Operetta
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    Porgy and Bess (1959)

    Adaptation of the famous play/opera about life in a black neighborhood known as "Catfish Row" in...

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    The Pirates of Penzance (1983)

    A pirate king (Kevin Kline) and his men meet a major general's daughters in this version of the...

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    Yoshio Urasawa

    Yoshio Urasawa was a Writer for the movies Operetta Tanuki Goten and Gerumaniumu No Yoru.

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    Sigmund Romberg

    Hungarian composer Sigmund Romberg was a prolific creator of light operettas and the occasional film...

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    Hibari Misora

    Hibari Misora appeared in the movie Operetta Tanuki Goten.

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    Nobuyuki Tohya

    Nobuyuki Tohya produced movies such as Operetta Tanuki Goten, Onmyoji, and Tengoku no honya - koibi.

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    Satoru Ogura

    Satoru Ogura produced movies such as Mushishi, Operetta Tanuki Goten, and Kamikaze Girls.

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    Saori Yuki

    Saori Yuki appeared in the movies Operetta Tanuki Goten and Kazoku Game.

  • Mitsuko Tanizawa picture
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    Mitsuko Tanizawa

    Mitsuko Tanizawa provided choreography for the movie Operetta Tanuki Goten.

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    The Student Prince (1954)

    Prince Karl (Edmund Purdom) goes to Heidelberg to sow wild oats and falls in love with a barmaid...

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    La Corte de Faraon

    La Corte de Faraon is a romp of a zarzuela ("operetta" is a loose translation) that first appeared...

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    Oh... Rosalinda!

    Set in postwar Vienna, a playboy plays a practical joke on an officer and his flirtatious wife at a...

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    100 Years of Polish Cinema

    Elderly people, one age 100, talk emotionally about prewar films they loved, mostly romances and...

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    Pokoj Saren

    In a small house in Poland, a family have dinner. The son hangs a picture of the crucifiction on his...

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    Bitter Sweet (1940)

    Songs by Noel Coward highlight this tale of the difficult times faced by a Victorian belle and her...

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    Deep in My Heart (1954)

    Hungarian Sigmund Romberg (Jose Ferrer) comes to circa-1900 New York and becomes a composer for...

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    Bitter Sweet

    A dancer (Anna Neagle) marries a Viennese violinist (Fernand Graavey) with a tragic gambling...

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    The Bohemian Girl (1936)

    The excellent box-office returns for the previous Laurel & Hardy comic operas The Devil's Brother...

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    Der Zigeunerbaron

    This is the third cinematic production of Johann Strauss the Younger's The Gypsy Baron and it is an...

  • Die Csardasfurstin picture
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    Die Csardasfurstin

    This fictional video looks at an average Austrian as he view for the attention of a star who is...

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    The Lottery Bride (1930)

    Sundered lovers meet again amid tragic irony at a mining camp in northern Norway.

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    Maytime (1937)

    An operatic soprano (Jeanette MacDonald) recalls how she married her teacher (John Barrymore) and...

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    The Merry Widow (1934)

    A playboy prince (Maurice Chevalier) from a tiny kingdom is sent to woo a rich widow (Jeanette...

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    The Merry Widow (1952)

    The king of bankrupt Marshovia orders a playboy count (Fernando Lamas) to woo a rich widow (Lana...

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    The Mikado

    The Japanese emperor's son (Kenny Baker) loves the Lord High Executioner's (Martyn Green) ward (Jean...

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    Naughty Marietta (1935)

    An incognito French princess (Jeanette MacDonald) flees to New Orleans and flirts with an Indian...

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    Rose Marie

    An opera star (Jeanette MacDonald) falls for a Mountie (Nelson Eddy) chasing her outlaw brother...

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    Boccaccio

    This operetta provides a vision of how the Nazis of Germany envisioned the Italian Renaissance. The...

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    The Desert Song (1929)

    After literally inventing the movie musical with The Jazz Singer, Warner Bros. purchased the motion...

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    The Desert Song

    Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor...