A chronicle of the rise and brief career of rock ‘n’ roll star Buddy Holly (Gary Busey), who aspires to play music the way he wants it to sound. Read More »
Musical
The Pajama Game (1957) George Abbott, Stanley Donen, Doris Day, John Raitt, Carol Haney
Employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory are looking for a whopping seven-and-a-half cent an hour increase and they won’t take no for an answer. Read More »
Lucky Me (1954) Jack Donohue, Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers
Candy Williams is a struggling performer in a musical troupe, headed by Hap Schneider. Read More »
42nd Street (1933) Lloyd Bacon, Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent
Renowned Broadway producer/director Julian Marsh is hired to put together a new musical revue. Read More »
Wake Up and Dream (1946) Lloyd Bacon, John Payne, June Haver, Charlotte Greenwood
Henry Pecket keeps a land-bound, home-made sloop in the backyard of his boarding house ran by widow Sara March, who is tolerant of the fancied trips around the world taken by her “ancient mariner” boarder. Read More »
Ski Party (1965) Alan Rafkin, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Deborah Walley
On a college ski weekend, Todd and Craig pretend to be Jane and Nora, a pair of English girls. Read More »
Love Among the Millionaires (1930) Frank Tuttle, Clara Bow, Stanley Smith, Stuart Erwin
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with him and his family in Palm Springs. Read More »
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1936) Irving Cummings, Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Gloria Stuart
Little Barbara gets lost and is then picked up by entertainers who make her part of their act. Barbara’s father hears the act on the radio and finds his lost daughter. Read More »
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953) Don Weis, Debbie Reynolds, Bobby Van, Barbara Ruick
Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis – women, especially Pansy Hammer. Read More »
Playing Around (1930) Mervyn LeRoy, Alice White, Chester Morris, William Bakewell
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go. Read More »
Stage Struck (1936) Busby Berkeley, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Warren William
Broadway dance director George Randall (Dick Powell) is stuck with staging a Broadway show starring Peggy Revere (Joan Blondell) Read More »
Gran Casino (1947) Luis Buñuel, Libertad Lamarque, Jorge Negrete, Meche Barba
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo (Jorge Negrete) assumes the business management. Read More »
Kid Nightingale (1939) George Amy, John Payne, Jane Wyman, Walter Catlett
A singing waiter gets into an argument with some obnoxious customers and winds up knocking them out. Read More »
Broadway (1929) Pál Fejös, Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder. Read More »
Applause (1929) Rouben Mamoulian, Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr.
This early example of the “backstage” musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling Read More »