Music Movies
The Perils of Pauline (1947)
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she “opens” for a delayed Shakespeare play…with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her…
Fiesta (1947)
When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.
Living in a Big Way (1947)
A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father (Charles Winninger), now wants a divorce.
Miss Philippines (1947)
A story about LVN Pictures a major production company searching for a new female star, held a contest entitled Miss Philippines. The daughter of a poor laundrywoman pretends to be…
The Vigilantes Return (1947)
Marshal Johnnie Taggart, posing as an outlaw named “Ace” Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to restore law and order. But he is recognized by Kitty, co-owner with Clay Curtwright of…
Copacabana (1947)
A talent agent sells his girlfriend to a nightclub – as two separate acts. The deception and constant costume changes are too much for his girl, and the men who…
Hi-De-Ho (1947)
Cab Calloway plays himself in a plot about jealousy, night clubs, and gangsters. Ends with a series of musical numbers.
It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with…
Bells of San Angelo (1947)
Gridley is mining silver from an old Mexican mine and bringing it into the USA thru a passage into his worthless mine. Border guard Rogers suspects Gridley and finally finds…
It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)
Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds…
The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)
The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.
The Man I Love (1946)
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor’s wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky…
Out California Way (1946)
Newcomer Monte Hale is tying to just get a job in western films when he meet young Danny McCoy and his sister Gloria. Danny is trying to get his horse,…
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous:…
Deception (1946)
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
Blue Skies (1946)
Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can’t…
The Jolson Story (1946)
At the turn of the 20th century, young Asa Yoelson decides to go against the wishes of his cantor father and pursue a career in show business. Gradually working his…
Holiday in Mexico (1946)
Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Evans, believes that she is no longer a young girl and that she has fully matured into…
Junior Prom (1946)
A rich man’s son runs for student president at the local high school, and the father tells the school principal that if his son wins, he’ll make a sizeable donation…
Easy to Wed (1946)
When a newspaper accuses a wealthy socialite of being a homewrecker, she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit. The publication’s frazzled head editor now must find a way to discredit her.
Night and Day (1946)
When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity,…
Make Mine Music (1946)
In the tradition of Fantasia, Make Mine Music is a glorious collection of musically charged animated shorts featuring such fun-filled favorites as “Peter and the Wolf”, narrated by the beloved…
Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she’s a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C…
The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it’s much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one…
Swing Parade of 1946 (1946)
A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down.
Road to Utopia (1946)
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been ‘stolen’ by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father’s…
The Harvey Girls (1946)
On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a “Harvey House” restaurant at a…
The Stork Club (1945)
Director Hal Walker’s 1945 musical comedy stars Betty Hutton as a hat-check girl at New York City’s famous nightclub. The cast also includes Barry Fitzgerald, Don Defore, Andy Russell, Iria…
Masquerade in Mexico (1945)
An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is making a play for the banker’s wife. They hatch a scheme whereby…
Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help…
The Dolly Sisters (1945)
Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.
Sing Your Way Home (1945)
A war journalist escorts a spirited teen band back to NYC post-WWII, turning the journey into a musical comedy filled with memorable performances.
The Seventh Veil (1945)
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
George White’s Scandals (1945)
Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.
State Fair (1945)
During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa…
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
Nob Hill (1945)
A Barbary Coast saloon owner hopes to marry his way into San Francisco’s high society. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the film was released in 1945.