Everything Is Rhythm (1936)
Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader.
Dancing Pirate (1936)
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a…
Treachery Rides the Range (1936)
The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. But Carter, of Carter and Barton, just signed a big contract…
The Singing Kid (1936)
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt…
Moonlight Murder (1936)
An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.
Cheer Up (1936)
An impoverished team of composer and songwriter try to secure financial backing for their new musical, with the assistance of a struggling actress working as a housemaid.
Rose Marie (1936)
An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.
The Littlest Rebel (1935)
Virgie Cary’s father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape….
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935)
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936…
Thanks a Million (1935)
A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be replaced in doing his campaign…
The Rainmakers (1935)
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick “Billy”) to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from…
Shipmates Forever (1935)
An admiral’s son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love…
Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her–and her talent. Gordon is too busy sparring with a dirt-dishing gossip columnist to notice,…
Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life (1935)
A rising nineteen-year-old singer by the name of Billie Holiday made her screen debut in this musical landmark, which features Duke Ellington and his orchestra performing his symphonic jazz piece…
Bright Lights (1935)
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
Hooray for Love (1935)
A wealthy young man falls hard for a beautiful showgirl, and her wily father quickly realizes the naïve boy would make the perfect investor for his daughter’s new show. Comedy…
The Nitwits (1935)
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
In Caliente (1935)
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he’s trashed in print.
Goin’ to Town (1935)
Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her to enter into a contract to marry a wealthy man. When he…
Go Into Your Dance (1935)
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
Reckless (1935)
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
Times Square Lady (1935)
A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father’s New York business, but the dead man’s crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir and seize control.
Roberta (1935)
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt,…
The Band Concert (1935)
Mickey is trying to lead a concert of The William Tell Overture, but he’s continually disrupted by ice cream vendor Donald, who uses a seemingly endless supply of flutes to…
Sweet Adeline (1934)
In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But…
Radio Parade of 1935 (1934)
One of the first screen outings for Will Hay. Hay plays the Director General of the National Broadcasting Group (NBG) who hides away in his office unaware that the general…
Flirtation Walk (1934)
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general’s engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he’s at…
Kid Millions (1934)
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
The Goddess of Spring (1934)
The goddess is greeted by dancing flowers and fairies. The devil comes and takes her away to be his queen. She’s despondent, as winter settles in above ground. But the…
The Merry Widow (1934)
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Happiness Ahead (1934)
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother’s choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
Wagon Wheels (1934)
A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet. On board are feisty young widow Nancy Wellington and her toddler, Sonny,…
Dames (1934)
A reformer’s daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
Cab Calloway’s Hi-De-Ho (1934)
This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington) of a train porter who is…
Blossom Time (1934)
World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer’s unrequited love for a dance master’s daughter.
The Wise Little Hen (1934)
Join Donald Duck in his debut in the classic animated short The Wise Little Hen. The Little Hen is planting corn and would like to have help from Peter Pig…
Hollywood Party (1934)
Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws…
Betty Boop’s Rise to Fame (1934)
A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.
Murder at the Vanities (1934)
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll’s Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to…