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51. 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

52. 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: 171

53. 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

54. 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: 276

55. 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: 470

56. 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: 338

57. 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: 96

58. Syncopation (1942)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, History, Music

Covering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated" music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie) from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock market crash, the depression and the ... See full summary »

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, George Bancroft, Todd Duncan, Connee Boswell

Votes: 334

59. 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

60. 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: 411

61. 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: 217 | Gross: $2.61M

62. 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: 342

63. Dixieland Droopy (1954)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Don't be fooled by the title - Droopy looks like Droopy, but he's actually jazzman John Pettibone, with his performing flea combo, and the film shows how it came into being.

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Tex Avery, John Brown

Votes: 643

64. 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: 374

65. Maisie Goes to Reno (1944)

Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

Exhausted from wartime riveting, a chorus girl (Ann Sothern) goes to Nevada and falls for a card dealer (John Hodiak).

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Ann Sothern, John Hodiak, Tom Drake, Marta Linden

Votes: 537

66. 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: 301

67. 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: 328

68. 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: 246

69. 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

70. 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: 945

71. Thrill of a Lifetime (1937)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

"Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such thing as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has ... See full summary »

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: James V. Kern, Charles Adler, George Kelly, Billy Mann

Votes: 61

72. 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: 213

73. 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

74. Cuban Pete (1946)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Music

Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on to an American radio program. Attracted ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Desi Arnaz, Ethel Smith, Joan Shawlee, Beverly Simmons

Votes: 50

75. Trocadero (1944)

Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Music, Musical

In this musical, two young people inherit their father's nightclub. The joint teeters on the brink of bankruptcy until they bring in exciting jazz music and entertaining acts ranging from comedy to cartoonists.

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Rosemary Lane, Johnny Downs, Ralph Morgan, Dick Purcell

Votes: 146

76. 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: 1,006

77. South of Dixie (1944)

Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bll "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Anne Gwynne, David Bruce, Jerome Cowan, Ella Mae Morse

Votes: 14

78. 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

79. 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: 95

80. 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: 236

81. Holiday in Mexico (1946)

128 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

The U.S. Ambassador's (Walter Pidgeon) daughter falls for a Mexican pianist (Jose Iturbi) old enough to be her grandfather.

Director: George Sidney | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Ilona Massey, José Iturbi, Roddy McDowall

Votes: 526

82. 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

83. Two Blondes and a Redhead (1947)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Music

Socialite Cathy Abbott (Jean Porter) is working in the chorus of a Broadway show instead of being enrolled at an exclusive girls' school as her parents think. When the show closes, she ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Jean Porter, Jimmy Lloyd, June Preisser, Judy Clark

Votes: 31

84. 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: 295

85. Sunny Side of the Street (1951)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Ted Mason is a studio guide at CBS Television in Hollywood. His ambition is to get a break and become a headline singer such as 'Frankie Laine (I)', Toni Arden, and Billy Daniels, whom he ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Frankie Laine, Billy Daniels, Terry Moore, Jerome Courtland

Votes: 107

86. Strictly in the Groove (1942)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery

In order to keep their band together, Ozzie Nelson and his orchestra have been flunking their college final examinations for years. Bob Saunders, the new pianist in the band, agrees to fail... See full synopsis »

Director: Vernon Keays | Stars: Mary Healy, Leon Errol, Richard Davies, Franklin Pangborn

Votes: 36

87. A Great Big Bunch of You (1932)

7 min | Family, Musical, Animation

A mannequin in the city dump improvises a piano from the junk to play and sing the title song The various animals and pieces of junk all join in.

Director: Rudolf Ising | Stars: Rudolf Ising, The King's Men, Johnny Murray, The Rhythmettes

Votes: 285

88. 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: 342

89. 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: 178

90. 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

91. 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: 148

92. 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: 71

93. 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: 57

94. 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: 143

95. Hawaiian Nights (1939)

Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to Hawaii to manage the family hotel holdings. This proves to be a wrong move as Hawaiia has more bands than it does pineapples.

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Johnny Downs, Constance Moore, Mary Carlisle, Eddie Quillan

Votes: 21

96. 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: 74

97. Rita Rio and Her Orchestra (1939)

9 min | Short, Music

The first and only female leader in the Big Band era. Lots and swing and dancing.

Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Dona Drake, Emily Adrien, Bill Furrow, Rita Rio's All Girl Orchestra

Votes: 53

98. 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: 328

99. Kathleen (1937)

Approved | 75 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Kathleen O'Moore returns to her home in rural Ireland and becomes torn between the affections of Michael Rooney, a poor but honest man, and the wealthy squire with the power to make her dreams come true.

Director: Norman Lee | Stars: Sally O'Neil, Tom Burke, Jack Daly, Sara Allgood

Votes: 29

100. 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: 391