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51. You Can't Have Everything (1937)
Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals George Macrae over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers, Don Ameche, Charles Winninger
Votes: 275
52. Jammin' the Blues (1944)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Created under the guidance of jazz impresario and Verve Records founder Norman Granz, this short captures the spontaneity of a jam session and is one of few film records of black jazzers of the day including tenor sax legend Lester Young.
Director: Gjon Mili | Stars: Lester Young, George 'Red' Callender, Harry Edison, Marlowe Morris
Votes: 1,003
53. Little Miss Broadway (1938)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Family, Musical
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show-business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Shirley Temple, George Murphy, Jimmy Durante, Phyllis Brooks
Votes: 952
54. Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich (1958)
Approved | 142 min | Documentary, Romance
Windjammer, the first presentation in CINEMIRACLE, is the record of a training cruise of the full-rigged S/S Christian Radich from Oslo across the Atlantic, through the Caribbean, to New York and back home again.
Directors: Bill Colleran, Louis De Rochemont III | Stars: Bjørn Amvik, Arne Andersen, Per Antonsen, Niels Arntsen
Votes: 299
55. Out of This World (1945)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
After struggling to become a success, Betty Miller and her all-girl orchestra finally hit pay dirt when crooner Herbie Fenton comes on board. Problems arise when Betty and her girls try to ... See full summary »
Director: Hal Walker | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake, Diana Lynn, Cass Daley
Votes: 170
56. Merbabies (1938)
Approved | 9 min | Family, Fantasy, Animation
Adorable redheaded 'merbabies' materialize out of the crashing surf and proceed to the sea floor where they conduct a circus along with a variety of sea creatures.
Directors: Rudolf Ising, Vernon Stallings | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Marcellite Garner, Beatrice Hagen, George Magrill
Votes: 574
57. Go Into Your Dance (1935)
Approved | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
Al Howard may be a star on Broadway, but he is no longer welcomed by any producer. It seems that he just trots off to Mexico any time he wants causing shows to close and producers to lose ... See full summary »
Directors: Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz, Robert Florey | Stars: Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane
Votes: 466
58. Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Family, Music
Blondie takes over Dagwood's job while he goes off on a fishing trip.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Jonathan Hale
Votes: 406
59. Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985)
114 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Documentary cataloging the life and music of the band leader and clarinetist, Artie Shaw.
Director: Brigitte Berman | Stars: Artie Shaw, John Best, Lee Castle, Helen Forrest
Votes: 128
60. The Falcon Out West (1944)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Detective Falcon and the police travel west to a ranch in Texas to try and solve the mystery of the murder by venom from a rattlesnake, in a New York City nightclub, of a Rich cattle baron.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Tom Conway, Carole Gallagher, Barbara Hale, Joan Barclay
Votes: 727
61. Carolina Blues (1944)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Musical
Band Leader Kay Kyser wants to take a holiday, but his publicist Charlotte has promised that he'll give a concert for defense plant workers. Due to the fact that his vocalist has quit to ... See full summary »
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Kay Kyser, Ann Miller, Victor Moore, Jeff Donnell
Votes: 212
62. Night of Evil (1962)
88 min | Drama
The story of a young girl who goes from being a high school cheerleader to a stripper who commits an armed robbery.
Director: Richard Galbreath | Stars: Lisa Gaye, William Campbell, Lynette Bernay, Remo Pisani
Votes: 95
63. Meet Me After the Show (1951)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
Delilah Lee is the star of husband Jeff Ames' Broadway show when she starts to suspect he has been exchanging more than contracts with the show's vampish backer. Alimony and amnesia become the order of the day.
Director: Richard Sale | Stars: Betty Grable, Macdonald Carey, Rory Calhoun, Eddie Albert
Votes: 215 | Gross: $2.61M
64. Argentine Nights (1940)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Music
An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: The Ritz Brothers, Al Ritz, Harry Ritz, Jimmy Ritz
Votes: 67
65. Seven Days' Leave (1942)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Soldier Johnny Grey is engaged to marry singer Mapy Cortes, but his plans go awry when he learns that he is the heir to $100,000 from his great-grandfather -- a bequest that comes with a ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Victor Mature, Lucille Ball, Harold Peary, Mapy Cortés
Votes: 389
66. George White's Scandals (1945)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Music
This Broadway revue is about two love affairs. The romance between the comedienne Joan Mason and Jack Evans of Boston is easily disturbed by Jack's cynical sister Clarabelle Evans, who is ... See full summary »
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Joan Davis, Jack Haley, Phillip Terry, Martha Holliday
Votes: 244
67. Skeleton Frolic (1937)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Ub Iwerks dusts off the skeletons from his early-Disney days and puts them to work at Columbia...in a graveyard replete with eerie owls and surrealistic bats, skeletons begin to rise from their graves and form a loosely-jointed band.
Director: Ub Iwerks
Votes: 291
68. Around the World (1943)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Kay Kyser, Mischa Auer, Joan Davis, Marcy McGuire
Votes: 243
69. Make Believe Ballroom (1949)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Liza Lee, fast-talking press agent for Al Jarvis, persuades Jarvis to stage a Musical Mystery Contest, with a $5000 prize to the person who can first name the most musical numbers and their... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Jerome Courtland, Ruth Warrick, Ron Randell, Virginia Welles
Votes: 64
70. Heavenly Music (1943)
Passed | 22 min | Short, Fantasy, Music
A bandleader must prove he is worthy of entry into the the Hall of Music in heaven.
Director: Josef Berne | Stars: Frederick Brady, Mary Elliott, Eric Blore, Steven Geray
Votes: 324
71. Mickey's Orphans (1931)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
At Christmastime, Mickey Mouse, Minnie and Pluto are beset by an enormous litter of bratty orphan cats.
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: George Magrill, Barbara Brewster, Gloria Brewster, Pinto Colvig
Votes: 935
72. Broadway Rhythm (1944)
Passed | 115 min | Music, Romance
A reluctantly-retired vaudevillian clashes with his producer son, who thinks his father's entertainment is passe'--audiences need something more sophisticated. Meanwhile, the producer's father and sister secretly produce their own show.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: George Murphy, Ginny Simms, Charles Winninger, Gloria DeHaven
Votes: 341
73. Hitting a New High (1937)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Lili Pons and Jack Oakie star as a nightclub singer with aspires to be an opera diva and the met star whom she chases all the way to a safari in Africa to make her dreams come true in this wacky musical comedy.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, John Howard, Eric Blore
Votes: 341
74. Sweet and Low-Down (1944)
Passed | 76 min | Musical, Romance
After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are packing up to move on to their next engagement at a military camp, when a kid, Tony Birch, ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Benny Goodman, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie
Votes: 300
75. Leader of the Band (1987)
PG | 90 min | Comedy
Eddie is a down-on-his-luck bar pianist who has just been fired from another job. Desperate for work, he finds a school looking for a leader for its hopelessly incompetent marching band. ... See full summary »
Director: Nessa Hyams | Stars: Steve Landesberg, Gailard Sartain, Mercedes Ruehl, Ron Culbreth
Votes: 104
76. Swing Fever (1943)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Lowell Blackford (Kay Kyser) is blessed with a gift of music,but also cursed with a hereditary "evil eye" which hypnotizes people,and he is virtually a recluse. He goes in search of a ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Kay Kyser, Marilyn Maxwell, William Gargan, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 234
77. The Duke Is Tops (1938)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A theatrical producer puts aside his own success to boost the career of a talented singer.
Directors: William L. Nolte, Ralph Cooper | Stars: Ralph Cooper, Lena Horne, Laurence Criner, Monte Hawley
Votes: 429
78. Riding High (1943)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy
In order to help her father get his silver mine running, a burlesque queen returns home to Arizona and gets a job as an enterainer at a dude ranch and runs into a romantic mining engineer and a counterfeiter.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Dick Powell, Victor Moore, Gil Lamb
Votes: 141
79. My Favorite Spy (1942)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Musical
Complications arise for newlywed Kay Kyser and his bride when he gets involved in espionage at the request of the Army.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Kay Kyser, Ellen Drew, Jane Wyman, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 337
80. Disc Jockey (1951)
Passed | 77 min | Music
A radio disc jockey is about to lose his program's sponsor because the sponsor believes that television viewing is cutting down the size of the listening audience for radio programs, and ... See full summary »
Director: Will Jason | Stars: Ginny Simms, Tom Drake, Jane Nigh, Michael O'Shea
81. Will You Stop! (1937)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy
Tim (Tim Ryan) has written what he thinks is a great skit about Antony and Cleopatra for the department store's annual employee show, but the boss insists on his goofy daughter (Irene Ryan) playing Cleopatra opposite Tim's Antony.
Director: William Watson | Stars: Tim Ryan, Irene Ryan, Hugh Cameron, Ed Garvie
Votes: 19
82. Hit Parade of 1943 (1943)
Approved | 82 min | Music, Romance
One of the many films made at Republic with a year attached to the "Hit Parade" title, which came from the "Hit Parade" radio program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes. On re-issue, all ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: John Carroll, Susan Hayward, Gail Patrick, Eve Arden
Votes: 177
83. Garden of the Moon (1938)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Romance blooms between a publicist and a singing band leader in the Garden of the Moon night club.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Margaret Lindsay, John Payne, Johnnie Davis
Votes: 327
84. Radio City Revels (1938)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A songwriter uses the songs one of his pupils writes while sleeping for his own contract.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Bob Burns, Jack Oakie, Kenny Baker, Ann Miller
Votes: 128 | Gross: $0.51M
85. El Benny (2006)
132 min | Drama, Musical
Based on the life of Benny Moré, the film concentrates on a period in the early 1950s when Moré leaves the orchestra of Duany and starts his own 'Banda Gigante'. In flashback we learn of ... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Luis Sánchez | Stars: Rakel Adriana, Ulyk Anello, Renny Arozarena, Laura De la Uz
Votes: 78
86. Meet the Boy Friend (1937)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress.
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Robert Paige, Carol Hughes, Warren Hymer, Pert Kelton
Votes: 129
87. Who Killed Gail Preston? (1938)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Gail Preston (Rita Hayworth), a band-singer with no shortage of enemies, is shot to death in the middle of her second song (dubbed by Gloria Franklin ---"The Greatest Attraction in the ... See full summary »
Director: Leon Barsha | Stars: Don Terry, Rita Hayworth, Robert Paige, Wyn Cahoon
Votes: 146
88. Olsenbanden for full musikk (1976)
91 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
Valborg needs to get her son Basse married, after getting a girl pregnant, while Egon has got work for a baron. However a spook makes trouble for his planned coup against the National Theater.
Director: Knut Bohwim | Stars: Arve Opsahl, Carsten Byhring, Sverre Holm, Aud Schønemann
Votes: 1,026
89. This Is the Life (1944)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice training, but she is pursuing the object ... See full summary »
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Susanna Foster, Peggy Ryan, Louise Allbritton
Votes: 73
90. Moonlight in Havana (1942)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Music, Sport
Singing Johnny Norton is the star catcher of the Blue Sox baseball team but he is suspended because of insubordination. Producer Barney Crane hears Johnny singing and signs him to appear ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Allan Jones, Jane Frazee, Marjorie Lord, William Frawley
Votes: 54
91. This Way Please (1937)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A young woman is hired as a theater usherette and encounters her matinée idol, who helps her become a hit, and soon she finds herself engaged to another man, prompting a battle of romantic wits ensues.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Betty Grable, Ned Sparks, Jim Jordan
Votes: 70
92. Swing It (1936)
Passed | 16 min | Short, Music
Louis Prima and His Band are offered a Hollywood contract and when the movie doesn't materialize, the boys' agent absconds with the funds and they are stranded and forced to entertain in a roadside tavern, elevating the band to celebrity status.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Louis Prima, Louis Prima and His Band, Lucille Ball, Pee Wee Russell
Votes: 15
93. Earl Carroll Vanities (1945)
Approved | 91 min | Musical, Romance
A producer puts an unknown European princess (Constance Moore) in his show, and she falls for its author (Dennis O'Keefe).
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Constance Moore, Eve Arden, Otto Kruger
Votes: 94
94. Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (1934)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Music
Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show.
Director: Louis Lewyn | Stars: Leo Carrillo, The Debutantes, Eduardo Durant, Eduardo Durant's Rhumba Band
Votes: 228
95. Go-Get-'Em, Haines (1936)
Approved | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Reporter Steve Haines (Boyd), on the trail of a business tycoon, follows his subject onto an ocean liner and gets wound up in a cruise full of intrigue, romance and murder.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: William Boyd, Sheila Terry, Eleanor Hunt, Lloyd Ingraham
Votes: 181
96. The Big Show-Off (1945)
Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Joe Bagley, owner of the Blue Heaven Club, tries to foster a romance between shy pianist Sandy Elliott and band vocalist June Mayfield. Joe tells June that Sandy is really a professional, ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Arthur Lake, Dale Evans, Lionel Stander, George Meeker
Votes: 107
97. Gallant Sons (1940)
Approved | 76 min | Mystery
Two childhood friends have a falling out because of their fathers' occupations, which lands one father in jail.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, Gene Reynolds, Gail Patrick
Votes: 299
98. Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (1937)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Bert Lahr, Jimmy Savo, Billy House, Alice Brady
Votes: 30
99. Calypso Joe (1957)
Approved | 76 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Juile, an airline hostess, has her mind made up to marry South American millionaire Rico Vargas, in spite of the efforts made by her former boyfriend, Lee Darling, a television star, to win... See full summary »
Director: Edward Dein | Stars: Herb Jeffries, Angie Dickinson, Ed Kemmer, Stephen Bekassy
Votes: 33
100. That's Right - You're Wrong (1939)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Radio sensation Kay Kyser and his band are lured to Hollywood to make a movie, but the screenwriters assigned to the project have difficulty tailoring a script to Kyser's persona.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Kay Kyser, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Lucille Ball
Votes: 373