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Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain (1952) more movies like this

directed by Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
featuring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell

Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) is the toast of Tinseltown. While Lockwood and Lamont personify smoldering passions onscreen, in real life the down-to-earth Lockwood can't stand the egotistical, brainless Lina. He prefers the company of aspiring actress Kathy Selden (Debbie ...

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That's Entertainment!

That's Entertainment! (1974) more movies like this

directed by Jack Haley, Jr.
featuring Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Donald O'Connor, Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli, James Stewart, Mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds, Peter Lawford

It's ironic that MGM, in such dire financial straits in 1974 that it was selling its fabled back lot and auctioning off artifacts from past movie triumphs, enjoyed one of its biggest box-office hits with That's Entertainment, a compilation of musical highlights from the studio's golden days. Onscreen hosts Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, ...

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There's No Business Like Show Business

There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) more movies like this

directed by Walter Lang
featuring Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray

Like Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), 20th Century-Fox's There's No Business Like Show Business is a "catalogue" film, its thinnish plot held together by an itinerary of Irving Berlin tunes. The story chronicles some twenty years in the lives of a showbiz family, headed by Dan Dailey and Ethel Merman. Two of the couple's three grown children -- ...

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Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland (1983) more movies like this

directed by Harry Harris
featuring Donald O'Connor

This 1982 made-for-TV version of the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland features an all-star cast. Such celebrities as Donald O'Connor, Maureen Stapleton and Eve Arden struggle to perform while buried under mounds of makeup and tons of eccentric costuming as Carroll's alternate-world loonies. Alice in Wonderland was first telecast Oct 3, ...

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Ragtime

Ragtime (1981) more movies like this

directed by Milos Forman
featuring James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, Kenneth McMillan, Pat O'Brien, Donald O'Connor, James Olson, Mandy Patinkin, Howard E. Rollins, Jr.

E. L. Doctorow's novel Ragtime was a sprawling fictional account of American manners and mores in the years between 1900 and 1913. Among the mosaic of colorful factual and fictional characters in the novel were escape artist Harry Houdini and radical Emma Goldman. Both characters are all but eliminated in the film version, which only concentrates ...

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That Funny Feeling

That Funny Feeling (1965) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Donald O'Connor, Nita Talbot, Larry Storch

In this romantic comedy, an aspiring actress pays her bills by working as a maid for various households. One of her employers is a wealthy and prominent publisher. After accidentally running into each other a number of times on the New York streets without recognizing each other, they begin to fall in love. She wants to take him home, but she is ...

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Francis in the Navy

Francis in the Navy (1955) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Lubin
featuring Donald O'Connor, Martha Hyer, Richard Erdman, Jim Backus, Clint Eastwood

Complaining that Francis the Mule was getting more fan mail than he was, Donald O'Connor bade adios to the "Francis" series with this 1955 entry. Once more, O'Connor plays Army lieutenant Peter Sterling, who heads to a navy base when it looks like his old pal Francis is about to be auctioned off as surplus. In short order, Sterling is mistaken for ...

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Francis Joins the Wacs

Francis Joins the Wacs (1954) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Lubin
featuring Donald O'Connor, Julie Adams, Chill Wills, Mamie van Doren, Lynn Bari

Francis Joins the WACS was the fifth in Universal's comedy series about a talking Army mule and his hapless human companion. Thanks to a bureaucratic snafu, ex-GI Peter Sterling (Donald O'Connor) is called into acitive duty and assigned to a WAC unit, headed by Major Simpson (Lynn Bari). It is Sterling's task to train the women to be camouflage ...

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Anything Goes

Anything Goes (1956) more movies like this

directed by Robert Lewis
featuring Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor, Zizi Jeanmaire, Mitzi Gaynor, Phil Harris

Anything Goes is a Technicolor-and-Vistavision remake of the 1936 film of the same name, which in turn was based on Cole Porter's hit 1934 Broadway musical. The 1956 bears little relationship plotwise to its predecessors, except for the fact that most of the story takes place aboard a luxury liner. Bing Crosby and Donald O'Connor star as Bill ...

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Francis Goes to West Point

Francis Goes to West Point (1952) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Lubin
featuring Donald O'Connor, Lori Nelson, Alice Kelley, William Reynolds

Francis Goes to West Point is the third entry in Universal's money-spinning series about a talking mule. Donald O'Connor once again stars as Peter Sterling, who with the garrulous Francis' helps prevent the destruction of an atomic energy plant. As a reward, Peter is given a scholarship to West Point, where he quickly distinguishes himself as the ...

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Francis (1949) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Lubin
featuring Donald O'Connor, Patricia Medina, ZaSu Pitts, Ray Collins, John McIntire

One wonders if Donald O'Connor would have consented to star in Francis if he knew that a series was to follow. Adapted by David Stern from his own novel, the film stars O'Connor as GI Peter Sterling, who appears to be bucking for a Section Eight. Seems that Sterling keeps insisting that Francis, a cantankerous Army mule, has the power of speech. ...

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Francis Covers the Big Town (1953) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Lubin
featuring Donald O'Connor, Yvette Dugay, Gene Lockhart, Nancy Guild, Larry Gates

In this fourth of the "Francis" series, former Army officer Peter Stirling (Donald O'Connor) becomes a reporter for a big city newspaper. His greatest source of news tips is his talking mule Francis (voice by Chill Wills), who has become friendly with all the police horses. When asked how he manages to stay abreast of the news, Peter tries to ...

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Francis Goes to the Races (1951) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Lubin
featuring Donald O'Connor, Piper Laurie, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse White, Barry Kelley

In this funny sequel to the popular Francis the Talking Mule the loquacious equine and his plucky pal Peter (Donald O'Connor) get a job working on a horse-breeder's ranch and end up saving it from financial ruin when Francis, who has the inside track with the racehorses, provides Peter with names of the winners before the races are run. Sure ...

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Something in the Wind (1947) more movies like this

directed by Irving Pichel
featuring Deanna Durbin, Donald O'Connor, John Dall, Charles Winninger, Helena Carter

Deanna Durbin stars in the musical shaggy dog story Something in the Wind. When the wealthy uncle of the Read family dies, he leaves instructions in his will to bequeath a set amount of money to his mistress, one Mary Collins. The family assumes it to be a pretty young female radio personality called Mary Collins (and played by Deanna Durbin), ...

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I Love Melvin (1953) more movies like this

directed by Don Weis
featuring Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Una Merkel, Richard Anderson, Allyn Joslyn, Jim Backus

Singin' in the Rain co-stars Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds were re-teamed in the ebullient little musical I Love Melvin. O'Connor plays Melvin Hoover, the hapless assistant to Look magazine photographer Mergo (Jim Backus). When he falls in love with chorus girl Judy LeRoy (Reynolds), Melvin claims that he 's the magazine's head photographer ...

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Call Me Madam (1953) more movies like this

directed by Johnny Downs, Walter Lang
featuring Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen, George Sanders, Billy De Wolfe

Ethel Merman reprised her role as a socialite turned diplomat in this screen adaptation of Irving Berlin's hit Broadway musical. Sally Adams (Merman) has made it her business to know everyone worth knowing in Washington D.C., and her penchant for parties pays off when she's appointed United States Ambassador to Lichtenburg. Once she is installed ...

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