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7.6
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70
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3.5
/12773/
91
/32/
83
/487/
89
/10/
cc age 8+

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
poster
76
72
7.3
/10407/
75
/243/
69
/156/
3.5
/5362/
89
/9/
80
/203/

The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
poster
70
7.2
/1206/
65
/19/
70
/19/
3.4
/634/
70
/17/

That's Dancing! (1985)
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.
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Disney Plus
60
6.1
/7670/
62
/601/
61
/332/
2.6
/16084/
69
/13/
47
/131/
69
/7/
cc age 7+

Melody Time (1948)
In the grand tradition of Disney's great musical classics, Melody Time features seven timeless stories, each enhanced with high-spirited music and unforgettable characters. You'll be sure to tap your toes and clap your hands in this witty feast for the eyes and ears.
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71
48
6.8
/2227/
63
/37/
64
/22/
3.3
/1374/
90
/10/
76
/28/

Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent. Gordon is too busy sparring with a dirt-dishing gossip columnist to notice, but his wisecracking, heart-of-gold secretary certainly does. She and Irene must use their wits to show him what he's missing!
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63
38
6.7
/2112/
74
/30/
59
/29/
3.3
/1309/
49
/508/

Born to Dance (1936)
On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him.
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MGM Plus
54
26
5.8
/1454/
53
/23/
56
/24/
2.9
/495/
48
/594/

This Is the Army (1943)
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
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65
22
6.5
/423/
68
/28/
58
/21/
3.5
/1017/

Once Upon a Wintertime (1948)
A short segment of the feature film Melody Time, re-released as a separate entity five years afterwards.
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58
21
5.9
/1118/
65
/9/
55
/12/
3.1
/447/
49
/291/

Too Many Girls (1940)
Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.
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12
6.7
/60/
64
/32/
54
/20/
3.3
/236/

Winter Wonderland (2003)
A look at everyone's favorite Disney characters as they explore the joys of Christmas.
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58
11
6.4
/887/
66
/6/
54
/10/
3.3
/352/
40
/8/

Hollywood Hotel (1938)
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
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56
8
5.8
/463/
66
/3/
50
/4/
40
/17/

The Bamboo Blonde (1946)
A pilot of a B 29 meets Louise Anderson, a singer in a New York nightclub. He falls in love with her, but he had to leave next day for action in the Pacific. He lets paint her picture on his bomber, the "Bamboo Blonde" and becomes a hero with his crew sinking a Japanese battleship and shooting down a Japanese fighter wing. Back in New York, he leaves his fiancée and engages him to Louise.
poster
?
7.2
/22/

Entertaining the Troops: Bob Hope & the USO (2002)
When the United States entered World War II, President Roosevelt exempted Bob Hope from military service because of the need for entertainers. So began Bob's lifelong career entertaining U.S. troops at home and abroad. When the USO (United Service Organizations) was formed, Bob Hope was the perfect person to be its headliner, bringing "a bit of home" to front lines and military hospitals around the world.
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31
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5.4
/178/
10
/1/

Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs (1936)
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being the desert playground for the movie stars, the women are introduced to the cavalcade of stars vacationing in Palm Springs at the time.
poster
?
6.6
/49/
60
/1/

Mississippi Gambler (1942)
A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.
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?
6.8
/23/
10
/1/
60
/3/

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC (1988)
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
poster
?
6.2
/19/

Cowboy in Manhattan (1943)
Bob Allen, a struggling songwriter poses as a millionaire cowboy to win Broadway star Babs Lee.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
45
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4.5
/119/
45
/4/

Dixie Jamboree (1944)
A medicine man on the last show boat on the Mississippi is mistaken by two gangsters as a bootleger, and has to envade them.
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?
6.2
/45/
50
/1/

Swing It Soldier (1941)
In this musical comedy, a pregnant disc jockey misses her husband who is fighting overseas. Stressed out by the situation and her job, she decides to take some time off and convinces her twin sister to trade places with her. The switcheroo causes the soldier her husband appointed as her unofficial guardian no end of confusion.
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64
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7.3
/207/
48
/5/
80
/2/

A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954)
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.
poster
?
6.3
/82/
55
/2/
40
/1/

Beat the Band (1947)
Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.
poster
?
5.5
/56/
10
/1/

Rambling 'Round Radio Row #5 (1933)
The Happines Boys Billy Jones and Earnie Hare are invited to a party, but separate themselves from the rest of the guests, so they can not be urged to perform. However, they are watching the other guests from radio doing their stuff: song team Reece & Dunn, as well as the Funnyboners are singing, Smith Ballew and Frances Langford are exchanging love songs, Arthur Tracy tries his luck with a girl, just to find out that she prefers Bing Crosby and 4 orchestra leaders are trying to find out, who the best conductor is, by conducting a piece of recorded music....
poster
?
6.8
/59/
50
/2/

The Hit Parade (1937)
Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status. To get even, Pete wants to make an unknown singer into a star. He finds Ruth Allison, drives her hard through rehearsals and makes her a star. But she is worried about her past, something she hasn't told Pete: She's an ex-convict and jumped bail in order to keep her partners in crime out of it. Further she's in love with Pete, but feels that he's still carrying a torch for Monica. When Monica's popularity is decreasing, Pete is able to get Ruth a stint on the program, the result is Monica is fired and Ruth get her job, but Monica takes revenge by revealing Ruth's past. Ruth considers it is best for her to disappear before being arrested, but she has become a star in public opinion. Will she get Pete or will she go to prison again?
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MGM Plus
60
?
6.3
/146/
57
/3/

Dreaming Out Loud (1940)
Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.
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Amazon Prime Video
51
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5.5
/240/
51
/6/
50
/3/

Career Girl (1944)
Joan Terry, from Kansas City, comes to New York to get a job on the stage. But until she finds an opportunity, she stays at a boarding house where other talent is also waiting. To get a better chance, the people there decide to build a talent pool, where the person with the most chances for a job gets the full support, trying to get jobs for the others there too - and Joan is chosen to do that. But this is not so easy when her fiance is trying to keep her away from the stage...
poster
?
5.0
/73/
50
/5/

Make Mine Laughs (1949)
A kind of filmed vaudeville show, using old material from RKO films and some new.
poster
?
6.7
/38/
10
/1/

Purple Heart Diary (1951)
A trio of singers entertaining hospitalized soldiers during WWII encourage a wounded soldier in his love for a nurse.
poster
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7.4
/42/
50
/1/

Collegiate (1936)
A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.
poster
57
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5.8
/111/
60
/2/
53
/3/

Hit Parade of 1941 (1940)
In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking for sponsors. He finds one with a department store owner who will only lend him the money if he will allow his daughter, an aspiring tap-dancer and singer, to perform on the air. This is unfortunate as she is tone-deaf. To compensate, the owner hires a real singer to dub the daughter's voice. The singer and the owner's nephew fall in love and mayhem ensues. Songs include: the Oscar nominated "Who Am I?," "Swing Low Sweet Rhythm," "In The Cool of the Evening," "Make Yourself at Home," "The Swap Shop Song," "The Trading Post," "Sally," "Ramona," "Sweet Sue," "Dinah," "Margie," and "Mary Lou."
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7.3
/26/
40
/3/
60
/1/

Music Land (1955)
Walt Disney animation animated cartoon musical compilation ("The BIG Parade of MIRTH and MELODY"; "Offering hits re-released from 'Make Mine Music' and 'Melody Time'"; featuring cartoons from the 1946 musical, "Make Mine Music," and the 1948 musical "Melody Time") featuring Donald Duck, Joe Carioca, and other Disney cartoon characters, and also songs by Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Frances Langford, Roy Rogers and Trigger, The Andrews Sisters (Laverne, Maxene, and Patty Andrews), Freddy Martin and his orchestra, Sons of the Pioneers, Jerry Colonna, and Ethel Smith
poster
fuboTV
52
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5.4
/185/
52
/5/

People Are Funny (1946)
A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."
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?
5.8
/84/

Radio Stars on Parade (1945)
A Hollywood talent agency tries to avoid finacial ruin by getting its best clients on the air.
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46
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4.9
/278/
40
/3/
50
/1/

Girl Rush (1944)
During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western mining town.
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?
7.2
/55/
60
/1/

Never a Dull Moment (1943)
Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).
poster
?
5.6
/31/

Memo for Joe (1944)
Documentary short film extolling the virtues of the American Community Chest charity program and its value to the Allied war effort.
poster
?
6.4
/59/

Palm Springs (1936)
A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughter, however, has plans of her own.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
54
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6.1
/159/
47
/4/
54
/5/

Combat America (1943)
Produced in 1943 under the guidance of Army Air Force Lieutenant Clark Gable, this film follows a single 8th Air Force B-17 crew from training through a series of missions over Europe.
poster
?
7.0
/50/

Follow the Band (1943)
A farmer from Vermont travels to New York and becomes a successful singer in a nightclub.
poster
MGM Plus
45
?
4.9
/477/
40
/8/
42
/10/

All-American Co-Ed (1941)
Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for their comedy drag revue, staying undercover as a woman at an all-girls' school wasn't part of the rehearsal!
poster
Hoopla
61
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5.7
/150/
70
/2/
56
/5/

Deputy Marshal (1949)
A lawman takes on gangsters attempting to steal property wanted for a railroad.
poster
68
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6.2
/217/
60
/3/
75
/2/

Every Night at Eight (1935)
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.


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