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 »
Musical
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 »
Broadway Musketeers (1938) John Farrow, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Sheridan, Marie Wilson
Broadway Musketeers is a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. drama Three on a Match, with numerous concessions made to the now more stringent Hollywood censors. Read More »
The Cocoanuts (1929) Robert Florey, Joseph Santley, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Mr. Hammer runs a bankrupt Florida hotel. He’ll try anything to make money, even make love to rich Mrs. Potter. Read More »