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1. The Sound of Music (1965)
directed by Robert Wise
featuring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood
One 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 Driver
One 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 Chakiris
Romeo 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. The Music Man (1962)
directed by Morton Da Costa
featuring Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Pert Kelton, Ronny Howard, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford
Meredith 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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5. Across the Universe (2007)
directed by Julie Taymor
featuring Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy
Set 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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6. Mamma Mia! (2008)
directed by Phyllida Lloyd
featuring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård
Longing 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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7. Guys and Dolls (1955)
directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
featuring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith
This 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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8. South Pacific (1958)
directed by Joshua Logan
featuring Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston, Juanita Hall
Producer/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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9. Brigadoon (1954)
directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart, Barry Jones
Reportedly, 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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10. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
directed by Stanley Donen
featuring Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Rall, Jane Powell, Marc Platt
Based 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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11. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Marjorie Main
Sally Benson's short stories about the turn-of-the-century Smith family of St. Louis were tackled by a battalion of MGM screenwriters, who hoped to ... More
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12. Oklahoma! (1955)
directed by Fred Zinnemann
featuring Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood, Gloria Grahame, Rod Steiger
Rodgers 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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13. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
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 ... More
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14. Gigi (1958)
directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor, Isabel Jeans
Leslie Caron plays Gigi, a young girl raised by two veteran Parisian courtesans (Hermione Gingold and Isabel Jeans) to be the mistress of wealthy ... More
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15. The Student Prince (1954)
directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson, Louis Calhern, Edmund Gwenn
Edmund Purdom plays Prince Karl, but Mario Lanza sings the bold tunes coming out of Purdom's mouth, in this MGM remake of the 1927 Ernst Lubitsch ... More
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16. Calamity Jane (1953)
directed by David Butler
featuring Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick Wesson
Doris 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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17. State Fair (1945)
directed by Walter Lang
featuring Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine, Charles Winninger
Twentieth 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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18. High Society (1956)
directed by Charles Walters
featuring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, John Lund
High Society is a glossy Technicolor-and-VistaVision musical remake of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story (1940), decked out with million-watt ... More
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19. Camelot (1967)
directed by Joshua Logan, Moss Hart
featuring Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, David Hemmings, Lionel Jeffries
Joshua 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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20. Moulin Rouge (2001)
directed by Baz Luhrmann
featuring Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh
The 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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21. Holiday Inn (1942)
directed by Mark Sandrich
featuring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Virginia Dale, Marjorie Reynolds, Walter Abel
Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire star in Holiday Inn as a popular nightclub song-and-dance team. When his heart is broken by his girlfriend, Crosby ... More
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22. By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
directed by David Butler
featuring Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames, Rosemary de Camp
By the Light of the Silvery Moon was a sequel to Warner Bros' On Moonlight Bay (1951); both films were loosely based on the "Penrod" stories by Booth ... More
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23. Hello, Dolly! (1969)
directed by Gene Kelly
featuring Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Louis Armstrong, Marianne McAndrew
Twenty-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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24. Show Boat (1951)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ava Gardner, Joe E. Brown, Marge Champion
The third and (to date) last film version of the Edna Ferber/Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical Show Boat falls just short of greatness but is ... More
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25. Top Hat (1935)
directed by Mark Sandrich
featuring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Helen Broderick
One of the best of the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals, Top Hat centers on a typical mistaken-identity plot, with wealthy Dale Tremont (Rogers), ... More
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