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1. The Sound of Music (1965)
directed by Robert Wise
featuring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Peggy WoodOne of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music is based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers. Julie Andrews stars as ... More
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2. The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
directed by Joel Schumacher
featuring Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie DriverOne of the most popular stage musicals in the history of Broadway and London's West End makes its long-awaited arrival on the motion-picture screen ... More
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3. West Side Story (1961)
directed by Robert Wise
featuring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George ChakirisRomeo and Juliet is updated to the tenements of New York City in this Oscar-winning musical landmark. Adapted by Ernest Lehman from the Broadway ... More
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4. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
directed by Stanley Donen
featuring Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Rall, Jane Powell, Marc PlattBased extremely loosely on the Stephen Vincent Benet story Sobbin' Women," Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is one of the best MGM musicals of the ... More
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5. The Music Man (1962)
directed by Morton Da Costa
featuring Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Pert Kelton, Ronny Howard, Hermione Gingold, Paul FordMeredith Wilson's hit 1957 Broadway musical was transferred to the screen in larger-than-life fashion in 1962. Robert Preston repeats his legendary ... More
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6. State Fair (1945)
directed by Walter Lang
featuring Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine, Charles WinningerTwentieth Century-Fox couldn't make a film version of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Oklahoma in 1945--that particular Broadway musical ... More
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7. Across the Universe (2007)
directed by Julie Taymor
featuring Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoySet against the anti-war protests, rock & roll revolution, and mind-expanding psychedelia of the 1960s, Julie Taymor's hallucinogenic musical follows ... More
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8. Brigadoon (1954)
directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart, Barry JonesReportedly, Vincente Minnelli turned down the opportunity to film Brigadoon on location in Scotland insisting that MGM's studio mockups looked more ... More
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9. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
directed by Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
featuring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard MitchellHollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) is the toast of Tinseltown. While Lockwood ... More
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10. Calamity Jane (1953)
directed by David Butler
featuring Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick WessonDoris Day looks no more like the real Calamity Jane than you or I do, but this 1953 film is intended as a lighthearted musical, not a historical ... More
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11. Moulin Rouge (2001)
directed by Baz Luhrmann
featuring Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard RoxburghList of all editionsThe third film from pop-music-obsessed director Baz Luhrmann tweaks the conventions of the musical genre by mixing a period romance with ... More
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12. Mamma Mia! (2008)
directed by Phyllida Lloyd
featuring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth, Stellan SkarsgårdList of all editionsLonging to discover the identity of her true father before she exchanges her wedding vows, the daughter of a once-rebellious single mother secretly ... More
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13. Camelot (1967)
directed by Joshua Logan, Moss Hart
featuring Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, David Hemmings, Lionel JeffriesList of all editionsJoshua Logan directs this lavish version of the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe Broadway success with Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, and ... More
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14. Guys and Dolls (1955)
directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
featuring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert KeithList of all editionsThis 1955 film began life as two Runyon short stories, the most prominent of which was "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown." This material was fleshed out ... More
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15. Oklahoma! (1955)
directed by Fred Zinnemann
featuring Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood, Gloria Grahame, Rod SteigerList of all editionsRodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 Broadway musical was considered revolutionary for a multitude of reasons, not least of which were the play's intricate ... More
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16. Blue Hawaii (1961)
directed by Norman Taurog
featuring Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Nancy Walters, Roland Winters, Angela LansburyList of all editionsOne of Elvis Presley's most successful post-Army vehicles, Blue Hawaii casts Elvis as scion to a Hawaiian pineapple fortune. His snooty mother Angela ... More
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17. South Pacific (1958)
directed by Joshua Logan
featuring Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston, Juanita HallList of all editionsProducer/director Joshua Logan's long-awaited filmization of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize winning musical South Pacific was not the classic ... More
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18. Hello, Dolly! (1969)
directed by Gene Kelly
featuring Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Louis Armstrong, Marianne McAndrewList of all editionsTwenty-seven-year-old Barbra Streisand seemed an inappropriate choice for middle-aged, match-making widow Dolly Levi, but her energy carries her ... More
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19. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
directed by Mark Sandrich
featuring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik RhodesList of all editionsBased on Dwight Taylor and Cole Porter's play of the same name, The Gay Divorcee centers on Mimi (Ginger Rogers), a woman seeking a divorce from her ... More
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20. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
directed by Jacques Demy
featuring Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner, Mireille PerreyList of all editionsJacques Demy's 1964 masterpiece is a pop-art opera, or, to borrow the director's own description, a film in song. This simple romantic tragedy begins ... More
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21. Follow the Fleet (1936)
directed by Mark Sandrich
featuring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Astrid AllwynList of all editionsThis lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave. For reasons unknown, ... More
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22. Cover Girl (1944)
directed by Charles Vidor
featuring Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Phil Silvers, Jinx Falkenburg, Otto Kruger, Eve ArdenList of all editionsThanks to its Jerome Kern/Ira Gershwin/Yip Harburg score and the luminescence of stars Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly, Cover Girl has taken on a ... More
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23. Roberta (1935)
directed by William Seiter
featuring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Helen WestleyList of all editionsAlice Duer Miller's novel Gowns by Roberta was adapted into the 1933 Broadway musical Roberta, with music by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. The 1935 ... More
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24. Sweet Charity (1969)
directed by Bob Fosse
featuring Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Ricardo Montalban, Sammy Davis, Jr., Chita RiveraList of all editionsShirley MacLaine plays Charity Hope Valentine who, despite her job at a seedy dime-a-dance joint, is an incurable optimist. Charity never stops ... More
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25. Wild in the Country (1961)
directed by Philip Dunne
featuring Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld, Millie Perkins, John Ireland, Rafer JohnsonList of all editionsRock 'n roll king Elvis Presley stars as Glenn Talbot, a country boy with a problem temper and a yen for literary greatness in this typical Presley ... More







