Music Movies

The Eddie Cantor Story (1953)

The Eddie Cantor Story (1953)

The Eddie Cantor Story (1953)
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115

Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.

Genre: Drama, Music
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)

Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)

Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
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91

Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages to stir up the blood of every marine on the base.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
The Wedding of Lilli Marlene (1953)

The Wedding of Lilli Marlene (1953)

The Wedding of Lilli Marlene (1953)
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87

The story leading up to the wedding of Lilli Marlene.

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Easy to Love (1953)

Easy to Love (1953)

Easy to Love (1953)
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96

Two men vie for the heart of a Cypress Gardens swimming star.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Kiss Me Kate (1953)

Kiss Me Kate (1953)

Kiss Me Kate (1953)
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109

A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Give a Girl a Break (1953)

Give a Girl a Break (1953)

Give a Girl a Break (1953)
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82

When the temperamental star of a new Broadway musical revue in rehearsals walks out, director and choreographer Ted Sturgis suggests casting an unknown for the role. When it is announced…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Calamity Jane (1953)

Calamity Jane (1953)

Calamity Jane (1953)
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101

Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.

Torch Song (1953)

Torch Song (1953)

Torch Song (1953)
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90

Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn’t take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who may be able to break…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
The Beggar’s Opera (1953)

The Beggar’s Opera (1953)

The Beggar’s Opera (1953)
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94

Adaptation of John Gay’s 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.

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Genre: Crime, History, Music
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)
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72

Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis – women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy’s father, even though and maybe because she says she’s in dreamville, does not share her affection…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Caddy (1953)

The Caddy (1953)

The Caddy (1953)
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95

Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is too nervous to play in front of a gallery, so he acts…

Genre: Comedy, Music
The Band Wagon (1953)

The Band Wagon (1953)

The Band Wagon (1953)
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112

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star’s comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
So This Is Love (1953)

So This Is Love (1953)

So This Is Love (1953)
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101

Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.

Genre: Music, Romance
The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)

The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)

The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
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89

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…

Genre: Family, Fantasy, Music
Dangerous When Wet (1953)

Dangerous When Wet (1953)

Dangerous When Wet (1953)
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95

The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Desert Song (1953)

The Desert Song (1953)

The Desert Song (1953)
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110

Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a…

Genre: Music, Romance
The Girl Next Door (1953)

The Girl Next Door (1953)

The Girl Next Door (1953)
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92

Stage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird buys her first home, and everyone who is anyone comes to her first garden party only to be blinded by smoke from next door. Jeannie…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Scared Stiff (1953)

Scared Stiff (1953)

Scared Stiff (1953)
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108

A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for…

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Music
Sombrero (1953)

Sombrero (1953)

Sombrero (1953)
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103

Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter’s sister and lovers from feuding villages.

Genre: Music, Romance
Bright Road (1953)

Bright Road (1953)

Bright Road (1953)
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68

Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.

Genre: Drama, Music
Small Town Girl (1953)

Small Town Girl (1953)

Small Town Girl (1953)
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93

Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge’s daughter Cindy to let…

Genre: Music, Romance
The Story of Three Loves (1953)

The Story of Three Loves (1953)

The Story of Three Loves (1953)
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122

Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.

By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)

By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)

By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
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101

Marjorie Winfield’s engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.

I Love Melvin (1953)

I Love Melvin (1953)

I Love Melvin (1953)
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77

Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and Melvin soon offers to do…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Lili (1953)

Lili (1953)

Lili (1953)
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82

Members of a circus troupe “adopt” Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)
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109

The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between…

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Genre: Drama, Music
Road to Bali (1953)

Road to Bali (1953)

Road to Bali (1953)
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91

Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the…

Tonight We Sing (1953)

Tonight We Sing (1953)

Tonight We Sing (1953)
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109

Tonight We Sing is a 1953 musical biopic film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, based on the life and career of the celebrated impresario Sol Hurok. It stars David Wayne and…

Genre: Music
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
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70

Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two bumpkins mix-up a love letter with…

April in Paris (1952)

April in Paris (1952)

April in Paris (1952)
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100

A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Stars and Stripes Forever (1952)

Stars and Stripes Forever (1952)

Stars and Stripes Forever (1952)
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90

A film biography of the composer John Philip Sousa, from his early days in the Marine Corps Band through the Spanish-American War in 1898.

Genre: Drama, Music
Hans Christian Andersen (1952)

Hans Christian Andersen (1952)

Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
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112

A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.

Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)

Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)

Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
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115

After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.

Genre: Drama, Music
Beauties of the Night (1952)

Beauties of the Night (1952)

Beauties of the Night (1952)
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87

A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.

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Limelight (1952)

Limelight (1952)

Limelight (1952)
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137

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Because You’re Mine (1952)

Because You’re Mine (1952)

Because You’re Mine (1952)
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103

A famous opera singer falls for his sergeant’s sister at boot camp.

Genre: Comedy, Music
Just for You (1952)

Just for You (1952)

Just for You (1952)
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104

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…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
She’s Working Her Way Through College (1952)

She’s Working Her Way Through College (1952)

She’s Working Her Way Through College (1952)
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104

Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor’s wife. Angela helps breath life into the annual…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Abstronic (1952)

Abstronic (1952)

Abstronic (1952)
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6

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set to classical music by the…

Genre: Animation, Music
Lovely to Look At (1952)

Lovely to Look At (1952)

Lovely to Look At (1952)
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102

Three broke Broadway producers are desperately looking for backers for a new show. When they are about to give up, one of them discovers that they are an heir to…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance