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Directed by William A. Seiter,
Gregory La CavaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Fantastic,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Fantasy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Films based on mythology,
Musical films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on musicals,
Films based on Greco-Roman mythologyActors Robert Walker,
Ava Gardner,
Eve Arden,
Tom Conway,
Olga San Juan,
Dick HaymesRating65%
Wealthy department-store mogul Whitfield Savory II buys a statue of Venus for $200,000. He plans to exhibit it in the store., 2h5
Directed by George SidneyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Military humor in film,
Dance films,
Films about music and musicians,
Musical filmsActors Kathryn Grayson,
Gene Kelly,
Mary Astor,
John Boles,
Ben Blue,
Frances RaffertyRating62%
The film is essentially a two-part program. The first half consists of a romantic comedy storyline involving an aerialist, played by Gene Kelly, who is drafted into the US Army but really wants to join the air force. During training, he falls in love with Kathryn (played by Kathryn Grayson), the daughter of his commanding officer, who has similarly put her singing career on hold in order to serve by providing entertainment for the troops. Unusually for this type of a film (and for this era of Hollywood), the character Kathryn has only recently met her father for the first time since she was a baby, her parents having divorced. A related subplot has Kathryn conniving to get her parents (played by John Boles and Mary Astor) to reconcile. During the first part of the film, Grayson sings several numbers and Kelly performs one of his most famous routines, dancing with a mop as a partner., 1h43
Directed by Gene Kelly,
Stanley DonenOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about films,
Dance films,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about television,
Musical filmsActors Gene Kelly,
Donald O'Connor,
Debbie Reynolds,
Jean Hagen,
Millard Mitchell,
Cyd CharisseRating82%
Don Lockwood (Kelly) is a popular silent film star with humble roots as a singer, dancer and stuntman. Don barely tolerates his vapid, shallow leading lady, Lina Lamont (Hagen), though their studio, Monumental Pictures, links them romantically to increase their popularity. Lina herself is convinced they are in love, despite Don's protestations otherwise., 1h38
Directed by Norman TaurogOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Romantic comedy,
MusicalThemes Dance films,
Films about music and musicians,
Musical filmsActors Judy Garland,
George Murphy,
Charles Winninger,
Arthur Shields,
Forrester Harvey,
James BurkeRating63%
In Ireland, Jerry Kelly (George Murphy) marries his sweetheart, Nellie Noonan (Judy Garland) over the objections of her ne'er-do-well father, Michael Noonan (Charles Winninger), who swears never to speak to Jerry again, even though he reluctantly accompanies the newlyweds to America, where Jerry becomes a policeman, and all three become citizens. Michael continues to hold his grudge against Jerry, even when Nellie dies while giving birth to little Nellie., 1h33
Directed by Busby BerkeleyOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Sports films,
Baseball films,
Musical filmsActors Frank Sinatra,
Esther Williams,
Gene Kelly,
Betty Garrett,
Jules Munshin,
Edward ArnoldRating66%
Take Me Out to the Ball Game is a period piece set in 1908. The plot revolves around a fictional American League team, the Wolves, and two of its players, Eddie O'Brien (Gene Kelly) and Dennis Ryan (Frank Sinatra), who are also part-time vaudevillians. , 1h44
Directed by H. Bruce HumberstoneOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
MusicalThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musical films,
Films based on playsActors Virginia Mayo,
Julie Newmar,
Ronald Reagan,
Gene Nelson,
Don DeFore,
Phyllis ThaxterRating60%
Angela Gardner (Virginia Mayo) is an exotic dancer who decides to improve her mind; she enrolls in a college where Professor John Palmer (Ronald Reagan) teaches English. There is an old rivalry between the bookish Palmer and onetime college football jock Shep Slade (Don DeFore). When the college trustees oppose Angela's presence on campus, Palmer staunchly defends her right to an education., 1h30
Directed by Joe Pasternak,
Henry Koster,
Felix JacksonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Musical theatre,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musical filmsActors Deanna Durbin,
Nan Grey,
Helen Parrish,
Charles Winninger,
Nella Walker,
Robert CummingsRating68%
Les trois sœurs Craig croient que la vie leur sera douce maintenant qu'elles ont réussi à réunir leurs parents. Mais voilà que Kay tombe amoureuse de Richard, le fiancé de Joan. Les choses se compliquent lorsque la cadette, Penny, se met à la recherche d'un nouveau petit-ami pour sa sœur Joan de façon que Kay et Richard puissent demeurer ensemble..., 1h53
Directed by James WhaleOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musical films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on musicalsActors Irene Dunne,
Allan Jones,
Charles Winninger,
Paul Robeson,
Helen Morgan,
Helen WestleyRating73%
The musical's story spans about forty years, from the late 1880s to the late 1920s. Magnolia Hawks is an eighteen-year-old on her family's show boat, the Cotton Palace which travels the Mississippi River putting on shows. She meets Gaylord Ravenal, a charming gambler, falls in love with him, and eventually marries him. Together with their baby daughter, the couple leaves the boat and moves to Chicago, where they live off Gaylord's gambling winnings. After about ten years, he experiences an especially bad losing streak and leaves Magnolia, out of a sense of guilt that he is ruining her life because of his losses. Magnolia is forced to bring up her young daughter alone. In a parallel plot, Julie LaVerne (the show boat's leading actress, who is part African-American, but "passing" as white) is forced to leave the boat because of her background, taking Steve Baker (her white husband, to whom, under the state's law, she is illegally married) with her. Julie is eventually also abandoned by her husband, and she becomes an alcoholic. Magnolia's becomes a success on the stage in Chicago. Twenty-three years later Magnolia and Ravenal are reunited at the theater in which Kim, their daughter, is appearing in her first Broadway starring role., 1h53
Directed by Vincente MinnelliOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Films about classical music and musicians,
Jazz films,
Musical filmsActors Gene Kelly,
Leslie Caron,
Oscar Levant,
Georges Guétary,
Nina Foch,
Madge BlakeRating71%
American World War II veteran Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is now an exuberant expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend and neighbor, Adam Cook (Oscar Levant), is a struggling concert pianist who is a longtime associate of a French singer, Henri Baurel (Georges Guétary). At the ground-floor bar, Henri tells Adam about his cultured girlfriend. Jerry joins them later, before going out to sell his art., 1h47
Directed by Budd Boetticher,
Charles VidorOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musical filmsActors Rita Hayworth,
Gene Kelly,
Phil Silvers,
Otto Kruger,
Eve Arden,
Lee BowmanRating66%
Rusty (Rita Hayworth), a chorus girl working at a nightclub run by her boyfriend Danny McGuire (Gene Kelly), is given a chance for stardom by the wealthy magazine editor John Coudair (Otto Kruger), who years earlier had been in love with her grandmother, Maribelle Hicks. Offered an opportunity to be a highly paid cover girl, Rusty would faithfully remain with her nightclub act if only Danny would ask her. He doesn't want to stand in her way, so he picks an argument to send her packing. Rusty becomes a star on Broadway after appearing in a musical produced by Coudair's wealthy friend, Noel Wheaton (Lee Bowman), and decides to get married to Wheaton. At the last second she leaves the wedding and reunites with Danny.