Music Movies

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.

Ballet performed to Dukas’ “The Sorceror’s Apprentice”.

A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.

Ruriko’s father is a well known scientist who’s involved in secret research that even his family doesn’t know about. Ever since he moved up to the research laboratory in Hokkaido,…

Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. She’s a foremost Wagnerian, equal to the vocal and physical demands of the composer’s oeuvre. And she’s…

Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes…

Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all…

In a musical retelling of the Cinderella tale, a mistreated scullery maid escapes the oppression of her stepfamily to finding love with a prince.

The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and…

This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who’s been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband’s songwriting partner, Gower…

Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.

Rome is on the verge of being conquered by Hannibal. While Rome’s ruler, Fabius Maximus, plots a defense against Hannibal’s armies, Fabius’ fiancée, Amytis, is curious about the fearless conqueror….

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

Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.

The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter’s life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the…

Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful…

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

Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village – Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace…

Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His…

Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to…

Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, Mike Malone, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The feeling is mutual….

New Faces was a musical revue with songs and comedy skits tied together by a quirky plot. It ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952 and was then…

A vibrant tribute to one of America’s legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller’s rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.

Herman owes a lot of gambling debts. To pay them off, he promises the mob he’ll fix a horse, so that it does not run. He intends to trick his…

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

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.

The story leading up to the wedding of Lilli Marlene.

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…

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

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…

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.

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…

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

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…

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…

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

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

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…

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…