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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. Holiday Inn (1942)
directed by Mark Sandrich
featuring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Virginia Dale, Marjorie Reynolds, Walter AbelBing 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. Mamma Mia! (2008)
directed by Phyllida Lloyd
featuring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth, Stellan SkarsgårdLonging 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 KeithThis 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. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Marjorie MainSally 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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9. Oklahoma! (1955)
directed by Fred Zinnemann
featuring Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood, Gloria Grahame, Rod SteigerRodgers 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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10. South Pacific (1958)
directed by Joshua Logan
featuring Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston, Juanita HallProducer/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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11. An American in Paris (1951)
directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guetary, Nina FochList of all editionsGene Kelly does his patented Pal Joey bit as Jerry Mulligan, an opportunistic American painter living in Paris' "starving artists" colony. He is ... More
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12. Brigadoon (1954)
directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart, Barry JonesList of all editionsReportedly, 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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13. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
directed by Stanley Donen
featuring Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Rall, Jane Powell, Marc PlattList of all editionsBased 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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14. 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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15. The Music Man (1962)
directed by Morton Da Costa
featuring Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Pert Kelton, Ronny Howard, Hermione Gingold, Paul FordList of all editionsMeredith 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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16. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
directed by Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
featuring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard MitchellList of all editionsHollywood, 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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17. The Music Man (2003)
directed by Jeff Bleckner
featuring Matthew Broderick, Kristin Chenoweth, Victor Garber, Debra Monk, Molly ShannonList of all editionsA hit Broadway musical in 1957 and an equally successful Hollywood film in 1962, Meredith Willson's The Music Man was again brought before the ... More
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18. High Society (1956)
directed by Charles Walters
featuring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, John LundList of all editionsHigh 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 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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20. Rose Marie (1936)
directed by W.S. Van Dyke
featuring Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, James Stewart, Reginald Owen, Allan JonesList of all editionsIt was standard operating procedure at MGM to cast their favorite singing team of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in new versions of old operettas ... More
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21. Show Boat (1951)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ava Gardner, Joe E. Brown, Marge ChampionList of all editionsThe 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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22. State Fair (1945)
directed by Walter Lang
featuring Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine, Charles WinningerList of all editionsTwentieth 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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23. 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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24. 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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25. Calamity Jane (1953)
directed by David Butler
featuring Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick WessonList of all editionsDoris 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







