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other media about movie musicals ¯ selected movie musicals
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Essential Musicals On Film at Amazon
Movie Musicals posters category at AllPosters.com
Movie Musicals Genre listing at Internet Movie Database
Musical Films genre entry at Wikipedia
List of Musical Films By Year at Wikipedia
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Books About Movie Musicals
{ and about Broadway }
 | "The Hollywood Musical: A Picture Quiz Book" [1974] by Stanley Appelbaum Dover Publns 9½x8½ pb [10/74] out of print/many used |
 | "The Hollywood Musical" [1981] by Ethan Mordden St. Martin's Press hardcover [11/81] out of print/used |
 | "The Hollywood Musical: Every Hollywood Musical From 1927 To Present Day" [1981] by Clive Hirschhorn Hamlyn hardcover [6/91] out of print/used Gramercy 12¾x9¾ hardcover [4/91] out of print/used |
 | "Encyclopaedia of The Musical Film" [1981] by Stanley Green
Oxford Univ Press 9¼x7½ pb [6/88] out of print/used Oxford Univ Press hardcover [9/81] out of print/used |
 | "Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time" [orig 1984, rev 2010] by Ken Bloom & Frank Vlastnik Black Dog & Leventhal 2nd edition 10x8½ pb [5/2008] out of print/many used Black Dog & Leventhal 12¾x10¾ hardcover [rev 10/2010] for $26.40 |
 | "Hollywood Musicals Year By Year" [orig 1985, rev 1990] by Stanley Green, revised & updated by Elaine Schmidt Hal Leonard Corp. 9x6 pb [12/90] for $13.22 |
 | "The Hollywood Musical" [1982; rev 1993] by Jane Feuer Indiana Univ Press 8¼x5½ pb [1/93] for $16.16 |
 | "The Great Hollywood Musical Pictures" [1993] by James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts Scarecrow Press 9x6 hardcover [9/93] out of print/used |
 | "The Golden Age of Movie Musicals and Me" [1994] by Saul Chaplin Saul Chaplin worked as a songwriter, vocal arranger, pianist, musical director, or producer on more than sixty films, including "Kiss Me Kate", "High Society", and "The Sound of Music". He won Academy Awards for "An American In Paris", "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers", and "West Side Story". Univ OK Press 8¾x6 hardcover [9/94] out of print/used |
 | "A Song In The Dark: The Birth of The Musical Film" [1995] by Richard Barrios Oxford Univ Press 2nd edition 9x6¼ pb [11/2009] for $27.95 Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [7/95] for $49.99 Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [7/95] out of print/used |
 | "Broadway To Hollywood: The Musical and The Cinema" [1996] by Robert Matthew-Walker Diane Publng 9¼x9 hardcover [4/96] for $19.00 Publishers Overstock hardcover [6/98] out of print/used |
 | "The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 through 1932" [1996]
by Edwin M. Bradley McFarland & Co. 10x7 pb [9/2004] for $49.95 McFarland & Co. library hardcover [7/96] out of print/used |
 | "Red, Hot and Blue: A Smithsonian Salute To The American Musical" [1996] by Amy Henderson & Dwight B. Bowers Smithsonian 12½x9¼ hardcover [9/96] for $34.20 |
 | "M-G-M's Greatest Musicals: The Arthur Freed Unit" [1996] by Hugh Fordin Da Capo Press 9x6 pb [9/96] for $24.00 |
 | "Hollywood Rhapsody: The Story of Movie Music, 1900-1975" [1997] by Gary Marmorstein Schirmer Books 8¾x6 hardcover [12/97] for $49.60 |
 | "The American Musical Film Song Encyclopedia" [1999] by Thomas S. Hischak Greenwood Press 9½x6½ hardcover [3/99] for $110.95 |
 | "Musical Movie Posters" [1999] by Bruce Hershenson self-publd 11x8¾ pb [5/99] for $20.00 |
 | "Musicals: Hollywood and Beyond: [2000] Edited by Bill Marshall & Robynn Stilwell Intellect Ltd. 9x6¾ pb [1/2000] for $30.00 |
 | "Hollywood Musicals: The Film Reader" (In Focus Series) [2001] Edited by Steven Cohan Routledge 9x6 pb [12/2001] for $32.70 Routledge 9½x6½ hardcover [12/2001] for $140.00 |
 | "Hollywood Musicals Nominated For Best Picture, 1929-1995" [2003] by Frederick G. Vogel McFarland & Co. 10½x7 hardcover [1/2003] for $75.00 |
 | "Through The Screen Door: What Happened To The Broadway Musical When It Went To Hollywood" [2004] by Thomas S. Hischak Scarecrow Press 8½x5¼ pb [7/2004] for $36.50 |
 | "American Plays and Musicals On Screen: 650 Stage Productions and Their Film & Televison Adaptations" [2004] by Thomas S. Hischak McFarland & Co. 10x7 hardcover [12/2004] for $75.00 |
 | "Musicals: Facts, Figures & Fun" [2006] by Mike Evans, illustrated by Malcolm Couch self-publd 7½x4¾ hardcover [3/2006] for $5.95 |
 | "Hollywood: Great, Good & Glamorous" [2006] by John Howard Reid includes reviews & details of 125 pictures, from major to minor Lulu.com 11x8½ pb [4/2006] for $19.95 ”More Movie Musicals: One Hundred Best Films, Plus Twenty ‘B’ Pictures“ [2006] by John Howard Reid Lulu.com 10¾x8¼ pb [6/2006] for $19.95 |
 | "The Rough Guide To Film Musicals" [2007] by David Parkinson includes reviews of 50 essential musicals (including several forgotten gems) and profiles of musical icons, such as Fred Astaire, Judy Garland & George Gershwin D.K./Rough Guides 7x7 pb [7/2007] for $11.99 |
 | "I'm The Greatest Star: Broadway's Top Musical Legends From 1900 To Today" [2009] by Robert Viagas Applause Books 11x8¾ hardcover [7/2009] for $19.79 |
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"Hollywood Musicals: The 101 Greatest Song-and-Dance Movies of All Time" [2010] by Ken Bloom, Foreword by Jane Powell
Black Dog & Leventhal 12¾x10¾ hardcover [12/2010] for $27.36 |
 | "The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre, 1943-1965" [2011] by Corinne J. Naden includes synopses, cast & production credits, song titles, and other pertinent infor-mation over a 22-year span for over 180 musicals from Oklahoma! to On A Clear Day You Can See Forever Scarecrow Press 9x6¼ hardcover [2/2011] for $32.54 |
 | "100 Film Musicals (B.F.I. Screen Guides)" [2011]  by Jim Hillier & Douglas Pye British Film Institute 6½x4¾ pb [8/2011] for $13.60 |
Video & DVD Collections
"T.C.M. Greatest Classic Films Collection: Musicals"
 | "Broadway Musicals" [2009]
Turner Home Ent. widescreen color DVD set [5/2009] 2 disks for $19.49 contains four feature films: "Annie Get Your Gun" [1950] starring Betty Hutton & Howard Keel; "Show Boat" [1951] starring Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner & Howard Keel; "Kiss Me Kate" [1953] starring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel & Ann Miller; "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers" [1954] directed by Stanley Donen, starring Howard Keel & Jane Powell; extras include trailers. outtakes, commentaries, Stanley Donen musicals trailer gallery, and shorts & featurettes |
 | "American Musicals" [2009]
Turner Home Ent. widescreen color DVD set [5/2009] 2 disks for $16.99 contains four feature films: "Meet Me In St. Louis" [1944] directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Judy Garland; "Easter Parade" [1948] starring Judy Garland & Fred Astaire; "Singin' In The Rain" [1952] directed by Stanley Donen, starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds & Jean Hagen; and "The Band Wagon" [1953] directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Fred Astaire & Cyd Charisse; extras include trailers, comment- aries, Judy Garland trailer gallery, Vincente Minnelli trailer gallery, Fred Astaire trailer gallery, and more |
"Fox-M.G.M. Hollywood Musicals Collection" [2008]
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M.G.M. Homne Video color/b&w DVD set [11/2008] 61 disks for $374.99
SIXTY FILMS including: 7 Elvis Presley musicals – "Clambake" [1967], "Flaming Star" [1960], "Follow That Dream" [1961], "Frankie and Johnny" [1965], "Kid Galahad" [1962], "Love Me Tender" [1956] & "Wild In The Country" [1961] – and "A Chorus Line" [1985]; "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" [1966] with Buster Keaton; "Alexander's Ragtime Band" [1938] starring Tyrone Power & Alice Faye; "All That Jazz" [1979] directed by Bob Fosse; "The Apple" [1980]; "Beach Blanket Bingo" [1965]; "Belle of The Yukon" [1944] starring Randolph Scott & Dinah Shore; "Bloodhounds of Broadway" [1952] starring Mitzi Gaynor; "Call Me Madam" [1953] starring Ethel Merman & Vera-Ellen; "Can-Can" [1960] starring Frank Sinatra & Shirley MacLaine; "Carmen Jones" [1954] directed by Otto Preminger; "Carousel" [1956] starring Gordon MacRae & Shirley Jones; "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" [1968]; "Daddy Long Legs" [1955] starring Fred Astaire & Leslie Caron; "De-lovely" [2004] starring Kevin Kline; "The Dolly Sisters" [1945] starring Betty Grable & June Haver; "Down Argentine Way" [1940] starring Don Ameche & Betty Grable; "The Fantasticks" [1995]; "Fiddler On The Roof" [1971]; "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" [1953] directed by Howard Hawks, starring Marilyn Monroe; "The Goldwyn Follies" [1938]; "Guys and Dolls" [1955] starring Marlon Brando & Frank Sinatra; "Hair" [1979] directed by Milos Forman; "Hans Christian Andersen" [1952] starring Danny Kaye; "Hallelujah, I'm A Bum" [1933] starring Al Jolson & Harry Langdon; "Hello, Dolly!" [1969] directed by Gene Kelly, starring Barbra Streisand; "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" [1967]; "Kid Millions" [1934] starring Eddie Cantor & Ethel Merman; "The King and I" [1966] starring Deborah Kerr & Yul Brynner; "March of The Wooden Soldiers" [1934] starring Laurel & Hardy; "Moon Over Miami" [1941] starring Don Ameche & Betty Grable; "Moulin Rouge" [2001] starring Nicole Kidman; "New York, New York" [1977] directed by Martin Scorsese; "Okla- homa!" [1955] starring Gordon MacRae & Shirley Jones; "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" [1938] starring Shirley Temple & Randolph Scott; "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" [1975]; "The Sound of Music" [1965] starring Julie Andrews & Chris- topher Plummer; "South Pacific" [1958] starring Mitzi Gaynor & Rossano Brazzi; "State Fair" [1945]; "There's No Business Like Show Business" [1954] starring Ethel Merman & Marilyn Monroe; "West Side Story" [1961]; "Whoopee!" [1930] starring Eddie Cantor; and "With A Song In My Heart" [1952] starring Susan Hayward |
"Hollywood Musicals: The Ultimate Collection" [2008]
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St Clair Ent color/b&w DVD set [4/2008] 6 disks for $21.99
TWENTY MOVIES including: "Breakfast In Hollywood" [1946]; "Doll Face" [1946] starring Viviane Blaine; "The Fabulous Dorseys" [1947]; "Glorifying The American Girl" [1929]; "The Greeks Had A Word For Them" aka "Three Broadway Girls" [1932]; "Happy Go Lovely" [1951] starring David Niven, Vera-Ellen & Cesar Romero; "Let's Sing Again" [1936] starring Bobby Breen; "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round" [1937]; "Moonlight Sonata" [1937] with pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski; "Mr. Imperium" [1951] starring Lana Turner & Ezio Pinza; "New Faces of 1952" [1954] starring Eartha Kitt & Mel Brooks; "Rhythm Parade" [1942] starring Gale Storm & The Mills Brothers; "Royal Wedding" [1951] starring Fred Astaire & Jane Powell; "Second Chorus" [1940] starring Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard & Artie Shaw; "Something To Sing About" [1937] starring James Cagney; "The Stork Club" [1945] starring Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald & Don DeFore; "Swing Parade of 1946" [1946] starring Gale Storm & The Three Stooges; "Trocadero" [1944]; "The Vagabond Lover" [1929] starring Rudy Vallee & Sally Blane; and "Youth On Parade" [1942] – bonuses include trailers, poster gallery, radio programs, and a David Niven bio featurette |
"Astaire & Rogers Collection"
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers made ten movies together at R.K.O., from 1933 to 1949
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Volume 1 [2005]
Turner Home Ent. DVD [8/2005] 5 disks for $29.49 includes "Top Hat" [1935] co-starring Edward Everett Horton & Eric Blore; "Swing Time" [1936]; "Follow The Fleet" [1936] co-starring Randolph Scott & Harriet Hilliard {Nelson}; "Shall We Dance" [1937] co-starring Edward Everett Horton & Eric Blore; and "The Barkleys of Broadway" [1949] co-starring Oscar Levant & Billie Burke |
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Volume 2 [2006]
Warner Home Video DVD box set [10/2006] 5 disks for $29.99 includes "Flying Down To Rio" [1933] starring Gene Raymond & Dolores Del Rio; "The Gay Divorcee" [1934] co-starring Alice Brady & Edward Everett Horton; "Roberta" [1935] co-starring Irene Dunne & Randolph Scott; "Carefree" [1938] co-starring Ralph Bellamy; and "The Story of Vernon & Irene Castle" [1939] co-starring Edna May Oliver & Walter Brennan |
"Astaire & Rogers Ultimate Collector's Edition" [2006]
includes the ten movies on DVD above, plus bonus disk with the "Astaire and Rogers: Partners In Rhythm"
documentary [2006] and other extras •
Warner Home Video DVD box set [10/2006] 11 disks for $50.49
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"Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers At R.K.O." [1998]
Rhino/W.E.A. audio CDs [2/98] 2 disks for $24.99 includes 35 tracks from the films "Carefree" [1938], "Flying Down To Rio" [1933], "Follow The Fleet" [1936], "The Gay Divorcee" [1934], "Roberta" [1935], "The Sky's The Limit" [1943], "Swing Time" [1936], "Top Hat" [1935] and other sources |
"The Busby Berkeley Collection"
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Volume 1 DVD Box Set [2006]
Warner Home Video b&w DVD [3/2006] for $29.49 includes "Dames" [1934] starring Dick Powell & Ruby Keeler; "Footlight Parade" [1933] starring James Cagney & Ruby Keeler; "42nd Street" [1933] directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels & Ruby Keeler; "Gold Diggers of 1933" [1933] directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Ruby Keeler & Dick Powell; and "Gold Diggers of 1935" [1935] directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Dick Powell, Gloria Stuart & Adolphe Menjou – plus the 163-minute "Busby Berkely Disc" (a 1992 laserdisc program that collects just the musical numbers from nine films - without the plot filler), and vintage cartoons, featurettes, shorts & many more extras |
 | Volume 2 DVD Box Set [2008]
Warner Home Video b&w DVD [9/2008] 4 disks for $25.99 includes "Gold Diggers In Paris" [1938] starring Rudy Vallee; "Gold Diggers of 1937" [1936] directed by Lloyd Bacon; "Hollywood Hotel" [1937] directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Dick Powell; and "Varsity Show" [1937] starring Dick Powell – plus many extras including Busby Berkeley: Going Through The Roof" [1998 short] |
see also "The Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Collection" [2007] below {directed by Busby Berkeley}
"Classic Musicals From The Dream Factory"
 | Volume 1 [2006]
Warner Home Video color DVD set DVD [4/2006] 5 disks for $30.99 includes "It's Always Fair Weather" [1955] starring Gene Kelly & Cyd Charisse; "Summer Stock" [1950] starring Gene Kelly & Judy Garland; "Three Little Words" [1950] starring Fred Astaire & Red Skelton; "Till The Clouds Roll By" [1946] featuring Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne & Judy Garland; and "Ziegfeld Follies" [1946] directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring William Powell – plus many extras |
 | Volume 2 [2007]
Warner Home Video color DVD set DVD [7/2007] 7 disks for $30.49 includes "The Belle of New York" [1952] starring Fred Astaire & Vera Ellen; "The Pirate" [1948] starring Gene Kelly & Judy Garland; "Royal Wedding" [1951] starring Astaire & Jane Powell; "That Midnight Kiss" [1949] starring Mario Lanza & Kathryn Grayson; "That's Dancing" [1985] hosted by Gene Kelly; "The Toast of New Orleans" [1950] starring Lanza & Grayson; and "Words and Music" [1948] starring Kelly, Garland & Mickey Rooney – plus many extras |
 | Volume 3 [2008]
Warner Home Video color DVD set [4/2008] 6 disks for $69.98 includes "Born To Dance" [1936] with Frances Langford & James Stewart; "Broadway Melody of 1936" [1935] starring Eleanor Powell & Robert Taylor; "Broadway Melody of 1938" [1937] starring Robert Taylor & Judy Garland; "Deep In My Heart" [1954] with Ann Miller & Gene Kelly; "Hit The Deck" [1955]; "Kismet" [1955] starring Howard Keel & Dolores Gray; "Lady Be Good" [1941] starring Ann Sothern & Robert Young; "Nancy Goes To Rio" [1950] starring Jane Powell & Carmen Miranda; and "Two Weeks With Love" [1950] starring Jane Powell & Debbie Reynolds |
"Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection" [2006]
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Fox widescreen color DVD set [11/2006] 12 disks for $55.99
includes remastered two-disc special editions of "State Fair" [1945] directed by Walter Lang, starring Jeanne Crain & Dana Andrews; "Oklahoma!" [1955] directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Gordon MacRae & Shirley Jones; "Carousel" [1956] directed by Henry King, starring Gordon MacRae & Shirley Jones; "The King and I" [1956] directed by Walter Lang, starring Deborah Kerr & Yul Brynner; "South Pacific" [1958] directed by Joshua Logan, starring Rossano Brazzi & Mitzi Gaynor; and "The Sound of Music" [1965] directed by Robert Wise, starring Julie Andrews & Christopher Plummer; plus extras "Lilliom" [1934 pre-'Carousel' drama], and "State Fair" [1962 remake] starring Pat Boone & Ann-Margaret |
"Classic Musicals 50 Movie Pack Collection" [2005]
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Mill Creek Ent. DVD set [4/2005] 12 disks for $18.97
FIFTY FILMS including "All-American Co-Ed" [1941]; "The Big Show" [1936] starring Gene Autry; "Black Tights" [France 1960]; "Breakfast In Hollywood" [1946]; "Calendar Girl" [1947]; "Career Girl" [1944]; "Check and Double Check" [1930] starring Amos 'n' Andy; "The Dancing Pirate" [1936]; "Delightfully Dangerous" [1945] starring Jane Powell; "Dixiana" [1930] starring Bebe Daniels; "Doll Face" [1946] starring Viviane Blaine; "The Duke Is Tops" [1946]; "The Fabulous Dorseys" [1947]; "Fiesta" [1941]; "Glorifying The American Girl" [1929]; "The Great Gabbo" [1929] starring Erich von Stroheim; "Hi Diddle Diddle" [1943]; "Hi-De-Ho" [1947] starring Cab Calloway; "Jack and The Beanstalk" [1952] starring Abbott & Costello; "Killer Diller" all-black talent show [1948]; "King Kelly of The U.S.A." [1934]; "Let's Go Collegiate" [1941] with Gale Storm; "Minstrel Man" [1944]; "Mr. Imperium" [1951] starring Lana Turner & Ezio Pinza; "Murder With Music" [1941]; "Palooka" [1934] starring Stuart Erwin, Jimmy Durante & Lupe Velez; "Paradise In Harlem" [1939]; "People Are Funny" [1946]; "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" [1957 NBC-TV] starring Van Heflin; "Private Buckaroo" [1942] starring The Andrews Sisters, Dick Foran & Shemp Howard; "Reaching For The Moon" [1930] starring Douglas Fairbanks, Bebe Daniels & Edward Everett Horton; "Reet, Petite & Gone" [1947]; "Rhythm and Blues Revue" [1955]; "Rhythm In The Clouds" [1937]; "Road Show" [1941] directed by Hal Roach, starring John Hubbard, Adolphe Menjou & Carole Landis; "The Road To Hollywood" [1946] starring Bing Crosby; "Rock N' Roll Revue" [1955]; "Rock, Rock, Rock" [1956]; "Royal Wedding" starring Fred Astaire & Jane Powell; "Second Chorus" [1940] starring Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard & Artie Shaw; "Sitting On The Moon" [1936]; "Soundies Cavalcade"; "Soundies Festival"; "Stage Door Canteen" [1943] directed by Frank Borzage; "Sunny" [1941] starring Ray Bolger; "Swing Hostess" [1944]; "Till The Clouds Roll By" [1946] starring Robert Walker; "Trocadero" [1944]; "Up In The Air" [1940]; and "Wild Guitar" [1962] |
 | "The Golden Age of Musicals" [2008]
St. Clair Ent. color/b&w DVD set [3/2008] 3 disks for $7.98 TEN MOVIES including: "Breakfast In Hollywood" [1946]; "The Fabulous Dorseys" [1947]; "Let's Sing Again" [1936] starring Bobby Breen; "New Faces of 1952" [1954] starring Eartha Kitt & Mel Brooks; "Rhythm Parade" [1942] starring Gale Storm & The Mills Brothers; "Something To Sing About" [1937] starring James Cagney; "Swing Parade of 1946" [1946] starring Gale Storm & The Three Stooges; "Trocadero" [1944]; "The Vagabond Lover" [1929] starring Rudy Vallee & Sally Blane; and "Youth On Parade" [1942] |
 | "Lubitsch Musicals" DVD box set [2008]
Criterion/Eclipse b&w DVD set [2/2008] 4 disks for $59.95 includes "The Love Parade" [1929] starring Maurice Chevalier & Jeanette MacDonald; "Monte Carlo" [1930] starring Jack Buchanan & Jeanette MacDonald; "The Smiling Lieutenant" [1931] starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert & Miriam Hopkins; and "One Hour With You" [1932] starring Maurice Chevalier & Jeanette MacDonald see also Magic Lantern's Ernst Lubitsch [1892-1947] Page |
 | M.G.M. Classic Musicals Collection [2007]
M.G.M. widescreen color DVD [9/2007] 6 disks for $32.99 includes "Guys and Dolls" [1955] starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons & Frank Sinatra; "West Side Story" [1961] starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn & Rita Moreno {won 10 Oscars}; "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" [1966] directed by Richard Lester; starring Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Michael Crawford & Jack Gilford; "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" [1967] starring Robert Morse, Michele Lee & Rudy Vallee; "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" [1968] starring Dick Van Dyke; and "Fiddler On The Roof" [1971] (won 3 Oscars) |
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"The Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Collection" [2007]
Warner Home Video DVD set [9/2007] 5 disks for $28.99 includes "Babes In Arms" [1939] directed by Busby Berkeley; "Strike Up The Band" [1940] directed by Busby Berkeley, with Paul Whiteman's Orchestra; "Babes On Broadway" [1941] directed by Busby Berkeley; "Girl Crazy" [1943] co-directed by Busby Berkeley; "Private Screenings with Mickey Rooney" [1996 T.C.M. special]; "The Judy Garland Songbook" [2007] (21 complete, magical Judy Garland musical numbers spanning her many films from 1936-1954) – plus bonus cartoons, shorts, newsreels, trailers & radio shows |
 | "Musicals From Hollywood's Golden Age" DVD box set [2007]
Passport Video color/b&w DVD set [8/2007] 5 disks for $17.99 FIFTEEN FILMS including: "The Dancing Pirate" [1936]; "Doll Face" [1946] starring Viviane Blaine; "The Duke Is Tops" [1946]; "The Fabulous Dorseys" [1947]; "I Dream of Jeanie" [1952] Stephen Foster biopic; "Make A Wish" [1937] starring Bobbie Breen & Basil Rathbone; "Mr. Imperium" [1951] starring Lana Turner & Ezio Pinza; "Pot O' Gold" [1941] starring James Stewart & Paulette Goddard; "Private Buckaroo" [1942] starring The Andrews Sisters, Dick Foran & Shemp Howard; "Royal Wedding" [1951] starring Fred Astaire & Jane Powell; "Second Chorus" [1940] starring Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard & Artie Shaw; "Something To Sing About" [1937] starring James Cagney; "This Is The Army" [1943] directed by Michael Curtiz, starring George Murphy; "365 Nights In Hollywood" [1934]; and "Till The Clouds Roll By" [1946] starring Robert Walker |
 | "Hollywood Musicals: 10 Classic Musicals On 3 DVDs - Over 14 Hours" [2006]
St. Clair Vision b&w/color DVD [4/2006] 3 disks for $8.99 TEN FILMS including "Doll Face" [1946] starring Viviane Blaine; "Glorifying The American Girl" [1929]; "The Greeks Had A Word For Them" aka "Three Broadway Girls" [1932]; "Happy Go Lovely" [1951] starring Vera-Ellen, David Niven & Caesar Romero; "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round" [1937]; "Moonlight Sonata" [1937] with pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski; "Mr. Imperium" [1951] starring Lana Turner & Ezio Pinza; "Royal Wedding" [1951] starring Astaire & Jane Powell; "Second Chorus" [1940] starring Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith & bandleader Artie Shaw; and "The Stork Club" [1945] starring Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald & Don DeFore – plus radio clips, interviews & theatrical trailers |
 | Musicals 20 Movie Pack Collection [2005]
Mill Creek Ent. DVD set [11/2005] 5 disks for $8.47 TWENTY FILMS including "All-American Co-Ed" [1941]; "Breakfast In Hollywood" [1946]; "Calendar Girl" [1947]; "Career Girl" [1944]; "The Dancing Pirate" [1936]; "Delightfully Dangerous" [1945] starring Jane Powell; "Dixiana" [1930] starring Bebe Daniels; "Doll Face" [1946] starring Viviane Blaine; "The Fabulous Dorseys" [1947]; "Fiesta" [1941]; "Glorifying The American Girl" [1929]; "Let's Go Collegiate" [1941] with Gale Storm; "Minstrel Man" [1944]; "People Are Funny" [1946]; "Rhythm In The Clouds" [1937]; "Second Chorus" [1940] starring Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard & Artie Shaw; "Sitting On The Moon" [1936]; "Swing Hostess" [1944]; "Till The Clouds Roll By" [1946] starring Robert Walker; and "Trocadero" [1944] |
 | "Classic Musicals: The Cole Porter Collection" DVD box set [2003]
Warner Home Video widescreen color DVD set [4/2003] 5 disks for $48.99 includes "Broadway Melody of 1940" [1940] starring Fred Astaire & Eleanor Powell; "High Society" [1955] starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly & Frank Sinatra, with Louis Armstrong; "Les Girls" [1957] directed by George Cukor, starring Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall & Taina Elg; "Kiss Me Kate" [1953] starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson & Ann Miller; and "Silk Stockings" [1957] directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Fred Astaire & Cyd Charisse |
Selected Movie Musicals
Movie Musicals Genre listing at Internet Movie Database
'Essential Musicals On Film' category at Amazon
Movie Musicals posters category at AllPosters.com
| Selected musical films yet to be coded in detail below
"Glorifying The American Girl" [1929]; "The Vagabond Lover" [1929] starring Rudy Vallee & Sally Blane; "The Love Parade" [1929] directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier & Jeanette MacDonald; "Monte Carlo" [1930] directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Jack Buchanan & Jeanette MacDonald; "The Smiling Lieutenant" [1931] directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert & Miriam Hopkins; and "One Hour With You" [1932] directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier & Jeanette MacDonald "The Greeks Had A Word For Them" aka "Three Broadway Girls" [1932]; "Footlight Parade" [1933] starring James Cagney & Ruby Keeler; "Gold Diggers of 1933" [1933] directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Ruby Keeler & Dick Powell; "Dames" [1934] starring Dick Powell & Ruby Keeler; "365 Nights In Hollywood" [1934]; "Gold Diggers of 1935" [1935] directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Dick Powell, Gloria Stuart & Adolphe Menjou; "Porgy and Bess" [1935]; "Let's Sing Again" [1936] starring Bobby Breen; "Show Boat" [MGM 1936]; "Song of Freedom" [1936] with Paul Robeson; "Big Fella" [1937] with Paul Robeson; "Make A Wish" [1937] starring Bobbie Breen & Basil Rathbone; "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round" [1937]; "Moonlight Sonata" [1937] with pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski; "Something To Sing About" [1937] starring James Cagney; "Babes In Arms" [1939] directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland; and "Strike Up The Band" [1940] directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland, with Paul Whiteman's Orchestra |
"Lady Be Good"
[1928 silent] /tt0019065/
No kidding: A silent film version of Gershwin's hit Broadway musical; made as a sound film in 1941
"The Broadway Melody of 1929"
[M.G.M./Loew's Feb 1929]
  | Two sisters join a pal's Broadway show; he falls in love with one sister, but she is courted by a high society cad. Directed by Harry Beaumont; starring Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love, Jed Prouty, Kenneth Thomson, Edward Dillon, Mary Doran & Eddie Kane; won Oscar for Best Picture, nominated for Best Director, Best Actress (BL)
Warner b&w DVD [2/2005] for $14.99 M.G.M./Warner b&w VHS [12/94] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb |
"Fox Movietone Follies of 1929"
[Fox May 1929]
 | Early attempt by William Fox to utilize his Movietone sound process; partly filmed in Multicolor; location filming in Havana, Cuba; New York City, and Palm Beach, Florida. A girl from the Midwest gets a small part in a Broadway show; her wealthy boyfriend buys the show expecting to fire her if she won't return with him; but the girl replaces the star and is a hit ...
Co-written & directed by David Butler; starring John Breeden, Lola Lane, DeWitt Jennings, Sharon Lynn, Arthur Stone, Stepin Fetchit & Jackie Cooper
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available { considered to be a lost film } full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"The Hollywood Revue of 1929" [M.G.M. June 1929]
 | Plotless two-hour sound musical review, partly filmed in Technicolor. Directed by Charles Reisner; starring Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny, John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Bessie Love, Cliff Edwards (as Ukulele Ike), Laurel & Hardy, Anita Page, Nils Asther, Marion Davies, William Haines, Buster Keaton {dual role} & Marie Dressler; with cameos by Renée Adorée, Lionel Barrymore, the Brox Sisters, Ann Dvorak, the Biltmore Quartet & the Mawby Sisters; nominated for Best Picture Oscar
M.G.M. b&w/color DVD [2/2006] for $18.99 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"The Great Gabbo" musical feature
[Sono Art-World Wide Pictures Sept 1929]
 | An aging ventriloquist is going mad, taking advice from his dummy; the second plot is an onstage musical romance. (The original mid-film MultiColor sequences seem to be lost.) Co-produced & directed by James Cruze; written by Ben Hecht & Hugh Herbert; starring Erich von Stroheim, Betty Compson, Donald Douglas & Marjorie Kane
Kino Video double feature b&w DVD [6/2003] for $18.99 with 1919 feature "Blind Husbands" A.F.A. Ent. b&w DVD [11/2011] for $12.95 
Gotham Distribution b&w DVD [5/2005] for $7.68 Synergy Ent. b&w DVD [9/2007] for $9.99 Triad Prodns 'Enhanced' b&w DVD-R [5/2009] for $12.95 Keystone Video b&w VHS [7/2001] out of prodn/used 11"x17" black poster {as at left} from Amazon for $9.98 27"x40" green Swedish poster from Amazon for $18.99 credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Applause" [Paramount Jan 1930]
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Early backstage musical: A fading burlesque star tries to prevent her daughter from becoming a dancer.
Mamoulian's direction is an example of outstanding camera movement.
Directed by Rouben Mamoulian; based on a Beth Brown novel; starring Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron, Henry Wadsworth & Roy Hargrave; listed on National Film Registry (2006) Kino Video b&w DVD [11/2003] for $26.99 Kino Video b&w VHS [11/2003] for $23.70 full credits from IMDb |
"New Movietone Follies of 1930" [Fox May 1930]
 | Another early attempt by William Fox to utilize his Movietone sound process; partly filmed in Multicolor.
A stage actress dumps her playboy boyfriend; two fellow showgirls are pursued by a songwriter and by the playboy's butler posing as a Swedish lumber millionaire (dialect comedian El Brendel) who is in turn pursued by the maid. The playboy wants his sweetie back and hires the stage company to perform during a benefit for disabled soldiers at his uncle's estate ... Directed by Benjamin Stoloff; written by William K. Wells; starring El Brendel, Miriam Seegar, Marjorie White, Noel Francis, William Collier Jr., Frank Richardson, Paul Nicholson, Huntley Gordon, Yola d'Avril & Betty Grable (bit part)
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available { considered to be a lost film } full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"42nd Street" [Warner Bros. March 1933]
Directed by Lloyd Bacon; choreography by Busby Berkeley; starring Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels,
George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee, Una Merkel, Ginger Rogers, Ned Sparks & Dick Powell;
Oscar nominated for Best Picture & Best Sound, listed on the National Film Registry (1998)
full credits from IMDb
"Flying Down To Rio" [Dec 1933]
Starring Gene Raymond, Dolores Del Rio, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
"Roman Scandals" [Samuel Goldwyn/United Artists Nov 1933]
Starring Eddie Cantor, The Goldwyn Girls & Ruth Etting
"Going Hollywood" [Cosmopolitan/M.G.M. Dec 1933]
 | A pretty French teacher takes off for Hollywood to save radio singer Bill from the clutches of his costar.
Musical feature film directed by Raoul Walsh; script by Donald Ogden Stewart, based on a story by Frances Marion; starring Marion Davies, Bing Crosby, Fifi D'Orsay, Stuart Erwin, Ned Sparks & Patsy Kelly
poster {at left} available in two sizes at AllPosters.com DVD/Blu-ray not available; b&w VHS [8/00] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"The Gay Divorcee" [1934]
Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady & Edward Everett Horton
"Roberta" [1935]
Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Irene Dunne & Randolph Scott
"Broadway Melody of 1936"
[M.G.M. Sept 1935]
 | Directed by Roy Del Ruth; starring Eleanor Powell & Robert Taylor; won Oscar for Best Dance Direction, nominated for Best Picture & Best Original Script
double feature DVD "Broadway Melody of 1936 / ... of 1938" Warner Home Video b&w DVD set [undated] 2 disks - out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
"Top Hat"
[R.K.O. Radio Pictures Sept 1935]
Starring Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers;
full credits from IMDb
"Follow The Fleet" [1936]
Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott & Harriet Hilliard {Nelson}
"Swing Time" [1936]
Starring Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
"Anything Goes" [1936]
Based on the play by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton; music by Cole Porter;
starring Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles & Ida Lupino /tt0027302/
"Shall We Dance" [1937]
Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton & Eric Blore
"Carefree" [1938]
Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers & Ralph Bellamy
"Broadway Melody of 1938" [M.G.M. Aug 1937]
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A young aspiring producer finds a backer for his Broadway show, but is forced to hire a known star instead of his girlfriend, who purchaes a horse and wins money at the races to produce the show.
Directed by Roy Del Ruth; starring Robert Taylor, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Binnie Barnes, Buddy Ebsen, Sophie Tucker, Judy Garland, Raymond Walburn & Robert Benchley
DVD available as part of "Musicals From The Dream Factory Volume 3" box set above MGM/Warner b&w VHS [4/92] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb double feature DVD "Broadway Melody of 1936 / ... of 1938" Warner Home Video b&w DVD set [undated] 2 disks - out of prodn/used |
"College Swing" musical comedy [Paramount April 1938]
Directed by Raoul Walsh; starring George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Edward Everett Horton,
Florence George, Ben Blue, Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan, John Payne, Cecil Cunningham, Robert Cummings &
Skinnay Ennis;
full credits from IMDb
"Cowboy From Brooklyn" musical Western
[Cosmopolitan/Warner Bros. July 1938]
 | 'Wyoming Steve' Gibson has a pleasant tenor and a really neat cowboy outfit, so he's sure to hit it big as Hollywood's next singing cowboy star, as long as nobody figures out that he is really an East Coast city slicker who's scared silly of animals, big or small. He manages to pull off the ruse until he's challenged to ride in a Madison Square Garden rodeo – on a horse! Full of sprightly songs by lyricist Johnny Mercer and melodists Richard Whiting & Harry Warren. Directed by Lloyd Bacon; screenplay by Earl Baldwin, based on the 1937 Broadway stageplay "Howdy Stranger"; starring Dick Powell, Pat O'Brien, Priscilla Lane, Dick Foran, Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Emma Dunn, Granville Bates & James Stephenson
Warner Archive b&w DVD-R [9/2011] for $18.49
full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Two Guys From Texas" Technicolor remake
musical Western [Warner Bros. Aug 1948]
 | Two vaudeville performers are stranded at a Texas dude ranch; largely the same musical comedy plot as "Cowboy From Brooklyn" [1938], but with different songs, from Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne. The cameo by Bugs Bunny is his first appearance in a feature film. Directed by David Butler; script by I.A.L. Diamond & Allen Boretz, based on the 1937 Broadway stageplay "Howdy Stranger"; starring Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Dorothy Malone, Penny Edwards, Forrest Tucker, Fred Clark, Gerald Mohr, John Alvin, Andrew Tombes & Monte Blue
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"The Story of Vernon & Irene Castle" [March 1939]
Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, May Oliver & Walter Brennan
Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Mikado"
[G.F.D. U.K. Jan 1939, Universal U.S.A. May 1939]
 | Heavily-altered version of the classic 1885 comic opera: several songs missing, others sung by incorrect characters. The first three-color Technicolor feature released by Universal Pictures; remastered digital transfer. When the son of Japan's Mikado falls in love with Yum-Yum, he must fend off her betrothed, the Lord High Executioner, as well as his own father and another suitor.
Performed by key members of the D'Oyly Carte Company, with the D'Oyly Carte Chorus and the London Symphony Orchestra;
directed by Victor Schertzinger; extras include video interviews, booklet, and 1926 silent promo short.
Criterion Collection widescreen color Blu-ray [3/2011] for $25.99 Criterion Collection color DVD [3/2011] for $26.99 full credits at IMDb • opera entry at Wikipedia |
Magic Lantern's "The Wizard of Oz" 1939 Movie Page
"Broadway Melody of 1940" [M.G.M. Feb 1940]
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Two male hoofers trying to make it on Broadway get a big chance when a producer notices them; but the favored dancer thinks he is being hounded by bill collectors, and gives them his pal's name.
Directed by Norman Taurog; starring Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy & Frank Morgan, with Cole Porter
Warner Home Video b&w DVD [4/2003] for $17.99 M.G..M b&w VHS [2/95] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
"Second Chorus" [1940]
Starring Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith & bandleader Artie Shaw;
full credits from IMDb
"One Night In The Tropics" [Universal Oct 1940]
 | A musical-comedy based on the 1914 novel "Love Insurance" by Earl Derr Biggers [1884-1933]; famed as the movie debut of the Abbott & Costello comedy team. Jim, an insurance salesman, sells Steve a policy that will pay Steve if his fiancée won't marry him; nightclub owner Roscoe backs the policy, Jim starts to fall for the girl, and Roscoe hires two stooges to make sure that Steve and the girl marry. Directed by A. Edward Sutherland; original music by Jerome Kern; starring Allan Jones, Robert Cummings, Nancy Kelly, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mary Boland, William Frawley, Peggy Moran & Leo Carrillo
b&w DVD available as part of "Best of Abbott & Costello Volume 1" box set Universal b&w VHS [1/98] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb |
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