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51. 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: 468
52. 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
53. 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: 1,005
54. 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
55. 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
56. 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
57. Night Song (1947)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, Romance, Music
When a beautiful socialite falls in love with an embittered composer who is blind, she feigns blindness herself in order to get closer to him.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Dana Andrews, Merle Oberon, Ethel Barrymore, Hoagy Carmichael
Votes: 677
58. 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
59. 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
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: 728
61. 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
62. The Princess Comes Across (1936)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglass Dumbrille, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 1,237
63. 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
64. 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
65. 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
66. 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
67. 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
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. 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
71. 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
72. 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: 293
73. 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
74. 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: 106
75. 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
76. 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
77. 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: 144
78. 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
79. 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
80. 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
81. 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: 938
82. 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
83. 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: 636
84. 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
85. Let's Make Music (1940)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Music, Romance
With the size of her classes dwindling each year, Newton High music teacher Malvina Adams is asked to retire. Trying to prove she's still got it, she composes a school fight song which ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Bob Crosby, Jean Rogers, Elisabeth Risdon, Joseph Buloff
Votes: 119
86. 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: 300
87. 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: 105
88. 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: 407
89. Sitting on the Moon (1936)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A pair of hit songwriters fall in love with an ex-film star and her friend, but a blackmailer arrives to disrupt the romances. Based on William Field's short story "Temperamental Lady."
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Roger Pryor, Grace Bradley, William Newell, Pert Kelton
Votes: 222
90. 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
91. I Surrender Dear (1948)
Approved | 67 min | Musical, Romance
Patty Nelson, using the name of Parry Hart, auditions for and gets the job as a band-singer with Al Tyler's orchestra. Al, of course, falls in love with her and she with him. Back in Los ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Gloria Jean, David Street, Don McGuire, Alice Tyrrell
Votes: 13
92. Sven Klangs kvintett (1976)
114 min | Drama, Music
Sweden 1958. In a small provincial town there is a band who plays dance music twice every week. All decisions are made by Sven Klang, the undisputed leader of the band. A new member joins ... See full summary »
Director: Stellan Olsson | Stars: Henric Holmberg, Eva Remaeus, Jan Lindell, Anders Granström
Votes: 334
93. 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
94. 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: 55
95. 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: 279
96. 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
97. 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
98. 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
99. 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: 327
100. Satchmo the Great (1957)
Approved | 63 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
In this 1957 biography film of the jazz-great Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, he and his band tour the world as American good-will ambassadors bring jazz at its best to the people of the world. ... See full summary »
Stars: Louis Armstrong, Edward R. Murrow, Leonard Bernstein, W.C. Handy
Votes: 23