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1. Burlesque (2010)
directed by Steve Antin
featuring Cher, Christina Aguilera, Eric Dane, Cam Gigandet, Julianne Hough
Christina Aguilera makes her dramatic feature debut as Ali, a small-town singer who takes her shot at stardom performing at a neo-burlesque nightclub ... More
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2. Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
directed by Norman Taurog
featuring Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Frank Morgan, Ian Hunter
MGM's third follow-up to its landmark Broadway Melody is short on story, but that's okay, since the plot is merely a clothesline upon which to hang ... More
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3. Beat the Band (1947)
directed by John H. Auer
featuring Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Phillip Terry, June Clayworth, Mabel Paige
The Broadway musical Beat the Band was boiled down to B-picture terms in this RKO Radio programmer. The plot concerns Damon (Philip Terry), a ... More
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4. The Broadway Melody (1929)
directed by Harry Beaumont
featuring Anita Page, Bessie Love, Charles King, Jed Prouty, Ken Thomson
This landmark MGM backstage musical of the early sound era about broken dreams on the Great White Way features a bevy of standards by the songwriting ... More
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5. The Stork Club (1945)
directed by Hal Walker
featuring Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald, Don DeFore, Andy Russell, Iris Adrian, Robert Benchley
The Stork Club, the famed New York nightspot immortalized by columnist Walter Winchell (in return for special favors from its owners), is the setting ... More
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6. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
directed by Dorothy Arzner
featuring Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Ralph Bellamy, Virginia Field
Based on a story by Vicki Baum (of Grand Hotel) fame, Dance, Girl Dance finds innocent young Judy (Maureen O'Hara) journeying to the Big Apple in ... More
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7. The First Nudie Musical (1975)
directed by Bruce Kimmel, Mark Haggard
featuring Stephen Nathan, Cindy Williams, Bruce Kimmel, Leslie Ackerman, Alan Abelew
The owner of a financially foundering skin-flick production company decides that the only way to save it is to put on a Busby Berkeley-esque ... More
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8. A Chorus Line (1985)
directed by Richard Attenborough
featuring Michael Douglas, Terrence Mann, Alyson Reed, Cameron English, Vicki Frederick
Broadway's celebratory musical about rejection makes it to the screen in a fizzless adaptation by Richard Attenborough that misses the whole point of ... More
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9. Wonder Bar (1934)
directed by Lloyd Bacon
featuring Kay Francis, Dick Powell, Al Jolson, Dolores Del Rio, Ricardo Cortez
Based on Al Jolson's 1931 Broadway hit, Wonder Bar transposes the "Grand Hotel" formula to a lavish nightclub in Paris' Montmartre district. ... More
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10. Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
directed by Roy Del Ruth
featuring Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor, Una Merkel, Sid Silvers
The Broadway Melody of 1936 was designed as the first of many annual follow-ups to "MGM"'s early-talkie triumph Broadway Melody (1929). Jack Benny is ... More
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11. Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
directed by David Butler
featuring Eddie Cantor, Dinah Shore, Bette Davis, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Humphrey Bogart, Edward Everett Horton, Olivia de Havilland
Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky Stars. Believe it or not, ... More
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12. Mother Wore Tights (1947)
directed by Walter Lang
featuring Betty Grable, Robert Arthur, Dan Dailey, Veda Ann Borg, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall, Vanessa Brown, Chick Chandler, Sara Allgood
A woman looks back at her childhood in show business in this musical comedy. At the turn of the century, Myrtle McKinley (Betty Grable) is working ... More
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13. Orchestra Wives (1942)
directed by Archie Mayo
featuring George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Glenn Miller, Cesar Romero, Lynn Bari, Jackie Gleason
In his last screen appearance, bandleader Glenn Miller plays--are you sitting down?--a bandleader. The film's main plot involves small-town girl Ann ... More
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14. Carmen (1983)
directed by Carlos Saura
featuring Antonio Gades, Laura del Sol, Paco de Lucía, Christina Hoyos, Juan Antonio Jimenez
Director Carlos Saura's Carmen develops a fictional story revolving around the rehearsals of Georges Bizet's opera about the brash and colorful ... More
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15. Stormy Weather (1943)
directed by Andrew L. Stone
featuring Lena Horne, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Fats Waller, Dooley Wilson, Cab Calloway
Built around the premise of a Big Stage Show, Stormy Weather affords rare "mainstream" leading roles to some of the era's greatest African-American ... More
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16. Dancing Lady (1933)
directed by Robert Z. Leonard
featuring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Winnie Lightner, Fred Astaire
Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as Janie Barlow, an ... More
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17. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
directed by Robert Z. Leonard
featuring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Fanny Brice
In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business empire begins when he ... More
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18. The Boy Friend (1971)
directed by Ken Russell
featuring Ann Jameson, Sally Bryant, Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian, Bryan Pringle, Murray Melvin
The Boy Friend began life as Sandy Wilson's small-scale pastiche of British musical comedies of the 1920s. When the play was brought to America in ... More
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19. Hellzapoppin' (1941)
directed by H.C. Potter
featuring Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert, Jane Frazee, Mischa Auer
Hellzapoppin' is the film version of the "anything goes" Broadway hit starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson. The original production was part musical ... More
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20. Live it Up! (1963)
directed by Lance Comfort
featuring David Hemmings, John Pike, David Bauer
A handful of teenage rock and rollers are looking for their big break and they need it fast in this British pop-musical, which offers a look at the U ... More
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21. Tea for Two (1950)
directed by David Butler
featuring Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Eve Arden, Patrice Wymore, Billy De Wolfe
Tea for Two is a Technicolor adaptation of the 1924 Broadway musical No No Nanette, previously filmed under its own title in 1929. Doris Day stars as ... More
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22. Easter Parade (1948)
directed by Charles Walters
featuring Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin
Fred Astaire had announced his retirement before the cameras began to roll on Easter Parade, but he decided to accept the film's leading role when ... More
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23. 42nd Street (1933)
directed by Lloyd Bacon
featuring Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Una Merkel, Guy Kibbee, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell
The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to opening night. Warner ... More
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24. The Band Wagon (1953)
directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan
One of the most subtle and sophisticated of the musical comedies that came out of MGM's Arthur Freed Unit in the '40s and '50s, The Band Wagon stars ... More
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25. Kiss Me Kate (1953)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, Bobby Van
Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate is a musical within a musical -- altogether appropriate, since its source material, Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, ... More
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