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- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsDick PowellAdolphe MenjouGloria StuartRomantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsRita HayworthFrank SinatraKim NovakJoey Evans is a charming, handsome, funny, talented 1st class, A-Number 1 heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl and now rich widow Vera Simpson, the pair of lecherous souls seem made for each other.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsDick PowellJoan BlondellGlenda FarrellWhen two investors inform an opportunistic dancer that they can't fund an elderly stage producer's production, she suggests they get an insurance policy on the producer's life.
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsFrank SinatraEsther WilliamsGene KellyTwo turn-of-the-century baseball players, who work in vaudeville during the off-season, run into trouble with their team's new female owner and a gambler who doesn't want them to win the pennant.
- DirectorRay EnrightBusby BerkeleyStarsJoan BlondellDick PowellRuby KeelerA multimillionaire decides to boycott "filthy" forms of entertainment such as Broadway shows.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsWarren WilliamJoan BlondellAline MacMahonA wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.
- StarsPatrick McVeyMark StevensJane Nigh"Big Town" was a long-running, highly-successful network radio series (1937- 1952) and film series ("I Cover the Underworld," "Underworld After Dark," and "Underworld Scandal") before becoming a hit television series. Shot in film-noir style, the series focused on the exploits of Steve Wilson and the staff of 'The Illustrated Press' newspaper as they reported on the important social issues of the day.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliBusby BerkeleyStarsEthel WatersEddie 'Rochester' AndersonLena HorneA compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife.
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodBusby BerkeleyStarsEleanor PowellAnn SothernRobert YoungA composer and his songwriter wife clash as they succeed in working together, writing hit Broadway shows, but fail in their marriage to the point of getting divorced twice.
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsDick PowellRosemary LaneLola LaneRonny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band, has won a talent contest and a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But she doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use a double for her: Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as a singing waiter in a drive-in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for a leading actor in a musical. After the first screening Louella Parsons invites him to sing on her program, "Hollywood Hotel". He accepts, not knowing that Ronny Bowers does not want to lend him his voice again. So everybody starts to play his little game to solve his own problems.
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsJoe E. BrownAnn DvorakPatricia EllisJoe and Fay Wilson are a happily married vaudeville team. But when a reporter discovers, that one of the chorus girls in the troupe is a slightly eccentric heiress, who bugs sometimes out to do something strange (e.g. being a chorus girl in vaudeville), the manager decides that Joe had to do is act on Broadway -with the heiress- and the heiress falls in love with him, his marriage is threatened.
- DirectorMichael CurtizBusby BerkeleyStarsJack CarsonJanis PaigeDoris DayRomantic misunderstandings abound when spouses suspect each other of being unfaithful, and a nightclub singer takes a cruise under a false identity.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsLynn BaggettLois JanuaryDolores MoranThis film showcases six production numbers from various Warner Brothers musicals.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsOwen CrumpJames CagneyRuby KeelerThis Warner Bros. short film shows the process that studios use to select women for the chorus line in movie musicals. It then presents a few clips of chorus lines in Busby Berkeley production numbers from 1930s Warner Bros. musicals.
- DirectorLászló KardosStarsJane PowellFarley GrangerAnn MillerA judge's daughter keeps an eye on a playboy who gets 30 days in jail for speeding.
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsJane PowellRicardo MontalbanLouis CalhernThe Robinson girls vacation at a Catskills resort where older sister Patti pursues Demi Armendez despite parental disapproval. Patti's singing and dancing lead to a happy ending with Armendez.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyBusby BerkeleyStarsBetty HuttonHoward KeelLouis CalhernThe story of the great sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who rose to fame while dealing with her love/professional rival, Frank Butler.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsEddie CantorRuth EttingGloria StuartA kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellRuby KeelerChester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsWarner BaxterBebe DanielsGeorge BrentWhen the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsBert WheelerRobert WoolseyDorothy LeeNew York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.
- DirectorSam TaylorStarsMary PickfordReginald DennyJoseph CawthornKiki, a French chorus girl is desperate to get into and be someone in show business, come what may.
- DirectorGene KellyStarsFred AstaireGene KellyJudy GarlandThe second installment in the "That's Entertainment" trilogy features more classic scenes from MGM's vast musical library with the addition of comedy and drama films.
- StarsMichael TolanBusby BerkeleyJoan BlondellThe look at the film world of the '30s, focused its attention on the Warner Bros. studio of the era, the Depressions years.
- StarsRobert ArmstrongJohnny ArthurBusby BerkeleyA collection of amusing bloopers from the movies of many famous actors and actresses.
- DirectorRalph StaubStarsWilliam RayArthur AylesworthBusby BerkeleyAfter showing establishing shots from the air or outside the gates of several of the major movie studios, the viewer is taken inside Warner Bros. studios to get a behind-the-scenes look at the filmmaking process.
- CreatorSusan LacyStarsMartin ScorsesePeter BogdanovichTony BennettDocumentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
- StarsPatrick WatsonErwin RommelBuzz BeurlingBiographies of famous/historical Canadian figures.
- CreatorSheldon EppsStarsScott YooJulie AndrewsPlácido DomingoFilmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.
- DirectorJack Haley Jr.StarsMikhail BaryshnikovRay BolgerSammy Davis Jr.The history of dance depicted on film.
- DirectorPhilippe MoraStarsLaverne AndrewsMaxene AndrewsPatty AndrewsA nostalgic look back at the Great Depression with contemporary archival footage and film clips picturing James Cagney as an American Everyman.
- StarsJoseph CottenJohn HustonPaul NewmanHollywood and the Stars was a 1963 NBC television documentary series.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsEleanor PowellJames StewartVirginia BruceOn 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.
- DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDonald O'ConnorDebbie ReynoldsA silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
- DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyFrank SinatraBetty GarrettThree sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
- DirectorRobert GreenwaldStarsOlivia Newton-JohnGene KellyMichael BeckA struggling artist living in Los Angeles meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsShirley MacLainePaul NewmanRobert MitchumA four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsMarilyn MonroeYves MontandTony RandallWhen billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsSpencer TracyFredric MarchGene KellyBased on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
- DirectorGene KellyJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsGene KellyIgor YouskevitchClaire SombertThree different stories are told through a notably unusual way - no words, just dance.
- DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDan DaileyCyd CharisseThree soldiers meet ten years after their last meeting in New York, and find out that they have little in common now.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsGene KellyVan JohnsonCyd CharisseTwo Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsGene KellyLeslie CaronOscar LevantThree friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsJudy GarlandGene KellyEddie BrackenA small-town farmer, down on her luck, finds her homestead invaded by a theatrical troupe invited to stay by her ne'er-do-well sister.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsLana TurnerGene KellyJune AllysonD'Artagnan and his Musketeer comrades thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power.
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsGene KellyMarie McDonaldCharles WinningerLeo Gogarty marries Margaud Morgan after a whirlwind romance just before shipping out to war. Upon his return, he is surprised to discover that his bride is not what she led him to believe, but also that she expects a quick divorce. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gogarty must find their place with or without each other in a society still adjusting to peace.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsDeanna DurbinGene KellyRichard WhorfA young femme fatale-type woman realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsRita HayworthGene KellyLee BowmanRusty Parker wins a contest and becomes a celebrated cover girl; this endangers her romance with dancing mentor Danny.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsRed SkeltonLucille BallGene KellyA nightclub's coatroom attendant who's in love with the club's singer accidentally sips a drugged drink that makes him dream he's French King Louis XV, courting the infamous Madame Du Barry.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsTwiggyChristopher GableMax AdrianWhen the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place, becoming a star and finding love in the process.
- DirectorMarty PasettaStarsGene KellyLucille BallCyd Charisse
- CreatorChristopher GoreStarsCarlo ImperatoGene Anthony RayDebbie AllenThe stories of the students and faculty of the New York City High School for the Performing Arts.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsFred AstaireGeorge BurnsGracie AllenA betting castle staff, and a series of misunderstandings and set-ups, leads to an American entertainer and an English damsel falling in love.
- DirectorEdward BuzzellStarsEleanor PowellRobert YoungGeorge BurnsWanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsW.C. FieldsPeggy Hopkins JoyceRudy ValleeAssorted wacky characters converge on a Chinese hotel to bid on a new invention: television.