Great Old Musicals
Great Musicals from the 40's and 50's
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- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsDoris DayGordon MacRaeLeon AmesMarjorie 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.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsDoris DayGordon MacRaeJack SmithDuring World War I, a teenage girl begins a romance with a college student, but his unconventional attitudes cause friction with her father.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsDoris DayHoward KeelAllyn Ann McLerieThe story of Calamity Jane, her saloon, and her romance with Wild Bill Hickok.
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsBetty HuttonFred AstaireRoland YoungAfter the war, Donald Elwood meets his former USO partner, Kitty McNeil, who is now a rich widow with a little child. She tries to evade her paternal grandmother, who wants her to live in a way according to the customs of her dead husband's class.
- DirectorStanley DonenStarsJane PowellHoward KeelJeff RichardsWhen a backwoodsman in 1850s Oregon brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsJudy GarlandFred AstairePeter LawfordA nightclub performer hires a naive chorus girl to become his new dance partner to make his former partner jealous and to prove he can make any partner a star.
- DirectorMark SandrichRobert AllenStarsBing CrosbyFred AstaireMarjorie ReynoldsAt an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsBing CrosbyDanny KayeRosemary ClooneyA successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsFrank SinatraKathryn GraysonGene KellyA pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
- DirectorStuart HeislerMark SandrichStarsFred AstaireBing CrosbyJoan CaulfieldAn ex-dancer and New York radio star narrates his love story for a band singer who loved a self-centered man who was unable to commit to his nightclub business or his family.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsYul BrynnerDeborah KerrRita MorenoA widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.
- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsJune AllysonPeter LawfordPatricia MarshallGolden Globe winner June Allyson and Peter Lawford star in this enjoyable musical about a football hero who falls in love with his French tutor.
- DirectorGeorge AbbottStarsLucille BallRichard CarlsonAnn MillerA young lady goes to college, and without her knowledge, her father sends four football players as her bodyguards. They eventually join the college team and turn it into one the best--and one of them falls in love with her.
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsSonja HenieJohn PayneGlenn MillerAfter Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort, its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. Later, soloist Vivian Dawn quits and Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsDon AmecheBetty GrableRobert CummingsSisters Kay and Barbara arrive in Miami from Texas looking for rich husbands.
- DirectorFred M. WilcoxStarsJeanette MacDonaldJosé IturbiJane PowellIt's Tess' graduation day from "Miss Drake's School for Girls". During the choir's performance at the ceremony, Tess notices that her beautiful divorcee mother, Louise Rayton Morgan, isn't there. Louise, an editor for Modern Design Publication, is lying in Dr. Cannon's office; she fainted from overwork and over-stress. At home after the graduation ceremony, Dr. Cannon has a talk with Tess and her sisters Ilka and Alix, telling them that their mother badly needs a vacation, but the only way she can relax is if she goes without the girls. The girls agree; Louise is reluctant, but she goes. The girls see their mother off on her one month Cuban cruise. When the girls get home they discuss their mother, and believe if they bring their father back home it will make their mom happy and healthy again. In reality, Louise has kept the truth about their father from them: he was actually a very uncaring man who left them, left Louise to raise them alone. The girls go to see their father's boss, Robert Nelson, to locate their father and bring him home. Meanwhile, on Louise's Cuban cruise, she meets famed pianist and conductor, Jose Iturbi. Jose is immediately taken by Louise, but she plays hard-to-get, but has the time of her life. When Louise finally returns home, she has a secret to tell the girls, but, the girls have a secret too..
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsVan JohnsonJune AllysonGloria DeHavenMusical in which two singing sisters set up a canteen to entertain soldiers, their enterprise funded by a mysterious wealthy admirer
- DirectorStanley DonenStarsFred AstaireJane PowellPeter LawfordA brother and sister dance act encounter challenges and romance when booked in London during the Royal Wedding.
- DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDonald O'ConnorDebbie ReynoldsA silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsAudrey HepburnRex HarrisonStanley HollowayIn 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsJudy GarlandRay BolgerJohn HodiakOn a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley (Judy Garland) meets a cheery crew of young women travelling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsJudy GarlandVan JohnsonS.Z. SakallIn turn-of-the century America, Andrew and Veronica are co-workers in a music shop who dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsJudy GarlandMargaret O'BrienMary AstorYoung love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsEsther WilliamsVictor MatureWalter PidgeonBiopic of Australian swimming champ and entertainer Annette Kellerman. After overcoming polio, Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
- DirectorElliott NugentStarsBing CrosbyBarry FitzgeraldJoan CaulfieldThe old-time town doctor of Fallbridge plans his first vacation in 30 years. But his dislike of, and frequent squabbles with his young interim replacement may jeopardize more than his vacation.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsBing CrosbyBarry FitzgeraldFrank McHughWhen young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of the church's newest member.
- DirectorDavid MillerStarsBing CrosbyAnn BlythBarry FitzgeraldA singing insurance investigator comes to Ireland to recover the stolen Blarney Stone...and romance the local policeman's daughter.
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsBing CrosbyMadge EvansEdith FellowsLarry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promise an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsBing CrosbyJane WymanAlexis SmithForeign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
- DirectorEdward BuzzellStarsEsther WilliamsRed SkeltonRicardo MontalbanA swimsuit fashion designer is determined to protect her scatterbrained sister from a South American heartbreaker, but a case of mistaken identity complicates matters.
- DirectorCharles WaltersJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsEsther WilliamsFernando LamasJack CarsonWith her promoter-trainer and family in tow, Katie Higgins swims her way from the Arkansas Ozarks to foggy London and the English Channel. - SimonJack
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsBing CrosbyRhonda FlemingCedric HardwickeA singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsVirginia MayoRonald ReaganGene NelsonA burlesque dancer goes to college, where she romances a professor and helps put on a musical show.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyJoan LeslieWalter HustonThe life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsJeanne CrainDana AndrewsDick HaymesEach member of the Frake clan has his/her own reason for attending the annual Iowa State Fair.