Backstage Musical
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    Frankie Avalon

    A boyish pop-rock singer of the late 1950s who turned to films, Avalon is best remembered for the...

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    Jessie Matthews

    Exuberant, coyly girlish, immensely popular star of British musicals of the 1930s, arguably the one...

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    A Chorus Line (1985)

    Dancers auditioning for a musical reveal their innermost thoughts and desires in this adaptation of...

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    Belle of the Yukon

    Left by a con man (Randolph Scott), a dancer (Gypsy Rose Lee) finds him in gold-rush Alaska running...

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    There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)

    The story of a vaudeville couple (Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey) and their children spans the world wars.

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    42nd Street (1933)

    A Broadway producer (Warner Baxter) sends in the understudy (Ruby Keeler) when his show's star (Bebe...

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    Dancing Lady (1933)

    A Broadway director (Clark Gable) falls for a dancer (Joan Crawford) forced on him by a playboy...

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    Easter Parade (1948)

    A New York dancer (Fred Astaire) grooms a chorus girl (Judy Garland) to be his new partner, falling...

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    Kiss Me Kate (1953)

    Lilli (Kathryn Grayson) and Fred (Howard Keel) act the same way offstage as they do in ``The Taming...

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    The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

    The life and times of Broadway showman Florenz Ziegfeld (William Powell) and his two wives (Luise...

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    Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

    A Hollywood tour-bus guide (Eddie Cantor) joins a wartime revue with Joan Leslie, Bette Davis, Errol...

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    Wonder Bar (1934)

    Performers waltz, tango, fight and flirt at Al Wonder's (Al Jolson) bar in Paris.

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    Tony Walton

    This noted British designer began his career at age 22 with the 1957 Broadway production of Noel...

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    Pat Paterson

    "A brisk British blonde," to quote one Hollywood observer, Pat Patterson had played supporting roles...

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    Eileen Brennan

    A distinctive American character actor with roots in Broadway musicals, Eileen Brennan was best...

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    The First Nudie Musical

    The owner of a financially foundering skin-flick production company decides that the only way to...

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    The Band Wagon (1953)

    Two playwrights bring a movie dancer (Fred Astaire) to New York for a Broadway show with a ballerina...

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    Carmen (1983)

    Director Carlos Saura's Carmen develops a fictional story revolving around the rehearsals of Georges...

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    Tous Vedettes

    Students of the Paris music conservatory work at putting on an evening's entertainment in this...

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    Les Annees 80

    All of the time and effort put forth to stage a musical is chronicled here in this bright and funny...

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    The Boy Friend (1971)

    An assistant stage manager becomes the star of a musical revue when the leading lady sprains her...

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    Babes in Arms (1939)

    Talented children (Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland) of retired vaudevillians put on a show.

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    Babes on Broadway

    Talented young hopefuls strive for their big break on Broadway in this follow-up to ``Babes in...

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    The Broadway Melody

    Midwestern sisters (Bessie Love, Anita Page) go to New York, where one flirts with the other's...

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    Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)

    A Broadway columnist (Jack Benny) feuds with a producer (Robert Taylor) whose upstate girlfriend...

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    Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)

    A Broadway producer (Robert Taylor) bankrolls his musical with winnings from the star's (Eleanor...

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    Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)

    A casting mix-up leads a dancer (George Murphy) to land a major role intended for his partner (Fred...

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    Broadway Rhythm (1944)

    A vaudeville veteran (Charles Winninger) succeeds with a Hollywood star (Ginny Simms) where his son...

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    The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)

    A New York soprano (Jeanette MacDonald) meets a struggling composer (Ramon Navarro) in Brussels and...

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    Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

    A burlesque queen (Lucille Ball) competes with an aspiring ballerina (Maureen O'Hara) for a divorced...