gidget Goes Hawaiian is a 1961 musical romantic comedy film starring Deborah Walley and James Darren. Released by Columbia Pictures, the film is a sequel to the 1959 Sandra Dee "beach movie" vehicle Gidget....
  
  
• Juventud rebelde
• The Parent Trap
• The Teenage Millionaire
• Twist Around the Clock
  Twist Around the Clock
  Twist Around the Clock is an American musical film released in 1961. It was a remake of Sam Katzman and Robert E. Kent's Rock Around the Clock. Like Rock Around the Clock, which was followed by a sequel titled, Don't Knock the Rock, this film was followed by a sequel titled, Don't Knock the...
  
  
• West Side Story
  West Side Story (film)
  West Side Story is a 1961 musical film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was adapted from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno,...
  
  
• Wild in the Country
  Wild in the Country
  Wild in the Country is a 1961 film drama starring Elvis Presley in which he portrays a troubled young man from a dysfunctional family who pursues a literary career. The screenplay was written by playwright Clifford Odets.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• The Young Ones
  The Young Ones (film)
  The Young Ones is a British musical released in 1961, featuring singer Cliff Richard. The musical was directed by Sidney J. Furie and was produced by Kenneth Harper and Andrew Mitchell for the Associated British Studios at Elstree. The original screenplay was written by Peter Myers and Ronald...
  
  

1962

• The Big Broadcast
• Billy Rose's Jumbo
  Billy Rose's Jumbo (film)
  Billy Rose's Jumbo is an American musical film produced by MGM in Panavision and Metrocolor, and starring Jimmy Durante, Doris Day, Martha Raye, and Stephen Boyd. The film was directed by Charles Walters and featured Busby Berkeley's choreography...
  
  
• Don't Knock the Twist
  Don't Knock the Twist
  Don't Knock the Twist is a 1962 film starring Lang Jeffries. It is the sequel to the 1961 film Twist Around the Clock-Plot summary:Many twist dancers' meet in preparation for the TV variety show called "The Twist." While the special is still in the production stages, jealousies lead to problems -...
  
  
• Follow That Dream
  Follow that Dream
  Follow That Dream is a 1962 musical film starring Elvis Presley made by Mirisch Productions. The movie was based on the 1959 novel Pioneer, Go Home! by Richard P. Powell. Producer Walter Mirisch liked the song Follow that Dream and retitled the picture...
  
  
• Gay Purr-ee
  Gay Purr-ee
  Gay Purr-ee is an animated film musical produced by United Productions of America and released by Warner Bros. in 1962. It features the voice talent of Judy Garland in her only animated-film role.- Plot:...
  
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• Girls! Girls! Girls!
  Girls! Girls! Girls!
  Girls! Girls! Girls! is a 1962 musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a penniless Hawaiian fisherman who loves his life on the sea and dreams of owning his own boat. "Return to Sender", which reached #2 on the Billboard pop singles chart, is featured in the movie...
  
  
• Gypsy
  Gypsy (1962 film)
  Gypsy is a 1962 American musical film produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Leonard Spigelgass is based on the book of the 1959 stage musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable by Arthur Laurents, which was adapted from Gypsy: A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee.Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics for...
  
  
• How the West Was Won
  How the West Was Won (film)
  How the West Was Won is a 1962 American epic Western film. The picture was one of the last "old-fashioned" epic films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to enjoy great success. It follows four generations of a family as they move ever westward, from western New York state to the Pacific Ocean...
  
  
• Hussar Ballad
  Hussar Ballad
  The Hussar Ballad is a 1962 Soviet musical film by Eldar Ryazanov, filmed on Mosfilm. In effect, it is one of the best loved musical comedies in Russia....
  
  
• It's Trad, Dad!
  It's Trad, Dad!
  It's Trad, Dad! , known in the U.S. as Ring-A-Ding Rhythm, is a musical comedy. The film was one of the first films put out by predominantly horror company Amicus Productions, and one of director Richard Lester's first films.-Plot:...
  
  
• Kid Galahad
  Kid Galahad
  Kid Galahad is a 1962 musical film starring Elvis Presley as a boxer. The film was released by United Artists. The film opened at #9 at the box office when released in the United States in August 1962...
  
  
• The Music Man
  The Music Man (1962 film)
  The Music Man is a 1962 musical film starring Robert Preston as Harold Hill and Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo. The film is based on the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name by Meredith Willson...
  
  
• A ritmo de twist
• The Road to Hong Kong
  The Road to Hong Kong
  The Road to Hong Kong starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Joan Collins, was the last in the long-running Road to … series and the only episode not produced by Paramount Pictures, though reference to the other films in the series are shown in Maurice Binder's opening title sequence...
  
  
• State Fair
  State Fair (1962 film)
  State Fair is a 1962 film directed by José Ferrer. The film is a remake of the 1933 and 1945 films of the same name.It was considered to be a financially and critically unsuccessful film. It starred Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Ann-Margret, Tom Ewell, Pamela Tiffin and Alice Faye.Richard Rodgers wrote...
  
  
• The Cool Mikado
  The Cool Mikado
  The Cool Mikado is a British musical film made in 1962, directed by Michael Winner, and produced by Harold Baim, with music arranged by Martin Slavin and John Barry. It starred Frankie Howerd as Ko-Ko, Lionel Blair and Stubby Kaye...
  
  

1963

• Beach Party
  Beach Party
  Beach Party was the first of several beach party films from American International Pictures aimed at a teen audience. It was directed by William Asher and written by Lou Rusoff. The main actors included Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, and Annette Funicello...
  
  
• Bye Bye Birdie
  Bye Bye Birdie (film)
  Bye Bye Birdie is a 1963 musical comedy film from Columbia Pictures. It is a film adaptation of the stage production of the same name. The screenplay was written by Michael Stewart and Irving Brecher, with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams....
  
  
• Follow the Boys
  Follow the Boys (1963 film)
  Follow the Boys is a 1963 comedy film and also the theme song which was a Top 20 hit for Connie Francis.-The film:Directed by Richard Thorpe and shot on location on the French and Italian Riviera, Follow the Boys was MGM's second film vehicle for its label's top recording artist Connie Francis...
  
  
• Fun in Acapulco
  Fun in Acapulco
  Fun in Acapulco is a 1963 American musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley and Ursula Andress. While some exterior scenes were shot in Acapulco, Mexico, Elvis's scenes were shot in Hollywood. He never went to Acapulco. The movie featured the Top 10 Billboard hit "Bossa Nova Baby". The film...
  
  
• Gidget Goes to Rome
  Gidget Goes to Rome
  Gidget Goes to Rome is a 1963 Columbia Pictures feature film starring Cindy Carol as the archetypal high school teen surfer girl originally created by Sandra Dee in the 1959 film Gidget. The film is the third of three Gidget films directed by Paul Wendkos and expands upon Gidget's romance with...
  
  
• I Could Go On Singing
  I Could Go On Singing
  I Could Go On Singing is a 1963 film starring Judy Garland and Dirk Bogarde.Although not a huge box office success on release, it won Garland much praise for her performance...
  
  
• It Happened at the World's Fair
  It Happened at the World's Fair
  It Happened at the World's Fair is a 1963 musical film starring Elvis Presley as a cropdusting pilot.The motion picture was filmed in Seattle, Washington, site of the Century 21 Exposition, the 1962 World's Fair. The governor of Washington at the time, Albert Rosellini, suggested the setting to...
  
  
• Live It Up!
  Live It Up! (film)
  Live It Up! is a British music-film released in 1963. It was filmed at Pinewood Film Studios in London, England and featured Gene Vincent, Jenny Moss, The Outlaws, Patsy Ann Noble, The Saints and Heinz Burt among others...
  
  
• Rocío de La Mancha
  Rocío de La Mancha
  -Plot:A car accident changes an orphan's life as she becomes the legal guardian of her four brothers. She meets a woman who sets to return to her husband who is in Paris by asking Rocio to pretend that she is Isabel . The father hasn't seen her in 13 years and doesn't know that the real Isabel...
  
   (Spain)
• Rote Lippen soll man küssen
• Summer Holiday
• Summer Magic
  Summer Magic
  Summer Magic is a 1963 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, and Dorothy McGuire in a story about a Boston widow and her children taking up residence in a small town in Maine. The film was based on the book "Mother Carey's Chickens" by Kate Douglas Wiggin and was...
  
  
• The Sword in the Stone
  The Sword in the Stone (film)
  The Sword in the Stone is a 1963 American animated fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney and originally released to theaters on December 25, 1963...
  
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1964

• Bikini Beach
  Bikini Beach
  Bikini Beach is a 1964 teen film directed by William Asher and starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. The film belongs to the beach party genre of movies, popular in the 1960s. This is the third in a series of seven films produced by American International Pictures .-Plot:School is out and...
  
  
• Buenas noches, Buenos Aires
  Buenas noches, Buenos Aires
  Buenas noches, Buenos Aires is a 1964 Argentine musical film comedy directed by and starring Hugo del Carril. The film premiered in Buenos Aires on October 10, 1964....
  
  
• A Canção da Saudade
  A Canção da Saudade
  A Canção da Saudade is a 1964 Portuguese black-and-white film. The filming took place in a studio at Tóbis Portuguesa, Lisbon and Produções Cinematográficas Perdigão Queiroga...
  
  
• A Hard Day's Night
  A Hard Day's Night (film)
  A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 British black-and-white comedy film directed by Richard Lester and starring The Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr—during the height of Beatlemania. It was written by Alun Owen and originally released by United Artists...
  
  
• Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!
  Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!
  Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! is a 1964 American animated feature film produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and released by Columbia Pictures. The film stars the voices of Daws Butler, Don Messick, Julie Bennett, and Mel Blanc...
  
   (animated)
• I'd Rather Be Rich
  I'd Rather Be Rich
  I'd Rather Be Rich is a 1964 romantic comedy film with musical aspects directed by Jack Smight, produced by Ross Hunter and starring Sandra Dee. The film focuses on dying man who wishes to meet his granddaughter's fiancé, but he is unavailable, so the woman persuades another man to substitute for...
  
  
• The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
  The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
  -DVD release:The DVD release of Incredibly Strange Creatures features a commentary track by "drive-in movie critic" Joe Bob Briggs.-In popular culture:...
  
  
• Kissin' Cousins
  Kissin' Cousins
  Kissin' Cousins is a 1964 musical film comedy starring Elvis Presley in two roles, one as an American soldier, the other a hillbilly. The screenplay was nominated in the category of best written American musical by the Writers Guild of America...
  
  
• Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
  Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a 1964 French musical film directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo. The music was written by Michel Legrand...
  
  
• Looking for Love
  Looking for Love (film)
  Looking for Love is a 1964 romantic musical-comedy film starring popular singer Connie Francis.-Plot:Francis plays Libby Caruso, who has spent a whole month trying to get into show business with her singing, and hasn't succeed. Libby then decides to retire and get a job where she can meet the right...
  
  
• Mary Poppins
  Mary Poppins (film)
  Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...
  
  
• Muscle Beach Party
  Muscle Beach Party
  Muscle Beach Party is the second of seven beach party films produced by American International Pictures. It was made in 1964 and was directed by William Asher, who also directed four other films in this series...
  
  
• My Fair Lady
  My Fair Lady (film)
  My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, of the same name, based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ballroom scene and the ending were taken from the previous film adaptation , rather than from...
  
  
• Pajama Party
  Pajama Party (film)
  Pajama Party is a 1964 beach party film starring Tommy Kirk and Annette Funicello. This is the fourth in a series of seven beach films produced by American International Pictures...
  
  
• The Pleasure Seekers
  The Pleasure Seekers
  The Pleasure Seekers is a 1964 20th Century Fox motion picture starring Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, and Carol Lynley, with Gardner McKay, Pamela Tiffin, Brian Keith, and Gene Tierney....
  
  
• Robin and the Seven Hoods
• Roustabout
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown
• Viva Las Vegas
  Viva Las Vegas
  Viva Las Vegas is a 1964 American romantic musical movie starring music icon Elvis Presley and actress/dancer Ann-Margret. This movie is regarded by many fans of these actors and by film critics as one of Presley's best movies, and it is noted for the apparent on-screen chemistry between Presley...
  
  
• What a Way to Go!
  What a Way to Go!
  What a Way to Go! is a 1964 American comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Margaret Dumont, Bob Cummings and Dick Van Dyke.-Plot:...
  
  
• Wonderful Life

1965

• Beach Blanket Bingo
  Beach Blanket Bingo
  Beach Blanket Bingo is an American International Pictures beach party film, released in 1965 and was directed by William Asher. It is the fifth film in the beach party film series...
  
  
• Girl Happy
  Girl Happy
  Girl Happy is a 1965 American musical romantic comedy in the beach party film and spring break style, starring Elvis Presley.This was the last mega-successful Elvis Presley film at the box office, finishing at #25 on the Variety year-end top-grossing films of 1965 chart and making $3 million,...
  
  
• Harum Scarum
  Harum Scarum
  Harum Scarum is a 1965 musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley which was shot on the original Cecil B. DeMille set from the film The King of Kings. Some of the film was based on Rudolph Valentino's The Sheik released in 1921...
  
  
• Help!
  Help! (film)
  Help! is a 1965 film directed by Richard Lester, starring The Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr—and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal, Roy Kinnear and Patrick Cargill. Help! was the second feature film made by the Beatles and is a...
  
  
• Highest Pressure
  Highest Pressure
  Altissima pressione is a 1965 Italian musical film directed by Enzo Trapani.-Cast:*Dino ... Roberto*Gianni Morandi*Rosemary Dexter ... Serenella*Fabrizio Capucci*Lucio Dalla*Nicola Di Bari*Micaela Esdra ... Lia...
  
  
• How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
  How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
  How to Stuff a Wild Bikini is a 1965 beach party film from American International Pictures. The sixth entry in a seven-film series, the movie features Mickey Rooney, Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Brian Donlevy, and Beverly Adams...
  
  
• I'll Take Sweden
  I'll Take Sweden
  I'll Take Sweden is a 1965 comedy film directed by Frederick de Cordova, and starring Bob Hope, Frankie Avalon, and Tuesday Weld.-Plot:Single father Bob Holcomb , is unhappy with his daughter JoJo's choice of a husband-to-be, so he takes her on a trip to Sweden to distract her about her fiancee...
  
  
• Inside the Forbidden City
  Inside the Forbidden City
  Inside The Forbidden City is a 1965 Hong Huangmei opera musical film. The action focuses on events at the court of Emperor Renzong, specifically around the choice and identity of Renzong's successor.- Synopsis :...
  
  
• I've Gotta Horse
  I've Gotta Horse
  - Summary :Based on the star's famous love of animals, this musical comedy portrays Billy setting out to add a sheepdog to his vast entourage of animals and coming back with an irresistible horse named Armitage instead. To his manager's horror, Billy smuggles the horse backstage during rehearsals...
  
  
• Ski Party
  Ski Party
  Ski Party is a B-movie, directed by Alan Rafkin, and released in 1965 by American International Pictures. Ski Party is part of the 1960s Beach Party film genre, with a change of setting from the beach to the slopes - although the final scene places everyone back at the beach...
  
  
• The Sound of Music
  The Sound of Music (film)
  Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and with the musical...
  
  
• A Swingin' Summer
  A Swingin' Summer
  A Swingin' Summer is a 1965 comedy film in the beach party genre. It was directed and co-written by Robert Sparr. Raquel Welch stars in her first featured film role and makes her singing debut in the film.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• The T.A.M.I. Show
  The T.A.M.I. Show
  T.A.M.I. Show is a 1964 concert film, released by American International Pictures. It includes performances by numerous popular rock and roll and R&B musicians from the United States and England...
  
  
• Tickle Me
  Tickle Me
  Tickle Me is a 1965 Western musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a champion rodeo bull-rider and bronco-buster. Elvis Presley won a 1966 Golden Laurel Award as the best male actor in a musical film for his role in this comedy. It is also the only Elvis film released by Allied Artists...
  
  
• When the Boys Meet the Girls
  When the Boys Meet the Girls
  When the Boys Meet the Girls is a 1965 American musical film, directed by Alvin Ganzer and starring Connie Francis and Harve Presnell. Guy Bolton and Jack McGowan were both uncredited in their roles as the writers for the play the film is based on.-Cast:...
  
  
• Wild on the Beach
  Wild on the Beach
  Wild on the Beach is a 1965 beach party film directed by Maury Dexter. It is notable for the musical acts showcased onscreen, being the film debut of Sonny & Cher in particular...
  
  

1966

• Finders Keepers
• Frankie and Johnny
  Frankie and Johnny (1966 film)
  Frankie and Johnny is a 1966 musical film starring Elvis Presley as a riverboat gambler. The role of "Frankie" was played by Donna Douglas from The Beverly Hillbillies TV series. The film reached #40 on the Variety weekly national box office list for 1966. The budget of the film was estimated at...
  
  
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (film)
  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a 1966 farce musical comedy film, based on the stage musical.Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus – specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Mostellaria – it tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus...
  
  
• The Man Called Flintstone
  The Man Called Flintstone
  The Man Called Flintstone is a 1966 American animated musical comedy film produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and released by Columbia Pictures. It was the second Hanna-Barbera feature, after Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!...
  
   (animated)
• Hong Kong Nocturne
  Hong Kong Nocturne
  Hong Kong Nocturne is a 1967 Hong Kong Shaw Brothers musical film directed by Umetsugu Inoue.-Cast:* Paul Chang * Chan Hei * Chao Hsin Yen * Cheng Kang-Yeh - Wang Ying* Cheng Pei-pei - Chia Chuen-Chuen...
  
  
• Paradise, Hawaiian Style
  Paradise, Hawaiian Style
  Paradise, Hawaiian Style is a 1966 musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley. It was the third and final motion picture that Presley filmed in Hawaii. The film reached #40 on the Variety weekly box office chart, earning $2.5 million in theaters....
  
  
• The Singing Nun
  The Singing Nun (film)
  The Singing Nun is a 1966 American semi-biographical film about the life of Jeanine Deckers, a nun who recorded the chart-topping hit song "Dominique". It starred Debbie Reynolds in the title role. It was Henry Koster's final directing job....
  
  
• Spinout
  Spinout
  Spinout is a 1966 musical film and comedy starring Elvis Presley as the lead singer of a band and part-time race car driver. The movie was #57 on the year end list of the top-grossing films of 1966.-Plot:...
  
  

1967

• Camelot
  Camelot (film)
  Camelot is a 1967 film adaptation of the musical of the same name. Richard Harris stars as Arthur, Vanessa Redgrave as Guinevere, and Franco Nero as Lancelot. The film was directed by Joshua Logan.-Plot:...
  
  
• Clambake
  Clambake
  Clambake is a 1967 musical film starring Elvis Presley, and co-starring Shelley Fabares and Bill Bixby—the last of his four films for United Artists. The movie reached No. 15 on the national weekly box office charts.-Plot:...
  
  
• Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
  Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
  The Young Girls of Rochefort is a 1967 French musical film directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve, her sister Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin, Michel Piccoli, Danielle Darrieux, George Chakiris, Grover Dale and Gene Kelly. The choreography was by Norman Maen.Michel Legrand composed...
  
  
• Doctor Dolittle
  Doctor Dolittle (film)
  Doctor Dolittle is a 1967 American musical film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley and Richard Attenborough. It's adapted by Leslie Bricusse from the novel series by Hugh Lofting, primarily The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, The Story of Doctor...
  
  
• Dont Look Back
  Dont Look Back
  Dont Look Back is a 1967 documentary film by D.A. Pennebaker that covers Bob Dylan's 1965 concert tour in the United Kingdom.In 1998, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically...
  
  
• Double Trouble
• Easy Come, Easy Go
• The Fastest Guitar Alive
  The Fastest Guitar Alive
  The Fastest Guitar Alive is the soundtrack title for the 33 record album from MGM Records released in June 1967.-Track listing:All songs written by Roy Orbison and Bill DeesSide one# "Whirlwind"# "Medicine Man, Medicine Man"# "River"...
  
  
• Festival
  Festival (1967 film)
  Festival! is a 1967 American documentary film about the Newport Folk Festival, directed by Murray Lerner.Filmed over the course of three festivals at Newport , the film features performances by Johnny Cash, Joan Baez & Peter Yarrow, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary, Odetta, Bob Dylan,...
  
  
• Good Times
  Good Times (film)
  Good Times is a 1967 musical comedy film starring Sonny and Cher.-Synopsis:Sonny and Cher appear as themselves in this spoof of various movie genres, including mysteries, westerns and spy thrillers. The plot revolves around a movie contract offered to Sonny by powerful executive Mr. Mordicus,...
  
  
• The Happiest Millionaire
  The Happiest Millionaire
  The Happiest Millionaire is a 1967 musical film starring Fred MacMurray and based upon the true story of Philadelphia millionaire Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Costume Design by Bill Thomas. The musical song score is by Robert and Richard Sherman...
  
  
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
  How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
  How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book of the same name....
  
  
• The Jungle Book
  The Jungle Book (1967 film)
  The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Released on October 18, 1967, it is the 19th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It was inspired by the stories about the feral child Mowgli from the book of the same name by...
  
   (animated)
• Thoroughly Modern Millie
  Thoroughly Modern Millie
  Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 American musical film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay by Richard Morris focuses on a naive young woman who finds herself in the midst of a series of madcap adventures when she sets her sights on marrying her wealthy boss.The...
  
  

1968

• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (film)
  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 musical film with a script by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes, and songs by the Sherman Brothers, loosely based on Ian Fleming's novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car. It starred Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts and Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious. The...
  
  
• Finian's Rainbow
  Finian's Rainbow (film)
  Finian's Rainbow is a 1968 American musical film directed by Francis Ford Coppola that stars Fred Astaire and Petula Clark. The screenplay by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy is based on their 1947 stage musical of the same name.-Plot:...
  
  
• Funny Girl
  Funny Girl (film)
  Funny Girl is a 1968 romantic musical film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Isobel Lennart was adapted from her book for the stage musical of the same title...
  
  
• Head
  Head (film)
  Head is a 1968 psychedelic comedy-adventure major motion picture, starring TV group The Monkees , and distributed by Columbia Pictures...
  
  
• Heißer Sommer
  Heißer Sommer
  Heißer Sommer, aka Hot Summer is a 1968 East German musical film. The tagline is: "The East German Grease".-Cast:*Chris Doerk - Stupsi*Frank Schöbel - Kai*Regine Albrecht - Brit*Hanns-Michael Schmidt - Wolf*Georg-Peter Welzel - Schpack...
  
   (Hot Summer)
• Hong Kong Rhapsody
  Hong Kong Rhapsody
  Hong Kong Rhapsody is a 1968 Hong Kong Shaw Brothers musical film directed by Umetsugu Inoue.-Cast:* Chan Hung Lit * Chin Ping * Lily Ho * Peter Chen Ho - Chen Tzu-Hsin* Margaret Hsing Hui * Jing Ting...
  
  
• Live a Little, Love a Little
  Live a Little, Love a Little
  Live A Little, Love A Little is a 1968 musical comedy starring Elvis Presley. It was directed by Norman Taurog, who had directed several previous Presley films. This was to be Taurog's final film. Shortly thereafter, he went blind...
  
  
• Oliver!
  Oliver! (film)
  Oliver! is a 1968 British musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the stage musical Oliver!, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart. The screenplay was written by Vernon Harris....
  
  
• The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
  The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
  The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band is a 1968 musical film based on a biography by Laura Bower Van Nuys, directed by Michael O'Herlihy, with original music and lyrics by the Sherman Brothers...
  
  
• Speedway
  Speedway (film)
  Speedway is a 1968 action film musical film starring Elvis Presley as a racecar driver and Nancy Sinatra as his love interest.Scenes were shot at the Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina...
  
  
• Star!
  Star! (film)
  Star! is a 1968 American musical film directed by Robert Wise. The screenplay by William Fairchild is based upon the life and career of British performer Gertrude Lawrence.-Plot:...
  
  
• Stay Away, Joe
  Stay Away, Joe
  Stay Away, Joe is a 1968 comedy-drama western film with musical interludes set in modern times and starring Elvis Presley, Burgess Meredith and Joan Blondell. The film was based on the 1953 novel by Dan Cushman, a satirical farce...
  
  
• Sympathy for the Devil
  Sympathy for the Devil (film)
  Sympathy for the Devil is a 1968 film shot mostly in color by director Jean-Luc Godard.- Plot summary :...
  
  
• Yellow Submarine (animated)

1969

• Change of Habit
  Change of Habit
  Change of Habit is a 1969 musical drama film starring Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore. It was Presley's 31st and final film acting role; his remaining two film appearances were concert documentaries. It was also Moore's fourth and final film under her brief Universal Pictures contract; she...
  
  
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film)
  Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a 1969 American musical film directed by Herbert Ross. The screenplay by Terence Rattigan is based on James Hilton's 1934 novella of the same name, which originally was adapted for the screen in 1939.-Plot:...
  
  
• Hello, Dolly!
• How to Commit Marriage
  How to Commit Marriage
  How to Commit Marriage is a 1969 comedy film directed by Norman Panama, featuring Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason in their only movie together. The film also stars Jane Wyman as Hope's wife, Tina Louise as record-producer Gleason's love interest, Leslie Nielsen as the straight man, and Irwin Corey as...
  
  
• Johnny Cash! The Man, His World, His Music
  Johnny Cash! The Man, His World, His Music
  -Cast:*Johnny Cash - Himself*Anita Carter - Herself*June Carter Cash - Herself *Helen Carter - Herself*Mother Maybelle Carter - Herself*Bob Dylan - Himself*Marshall Grant - Himself*Bob Johnston - Himself*Merle Kilgore - Himself...
  
  
• Keep on Rockin'
  Keep on Rockin'
  Keep on Rockin', aka Little Richard: Keep on Rockin is a 1969 American concert musical film.-Cast:* Little Richard - Himself* Chuck Berry - Himself* Bo Diddley - Himself* Jimi Hendrix - Himself* Janis Joplin - Herself...
  
  
• Oh! What a Lovely War
  Oh! What a Lovely War
  Oh! What a Lovely War is a musical film based on the stage musical Oh, What a Lovely War! originated by Charles Chilton as a radio play, The Long Long Trail in December 1961, and transferred to stage by Gerry Raffles in partnership with Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop created in 1963,...
  
  
• Paint Your Wagon
  Paint Your Wagon (film)
  Paint Your Wagon is a 1969 American musical film starring Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood. The movie was adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from the 1951 stage musical by Lerner and Loewe, set in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California.-Plot:...
  
  
• Przygoda z piosenką
  Przygoda z piosenka
  Przygoda z piosenką is a Polish film musical comedy from 1969 directed by Stanisław Bareja.-External links:...
  
   (Poland)
• Sweet Charity
  Sweet Charity (film)
  Sweet Charity, full title of which is Sweet Charity: The Adventures of a Girl Who Wanted to Be Loved, is a 1969 American musical film directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, written by Neil Simon, and with music by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields...
  
  
• The Trouble with Girls (and How to Get Into It)
• A Boy Named Charlie Brown (animated)

1970

• The Aristocats
  The Aristocats
  The Aristocats is a 1970 American animated feature produced and released by Walt Disney Productions in 1970 and stars Eva Gabor and Phil Harris, with Roddy Maude-Roxby as Edgar the butler, the villain of the story...
  
   (animated)
• Darling Lili
  Darling Lili
  Darling Lili is a 1970 American musical film. The screenplay was written by William Peter Blatty and Blake Edwards, who also directed. The cast included Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, and Jeremy Kemp.-Plot:...
  
  
• Elvis: That's the Way It Is
  Elvis: That's the Way it Is
  Elvis: That's the Way It Is is a documentary movie directed by Denis Sanders about Elvis Presley that was released on November 11, 1970. The film documents Elvis' Summer Festival in Las Vegas during August 1970...
  
  
• Gimme Shelter
  Gimme Shelter (documentary)
  Gimme Shelter is a 1970 documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, chronicling the last weeks of The Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour, which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert. The film is named after "Gimme Shelter", the lead track from The Rolling...
  
  
• Let It Be
  Let It Be (film)
  Let It Be is a 1970 documentary film about The Beatles rehearsing and recording songs for the album Let It Be in January 1969. The film features an unannounced rooftop concert by the group, their last performance in public...
  
  
• Monrak luk thung
  Monrak luk thung
  Monrak luk thung is a 1970 musical-comedy-romance film directed by Rungsri Tassanapuk and starring Mitr Chaibancha and Petchara Chaowarat. Released on May 15, 1970, the film was an enormous hit, playing in Thai cinemas for six months....
  
  
• On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
  On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
  On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is a musical with music by Burton Lane and a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner based loosely on Berkeley Square, written in 1929 by John L. Balderston. It concerns a woman who has ESP and has been reincarnated...
  
  
• Peau d'Âne
  Peau d'Âne
  Peau d'Âne is a 1970 French musical film directed by Jacques Demy. It is also known by the English titles Once Upon a Time and The Magic Donkey. The film was adapted by Demy from Donkeyskin, a fairy tale by Charles Perrault about a king who wishes to marry his daughter...
  
  
• Pufnstuf
• Scrooge
• Song of Norway
  Song of Norway (film)
  Song of Norway is a 1970 film adaptation of the successful operetta of the same name, directed by Andrew L. Stone.Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music...
  
  
• Woodstock
  Woodstock (film)
  Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary on the Woodstock Festival that took place in August 1969 at Bethel in New York. Entertainment Weekly called this film the benchmark of concert movies and one of the most entertaining documentaries ever made...
  
  

1971

• Aquellos años locos
• Arriba Juventud
  Arriba Juventud
  Arriba juventud is a 1971 Argentine musical film comedy directed and written by Leo Fleider based around a musical group. The film premiered on 4 March 1971 in Buenos Aires...
  
  
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
  Bedknobs and Broomsticks
  Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 musical film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution Company which combines live action and animation and was released in North America on December 13, 1971...
  
  
• The Boy Friend
  The Boy Friend
  The Boy Friend is a musical by Sandy Wilson. The musical's original 1954 London production ran for 2,078 performances, making it briefly the third-longest running musical in West End or Broadway history until it was surpassed by Salad Days...
  
  
• Fiddler on the Roof
  Fiddler on the Roof (film)
  Fiddler on the Roof is the 1971 film adaptation of the 1964 Broadway musical of the same name, with music composed by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905, about Tevye and his Daughters. It was directed by Norman Jewison. The film won three...
  
  
• 200 Motels
  200 Motels
  200 Motels is a 1971 American-British musical surrealist film cowritten and directed by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer and starring The Mothers of Invention, Theodore Bikel and Ringo Starr. The film covers a loose storyline about The Mothers of Invention going crazy in the small town Centerville...
  
  
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
  Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
  Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 musical film adaptation of the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, directed by Mel Stuart, and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. The film tells the story of Charlie Bucket as he receives a golden ticket and visits Willy...
  
  

1972

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972 film)
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a 1972 British musical film based on the Lewis Carroll novel of the same name. It had an all star cast, and John Barry composed the score....
  
  
• Argentinísima
  Argentinísima
  Argentinísima is a 1972 Argentine musical documentary film directed by Fernando Ayala and Héctor Olivera written by Félix Luna. The film premiered on 8 July 1972 in Buenos Aires....
  
  
• Cabaret
  Cabaret (film)
  Cabaret is a 1972 musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, under the ominous presence of the growing National Socialist Party....
  
  
• The Concert for Bangladesh
• Elvis on Tour
  Elvis on Tour
  Elvis on Tour is a Golden Globe Award-winning American musical documentary motion picture released by MGM in 1972. It was the thirty-third and final motion picture to star Elvis Presley before his death in 1977.-Background:...
  
  
• The Great Waltz
  The Great Waltz
  The Great Waltz is a musical conceived by Hassard Short with a book by Moss Hart and lyrics by Desmond Carter, using themes by Johann Strauss I and Johann Strauss II. It is based on a pasticcio by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Julius Bittner called Walzer aus Wien, first performed in Vienna in 1930...
  
  
• Imagine
• Lady Sings the Blues
• Man of La Mancha
  Man of La Mancha (film)
  Man of La Mancha is a 1972 film adaptation of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman, with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion...
  
  
• Oh! Calcutta!
  Oh! Calcutta!
  Oh! Calcutta! is an avant-garde theatrical revue, created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan. The show, consisting of sketches on sex-related topics, debuted Off-Broadway in 1969 and then in London in 1970. It ran in London for over 3,900 performances, and in New York initially for 1,314...
  
  
• 1776
  1776 (film)
  1776 is a 1972 American musical film directed by Peter H. Hunt. The screenplay by Peter Stone was based on the 1969 stage musical of the same name. Portions of the dialogue and some of the song lyrics were taken directly from the letters and memoirs of the actual participants of the Second...
  
  
• Snoopy Come Home (animated)

1973

• Andrea
  Andrea (1973 film)
  Andrea is a 1973 Argentine musical comedy film directed by Carlos Rinaldi and written by Ulises Petit de Murat.-Cast:*Andrea Del Boca as Andrea*Ángel Magaña*Raúl Aubel*Julieta Magaña*Paquita Más*Mario Passano...
  
  
• Argentinísima II
  Argentinísima II
  Argentinísima II is a 1973 Argentine musical documentary film directed and written by Fernando Ayala and Héctor Olivera. It is the sequel to the 1972 Argentinísima...
  
  
• Charlotte's Web
  Charlotte's Web (1973 film)
  Charlotte's Web is a 1973 American animated musical film produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Sagittarius Productions and based upon the 1952 children's book of the same name by E. B. White...
  
   (animated)
• Godspell
  Godspell (film)
  Godspell, released in 1973, is the film adaptation of the Off-Broadway musical Godspell created by John-Michael Tebelak.Set in modern New York City, the film stars Victor Garber as Jesus and David Haskell as John the Baptist/Judas...
  
  
• Jaal
  Jaal (1973 film)
  Jaal, a 1973 Pakistani Urdu colour film, is a musical and romantic film produced by Waheed Murad and directed by Iftikhar Khan. It was the first colour movie that was produced by Waheed Murad. The film was released on 31 August 1973. It starred Waheed Murad, Nisho, Husna, Shaista Qaiser and Nanna...
  
  
• Jesus Christ Superstar
  Jesus Christ Superstar (film)
  Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1973 American film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice rock opera of the same name. Directed by Norman Jewison, the film centers on the conflict between Judas and Jesus during the last weeks before the crucifixion of Jesus...
  
  
• Lost Horizon
  Lost Horizon (1973 film)
  Lost Horizon is a 1973 musical film directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Peter Finch, John Gielgud, Liv Ullmann, Michael York, Sally Kellerman, Bobby Van, George Kennedy, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta and Charles Boyer....
  
  
• Tom Sawyer
• Robin Hood
  Robin Hood (1973 film)
  Robin Hood is an 1973 American animated film produced by the Walt Disney Productions, first released in the United States on November 8, 1973...
  
   (animated)

1974

• Huckleberry Finn
  Huckleberry Finn (1974 film)
  Huckleberry Finn is the 1974 musical film version of Mark Twain's American classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.The movie was produced by Reader's Digest and Arthur P. Jacobs and starred Jeff East as Huckleberry Finn and Paul Winfield as Jim...
  
  
• Journey Back to Oz
  Journey Back to Oz
  Journey Back To Oz is a 1974 animated film and the official sequel to the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz. It is loosely based on L. Frank Baum's second Oz novel, The Marvelous Land of Oz, although Baum received no screen credit. However, the Wizard was nowhere to be found, at least in the...
  
   (animated)
• Mame
  Mame (film)
  Mame is a 1974 musical film based on the 1966 Broadway musical of the same name, directed by Gene Saks, written by Paul Zindel, and starring Lucille Ball and Beatrice Arthur.Warner Bros...
  
  
• Phantom of the Paradise
  Phantom of the Paradise
  Phantom of the Paradise is a 1974 musical film written and directed by Brian De Palma. The story is a loosely adapted mixture of The Phantom of the Opera, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Faust and also briefly references Frankenstein and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari...
  
  
• The Straw Hat
  The Straw Hat
  The Straw Hat is a 1974 Soviet musical comedy film directed by Leonid Kvinikhidze based on a play by Eugène Labiche. Music composed by Isaac Schwartz.-Plot summary:The extravagant life of a charming rentier who thought nothing of consequences...
  
   (Russian)
• That's Entertainment!
  That's Entertainment!
  That's Entertainment! is a 1974 compilation film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to celebrate its 50th anniversary. It was followed by two sequels and a related film called That's Dancing!....
  
  

1975

• At Long Last Love
  At Long Last Love
  At Long Last Love is an American motion picture musical that was released in 1975. It was written, produced and directed by Peter Bogdanovich and stars Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepherd....
  
  
• Finist - Yasnyy sokol
  Finist - Yasnyy sokol
  Finist - Yasnyy sokol is a Soviet 1975 Slavic fantasy film directed by Gennadi Vasilyev based on a screenplay by Lev Potyomkin and poems by Mikhail Nozhkin. Produced by Gorky Film Studio . Runtime - 75 min....
  
  
• Funny Lady
  Funny Lady
  Funny Lady is a 1975 film starring Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall, and Ben Vereen.A sequel to the 1968 film Funny Girl, it is a highly fictionalized account of the later life and career of comedienne Fanny Brice and her marriage to songwriter and empresario Billy Rose...
  
  
• Lisztomania
• Nashville
• Pesnya vsegda s nami
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the 1975 film adaptation of the British rock musical stageplay, The Rocky Horror Show, written by Richard O'Brien. The film is a parody of B-movie, science fiction and horror films of the late 1940s through early 1970s. Director Jim Sharman collaborated on the...
  
  
• Tommy
  Tommy (film)
  Tommy is a 1975 British musical film based upon The Who's 1969 rock opera album musical Tommy. It was directed by Ken Russell and featured a star-studded cast, including the band members themselves...
  
  

1976

• A Matter of Time
  A Matter of Time (1976 film)
  A Matter of Time is a 1976 American/Italian musical fantasy film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by John Gay is based on the novel Film of Memory by Maurice Druon...
  
  
• A Star Is Born
  A Star Is Born (1976 film)
  A Star Is Born is a 1976 American rock music musical film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline...
  
  
• Alice In Wonderland
  Alice in Wonderland (1976 film)
  Alice in Wonderland is a 1976 pornographic musical film, loosely based on Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It was directed by Bud Townsend and starred Terri Hall, Bree Anthony, and Kristine DeBell. The theatrical release of the film was on December 10, 1976 in the USA...
  
  
• Bugsy Malone
  Bugsy Malone
  Bugsy Malone is a 1976 musical film, very loosely based on events in New York City in the Prohibition era, specifically the exploits of gangsters like Al Capone and Bugs Moran, as dramatized in cinema...
  
  
• The First Nudie Musical
  The First Nudie Musical
  The First Nudie Musical is a 1976 American motion picture directed by Mark Haggard and Bruce Kimmel.-Overview:The movie is a comedy starring Cindy Williams and Stephen Nathan. Nathan plays Harry Schechter, heir to a Hollywood studio forced to make a musical comedy porno in order to stave off...
  
  
• Rock’n Roll Wolves
• The Slipper and the Rose
  The Slipper and the Rose
  The Slipper and the Rose is a 1976 British musical film retelling the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. This film was chosen as the Royal Command Performance motion picture selection for 1976....
  
  
• Sparkle
  Sparkle (1976 film)
  Sparkle is a 1976 American film directed by Sam O'Steen and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. Inspired by The Supremes, Sparkle is a period film set in Harlem, New York during the late 1950s and early 1960s which follows the rough lives and careers of singer Sparkle Williams and her family and...
  
  
• That's Entertainment, Part II
  That's Entertainment, Part II
  That's Entertainment, Part II is a 1976 motion picture by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and a sequel to the 1974 documentary That's Entertainment!. Like the previous film, That's Entertainment, Part II was a retrospective of famous films released by MGM from the 1930s to the 1950s...
  
  

1977

• A Little Night Music
  A Little Night Music
  A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples. Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart's Serenade...
  
  
• New York, New York
  New York, New York (film)
  New York, New York is a 1977 American musical-drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a musical tribute, featuring new songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb as well as standards, to Scorsese's home town of New York City, and stars Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli as a pair of musicians and...
  
  
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
  The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
  The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is the 22nd full-length animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on March 11, 1977....
  
   (animated)
• The Rescuers
  The Rescuers
  The Rescuers is a 1977 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on June 22, 1977. The 23rd film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film is about the Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization headquartered in New York and shadowing...
  
   (animated)
• Pete's Dragon
  Pete's Dragon
  Pete's Dragon is a 1977 live-action/animated musical film from Walt Disney Productions and the first Disney film to be recorded in the Dolby Stereo sound system...
  
  
• Saturday Night Fever
  Saturday Night Fever
  Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 drama film directed by John Badham and starring: John Travolta as Tony Manero, an immature young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn discothèque; Karen Lynn Gorney as his dance partner and eventual friend; and Donna Pescow as Tony's former dance...
  
  
• Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas
• ABBA: the Movie
  ABBA: The Movie
  ABBA: The Movie is a 1977 film about the pop group ABBA's Australian tour. It was directed by Lasse Hallström, who directed most of the group's videos. The film has become a cult film among ABBA fans...
  
  
• Allegro Non Troppo
  Allegro non troppo
  Allegro Non Troppo is a 1976 Italian animated film directed by Bruno Bozzetto. Featuring six pieces of classical music, the film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia. The classical pieces are set to color animation, ranging from comedy to deep tragedy...
  
  
• Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
  Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
  Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure is a 1977 American animated film directed by Richard Williams. It was produced by the Bobbs-Merrill Company, and released by 20th Century Fox...
  
   (animated)
• Wizards (animated)

1978

• American Hot Wax
  American Hot Wax
  American Hot Wax is a 1978 biopic film directed by Floyd Mutrux and written by John Kaye telling the story of Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who was instrumental in introducing and popularizing rock 'n' roll in the 1950s...
  
  
• An Ordinary Miracle
  An Ordinary Miracle (1978 film)
  An Ordinary Miracle is a Soviet 1978 musical film, a love story by Mark Zakharov based on a play by Yevgeni Shvarts. This is the second screen version of the play; the first one was filmed in 1964 by Erast Garin....
  
   (USSR)
• The Buddy Holly Story
  The Buddy Holly Story
  The film was adapted by Robert Gittler from Buddy Holly: His Life and Music, the biography of Holly by John Goldrosen. It was directed by Steve Rash.-Plot:...
  
  
• d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
  D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
  d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers is a three-part musical miniseries produced in the Soviet Union and first aired in 1978. It is based on the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père....
  
   (miniseries)
• Grease
  Grease (film)
  Grease is a 1978 American musical film directed by Randal Kleiser and based on Warren Casey's and Jim Jacobs's 1971 musical of the same name about two lovers in a 1950s high school. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and Jeff Conaway...
  
  
• June 31st
• The Last Waltz
  The Last Waltz
  The Last Waltz was a concert by the rock group The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco...
  
  
• The Magic of Lassie
  The Magic of Lassie
  The Magic of Lassie is a 1978 Wrather Corporation film. It features James Stewart in one of only two musical film roles that he played . Mickey Rooney and Alice Faye also make cameo appearances in the film...
  
  
• The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
• Sextette
  Sextette
  Sextette is a 1978 Crown International Pictures comedy/musical motion picture that starred Mae West. Other actors in the cast included Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, George Hamilton, Alice Cooper and Walter Pidgeon....
  
  
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film)
  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a 1978 American musical film. Its soundtrack, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, features new versions of songs originally written and performed by The Beatles. The film draws primarily from two of their albums, 1967's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club...
  
  
• The Wiz
  The Wiz (film)
  The Wiz is a 1978 musical film produced by Motown Productions and Universal Pictures, and released by Universal on October 24, 1978. An urbanized retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz featuring an entirely African-American cast, The Wiz was adapted from the 1975 Broadway musical...
  
  
• Renaldo and Clara
  Renaldo and Clara
  Renaldo and Clara is a surrealist movie, directed by and starring Bob Dylan. Filmed in 1975, during Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour, it was released in 1978...
  
  

1979

• All That Jazz
  All That Jazz
  All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Fosse's life and career as dancer, choreographer and director. The film was inspired by Bob Fosse's manic effort to edit his...
  
  
• Hair
  Hair (film)
  Hair is a 1979 American film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical of the same name about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center...
  
  
• The Muppet Movie
  The Muppet Movie
  The Muppet Movie is the first of a series of live-action musical feature films starring Jim Henson's Muppets. Released in 1979, the film was produced by Henson Associates, Children's Television Workshop and ITC Entertainment....
  
  
• Rock 'n' Roll High School
  Rock 'n' Roll High School
  Rock 'n' Roll High School is a 1979 musical comedy film produced by Roger Corman, directed by Allan Arkush, and featuring the Ramones.The film starred P. J. Soles, Vince Van Patten, and Clint Howard...
  
  
• The Rose
  The Rose (film)
  The Rose is a 1979 American musical drama film which tells the story of a self-destructive 1960s rock star who struggles to cope with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager...
  
  

1980

• The Apple
• Blank Generation
  Blank Generation (1980 film)
  Blank Generation is a 1980 West German and American co-produced musical film. It was directed and co-written by Ulli Lommel, and it stars Carole Bouquet as the French journalist Nada.-Cast:*Carole Bouquet as Nada*Richard Hell as Billy...
  
  
• The Blues Brothers
  The Blues Brothers (film)
  The Blues Brothers is a 1980 musical comedy film directed by John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as "Joliet" Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from a musical sketch on the NBC variety series Saturday Night Live. It features musical numbers by R&B and soul singers James...
  
  
• Can't Stop the Music
  Can't Stop the Music
  Can't Stop the Music is a 1980 musical comedy film directed by Nancy Walker. It is a pseudo-biography of disco's Village People which bears only a vague resemblance to the actual story of the group's formation...
  
  
• Coal Miner's Daughter
  Coal Miner's Daughter
  Coal Miner's Daughter is a 1980 American biographical film which tells the story of country music icon Loretta Lynn. It stars Sissy Spacek in her Academy Award for Best Actress winning role, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo and Levon Helm, and was directed by Michael Apted.-Background:The film was...
  
  
• Concert for Kampuchea
  Concert for Kampuchea
  The Concert for Kampuchea is a musical film from the best of the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea. The film was directed by Keith McMillan and was 4 nights of concerts in Hammersmith Odeon to raise money for the victims of Pol Pot's reign of terror in Cambodia...
  
  
• Fame
• Forbidden Zone
  Forbidden Zone
  Forbidden Zone is a 1982 musical comedy film based upon the stage performances of the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. The film stars Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell and members of the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, and features appearances by Warhol Superstar Viva, Joe Spinell and The...
  
  
• The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
  The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
  The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle is a mockumentary film directed by Julien Temple and produced by Don Boyd and Jeremy Thomas about the British punk rock band Sex Pistols....
  
  
• The Jazz Singer
  The Jazz Singer (1980 film)
  The Jazz Singer is a 1980 American musical remake of the 1927 classic The Jazz Singer. It starred Neil Diamond, Sir Laurence Olivier, and Lucie Arnaz and was co-directed by Richard Fleischer and Sidney J...
  
  
• Popeye
  Popeye (film)
  Popeye is a 1980 live-action film adaptation directed by Robert Altman and adapted from E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre aka Popeye comic strip.Marketed with the tagline, "The sailor man with the spinach can!", the film is a musical...
  
  
• Rockshow
  Rockshow
  Rockshow is a 1980 concert film by Wings, filmed during their 1976 North American tour. It features 30 songs from four concerts of the tour: New York, May 25 ; Seattle, Washington, June 10 ; Los Angeles, California, June 22 ; and Los Angeles, California, June 23 , although both the cover of the...
  
   (concert film)
• Xanadu
  Xanadu (film)
  Xanadu is a 1980 romantic musical fantasy film written by Marc Reid Rubel and directed by Robert Greenwald. The title is a reference to the poem "Kubla Khan, or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which is quoted in the film. Xanadu is the name of the Chinese province...
  
  

1981

• American Pop
  American Pop
  American Pop is a 1981 American animated musical drama film produced and directed by Ralph Bakshi. The film tells the story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music....
  
   (animated)
• Back to the Egg
  Back to the Egg (TV special)
  The Back to the Egg TV special was a program containing music videos from the Wings album Back to the Egg. It was first broadcast on BBC1 on June 10, 1981, two years after the album had been released. Two of the videos were released on The McCartney Years DVD boxset in 2007...
  
  
• The Fox and the Hound
  The Fox and the Hound (film)
  The Fox and the Hound is a 1981 animated feature loosely based on the Daniel P. Mannix novel of the same name, produced by Walt Disney Productions and released in the United States on July 10, 1981...
  
   (animated)
• The Great Muppet Caper
  The Great Muppet Caper
  The Great Muppet Caper is a 1981 mystery comedy film directed by Jim Henson. It is the second of a series of live-action musical feature films, starring Jim Henson's Muppets. This film was produced by Henson Associates, ITC Entertainment and Universal Pictures, and premiered on 26 July 1981. The...
  
  
• Pennies from Heaven
  Pennies from Heaven (1981 film)
  Pennies from Heaven is a 1981 musical film. The film was based on a 1978 BBC television drama. In 1981, Dennis Potter adapted his own screenplay for a film of the same name for American audiences, with its setting changed to Depression era Chicago. Potter was nominated for the 1981 Academy Award...
  
  
• Shock Treatment
  Shock Treatment
  Shock Treatment is a 1981 musical-black comedy film and a follow-up to the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show. While not an outright sequel, the movie does feature several characters from the movie portrayed by different actors and several Rocky Horror actors portraying new characters...
  
  
• This Is Elvis
  This Is Elvis
  This Is Elvis is a 1981 documentary film directed by Andrew Solt and Malcolm Leo, based on the life of Elvis Presley. It combined archival footage with reenactments, and narration by pop singer Ral Donner. It was screened out of competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  

1982

• Annie
  Annie (film)
  Annie is a 1982 American musical film directed by John Huston and choreographed by Arlene Phillips. The film is an adaption of the 1977 stage musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the 1924 Little Orphan Annie comic strip by Harold Gray. The movie features music by Charles Strouse,...
  
  
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
  The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (film)
  The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a 1982 film adaptation of the musical of the same name released by Universal Pictures, which was co-written and directed by Colin Higgins...
  
  
• The Dub Room Special
  The Dub Room Special
  The Dub Room Special is a film produced by Frank Zappa for direct-to-video release in October, 1982. The video combines footage from a performance at the KCET studios in Los Angeles on August 27, 1974, a concert performed at The Palladium, NYC on October 31, 1981, some clay animation by Bruce...
  
  
• Grease 2
  Grease 2
  Grease 2 is a 1982 American musical film and sequel to Grease, which is based upon the musical of the same name by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Grease 2 was produced by Allan Carr and Robert Stigwood, and directed and choreographed by Patricia Birch, who also choreographed the first film...
  
  
• One from the Heart
  One from the Heart
  One from the Heart is a 1982 musical film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The characters themselves do not actually sing but the powerful score dominates the movie. It is set entirely in Las Vegas, on the Las Vegas Strip and the desert surrounding the city...
  
  
• Pink Floyd The Wall
  Pink Floyd The Wall (film)
  Pink Floyd—The Wall is a 1982 British live-action/animated musical film directed by Alan Parker based on the 1979 Pink Floyd album The Wall. The screenplay was written by Pink Floyd vocalist and bassist Roger Waters. The film is highly metaphorical and is rich in symbolic imagery and sound...
  
  
• The Pirate Movie
  The Pirate Movie
  The Pirate Movie is a 1982 musical and comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Christopher Atkins and Kristy McNichol. The film is loosely based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance. The original music score is composed by Mike Brady and Peter Sullivan...
  
  
• Starstruck
  Starstruck (1982 film)
  Starstruck is a 1982 Australian comedy-drama musical film starring Jo Kennedy, Ross O'Donovan and Margo Lee about two teenagers trying to make their break into the music industry. The film was shot on location in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
  
  
• Victor Victoria

1983

• Eddie and the Cruisers
  Eddie and the Cruisers
  Eddie and the Cruisers is a 1983 American film directed by Martin Davidson with the screenplay written by the director and Arlene Davidson, based on the novel by P. F. Kluge...
  
  
• The Final Cut
• Flashdance
  Flashdance
  Another song used in the film, "Maniac", was also nominated for an Academy Award. It was written by Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky, and was inspired by the 1980 horror film Maniac. The lyrics about a killer on the loose were rewritten so that it could be used in Flashdance...
  
  
• I Am a Hotel
  I Am a Hotel
  I Am a Hotel is a 1983 Canadian made for TV short musical film, written by Leonard Cohen and Mark Shekter and directed by Allan F. Nicholls....
  
  
• Let's Spend the Night Together
  Let's Spend the Night Together (film)
  Let's Spend the Night Together is a live concert film, documenting The Rolling Stones' 1981 North American Tour. It was directed by Hal Ashby, and released to cinemas in 1983, then subsequently released on VHS...
  
  
• Mantrap (1983 film)
• Mary Poppins, Goodbye
  Mary Poppins, Goodbye
  Mary Poppins, Goodbye is a Soviet 1983 two-part musical miniseries , directed by Leonid Kvinikhidze. It is loosely based on Mary Poppins stories by Pamela L. Travers. The TV series were ordered by the Gosteleradio of USSR and produced by Mosfilm...
  
  
• The Pirates of Penzance
  The Pirates of Penzance (1983 film)
  The Pirates of Penzance is a 1983 musical film based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera of the same name. It stars Kevin Kline, Rex Smith, Angela Lansbury, George Rose, Linda Ronstadt, and, Tony Azito...
  
  
• Staying Alive
  Staying Alive
  Staying Alive is the 1983 film sequel to Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta as dancer Tony Manero, with Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Joyce Hyser, Steve Inwood, Julie Bovasso, and dancers Viktor Manoel, Kate Ann Wright, Kevyn Morrow and Nanette Tarpey...
  
  
• Rock & Rule
  Rock & Rule
  Rock & Rule is a 1983 Canadian animated film from the animation studio Nelvana. It was produced and directed by the company's founders, Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert, and Clive A. Smith. The film features the voices of Greg Salata, Susan Roman, and Don Francks, with Catherine O'Hara, Chris...
  
   (animated)
• Yentl
  Yentl (film)
  Yentl is a 1983 romantic musical drama film from United Artists, and directed, co-written, co-produced, and starring Barbra Streisand based on the play of the same name by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer, itself based on Singer's short story, "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy".The dramatic story...
  
  

1984

• Amadeus
  Amadeus
  Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer.It is based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, highly fictionalized.Amadeus was first performed in 1979...
  
  
• Body Rock
  Body Rock
  Body Rock is a 1984 film directed by Marcelo Epstein about a young man "from the streets" with a talent for break-dancing. It stars Lorenzo Lamas in the lead role of 'Chilly'. The film featured music by Laura Branigan....
  
  
• Breakin'
  Breakin'
  Breakin', released as Breakdance: The Movie in some countries, is a 1984 breakdancing-themed film directed by Joel Silberg. The film setting was inspired by a German documentary entitled Breakin' and Enterin set in the Los Angeles multi-racial hip hop club Radiotron, based out of Macarthur Park in...
  
  
• The Cotton Club
  The Cotton Club (film)
  The Cotton Club is a 1984 crime-drama, centered on a famed Harlem jazz club of the 1930s, the Cotton Club.The movie was co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, choreographed by Henry LeTang, and starred Richard Gere, Diane Lane, and Gregory Hines...
  
  
• Give My Regards to Broad Street
  Give My Regards to Broad Street
  Give My Regards to Broad Street is the soundtrack album to the 1984 film of the same name. Unlike the film, the album was successful, achieving #1 in the UK chart and its lead single "No More Lonely Nights" was BAFTA and Golden Globe award nominated....
  
  
• Purple Rain
  Purple Rain (film)
  Purple Rain is a 1984 film directed by Albert Magnoli and written by Magnoli and William Blinn. Prince makes his film debut in this movie, which was developed to showcase his particular talents, hence, the film contains several extended concert sequences. The film grossed more than US$80 million at...
  
  
• The Muppets Take Manhattan
  The Muppets Take Manhattan
  The Muppets Take Manhattan is the third of a series of live-action musical feature films starring Jim Henson's Muppets, and also the final film before Henson's death. This film was produced by Henson Associates and TriStar Pictures, and was filmed on location in New York City during the summer of...
  
  
• Streets of Fire
  Streets of Fire
  Streets of Fire is a 1984 film directed by Walter Hill and co-written by Hill and Larry Gross. It was described in previews, trailers, and posters as "A Rock & Roll Fable." It is an unusual mix of musical, action, drama, and comedy with elements both of retro-1950s and 1980s...
  
  

1985

• A Chorus Line
  A Chorus Line (film)
  A Chorus Line is a 1985 musical film directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Michael Douglas. The screenplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the Tony Award-winning book of the 1975 stage production of the same name by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante...
  
  
• Alice in Wonderland
  Alice in Wonderland (1985 film)
  Alice in Wonderland is a two-part film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice books. An Irwin Allen production, it was a special made for television and used a huge all-star cast of notable actors and actresses. The title role was played by 10-year-old Natalie Gregory, who wore a blonde wig for this...
  
  
• Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
  Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
  Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo is the 1984 sequel to the breakdancing film Breakin. It was first released in the same year as its predecessor by TriStar Pictures, and by Cannon Films the year after...
  
  
• Krush Groove
  Krush Groove
  Krush Groove is a 1985 Warner Bros. film, written by Ralph Farquhar and directed by Michael Schultz . This film is based on the early days of Def Jam Recordings and up-and-coming record producer Russell Simmons , portrayed by Blair Underwood in his feature film debut...
  
  
• Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird
  Sesame Street presents Follow That Bird
  Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird is a 1985 American road film directed by Ken Kwapis, starring many Sesame Street characters . This was the first of two Sesame Street feature films, followed in 1999 by The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland...
  
  
• That's Dancing!
  That's Dancing!
  That's Dancing! is a 1985 retrospective documentary produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that looked back at the history of dancing in film. Unlike the That's Entertainment! series, this film did not focus specifically on MGM films and included more recent performances by the likes of John Travolta and...
  
  

1986

• Absolute Beginners
  Absolute Beginners (film)
  Absolute Beginners is a 1986 British rock musical film adapted from the Colin MacInnes book of the same name about life in late 1950s London. The film was directed by Julien Temple, featured David Bowie and Sade, and a breakout role by Patsy Kensit...
  
  
• An American Tail
  An American Tail
  An American Tail is a 1986 American animated adventure film directed by Don Bluth and produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios and Amblin Entertainment. The film tells the story of Fievel Mouskewitz and his family as they immigrate from Russia to America for freedom. However, Fievel gets lost and must...
  
   (animated)
• El Amor brujo
  El Amor brujo (1986 film)
  El amor brujo or Carlos Saura Dance Trilogy, Part 3: El Amor Brujo is a 1986 Spanish musical film written and directed by Carlos Saura. It was directed and choreographed in the flamenco style. It is the third part of the Saura's flamenco trilogy he made in the 80's, after Bodas de sangre in 1981...
  
  
• Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale
  Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale
  Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale is a 1986 New Zealand animated film, based on cartoonist Murray Ball's popular comic strip, Footrot Flats. It was New Zealand's first feature-length animated film.-Plot:Wal Footrot and Cooch Windgrass are shearing sheep on Wal's farm...
  
   (animated)
• The Frog Prince
  The Frog Prince (1986 film)
  The Frog Prince, aka Cannon Movie Tales: The Frog Prince, Der Froschkönig , is a 1986 musical film, based on the Brothers Grimm's classic fairytale. It is rated "G" and was filmed in Tel Aviv, Israel...
  
  
• Little Shop of Horrors
  Little Shop of Horrors (1986 film)
  Little Shop of Horrors is a 1986 American comedy musical film adaptation of the off-Broadway musical comedy of the same name by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a nerdy florist shop worker who raises a vicious plant that feeds on human blood...
  
  
• Population: 1
  Population: 1
  Population: 1 is a 1986 punk rock musical film written and directed by Rene Daalder.The film stars Tomata du Plenty of the Screamers as a defense contractor who somehow becomes the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust. In his solitude, he traces the history of U.S...
  
  
• True Stories
  True Stories (film)
  True Stories is an American film that spans the genres of musical, art, and comedy, directed by and starring David Byrne of the band Talking Heads. It co-stars John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, and Spalding Gray. Byrne has described the film as, "A project with songs based on true stories from tabloid...
  
  
• Under the Cherry Moon
  Under the Cherry Moon
  Under the Cherry Moon is a 1986 film directed by and starring Prince as a gigolo named Christopher Tracy and Time member Jerome Benton as his partner, Tricky. Together, the pair swindle wealthy French women...
  
  
• Labyrinth (film)
  Labyrinth (film)
  Labyrinth is a 1986 British/American fantasy film directed by Jim Henson, produced by George Lucas, and designed by Brian Froud. Henson collaborated on the screenwriting with children's author Dennis Lee, Terry Jones from Monty Python, and Elaine May .The film stars David Bowie as Jareth the Goblin...
  
  
• The Frog Prince
  The Frog Prince (1986 film)
  The Frog Prince, aka Cannon Movie Tales: The Frog Prince, Der Froschkönig , is a 1986 musical film, based on the Brothers Grimm's classic fairytale. It is rated "G" and was filmed in Tel Aviv, Israel...
  
  

1987

• Aria
  Aria (1987 film)
  Aria is a 1987 British musical film.-Cast:This is just the main cast for each of the 10 films:*Theresa Russell - King Zog *Stephanie Lane - Baroness...
  
  
• Beauty and the Beast
  Beauty and the Beast (1987 film)
  Beauty and the Beast is a 1987 American/Israeli musical film, part of the 1980 film series Cannon Movie Tales...
  
  
• The Brave Little Toaster
  The Brave Little Toaster (film)
  The Brave Little Toaster is a 1987 animated adventure film adapted from the 1980 novel of the same name by Thomas Disch. The film was directed by Jerry Rees and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film is set in a world where household appliances and other electronics have the ability to speak...
  
   (animated)
• The Chipmunk Adventure
  The Chipmunk Adventure
  The Chipmunk Adventure is a 1987 American animated film featuring the characters from NBC's Saturday morning cartoon Alvin and the Chipmunks. The Chipmunk Adventure was directed by Janice Karman from a screenplay by Karman and Ross Bagdasarian Jr....
  
   (animated)
• Dirty Dancing
  Dirty Dancing
  Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic film. Written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed by Emile Ardolino, the film features Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the lead roles, as well as Cynthia Rhodes and Jerry Orbach...
  
  
• It Couldn't Happen Here
  It Couldn't Happen Here
  It Couldn't Happen Here is a 1988 musical film starring the British pop duo Pet Shop Boys and based around their music. It was originally conceived as an hour-long video based around their album Actually, but it turned into a surreal full-scale feature film directed by Jack Bond and co-starring...
  
  
• Snow White
  Snow White (1987 film)
  Snow White is a 1987 musical film based on the classic fairytale and released as part of the "Cannon Movie Tales" series. Diana Rigg stars as the Wicked Queen.The film was released straight to video...
  
  
• The Return of Bruno
  The Return of Bruno (film)
  The Return of Bruno is a 1987 comedic film, originally aired as a one-hour special on HBO and later released on VHS. It is a mockumentary starring Bruce Willis as his fictitious alter ego "Bruno Radolini", a legendary blues singer...
  
  

1988

• Big Time
  Big Time (1988 film)
  Big Time, aka Wielki czas , is a 1988 American musical film, centered around Tom Waits.-Cast:* Tom Waits - Himself* Michael L. Blair - Musician* Ralph Carney - Musician* Greg Cohen - Musician* Marc Ribot - Musician...
  
  
• Earth Girls Are Easy
  Earth Girls Are Easy
  Earth Girls Are Easy is a 1988 American musical comedy film directed by Julien Temple. It stars Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Michael McKean, Julie Brown, Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans. The film is marketed with the tagline "An out-of-this-world, down-to-earth comedy adventure"...
  
  
• La Bailanta
  La Bailanta
  La Bailanta is a 1988 Argentine musical film directed and written by Luis Rodrigo.-Cast:*Teresa Parodi*Antonio Tarrago Ros*Alberto Busaid*Rodolfo Machado*Leandro Regúnaga*Enrique Kossi*Mario Alarcón*Mabel Dai*Alberto Lagos*Luis Rodrigo...
  
  
• The New Adventures Of Pippi Longstocking
  The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
  The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking is a 1988 Swedish/American fantasy–adventure–musical film based on the books of the fictional character Pippi Longstocking, created by Swedish children's book author Astrid Lindgren . While the title suggests the movie is a continuation, it is in...
  
  
• Moonwalker
  Moonwalker
  Moonwalker, also known as Michael Jackson: Moonwalker, is an American anthology film released in 1988 by singer Michael Jackson....
  
  
• Oliver and Company (animated)
• Puss in Boots
  Puss in Boots (1988 film)
  This article is about the 1988 musical, For the 1969, 1999 and 2011 films see Puss in Boots , Puss in Boots and Puss in Boots ...
  
  
• School Daze
  School Daze
  School Daze is a 1988 American musical-drama film, written and directed by Spike Lee, and starring Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, and Tisha Campbell-Martin...
  
  
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy-comedy-noir film directed by Robert Zemeckis and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film combines live action and animation, and is based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, which depicts a world in which cartoon characters...
  
   (animated/ live action)

1989

• All Dogs Go to Heaven
  All Dogs Go to Heaven
  All Dogs Go to Heaven is a 1989 Irish-English animated film directed and produced by Don Bluth and released by United Artists. The film tells the story of two dogs, Charlie B. Barkin and his loyal best friend Itchy Itchiford...
  
   (animated)
• Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
  Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
  Bert Rigby, You're a Fool is a 1989 American musical film directed by Carl Reiner, and starring Robert Lindsay in the title role.-Plot:Bert Rigby is a miner in a small dying town of Langmore in northern England, with aspirations to show business. He tells the story in flashback, while sitting in a...
  
  
• Boris Godunov
• The Little Mermaid
  The Little Mermaid (1989 film)
  The Little Mermaid is a 1989 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the same name. Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, the film was originally released to theaters on November 14, 1989 and is the twenty-eighth film in...
  
   (animated)
• Red Riding Hood
  Red Riding Hood (1989 film)
  Red Riding Hood is a 1989 American/Israeli fantasy film by Golan-Globus based on the fairy tale of...
  
  

1990

• Cry-Baby
  Cry-Baby
  Cry-Baby is a 1990 American teen musical film written and directed by John Waters. It stars Johnny Depp as 1950s teen rebel "Cry-Baby" Wade Walker, and also features an expansive ensemble cast that includes Amy Locane, Iggy Pop, Traci Lords, Ricki Lake, Kim McGuire, David Nelson, Susan Tyrrell, and...
  
  
• Dick Tracy
• Graffiti Bridge
  Graffiti Bridge (film)
  Graffiti Bridge is a 1990 drama/musical written, directed, and starring Prince. It is a sequel to his first film, Purple Rain, though notorious for its relatively low quality and poor performance at the box-office...
  
  
• Live in East Berlin
  Live in East Berlin
  Live in East Berlin is a VHS by German thrash metal band Kreator released in 1990 by Noise Records. It was recorded on the Extreme Aggression tour.-Track listing:#"Some Pain Will Last" - 6:15#"Extreme Aggression" - 4:27#"Under the Guillotine" - 4:36...
  
  
• Polly: Comin' Home!
• Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever
  Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever
  Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever is a 1991 musical comedy film and sequel to the 1979 film Rock 'n' Roll High School. The film stars Corey Feldman, Mary Woronov, and Sarah Buxton.-Plot:...
  
  
• Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
  Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
  Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme is a 1990 musical TV movie that aired on the Disney Channel starring Shelley Duvall as Little Bo Peep and Dan Gilroy as Gordon Goose, the son of Mother Goose along with a star-studded supporting cast of various other actors and...
  
  

1991

• An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
  An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
  An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is a 1991 American animated film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio and released by Universal Pictures. It is the sequel to An American Tail, and the fourth installment in terms of the series' fictional chronology...
  
   (animated)
• At the Max
  At the Max
  At the Max is a 1991 documentary musical film of The Rolling Stones' 1990 Steel Wheels concert. The tagline was "Larger than life".-Cast:*Mick Jagger - Himself...
  
  
• Beauty and the Beast
  Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)
  Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The thirtieth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and the third film of the Disney Renaissance period...
  
   (animated)
• The Five Heartbeats
  The Five Heartbeats
  The Five Heartbeats is a 1991 musical drama film directed by Robert Townsend, who co-wrote the script with Keenan Ivory Wayans. Distributed by 20th Century Fox, the film's main cast includes Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon Robinson, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells, Harold Nicholas of the Nicholas...
  
  
• For the Boys
  For the Boys
  For the Boys is a 1991 film which tells the story of Dixie Leonard, a 1940s actress/singer who teams up with Eddie Sparks, a famous performer to entertain American troops. The film traces her life through 50 years. The original music score was composed by Dave Grusin.The film was adapted by...
  
  
• Stepping Out
  Stepping Out (1991 film)
  Stepping Out is a 1991 musical-comedy film directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Liza Minnelli, written by Richard Harris and based on a play also written by Harris. Minnelli plays the role of a has-been Broadway performer who gives tap lesson to a group of misfits who, through their dance classes,...
  
  
• The Supporter
  The Supporter
  El Acompañamiento is a 1991 Argentine musical drama film directed and written by Carlos Orgambide...
  
   (Argentina)
• Rock-A-Doodle
  Rock-A-Doodle
  Rock-a-Doodle is a 1992 American animated re-telling of Edmond Rostand's comedy, Chantecler. This film was directed by Don Bluth, produced by Goldcrest Films for The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and originally released in the United States on April 3, 1992.-Plot:Chanticleer is a proud rooster whose...
  
   (animated)

1992

• Aladdin (animated)
• At the Edge of the Law
  At the Edge of the Law
  At the Edge of the Law is a 1992 Argentine action thriller film directed and written by Juan Carlos Desanzo. The film starred Rodolfo Ranni and Gerardo Romano.-Synopsis:A pair of swindlers robs a hotel in Miami...
  
  
• For Those About to Rock (film)
  For Those About to Rock (film)
  For Those About To Rock is the name of a video containing live performances by AC/DC, Metallica, The Black Crowes, Pantera and E.S.T. in the Tushino Airfield in Moscow, during the implosion of the Soviet Union....
  
   (video)
• Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
  Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
  Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, known in Japan as simply Nemo, is a 1989 animated film directed by Masami Hata and William T. Hurtz. Loosely based on the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay, the film went through a lengthy development process with a number of screenwriters...
  
   (animated)
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
  The Muppet Christmas Carol
  The Muppet Christmas Carol is a 1992 musical comedy film adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, starring Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge, directed by Brian Henson, produced by The Jim Henson Company, and released by Walt Disney Pictures...
  
  
• Newsies
  Newsies
  Newsies is a 1992 Disney musical film starring Christian Bale, David Moscow, and Bill Pullman. Robert Duvall and Ann-Margret also appeared in supporting roles. The movie is widely claimed to have gained a cult following after its initial failure at the box office...
  
  
• Sister Act
  Sister Act
  Sister Act is a 1992 American comedy film released by Touchstone Pictures. Directed by Emile Ardolino, it features musical arrangements by Marc Shaiman and stars Whoopi Goldberg as a Reno lounge singer who has been put under protective custody in a San Francisco convent and has to pretend to be a...
  
  

1993

• Gift (1993 film)
• Gypsy (1993 film)
  Gypsy (1993 film)
  Gypsy is a 1993 musical television film directed by Emile Ardolino. The teleplay by Arthur Laurents is an adaptation of his book of the 1959 stage musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable, which was based on Gypsy: A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee....
  
   (television film)
• Tom and Jerry: The Movie
  Tom and Jerry: The Movie
  Tom and Jerry: The Movie is a 1992 American animated musical film directed by Phil Roman, and produced by Film Roman and Turner Pictures. It is a film adaptation of the Tom and Jerry series of theatrical shorts....
  
   (animated)
• David Copperfield
  David Copperfield (1993 film)
  David Copperfield is a 1993 traditionally-animated musical feature-length adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic story of the same name. It was directed by Don Arioli and features the voices of Sheena Easton, Julian Lennon, Howie Mandel, Andrea Martin, Kelly LeBrock, Michael York, Joseph Marcell...
  
   (animated)
• The Line, the Cross & the Curve
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
  The Nightmare Before Christmas
  The Nightmare Before Christmas, often promoted as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, is a 1993 stop motion musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced/co-written by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, a being from "Halloween Town" who opens a portal to...
  
   (animated)
• Raising Hell
  Raising Hell (video)
  Raising Hell is a concert video by the heavy metal band Iron Maiden, filmed on 28 August 1993 at the Pinewood Studios in London, England and broadcast live on pay-per-view television in North America. It was later bought by the BBC for broadcast in the UK as an edited version. The video is...
  
   (video)
• Robin Hood: Men In Tights
  Robin Hood: Men in Tights
  Robin Hood: Men in Tights is a 1993 French-American adventure comedy film and a parody of the Robin Hood story. Produced and directed by Mel Brooks, the film stars Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, and Dave Chappelle in his film debut...
  
  
• Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
  Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
  Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit is a 1993 comedy film starring Whoopi Goldberg. Directed by Bill Duke, and released by Touchstone Pictures, it is the sequel to the successful 1992 film Sister Act...
  
  

1994

• Brave
• The Lion King
  The Lion King
  The Lion King is a 1994 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 32nd feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series...
  
   (animated)
• Thumbelina
  Thumbelina (1994 film)
  Thumbelina is a 1994 American animated film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman from a screenplay by Bluth based on Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina. The film was produced by Don Bluth Entertainment and was released to movie theaters by Warner Bros...
  
   (animated)
• The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
  The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
  The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure, is a 1994 direct-to-video animated film directed by Roy Allen Smith, is the first of many animated sequels to the film The Land Before Time. It was released six years after the original.The tone, lighting and plot of the film was made much softer...
  
   (animated)
• The Return of Jafar
  The Return of Jafar
  The Return of Jafar is a 1994 American animated film that is a direct-to-video sequel to the 1992 animated film Aladdin, both produced by The Walt Disney Company. The film was released on May 20, 1994 and serves as the origin of the Aladdin animated series...
  
   (animated)
• That's Entertainment! III
• A Troll in Central Park
  A Troll in Central Park
  A Troll in Central Park is a 1994 animated feature-length film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, creators of films such as Thumbelina, The Land Before Time, and All Dogs Go to Heaven. It was released on October 7, 1994 by Warner Bros...
  
   (animated)
• The Swan Princess
  The Swan Princess
  The Swan Princess is a 1994 American animated film based on the ballet "Swan Lake". Starring the voice talents of Jack Palance, John Cleese, Steven Wright, and Sandy Duncan, the film is directed by a former Disney animation director, Richard Rich, with a music score by Lex de Azevedo...
  
   (animated)
• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
  The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
  The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot is based on the journey of three drag queens who travel across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a tour bus that they have named...
  
  

1995

• Akropol
  Akropol
  Akropol is a 1995 musical film by Alco Films . It is directed by Pantelis Voulgaris, and was filmed wholly in Sofia, Bulgaria.-Cast:*Lefteris Voyatzis - Lakis Loizos...
  
  
• Bye Bye Birdie
• Monster Mash (1995 film)
  Monster Mash (1995 film)
  Monster Mash is a horror-themed musical film, based on the Bobby "Boris" Pickett song Monster Mash and the 1967 stage musical, I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night, also by Pickett and Sheldon Allman. The film starred Pickett himself as Dr...
  
  
• The Nona Tapes
  The Nona Tapes
  The Nona Tapes is a 1995 mockumentary by the grunge band Alice in Chains. Because it is no longer for sale, original copies are considered a rarity, however, in 2006 Best Buy offered a DVD version for free for a limited time with purchases of The Essential Alice in Chains.-Overview:The Nona Tapes...
  
  
• Pocahontas
  Pocahontas (1995 film)
  Pocahontas is the 33rd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and was originally released to selected theaters on June 16, 1995 by Walt Disney Pictures...
  
   (animated)
• The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving
  The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving
  The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving is a 1995 animated direct-to-video film directed by Roy Allen Smith. It is the second sequel to the The Land Before Time and the third film in the film franchise.- Plot :...
  
   (animated)
• Let It Be Me
  Let It Be Me (film)
  Let It Be Me is a 1995 musical film starring Campbell Scott, Jennifer Beals, Yancy Butler, Leslie Caron, James Goodwin and Patrick Stewart. It was written and directed by Eleanor Bergstein....
  
  
• The Pebble and the Penguin
  The Pebble and the Penguin
  The Pebble and the Penguin is a 1995 animated musical film, based on the true life mating rituals of the Adelie Penguins in Antarctica, produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. The film was released to theatres on April 11, 1995 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the United States and...
  
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1996

• Adiós, abuelo
  Adiós, abuelo
  Adiós Abuelo is a 1996 Argentine musical film directed by Emilio Vieyra and written by Isaac Aisemberg. The film starred Alejandro Urdapilleta and Alejandra Flechner...
  
  
• Al Corazón
  Al Corazón
  Al Corazón is a 1996 Argentine documentary musical film dancing directed and written by Mario Sábato. The film starred Libertad Lamarque and Alberto Castillo...
  
  
• Cannibal! The Musical
  Cannibal! The Musical
  Cannibal! The Musical is a 1993 independent film directed by co-creator of South Park, Trey Parker, while studying at the University of Colorado at Boulder...
  
  
• Everyone Says I Love You
  Everyone Says I Love You
  Everyone Says I Love You is a 1996 American musical film that was written and directed by Woody Allen. The film features many stars, including Julia Roberts, Alan Alda, Edward Norton, Drew Barrymore, Gaby Hoffmann, Tim Roth, Goldie Hawn, and Natalie Portman.Set in New York, Venice, and Paris, the...
  
  
• Evita
  Evita (film)
  Evita is the 1996 film adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of the same name based on the life of Eva Perón. It was directed by Alan Parker and written by Parker and Oliver Stone. It starred Madonna, Antonio Banderas, and Jonathan Pryce...
  
  
• The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
  The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
  The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists is a 1996 direct-to-video film directed by Roy Allen Smith. This was supposed to be the last Land Before Time sequel directed by Smith, and the last sequel to feature any of the original voice cast...
  
   (animated)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film)
  The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1996 American animated drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released to theaters on June 21, 1996 by Walt Disney Pictures. The thirty-fourth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, the film is inspired by Victor Hugo's novel of...
  
   (animated)
• Muppet Treasure Island
  Muppet Treasure Island
  Muppet Treasure Island is a 1996 American musical film based on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. It is the fifth feature film to star The Muppets and was directed by Jim Henson's son Brian Henson....
  
  
• That Thing You Do!
  That Thing You Do!
  That Thing You Do! is a 1996 comedy-drama musical film written and directed by Tom Hanks. Set in the summer of 1964, the movie tells the story of the quick rise and fall of a one-hit wonder rock band...
  
  
• James and the Giant Peach
  James and the Giant Peach (film)
  James and the Giant Peach is a 1996 musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was produced by Tim Burton and Denise Di Novi. The film is a combination of live action and stop-motion animation....
  
   (animated)
• All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
  All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
  All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 is a 1996 American animated family film, and a sequel to United Artists' 1989 animated film All Dogs Go to Heaven. It is directed by Larry Leker and Paul Sabella...
  
   (animated)
• Aladdin and the King of Thieves
  Aladdin and the King of Thieves
  Aladdin and the King of Thieves is a 1996 animated film that is the second direct-to-video sequel to the Disney animated feature Aladdin...
  
   (animated)

1997

• Anastasia
  Anastasia (1997 film)
  Anastasia is a 1997 American animated musical film produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. It was the first feature film to be released by Fox Animation Studios....
  
   (animated)
• Cabaret Neiges Noires
  Cabaret Neiges Noires
  "Cabaret Neiges Noires" is a 1997 French Canadian musical film, by Cine Qua Non Films. It is directed by Raymond Saint-Jean and is written by Dominic Champagne...
  
  
• Cats Don't Dance
  Cats Don't Dance
  Cats Don't Dance is a 1997 animated musical comedy film, notable as the only fully animated feature produced by Turner Entertainment's feature animation unit . The film was distributed by Warner Bros. Family Entertainment...
  
   (animated)
• Cinderella
• Hercules
  Hercules (1997 film)
  Hercules is a 1997 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The thirty-fifth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film was directed by Ron Clements and John Musker...
  
   (animated)
• Selena
  Selena (film)
  Selena is a 1997 American biographical drama film about the life and career of the late Tejano music star Selena, a recording artist who was well known in the Mexican-American and Hispanic communities in the United States and Mexico before she was shot to death at the age of twenty-three.The movie...
  
  
• Spiceworld
  Spiceworld (film)
  Spice World is a 1997 British musical comedy film directed by Bob Spiers, written by Kim Fuller and Jamie Curtis, and starring the best-selling pop girl group the Spice Girls...
  
  
• Pippi Longstocking
  Pippi Longstocking (1997 film)
  Pippi Longstocking is a 1997 animated musical film from AB Svensk Filmindustri and Nelvana, based on the eponymous children's books by Astrid Lindgren. It was distributed theatrically by Legacy Releasing and on DVD by Warner Bros., and was served as a pilot of a spin-off television series on HBO in...
  
   (animated)
• The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island
  The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island
  The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island is a 1997 animated film directed by Roy Allen Smith. This is the first film in the series in which Anndi McAfee is the voice of Cera, and Aria Noelle Curzon is the voice of Ducky...
  
   (animated)
• The Swan Princess II: Escape from Castle Mountain
  The Swan Princess II: Escape from Castle Mountain
  The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain is the first sequel to the animated film The Swan Princess. It was directed by Richard Rich and released in 1997....
  
   (animated)
• Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
  Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
  Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin is a 1997 direct-to-video film from Walt Disney's The Many Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh. The film follows Pooh and his friends on a journey to find and rescue their friend Christopher Robin from the "Skull"...
  
   (animated)
• Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
  Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
  Beauty and The Beast: The Enchanted Christmas is a 1997 animated holiday special produced by The Walt Disney Company. It is a midquel that takes place within the timeline of the original Beauty and the Beast...
  
   (animated)
• Babes in Toyland
  Babes in Toyland (1997 film)
  Babes in Toyland is a 1997 American animated musical film based on the original story. The animated feature stars Joseph Ashton, Lacey Chabert, Raphael Sbarge, Cathy Cavadini, Christopher Plummer, and Charles Nelson Reilly.-Plot:...
  
   (animated)

1998

• Blues Brothers 2000
  Blues Brothers 2000
  Blues Brothers 2000 is a 1998 American musical comedy film that is a sequel to the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. Directed by John Landis, the film featured Dan Aykroyd and John Goodman, with cameos by many musicians.-Plot:...
  
  
• Buenos Aires me mata
  Buenos Aires me mata
  Buenos Aires me mata is a 1998 Argentine musical film drama directed and written by Beda Docampo Feijóo. The film premiered on 13 August 1998 in Buenos Aires. The film stars Imanol Arias portraying a drag queen....
  
  
• The Hole
  The Hole (1998 film)
  The Hole is a 1998 drama-musical film directed by Tsai Ming-liang. It stars Yang Kuei-Mei and Lee Kang-sheng.-Plot:A strange disease hits Taiwan just before the turn of the new millennium...
  
  
• The Mighty Kong
  The Mighty Kong
  The Mighty Kong is a 1998 animated, musical adaptation of the classic King Kong story. Jodi Benson and Dudley Moore headed its cast of voice actors...
  
   (animated)
• Mulan (animated)
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
  Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
  Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie is a 1998 animated film based on the film of the same name by Robert May. It was the first theatrical feature from GoodTimes Entertainment, long known as a home video company. The film's animation was produced by Yowza! Animation, Wang Film Productions &...
  
   (animated)
• The Prince of Egypt
  The Prince of Egypt
  The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated musical drama film and the first traditionally animated film produced and released by DreamWorks Animation. The film is an adaptation of the Book of Exodus and follows the life of Moses from being a prince of Egypt to his ultimate destiny to lead the...
  
   (animated)
• Velvet Goldmine
  Velvet Goldmine
  Velvet Goldmine is a 1998 British/American drama film directed and co-written by Todd Haynes. The film tells the story of a pop star based mainly on David Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust' character and is set in Britain during the days of glam rock in the early 1970s.Sandy Powell received another Academy...
  
  
• Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
  Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
  Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World is a 1998 straight-to-video sequel to the 1995 Disney film Pocahontas. The film is inspired by true events in the life of Pocahontas which took place several years after her encounter with John Smith and the founders of Jamestown...
  
   (animated)
• The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
  The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
  The Lion King II: Simba's Pride is a 1998 American direct-to-video animated film released by Walt Disney Home Video on October 27, 1998. The film is the sequel to the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King...
  
   (animated)
• Quest for Camelot
  Quest for Camelot
  Quest for Camelot is a 1998 animated feature film from Warner Bros. Animation, based on the novel The King's Damosel by Vera Chapman, starring the voices of Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes, Gary Oldman, Eric Idle, Don Rickles, Jane Seymour, Pierce Brosnan, Bronson Pinchot, Jaleel White, Gabriel Byrne,...
  
   (animated)
• The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock
  The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock
  The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock, is a 1998 and the sixth film in the series of animated adventure films called The Land Before Time about five dinosaurs who live in the Great Valley. This film was originally scheduled to be the last in the series...
  
   (animated)
• The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue
  The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue
  The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue is a 1998 American direct-to-video animated film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation and the sequel to the 1982 animated film The Secret of NIMH. In the film, Timothy Brisby, the youngest son of Jonathan and Mrs. Brisby, goes to Thorn Valley wanting...
  
   (animated)
• An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
  An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
  An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island, titled in the film as An American Tail III: The Treasure of Manhattan Island was the first direct-to-video and third film in the An American Tail series. This film was first released in the UK in 1998. It was released by Universal Studios Home...
  
   (animated)
• The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Kingdom
  The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Kingdom
  The Swan Princess III and the Mystery of the Enchanted Treasure is the second and final sequel to the animated film The Swan Princess...
  
   (animated)
• An All Dogs Christmas Carol
  An All Dogs Christmas Carol
  An All Dogs Christmas Carol is a 1998 animated TV movie which was originally aired on ABC. It is the third and currently final installment in the All Dogs Go to Heaven film series. Unlike the first two films, Carface is the story's main character...
  
   (animated)
• The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
  The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
  The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars is the name of both a children's book by Thomas Disch, as well as the film made from same. Both are sequels to the book and film versions of The Brave Little Toaster. The movie was distributed by Walt Disney Home Video. It was released in 1998...
  
   (animated)
• Barney's Great Adventure
  Barney's Great Adventure
  Barney's Great Adventure is a 1998 musical adventure film based on the children's television series Barney & Friends, featuring the character Barney the dinosaur...
  
  

1999

• Annie
  Annie (1999 film)
  Annie is a 1999 American made-for-television musical-comedy film from The Wonderful World of Disney, based on the 1977 stage musical Annie and its 1982 film adaptation, which themselves were based on the 1924 Little Orphan Annie comic strip by Harold Gray.The film stars Kathy Bates, Victor Garber,...
  
   (television film)
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
  South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
  South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is a 1999 animated musical comedy film based on the animated television series South Park, created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker. The film was directed by Parker, who also stars along with the rest of the regular voice cast from the series, including Stone, Mary...
  
   (animated)
• Tarzan
  Tarzan (1999 film)
  Tarzan is a 1999 American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 18, 1999...
  
   (animated)
• The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
  The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
  The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland is the second theatrical feature-length film starring the cast of the popular U.S. children's series Sesame Street...
  
  
• The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (animated)
• Wakko's Wish
  Wakko's Wish
  Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish, usually referred to as Wakko's Wish is a 1999 American direct-to-video animated tragicomedy film based on the Warner Bros. 1993-98 animated series, Animaniacs, and also the swan song to the series...
  
   (animated)
• An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
  An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster
  An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster was the second direct-to-video sequel to An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island and the 4th and last film in the An American Tail tetralogy, starring Thomas Alexander Dekker as the main character, the young Fievel Mousekewitz. This film...
  
   (animated)
• Madeline: Lost in Paris
  Madeline: Lost in Paris
  Madeline: Lost in Paris is an animated Madeline television film, produced by DIC Entertainment and released on Direct-to-video on 3 August 1999. It was released to VHS by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment...
  
   (animated)
• Double Platinum
  Double Platinum
  Double Platinum is a 1999 musical telefilm starring Diana Ross and Brandy.-Plot:The story begins with a scene featuring star singer Olivia King leaving her daughter Kayla, who was an infant at the time. It is revealed that Kayla was born in Atlanta, Georgia, but in her later years, she would move...
  
   (television film)

2000

• Dancer in the Dark
  Dancer in the Dark
  Dancer in the Dark is a 2000 Danish musical drama film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Icelandic singer Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Cara Seymour, Peter Stormare, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, and Joel Grey...
  
  
• The Tigger Movie
  The Tigger Movie
  The Tigger Movie is a 2000 animated comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Jun Falkenstein. Part of the Winnie-the-Pooh series, this film features Pooh's friend Tigger in his search for his family tree and other Tiggers like himself...
  
   (animated)
• The Road to El Dorado
  The Road to El Dorado
  The Road to El Dorado is a 2000 American animated adventure comedy film by DreamWorks. The soundtrack features songs by Elton John and Tim Rice, the music team from Disney's The Lion King....
  
   (animated)
• The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
  The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
  The film's official soundtrack was released on September 19, 2000. The soundtrack was released internationally on October 31, 2000 in a special edition double pack with the original film's soundtrack...
  
   (animated)
• The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire
  The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire
  The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire is a film released in 2000 and the seventh film in The Land Before Time series.-Plot:...
  
   (animated)
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas

2001

• Moulin Rouge!
  Moulin Rouge!
  Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 romantic jukebox musical film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. Following the Red Curtain Cinema principles, the film is based on the Orphean myth, La Traviata, and La Bohème...
  
  
• The Happiness of the Katakuris
  The Happiness of the Katakuris
  is a 2001 film directed by Takashi Miike, with screenplay by Kikumi Yamagishi. It is loosely based on the South Korean film The Quiet Family. The film is a surreal horror-comedy in the farce tradition, which includes claymation sequences, musical and dance numbers, a karaoke-style sing-along...
  
  
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film)
  Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a 2001 American musical comedy-drama film based on the stage musical of the same title about a fictional rock band fronted by an East German transgender singer. The film was adapted and directed by John Cameron Mitchell, who also portrayed the title role...
  
  
• South Pacific
  South Pacific (2001 film)
  Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific is a made-for-television movie, directed by Richard Pearce in 2001. This ABC production starred Glenn Close, Harry Connick, Jr. and Rade Šerbedžija...
  
   (television film)
• Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
  Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
  Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure is a 2001 direct-to-video animated film which was released on February 27, 2001 by The Walt Disney Company as a sequel to the 1955 feature film Lady and the Tramp. The story centers around Lady and Tramp's anthropomorphic puppy, Scamp, and his desire to...
  
   (animated)
• The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze
  The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze
  The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze is a 2001 film and the eighth film in The Land Before Time series.-Plot:When the dinosaur families get trapped in a valley by an ice storm, one family of "spiketail" dinosaurs volunteers to leave since they consume more food than the others. Meanwhile, the...
  
   (animated)
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys (animated)

2002

• 8 femmes
  8 femmes
  8 Women is a 2002 French musical comedy murder-mystery film, directed by François Ozon and based on the play by Robert Thomas. The film was known as 8 femmes to distinguish it from the 1972 play entitled Huit femmes.- Plot :...
  
  
• Chicago
  Chicago (2002 film)
  Chicago is a 2002 musical film adapted from the satirical stage musical of the same name, exploring the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Jazz-age Chicago....
  
  
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
  The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
  The Hunchback of Notre Dame II is a 2002 direct-to-video sequel to the 1996 Disney animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It was produced by Walt Disney Animation Japan...
  
   (animated)
• The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water
  The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water
  The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water is a 2002 animated film and the ninth film in The Land Before Time series. It was produced and directed by Charles Grosvenor, with the last time they would use the soundtrack composed by James Horner...
  
   (animated)
• Return to Never Land
  Return to Never Land
  Return to Never Land is a 2002 American animated film produced by DisneyToon Studios in Sydney, Australia and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film is a sequel to the 1953 film Peter Pan, based on J.M...
  
   (animated)
• Rock Steady Live
  Rock Steady Live
  Rock Steady Live is a video album by American ska punk band No Doubt, released on DVD on November 25, 2003 under the Interscope records label. The DVD was directed by Sophie Muller. It is a recording of two of No Doubt's concerts during their Rock Steady Tour in 2002 to promote their fifth studio...
  
  
• Rebelové
  Rebelové
  Rebelové is a 2001 Czech musical film.-Plot:The story, set in the year of 1968's Prague Spring and the Soviet invasion, features a planned escape to the West and the arrest of one of its central characters for desertion from the army...
  
   (Czech Republic)
• Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year
  Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year
  A Very Merry Pooh Year is a direct to video Winnie the Pooh film released in 2002 which featured the 1991 Christmas TV special Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too, as well as the new film, Happy Pooh Year....
  
   (animated)
• Eight Crazy Nights
  Eight Crazy Nights
  Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights is a 2002 animated musical comedy film co-written by and starring Adam Sandler. Unlike most mainstream holiday films, it centers on Jewish characters during the Hanukkah season, as opposed to religious or secular celebration of Christmas...
  
   (animated)
• Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
  Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
  Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie is a 2002 American computer-animated film based on VeggieTales, produced by Big Idea Productions, Lions Gate Films and FHE Pictures. It is the first feature-length film in the VeggieTales series....
  
   (animated)

2003

• The Cheetah Girls
  The Cheetah Girls (film)
  The Cheetah Girls is a 2003 musical Disney Channel Original Movie, the first for Disney Channel, based on a bestselling series of young adult books of the same name by Deborah Gregory...
  
   (television film)
• From Justin to Kelly
  From Justin to Kelly
  From Justin to Kelly is a 2003 American romantic comedy musical film starring Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini, the winner and runner-up, respectively, of the first season of American Idol...
  
  
• Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
  Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
  is a feature-length Japanese animated musical film originally released on December 1, 2003. The film is the visual realization of Discovery, an album by Daft Punk. Each track from the album has been animated as an episode in the story of the abduction and rescue of an interstellar pop band...
  
   (animated)
• The Jungle Book 2
  The Jungle Book 2
  The Jungle Book 2 is a 2003 American animated film produced by the DisneyToons studio in Sydney, Australia and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. The theatrical version of the film was released in France on February 5, 2003, and released in the United States on February...
  
   (animated)
• The Music Man
  The Music Man
  The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naive townsfolk before skipping town with...
  
   (television film)
• The Saddest Music in the World
  The Saddest Music in the World
  The Saddest Music in the World is a 2003 Canadian film directed by Guy Maddin. It stars Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox and Ross McMillan....
  
  
• The Singing Detective
  The Singing Detective (film)
  The Singing Detective is a 2003 film based on the BBC serial The Singing Detective, a work by Dennis Potter. It stars Robert Downey, Jr...
  
  
• Piglet's Big Movie
  Piglet's Big Movie
  Piglet's Big Movie is a 2003 American animated film produced by DisneyToon Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on March 21, 2003. It is based upon the characters in the Winnie-the-Pooh books written by A. A. Milne...
  
   (animated)
• The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration
  The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration
  The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration is the tenth film in the Land Before Time series.-Plot:Littlefoot has nightmares which involve the sun, or "Great Circle". He mentions it to his grandparents, who share the experience. Grandpa has a feeling that he wants to "go somewhere", and...
  
   (animated)
• Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure
  Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure
  Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure is a 2003 direct-to-video animated film, and a sequel to the 1973 film Charlotte's Web. It was produced by Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures , Universal Cartoon Studios , and Nickelodeon; and distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment in North...
  
   (animated)
• 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
  101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
  101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure is a 2003 American direct-to-video animated film released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment on January 21, 2003. The film is the sequel to the 1961 Disney animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians...
  
   (animated)
• Camp
  Camp (film)
  Camp is a 2003 American independent musical film written and directed by Todd Graff, about an upstate New York performing arts summer camp. The film is based on Graff's own experiences at a similar camp called Stagedoor Manor. The film was released in 2003 by IFC Films.-Plot:The film centers on the...
  
  

2004

• A Christmas Carol
  A Christmas Carol (2004 film)
  A Christmas Carol, also known as A Christmas Carol: The Musical, is a 2004 television film based on a 1994 stage musical of the same name, with songs written by Alan Menken and Lynn Ahrens . The musical is based on Charles Dickens' famous 1843 novella of the same name, produced by Hallmark...
  
   (television film)
• Art Thief Musical!
  Art Thief Musical!
  Art Thief Musical! is a 2004 American short musical film by Linus Lau. It stars Autumn Reeser, Benjamin Sprunger, Matt O'Toole and Sean Smith. It premiered at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films in September 2004...
  
  
• Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper
  Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper
  Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper is a 2004 direct-to-video computer animated Barbie film, and the first musical in the Barbie film series. It is directed by William Lau and stars the voice of Kelly Sheridan, who has been voicing Barbie in all the CGI films to date, as both Anneliese and Erika...
  
   (animated)
• Beyond the Sea
  Beyond the Sea (film)
  Beyond the Sea is a 2004 biographical film based on the life of singer/actor Bobby Darin. Kevin Spacey, who stars in the lead role and used his own singing voice for the musical numbers, co-wrote, directed, and co-produced the film, which takes its title from the Darin song of the same name...
  
  
• Bride and Prejudice
  Bride and Prejudice
  Bride and Prejudice is a 2004 romantic musical film directed by Gurinder Chadha. The screenplay by Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges is a Bollywood-style adaptation of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It was filmed primarily in English, with some Hindi and Punjabi dialogue. The film released in...
  
  
• De-Lovely
  De-Lovely
  De-Lovely is a 2004 musical biopic directed by Irwin Winkler. The screenplay by Jay Cocks is based on the life and career of Cole Porter, from his first meeting with Linda Lee Thomas until his death...
  
  
• Shrek 2
  Shrek 2
  Shrek 2 is a 2004 American computer-animated fantasy comedy film, produced by DreamWorks Animation and directed by Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon. It is the second installment in the Shrek film series and the sequel to 2001's Shrek...
  
   (animated)
• Open House
  Open House (film)
  Open House is a 2004 real estate musical film starring Hedy Burress, Ann Magnuson, Anthony Rapp, Sally Kellerman, Jenna Leigh Green and Kellie Martin, and directed by Dan Mirvish, a co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival. It played on the film festival circuit in 2004-2005 and was released on...
  
  
• The Phantom of the Opera
  The Phantom of the Opera (2004 film)
  The Phantom of the Opera is a 2004 film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux....
  
  
• The Lion King 1½
  The Lion King 1½
  The Lion King 1½ is a 2004 American direct-to-video animated film released by Buena Vista Home Entertainment on February 10, 2004. The film is the third installment in the Lion King series. The DVD went to the Disney Vault in January 2005...
  
   (animated)
• Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo
  Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo
  Springtime with Roo is a direct-to-video animated film, featuring characters from Disney's Winnie-the-Pooh franchise.-Plot:An adaptation of the Charles Dickens's classic, A Christmas Carol. An overexcited Roo, along with Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Eeyore, pay Rabbit a visit to celebrate Easter...
  
   (animated)
• Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
  Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
  Mickey · Donald · Goofy: The Three Musketeers is a direct-to-video animated film adaptation of the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père. As the title suggests, it features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as the three musketeers...
  
   (animated)
• Teacher's Pet
  Teacher's Pet (film)
  Teacher's Pet is a 2004 animated musical film based on the television series of the same name; the film ends the central storyline of the series. The film was produced by DisneyToon Studios, and released to movie theaters in the United States in 2004...
  
   (animated)
• Home on the Range (animated)

2005

• Black Widow
  Black Widow (2005 film)
  Black Widow, a "Film Noir Musical" is based on the Evelyn Dick murder case. It premiered in September 2005 on the film festival circuit and on CBC Television in January 2006.-Cast:*Martin Tielli as Johnny Hardwick*Sarah Slean as Eve Hardwick...
  
  
• Boss'n Up
  Boss'n Up
  Snoop Dogg's "musical" film inspired by his preceding album R&G The Masterpiece, Boss 'n up debuted on 6 December 2005. It came out in DVD format. It was the first release of the newly founded Snoopadelic Films, run by Snoop Dogg....
  
  
• Bosta
• Confessions of a Thug
  Confessions of a Thug (film)
  Confessions of a Thug is a 2005 American rap "hip hop" opera film. It is directed by Daron Fordham and is the film debut performance for Lady of Rage.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Corpse Bride
  Corpse Bride
  Corpse Bride, often promoted as Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, is a 2005 stop-motion-animated fantasy musical film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton. It is set in a fictional Victorian era village in Europe. Johnny Depp led an all-star cast as the voice of Victor, while Helena Bonham Carter ...
  
   (animated)
• Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story
  Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story
  Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story is a film version of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto . Filmed in Siena in 2002 , it was directed by Gianfranco Fozzi and produced by David Guido Pietroni and Maurizio De Santis.Rigoletto Story has obtained two nominations to the Grammy Awards in the categories...
  
   (Italian)
• The Goddess
  The Goddess
  The Goddess is a 1958 Columbia Pictures drama film starring Kim Stanley and Lloyd Bridges. Others in the cast include Steven Hill, Betty Lou Holland, Joan Copeland, Patty Duke, and Elizabeth Wilson....
  
  
• Hustle & Flow
  Hustle & Flow
  Hustle & Flow is a 2005 independent drama film written and directed by Craig Brewer and produced by John Singleton. Terrence Howard stars as a Memphis hustler and pimp who faces his aspiration to become a rapper...
  
  
• Live from Dallas
  Live from Dallas
  Live From Dallas is a live DVD released by Christian rock band Stavesacre in 2005. It features tracks that were on the EP Live From Deep Ellum. The DVD features a live concert that lasts about sixty minutes, followed by band interviews...
  
  
• Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School
  Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School
  Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School is a 2005 musical romance film produced by Samuel Goldwyn Films and directed by Randall Miller...
  
  
• Perhaps Love
• Princess Raccoon
  Princess Raccoon
  is a 2005 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. The "raccoon" of the English title is actually a translation for the tanuki. It is a love story set in the musical genre and stars Zhang Ziyi as a tanuki princess and Joe Odagiri as the banished prince she falls in love with...
  
  
• The Producers
  The Producers (2005 film)
  # "Overture" - Orchestra# "Opening Night" - Opening Nighters# "We Can Do It" - Max and Leo# "I Wanna Be a Producer" - Leo, Accountants, Mr. Marks and Dancing Chorus Girls# "Der Guten Tag Hop-Clop" - Franz, Max, and Leo...
  
  
• Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
• Credo (short film)
• Rent
  Rent (film)
  Rent is a 2005 American musical drama film directed by Chris Columbus. It is an adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name, in turn based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. The film depicts the lives of several Bohemians and their struggles with sexuality, cross-dressing, drugs, life...
  
  
• Romance & Cigarettes
  Romance & Cigarettes
  Romance & Cigarettes is a 2005 American musical romantic comedy film written and directed by John Turturro. The film stars an ensemble cast, including James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Bobby Cannavale, Mandy Moore, Mary-Louise Parker, Aida Turturro, Christopher Walken,...
  
  
• The Wayward Cloud
  The Wayward Cloud
  The Wayward Cloud is a 2005 film directed by Tsai Ming-liang. The cast includes Lee Kang-sheng and Chen Shiang-chyi. The film was Taiwan's official entry for the 78th Academy Awards in the foreign-language category...
  
  
• Once Upon a Mattress
  Once Upon a Mattress
  Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. It opened off-Broadway in May 1959, and then moved to Broadway...
  
   (television film)
• The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses
  The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses
  The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses is a 2004 direct-to-video animated film and the 11th film in the The Land Before Time series.-Plot:...
  
   (animated)
• The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
  The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
  The Muppets' Wizard of Oz is a 2005 musical telefilm directed by Kirk Thatcher and starring Ashanti and The Muppets. The film was produced by Bill Barretta and written by Debra Frank, Steve L. Hayes, Tom Martin, and Adam F...
  
   (television film)
• Mulan II
  Mulan II
  Mulan II is a 2004 American direct-to-video Disney animated feature directed by Darrell Rooney and Lynne Southerl and is a sequel to the 1998 animated film Mulan. The entire cast from the first film returned, except for Eddie Murphy , Miriam Margolyes , Chris Sanders and Matthew Wilder...
  
   (animated)
• Pooh's Heffalump Movie
  Pooh's Heffalump Movie
  Pooh's Heffalump Movie is a 2005 Winnie-the-Pooh film, released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film runs at 68 mins., This was the shortest feature-length Pooh film to be released in theaters until The 2011 Film at 63 mins.- Plot :...
  
   (animated)
• Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie
  Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie
  Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie is a Winnie the Pooh movie which was released direct to video as the sequel to Pooh's Heffalump Movie. It features the segment, Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh....
  
   (animated)

2006

• Bolletjes Blues
  Bolletjes Blues
  Bolletjes Blues is a 2006 Dutch musical film with Negativ as the main character, Spike.-Plot:...
  
  
• Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm
  Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm
  Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm is a 2006 American animated musical film, by Yankee Films. It is produced by Brian Zemrak and has a running time of 72 minutes.-Cast:*Rob Paulsen - Bongee Bear *Debi Derryberry - Priness Katrina...
  
   (animated)
• Camp Blood: The Musical
  Camp Blood: The Musical
  Camp Blood: The Musical is an 80s style slasher/musical movie. It was created by Tanner Barklow, Jefferson Craig and Thomas Hughes in the spring of 2005....
  
  
• The Cheetah Girls 2
  The Cheetah Girls 2
  The Cheetah Girls 2 is the 2006 sequel to the Disney Channel Original Movie, The Cheetah Girls. Its premiere received the highest ratings of all Disney Channel Movies at its time, a total of over 8.1 million viewers, beating the premiere ratings of High School Musical , and beating previous highest...
  
   (television film)
• Dasepo Naughty Girls
  Dasepo Naughty Girls
  Dasepo Naughty Girls is a 2006 South Korean musical comedy film. It is based on the popular webcomic Dasepo Girls by B-rate Dal-gung, which has also been adapted into a TV series.-Cast:*Kim Ok-bin ... Poor Girl*Park Jin-woo ... Anthony...
  
  
• Dreamgirls
  Dreamgirls (film)
  Dreamgirls is a 2006 musical drama film, directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures. The film debuted in three special road show engagements beginning December 15, 2006 before its nationwide release on December 25, 2006...
  
  
• El Benny
  El Benny
  El Benny is a Cuban film released in 2006, directed and co-written by Jorge Luis Sánchez, his first feature length film. It is a fictional story based on the life of the famous Cuban musician Benny Moré...
  
  
• The Fox and the Hound 2
  The Fox and the Hound 2
  The Fox and the Hound 2 Soundtrack Album is the album containing songs from Reba McEntire, who was the voice of Dixie in the film, as well as other well-known artists such as Trisha Yearwood, Chip Davis and Little Big Town. Composer Joel McNeely has a few score tracks on the album: "Depressed...
  
   (animated)
• The Fox Family
  The Fox Family
  The Fox Family is a 2006 South Korean film. Made on a budget of ₩3.5 billion , the film is a musical comedy about the kumiho of Korean mythology.- Plot :...
  
  
• Happy Feet
  Happy Feet
  Happy Feet is a 2006 American-Australian computer-animated family film with music, directed and co-written by George Miller. It was produced at Sydney-based visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic for Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures and Kingdom Feature Productions and was released...
  
   (animated)
• High School Musical
  High School Musical
  High School Musical is a 2006 American television film, first in the High School Musical film franchise. Upon its release on January 20, 2006, it became the most successful film that Disney Channel Original Movie ever produced, with a television sequel High School Musical 2 released in 2007 and...
  
   (television film)
• I Love You, I'm Sorry, and I'll Never Do It Again
• Idlewild
  Idlewild (film)
  Idlewild is an American musical film, released August 25, 2006, written and directed by Bryan Barber. The film stars André 3000 and Big Boi of the hip hop duo OutKast, and Idlewild features musical numbers written, produced, and chiefly performed by OutKast...
  
  
• The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers (animated)
• Neil Young: Heart of Gold
  Neil Young: Heart of Gold
  Neil Young: Heart of Gold is a 2006 documentary and concert film by Jonathan Demme, featuring Neil Young. The film was made in the summer of 2005 in Nashville, Tennessee, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and was released to theaters on February 10, 2006...
  
  
• Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
• Strawberry Shortcake: The Sweet Dreams Movie
  Strawberry Shortcake: The Sweet Dreams Movie
  Strawberry Shortcake: The Sweet Dreams Movie is a 2006 computer-animated film produced by DIC Entertainment, and released theatrically in select cities in October 2006 by Kidtoon Films. It is the first feature-length film to feature the eponymous American Greetings property, and stars the voices of...
  
   (animated)

2007

• Across the Universe
  Across the Universe (film)
  Across the Universe is a musical romantic drama film directed by Julie Taymor, produced by Revolution Studios, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film's plot is centered around songs by The Beatles. It was released in the United States on October 12, 2007. The script is based on an original...
  
  
• August Rush
  August Rush
  August Rush is a 2007 drama film directed by Kirsten Sheridan and written by Paul Castro, Nick Castle, and James V. Hart, and produced by Richard Barton Lewis.-Plot:...
  
  
• Colma: The Musical
  Colma The Musical
  Colma: The Musical is a 2007 American musical independent film directed by Richard Wong and written by H.P. Mendoza. Wong's feature directorial debut, shot on location in the city of Colma, California and parts of San Francisco, is a coming of age story based on the lives of and the relationships...
  
  
• Crazy
• Enchanted
• The Full Monteverdi
  The Full Monteverdi (film)
  The Full Monteverdi is a British film , written and directed by John La Bouchardière and based on his live production of the same name, itself based on Claudio Monteverdi's fourth book of madrigals which, in turn, is a collection of settings of poems by such Italian renaissance poets as Giovanni...
  
  
• Hairspray
  Hairspray (2007 film)
  Hairspray is a 2007 musical film produced by Kolaja Productions and distributed by New Line Cinema. It was released in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom on July 20, 2007. The film is an adaptation of the 2002 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on John...
  
  
• High School Musical 2 (television film)
• Naked Boys Singing
• Once
  Once (film)
  Once is a 2006 Irish musical film written and directed by John Carney. Set in Dublin, this naturalistic drama stars musicians Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová as musicians...
  
  
• Southland Tales
  Southland Tales
  Southland Tales is a 2006 American-Franco-German science fiction dark comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Kelly. The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles...
  
  
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Men Shouldn't Sing
  Men Shouldn't Sing
  Men Shouldn't Sing is a musical comedy New Zealand film written by Jeff Clark and composed by Michael Bell. It tells the story of a group of strangers, snatched from their homes, who wake to find that they spontaneously break into song and dance whenever they feel a heightened emotion...
  
  
• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
  Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
  Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is a 2007 music comedy film written and produced by Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan, directed by Kasdan and starring John C. Reilly...
  
  
• The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends
  The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends
  The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends is the thirteenth film in The Land Before Time series. The plot centers around Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Spike, and Petrie, who are excited to meet two yellow-bellied Beipiaosaurus, Loofah and Doofah, who have lost their way while traveling to distant...
  
   (animated)
• Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
  Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
  Cinderella III: A Twist in Time is the second direct-to-video sequel to the 1950 Walt Disney Pictures animated classic Cinderella. Canonically it is a continuation of the original Cinderella, rather than Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, though due to its unusual chronological sequencing it...
  
   (animated)
• Les chansons d'amour
  Love Songs (film)
  Love Songs is a 2007 French musical film directed by Christophe Honoré, starring Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier and Chiara Mastroianni. It was one of the 20 films selected for the main competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
   (aka Love Songs)
• AKA Life
  AKA Life
  AKA Life is a 2008 musical film. It is directed, produced and written by Chad Peter. It stars Rebecca Regan and Lucia Cifarelli.-References:* *...
  
  

2008

• The American Mall
  The American Mall
  The American Mall is an 2008 MTV musical film that debuted on August 11, 2008. The movie was received with very low ratings, averaging 436,000 viewers.-Overview:...
  
   (television film)
• Camp Rock
  Camp Rock
  Camp Rock is a 2008 Disney Channel Original Movie starring the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato. The music is written by Julie Brown, Paul Brown, Regina Hicks and Karen Gist. The film is directed by Matthew Diamond and produced by Alan Sacks....
  
  
• The Cheetah Girls: One World
  The Cheetah Girls: One World
  The Cheetah Girls: One World is a 2008 Disney Channel Original Movie. It is the third and final film of The Cheetah Girls film trilogy, and premiered on August 22, 2008...
  
   (television film)
• High School Musical 3: Senior Year
  High School Musical 3: Senior Year
  High School Musical 3: Senior Year is a 2008 American romantic musical film and the third and final installment in the High School Musical trilogy. Its theatrical release in the United States began on October 24, 2008...
  
  
• Mamma Mia!
  Mamma Mia! (film)
  Mamma Mia! is a 2008 musical/romantic comedy film adapted from the 1999 West End/2001 Broadway musical of the same name, based on the songs of successful pop group ABBA, with additional music composed by ABBA member Benny Andersson...
  
  
• Repo! The Genetic Opera
  Repo! The Genetic Opera
  Repo! The Genetic Opera is a 2008 horror-rock opera musical film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. The film is based on a play written and composed by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich....
  
  
• Roadside Romeo
  Roadside Romeo
  Roadside Romeo is a 2008 computer animated musical comedy film written and directed by Jugal Hansraj and co-produced by Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra of Yash Raj Films and Walt Disney Pictures...
  
  
• The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
  The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
  The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning is a 2008 Disney animated feature film, and the direct-to-video prequel to the 1989 film The Little Mermaid...
  
   (Animated)
• Were the World Mine
  Were the World Mine
  Were the World Mine is a 2008 romantic musical fantasy film directed by Tom Gustafson and written by Gustafson and Cory James Krueckeberg.Were the World Mine is a story of gay empowerment, inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream...
  
  
• Soul Men
• A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
  A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
  -External links:...
  
   (television film)
• Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
  Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
  Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a 2008 musical tragicomedy miniseries in three acts, produced exclusively for Internet distribution. Filmed and set in Los Angeles, the show tells the story of Dr...
  
  

2009

• The Big Gay Musical
  The Big Gay Musical
  The Big Gay Musical is a 2009 musical-comedy film directed by Casper Andreas and Fred M. Caruso.The film follows a brief period in the lives of two young, handsome actors starring in a gay-themed musical...
  
  
• Clear Blue Tuesday
• Forever Plaid: The Movie
  Forever Plaid: The Movie
  Forever Plaid: The Movie is a 2009 American musical film, a recording of a live performance of a revival to the 1990 off-Broadway musical comedy Forever Plaid. Directed and written by Stuart Ross, this film was released on July 9, 2009...
  
  
• Fruit Fly
  Fruit Fly (film)
  Fruit Fly is a 2009 musical film with gay and Asian-American themes, directed by H.P. Mendoza, who wrote the screenplay for Colma The Musical . The film, made entirely in San Francisco, premiered on March 15, 2009 at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival at the Castro Theatre...
  
  
• Nine
  Nine (film)
  Nine is a 2009 musical-romantic film directed and produced by Rob Marshall. The screenplay, written by Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella, is based on Arthur Kopit's book for the 1982 musical of the same name, which was itself suggested by Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film 8½...
  
  
• The Princess and the Frog (animated)
• Spectacular!
  Spectacular!
  Spectacular! is a 2009 Nickelodeon musical TV-movie. It stars singer Nolan Gerard Funk, Australian singer Tammin Sursok, Zoey 101 and Victorious star Victoria Justice, and Simon Curtis. Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, it premiered February 16, 2009...
  
   (television film)
• Stingray Sam
  Stingray Sam
  Stingray Sam is a 2009 space-western/musical serial film, directed by and starring Cory McAbee. The film premiered on January 20, 2009 at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival as part of the New Frontier program...
  
  
• Tigger and Pooh and A Musical Too
  Tigger and Pooh and A Musical Too
  Tigger & Pooh And A Musical Too is a 2009 direct-to-video film based on the hit Playhouse Disney series My Friends Tigger & Pooh. It is the second film of the series. It was released on DVD on April 7, 2009. It premiered on Playhouse Disney less than a week later on April 11...
  
   (animated)

2010

• Burlesque
  Burlesque (film)
  Burlesque is a 2010 musical film directed and written by Steven Antin and starring Christina Aguilera and Cher. The film was released on November 24, 2010 in North America....
  
  
• Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
  Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
  Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam is a 2010 Disney Channel Original Movie and sequel to the 2008 film Camp Rock. Production commenced in August 2009 in Toronto, Ontario and at area summer camps. The movie premiered on on Disney Channel in the USA, along with a live simulcast on Radio Disney...
  
  
• Score: A Hockey Musical
  Score: A Hockey Musical
  Score: A Hockey Musical is a 2010 Canadian musical film, written and directed by Michael McGowan.-Synopsis:Seventeen-year old Farley Gordon has led a sheltered life, home-schooled and isolated by his parents. His closest friend is Eve, their next door neighbour. When his skill at hockey is...
  
  
• Tangled (animated)

2011

• Mama, I Want to Sing! (Direct-to-DVD)
• Happy Feet 2
  Happy Feet 2
  Happy Feet Two is a 3D computer-animated family film film directed by George Miller, who co-directed the original film Happy Feet. The film is a sequel to Happy Feet and stars Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Pink, E.G. Daily, Sofía Vergara and Common. Dr...
  
   (animated)
• Lemonade Mouth
  Lemonade Mouth (film)
  Lemonade Mouth is a 2011 musical drama film based on the book of the same name by Mark Peter Hughes. The film was directed by Patricia Riggen and written by April Blair, and stars Bridgit Mendler, Adam Hicks, Hayley Kiyoko, Naomi Scott, and Blake Michael...
  
  
• Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension (animated)
• Rio
  Rio (film)
  Rio, often promoted as Rio: The Movie, is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated musical comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and directed by Carlos Saldanha. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, in which the film is set. The film features the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne...
  
   (animated)
• Winnie the Pooh (animated)
• The Muppets
  The Muppets (film)
  The Muppets is a 2011 American musical and comedy film, and the first Muppets theatrical release in 12 years, as well as the first Disney-produced Muppets film since 1996's Muppet Treasure Island...
  
  

Future

This is a list of films scheduled for release in 2011 and beyond. This list is subject to change.

• Altar Boyz
• American Idiot
  American Idiot (musical)
  American Idiot is a one-act, through-sung stage musical. The show is an adaptation of punk rock band Green Day's concept album of the same name. Additional Green Day songs were interpolated from other sources, including 21st Century Breakdown, American Idiot b-sides, and an unreleased song called...
  
  
• Annie (remake)
• City of Angels
  City of Angels (musical)
  City of Angels is a musical comedy with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel, and book by Larry Gelbart. The musical weaves together two plots, the "real" world of a writer trying to turn his book into a screenplay, and the "reel" world of the fictional film.-Productions:City of Angels...
  
  
• Cleo
• The Color Purple
  The Color Purple (musical)
  The Color Purple is a Broadway musical based upon the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker. It features music and lyrics written by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, with a book by Marsha Norman. It ran on Broadway in 2005 and has been touring throughout the US...
  
  
• Damn Yankees
  Damn Yankees (film)
  Damn Yankees is a 1958 musical film made by Warner Bros., a modern version of the Faust story involving the New York Yankees and Washington Senators baseball teams. The film is based on the 1955 Broadway musical of the same name....
  
  
• Enchanted 2
• Follies
  Follies
  Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the "Weismann's Follies," a musical revue , that played in that theatre between the World Wars...
  
   (2012)
• The Goree Girls
  The Goree Girls
  The Goree Girls is an upcoming musical film set in the 1940s which tells the story of eight Goree Prison inmates who form a country-western band. Filming was set to take place during January 2010, but was pushed back to accommodate Aniston's filming of Just Go With It. Ellen Pompeo also agreed to...
  
  
• Jesus Christ Superstar
  Jesus Christ Superstar
  Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...
  
   (remake)
• Kubrilesque
  Kubrilesque
  Kubrilesque:Or a Musical Parody with a Tease is a burlesque rock musical set in the late 1990s. The music is by Al Mack with lyrics and book by Crystal Swarovski . The story is a conspiracy of a man making a film about the most elite Cult in the world, and the concept is parody of the characters...
  
  
• Les Misérables
  Les Misérables (2012 film)
  Les Misérables is an upcoming 2012 British musical film directed by Tom Hooper, written by William Nicholson and adapted from the popular musical of the same name, which is in turn based on an 1862 French novel by Victor Hugo.-Premise:...
  
  
• Miss Saigon
  Miss Saigon
  Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover...
  
  
• My Fair Lady (remake)
• Peter Pan
  Peter Pan (1954 musical)
  Peter Pan is a musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and Barrie's own novelization of it, Peter and Wendy. The music is mostly by Mark "Moose" Charlap, with additional music by Jule Styne, and most of the lyrics were written by Carolyn Leigh, with additional lyrics by Betty...
  
  
• Rock of Ages
  Rock of Ages (musical)
  Rock of Ages is a rock/jukebox musical, with a book by Chris D'Arienzo, built around classic rock hits from the 1980s, especially from the famous glam metal bands of the decade. The musical features songs from Styx, Journey, Bon Jovi, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister, Steve Perry, Poison and Asia, among...
  
  
• South Pacific
  South Pacific (musical)
  South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
  
   (Remake)
• Sparkle
  Sparkle (2012 film)
  Sparkle is an upcoming American film directed by Salim Akil and produdec by Stage 6 Films, set for release in 2012 by TriStar Pictures. Inspired by The Supremes, Sparkle is a remake of the 1976 film of the same name, which centered on three singing teenage sisters in late 1950s Harlem who form a...
  
  
• Spring Awakening
  Spring Awakening
  Spring Awakening is a rock musical adaptation of the controversial 1892 German play of the same title by Frank Wedekind. It features music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. Set in late-19th century Germany, it concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of...
  
  
• A Star is Born
  A Star Is Born
  A Star Is Born may refer to:* A Star Is Born , starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, directed by William A. Wellman* A Star Is Born , starring Judy Garland and James Mason, directed by George Cukor...
  
   (remake)
• Starlight Express
  Starlight Express
  Starlight Express is a rock musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber , Richard Stilgoe and Arlene Phillips , with later revisions by Don Black and David Yazbek . The story follows a child's dream in which his toy train set comes to life; famously the actors perform wearing roller skates...
  
  
• Valley Girl
  Valley Girl (film)
  Valley Girl is a 1983 romantic comedy film, starring Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily, Cameron Dye, and Joyce Heiser. The film was the directorial debut of Martha Coolidge, and was the first film in which Nicolas Coppola was billed as Nicolas Cage.The American release of Valley Girl...
  
  
• Wicked
  Wicked (musical)
  Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West , a parallel novel of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard...