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Musical
Excuse My Dust (1951) Roy Rowland, Buster Keaton, Red Skelton, Sally Forrest, Macdonald Carey
Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor. Read More »
Sparkle (1976) Sam O’Steen, Philip Michael Thomas, Irene Cara, Lonette McKee
Three sisters (Sister and the Sisters) from Harlem become singers. Read More »
Black Tigress (1967) Siro Marcellini, Lola Falana, Pietro Martellanza, Germán Cobos
Lola, a saloon dancer arrives in the town of Sant’Anna with some other dancers. Read More »
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) Busby Berkeley, Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart
In a luxury hotel stage director Nicoleff stages a show to get the money to pay his bills. Read More »
Heidi (1937) Allan Dwan, Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher
Eight-year-old Heidi is orphaned and her selfish maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with Adolph Kramer Read More »
Howdy Broadway (1929) Charles J. Hunt, Tommy Christian, Ellalee Ruby, Johnny Kane
A story about wild youth is framed in this early musical from Poverty Row company Rayart that includes such songs as “I Want You to Know I Love You” Read More »
Step Across the Border (1990) Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel, Jonas Mekas, Julia Judge, John Spacely
This film is a snapshot of the life of Fred Frith, an English-born multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor. Read More »
Lili Marleen (1981) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer
In Switzerland, German singer Willie falls in love with Jewish composer, Robert, who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. Read More »
Mardi Gras (1958) Edmund Goulding, Pat Boone, Christine Carère, Tommy Sands
A military school cadet Boone wins a date with a French movie goddess (Carère) who happens to be the queen of the “Mardi Gras” parade. Read More »
Jolly Fellows (1934) Grigori Aleksandrov, Leonid Utyosov, Lyubov Orlova, Mariya Strelkova
Yelena (Mariya Strelkova), a well-off would-be singer who can’t carry a tune Read More »
April in Paris (1952) David Butler, Doris Day, Ray Bolger, Claude Dauphin
Miss Ethel ‘Dynamite’ Jackson is a chorus girl who mistakingly receives an invitation from the State Department Read More »
Cheer Up (1936) Leo Mittler, Stanley Lupino, Sally Gray, Roddy Hughes
A couple of out of work songwriters try to persuade a wealthy stockbroker to back them. Read More »
Shall We Dance (1937) Mark Sandrich, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
Ballet star Pete “Petrov” Peters arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer Read More »
This is the Army (1943) Michael Curtiz, George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias
In WWI dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Read More »