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Why Bring That Up?
Why Bring That Up? (1929)
, 1h22
Directed by George Abbott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Evelyn Brent, Freeman Wood, Helen Lynch, Selmer Jackson, Jack Luden, Monte Collins

George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George then teams up with Charlie, a stranded trouper, and Irving becomes their manager. Later, in New York, the "Two Black Crows" star in their own revue and save money to build their own theater on Broadway. Betty comes to the theater with her lover, who poses as a cousin and induces George to hire her. He showers her with jewels and money. She tries to persuade George to invest in oil stock her lover is selling, and though their act is a success, Charlie fires Betty. When Charlie and Betty's lover quarrel, Charlie is injured.
Viennese Spirit
Viennese Spirit (1942)
, 1h43
Directed by Willi Forst
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Operetta films
Actors Willy Fritsch, Maria Holst, Hedwig Bleibtreu, Hans Moser, Theo Lingen, Paul Henckels

The young Count Georg Wolkersheim (Willy Fritsch) is sent to the Congress of Vienna to represent the interests of his country, Reuss-Schleiz-Greiz. Tensions arise between the count, his wife Melanie (Maria Holst), and their two chamberlains (Hans Moser and Theo Lingen), and when the four of them attend a court ball, Melanie leaves Georg, assumes the identity of a famous actress, and attracts the affections of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria (Fred Liewehr). Georg quits the ball and returns to his lodgings to wait for his wife. Meanwhile, the two servants plot to further inflame Georg's jealousy by posing as Ludwig to commission a portrait of Melanie from the famous artist Moritz Daffinger (Egon von Jordan). The next day, however, Georg and Daffinger expose the servants' ruse, Ludwig reveals to Melanie that he has discovered her true identity, and all is forgiven.
Vienna Girls
Vienna Girls (1949)
, 1h49
Directed by Willi Forst
Genres Drama, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Operetta films
Actors Anton Edthofer, Willi Forst, Judith Maria Holzmeister, Hans Moser, Friedl Haerlin, Leopold Hainisch

The composer Carl Michael Ziehrer produces twenty two operettas during his career, although he is overshadowed by the more successful Strauss Family.
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (2008)
, 1h11
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Philip Glass, David Byrne

Wild Combination begins with interviews of Russell's parents discussing their youngest offspring's childhood. The film describes how Russell as a young boy is obsessed with Timothy Leary and insecure about his acne. Leaving Iowa for San Francisco in the late sixties, he joins a Buddhist collective and befriends Allen Ginsburg. Russell decides to move to New York in the early seventies, where he starts working as the musical director of the Kitchen and becomes part of the downtown scene of artists, sharing an apartment building with Allen Ginsburg and Richard Hell. Russell engages in nearly every music scene the city has to offer: disco at David Mancuso's Loft, rock at CBGB, minimal composition at the Kitchen, and Allen Ginsberg's poetry recitations. In 1978, Russell begins dating Tom Lee, whom he stays with until his AIDS-related death in 1992.
Wild Guitar
Wild Guitar (1962)
, 1h32
Directed by Ray Dennis Steckler, Leigh Jason
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Arch Hall, Jr., Arch Hall, Sr., Ray Dennis Steckler, Carolyn Brandt

Bud Eagle (Arch Hall Jr.), a young singer-songwriter, arrives in Hollywood on a motorcycle. At Marge's Koffee Kup Cafe, he meets Vickie (Nancy Czar), an aspiring dancer, who quizzes him about his "gimmick" and promises to give him the "inside dope" on the music industry. He attends her performance at a television variety show later that night. When the scheduled saxophonist is unable to perform, Bud steps in with a ballad that earns him a standing ovation.
Wild Romance
Wild Romance (2006)
, 1h43
Directed by Jean Van de Velde
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Musical
Actors Daniël Boissevain, Marcel Hensema, Andy Nyman, Karina Smulders, George Rossi

The film opens in 2001, Herman Brood, having written his suicide note, is on the roof of the Hilton Hotel, as he prepares to jump the film flashbacks thirty years to the period of his greatest success 1974-1979. In 1976 Brood is evicted from the band Cuby + Blizzards, the penniless and drug dependent Brood nonetheless manages to find gigs in the Groningen bar scene. When he plays his bar, Brood attracts the attention of Winschoten bar owner Koos van Dijk, who becomes his manager. Under the inspirational leadership of van Dijk, Brood puts together a band he calls Herman Brood & His Wild Romance. Playing venues at home and abroad Brood and his band eventually find success especially with their album Shpritsz, and the hit single Saturday Night. Daring to dream of global success they embark on a tour of the United States.