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Musicals

As soon as sound was introduced to the movies, the movie musical was born. The musical was one of the most popular movie entertainments from the 1930s through to the 50s, before falling out of favour at the end of the 60s for audiences now being weened on Vietnam, race riots, political assassinations, flower power and psychedelia. The musical still continued onwards, albeit in a different form, with various efforts such as "Cabaret", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Grease", "Hair", "All That Jazz" and "The Blues Brothers" appearing over the next decade. More recently, "Moulin Rouge" and particularly "Chicago" hark back to the glory days of the musical. Right: Liza Minnelli does "Cabaret"

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

8/10
Director: Victor Fleming
Starring: Ray Bolger, Judy Garland, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, Frank Morgan, Mar...

Follow Dorothy over the rainbow and down the Yellow Brick Road, along with the Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, Cowardly Lion and Toto, too, for fun and adven... Read more

Astaire and Rogers: The Gay Divorcee / Swing Time / Top Hat / Shall We Dance (1937)

7.9/10
Director: Mark Sandrich, George Stevens
Starring: Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers

THE GAY DIVORCEE - In this beloved musical, Mimi Glossop (Ginger Rogers) journeys to England to seek a divorce from her absentee husband. When Mimi me... Read more

On The Avenue (1937)

6.9/10
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Starring: Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll, Alice Faye, Alan Mowbray, Cora Witherspoon

A young Broadway producer puts on a hit show mocking a New York socialite, but gets himself caught between the real (and charming) debutant and the st... Read more

Something to Sing About (1937)

6.4/10
Director: Victor Schertzinger
Starring: James Cagney, Philip Ahn, Gene Lockhart

Jimmy Cagney's at his foot-tappin' best as a New York bandleader who is offered a movie contract in this song-filled comedy that includes a few jabs a... Read more

Shall We Dance / Follow the Fleet (1937)

Director: Mark Sandrich
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers

A Fred Astaire double feature of 'Shall We Dance' (1937) and 'Follow the Fleet' (1936), both with Astaire's long-time co-star Ginger Rogers. 'Shall We... Read more

Screen Legends: Starring Bing Crosby (1936)

5.6/10
Director: Leo McCarey, Mark Sandrich, Norman Z McLeod, Victor Schertzinger
Starring: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, Fred Asta...

A collection of four Bing Crosby classics. "Pennies From Heaven" (1936) - Legendary crooner Bing Crosby sings and dances his way through this charming... Read more

Stowaway (1936)

7.2/10
Director: William A Seiter
Starring: Shirley Temple, Robert Young, Alice Faye, Eugene Pallette, Helen Westley

In this musical adventure Shirley Temple stars as Ching-Ching an orphan on the streets of Shanghai who inadvertently finds herself aboard a ship to Am... Read more

Dimples (1936)

6.8/10
Director: William A Seiter
Starring: Shirley Temple, Frank Morgan, Robert Kent, Helen Westley

This classic Shirley Temple features both the original black-and-white and the newly colorized versions. Although he's kind and lovable, 'Professor' E... Read more

Rhythm on the Range / Rhythm on the River (1936)

Director: Norman Taurog, Victor Schertzinger
Starring: Bing Crosby, Frances Farmer, Martha Raye, Mary Martin, Basil Rathbone, Oscar Lev...

A Bing Crosby Double Bill. 'Rhythm on the Range' (1936) sees the crooner playing a casual cowpoke opposite feisty love interest Frances Farmer. In '... Read more

Swing Time (1936)

7.7/10
Director: George Stevens
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in a nostalgic film about the high life in Manhattan during the Twenties, when fortunes where made and lost in an eveni... Read more