Music Movies

Charlie Reader is a successful theater agent. He is also successful with young ladies. One day he is visited by his old friend Joe, married with three children. Joe falls in love with Charlie\'s girl Sylvia while Charlie spends his time with young actress Julie. Written by Mattias Thuresson

Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York\'s Greenwich Village looking for \"fame, fortune and a \'For Rent\' sign on Barrow Street\". They find an apartment, but fame and fortune are a lot more elusive. Ruth gets the attention of playboy publisher Bob Baker when she submits a story about her gorgeous sister Eileen. She tries to keep his attention by convincing him that she and the gorgeous, man-getting Eileen are one and the same person.

Wealthy American Jervis Pendleton III (Fred Astaire) has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, Julie Andre (Leslie Caron). He anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Her nickname for him, \"Daddy Long Legs\", is taken from the description of him given to Andre by some of her fellow orphans who see his shadow as he leaves their building. Several years later, he visits her at school, still concealing his identity. Despite their large age difference, they soon fall in love.

Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they\'ve grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven\'t been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.

Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.

A movie star helps a young singer/actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise. The major blight on Bart\'s existence is the hated piano lessons he is forced to endure under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker. Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker\'s sinister influence, and gripes to visiting plumber August Zabladowski, without much result. While grimly hammering away at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a fantastical musical dream.

Jordan Blake (a widower) is a successful Broadway Producer who has always been to busy for his children, Barbara and Jerry. Girlfriend, Carolina a musical comedy star, urges Jordan to take his kids on a vacation and get to know them before they are all grown up. Is Jordan already too late?

When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran (Fred Clark) out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for \"Apple Annie\" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and \"collecting dough for old dolls\" like Nellie who have nowhere to live. Radio personality Marilyn Maxwell assists as the Kid\'s girlfriend, while William Frawley and Jay C. Flippen play the lovable, gruff crooks that fall for the Kid\'s Santa scam.

Fred Astaire (Tom) and Jane Powell (Ellen) are asked to perform as a dance team in England at the time of Princess Elizabeth\'s wedding. As brother and sister, each develops a British love interest, Ellen with Lord John Brindale (Peter Lawford) and Tom with dancer Anne Ashmond (Sarah Churchill--Winston\'s daughter).

Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she\'s pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.

The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they\'ve been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected \"fathead\" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O\'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.

Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting, through lean years and their breakthrough, to their successes on Broadway, London, and Hollywood. We see the fruits of Hart and Rodgers\' collaboration - elaborately staged numbers from their plays, characters\' visits to night clubs, and impromptu performances at parties. We also see Larry\'s scattered approach to life, his failed love with Peggy McNeil, his unhappiness, and Richard\'s successful wooing of Dorothy Feiner.

Developed from a radio program which began in 1941, hyperactive teenager Judy challenges and is challeged by her overly proper parents, pest of a brother Randolph and boyfriend Oogie.

Melody Time is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures. Made up of several sequences set to popular music and folk music, the film is, like Make Mine Music before it, the contemporary version of Fantasia.

At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.

A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

Uncle Remus draws upon his tales of Br\'er Rabbit to help little Johnny deal with his confusion over his parents\' separation as well as his new life on the plantation.

Vittles, songs and dance are amply ladeled out when Judy Garland headlines The Harvey Girls, a joyous musical slice of Americana celebrating the restaurants that brought extra helpings of civilization to Old West rail passengers.

Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.

In this western, two cowboys go to buy fresh horses for the cavalry and end up taking on two badguys and a female vigilante.

Playboy Andy Mason, on leave from the army, romances showgirl Edie Allen overnight to such effect that she\'s starry-eyed when he leaves next morning for active duty in the Pacific. Only trouble is, he gave her the assumed name of Casey. Andy\'s eventual return with a medal is celebrated by his rich father with a benefit show featuring Eadie\'s show troupe, at which she\'s sure to learn his true identity...and meet Vivian, his \'family-arrangement\' fiancée. Mostly song and dance.

A Broadway choreographer (Fred Astaire) gets drafted and puts on a GI show with his girlfriend (Rita Hayworth) and producer (Robert Benchley).

Petty con artists, Bud & Lou mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they\'re vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.

Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter lets his accomplices steal the money, so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they\'re performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world\'s foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.

Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter\'s evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.

Bessie and Winston \"Slug\" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college football team into shape. Just in time, they discover a hillbilly farmhand and his sister. But the hillbilly farmhand\'s ability to throw melons enables him to become their star passing ace.

Lucky is tricked into missing his wedding to Margaret by the other members of Pop\'s magic and dance act, and has to make $25,000 to be allowed to marry her. He and Pop go to New York where they run into Penny, a dancing instructor. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricardo—the band leader who won\'t play for them to dance together.

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.

When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake\'s buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry\'s sister, Connie. But it\'s not all smooth sailing—Bake has a habit of losing Sherry\'s jobs for her and, despite Connie\'s dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.

Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.

Four aspiring musical actresses are struggling to make a living on Broadway in the midst of the Great Depression. When producer Barney Hopkins has the idea of creating a show about the Depression, the girls team up with newly-discovered songwriter Brad Roberts to make it happen. But Brad is not who he seems.

Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi\'s husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.

In this classic French satire, Louis, a convict, escapes from prison and takes on legitimate work, making his way up in the business world. Eventually becoming the head of a successful factory, Louis opts to modernize his company with mechanical innovations. But when his friend Émile finally leaves jail years later and reunites with Louis, the past catches up with them. The two, worried about being apprehended by police, long to flee the confines of industry.

This revue presents its numbers around the orchestra leader Paul Whiteman, besides that it shows in it\'s final number that the European popular music are the roots of American popular music, called Jazz.

Harriet and Queenie Mahoney, a vaudeville act, come to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. Eddie was in love with Harriet, but when he meets Queenie, he falls in love to her, but she is courted by Jock Warriner, a member of the New Yorker high society. It takes a while till Queenie recognizes, that she is for Jock nothing more than a toy, and it also takes a while till Harriet recognizes, that Eddie is in love with Queenie