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    Mascara

    A police officer investigating the death of a transvestite masks feelings of love for his widowed...

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    Don't Look Back (1967)

    Filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker chronicles Bob Dylan's 1965 British concert tour, with Joan Baez and...

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    Making Opera

    La Forza del Destino is an important opera by Giuseppe Verdi which, in this documentary, is being...

  • The Doors: The Soft Parade - A Retrospective picture
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    The Doors: The Soft Parade - A Retrospective

    The Doors' final television appearance, recorded in 1969, highlights this compilation of previously...

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    Bete de Scene

    A stellar theatrical troupe indulges in backstage beastliness while staging Shakespeare's "A...

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    Make a Wish (2002)

    A boy soprano (Bobby Breen) attends summer camp in Maine and plays Cupid for his mother (Marion...

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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 1940 (1940)

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

  • Dames picture
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    Dames (1934)

    A chorus girl (Joan Blondell), producer (Dick Powell) and dancer (Ruby Keeler) put on a Broadway...

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    The Dummy Talks

    In this weird crime drama the murder of a ventriloquist is solved by a midget who goes undercover as...

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    Footlight Parade (1933)

    A director (James Cagney) creates and stages extravagant musical prologues for movie theaters.

  • For Me and My Gal picture
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    For Me and My Gal

    Vaudeville song-and-dance partners (Judy Garland, Gene Kelly) separated by World War I reunite in...

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    Lady of Burlesque (1943)

    Police investigate the strangling of a dancer in this adaptation of Gypsy Rose Lee's ``The G-String...

  • Let's Sing Again picture
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    Let's Sing Again

    An orphan soprano (Bobby Breen) joins a traveling show and learns from an opera singer (Henry...

  • Murder at the Vanities picture
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    Murder at the Vanities (1934)

    The Earl Carroll Vanities, a popular Broadway revue of the 1930s and '40s, is the setting for this...

  • A Night at the Opera picture
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    A Night at the Opera (1935)

    Groucho, Chico and Harpo (Groucho Marx) go to Italy and bring opera and its patrons down to their...

  • The Phantom of 42nd Street picture
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    The Phantom of 42nd Street

    A drama critic (Dave O'Brien) helps a detective solve a backstage murder on Broadway.

  • Presenting Lily Mars picture
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    Presenting Lily Mars

    A Broadway producer (Van Heflin) falls in love with an Indiana girl (Judy Garland) and puts her in...

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    The Property Man

    In Charlie Chaplin's 21st Keystone film, Chaplin is the prop man and general factotum at a...

  • Rhapsody in Blue picture
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    Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

    Brooklyn-born George Gershwin (Robert Alda) drives himself to fame as a composer on Broadway, abroad...

  • After the Show picture
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    After the Show

    While Cecil B. DeMille busied himself with lavish sex comedies and garish historical melodramas, his...

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    Anne Against the World

    Victor Thorne's 1925 melodrama was turned into a low-budget film starring Shirley Mason four years...

  • At the Stage Door picture
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    At the Stage Door

    Billie Dove and Elizabeth North star as inseparable sisters who grow up to become chorus girls....

  • Die Blonde Nachtigall picture
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    Die Blonde Nachtigall

    The title character in this German backstage musical is Grete Schubert (Else Elster), a pretty...

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    Broadway

    In this musical, which manages to look back with nostalgia upon prohibition and the depression (no...

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    Broadway Rose

    Once again, Mae Murray plays -- what else? -- a dancer. But while the ex-Follies girl had made an...

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    Burning Gold

    In this drama, an oil driller learns about true love and the important things in life the hard way...

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    Dancing on a Dime

    Future Universal contractees Robert Paige and Grace MacDonald (in her film debut) star in the...

  • Movietone Follies of 1930 picture
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    Movietone Follies of 1930

    In the first years of the talkies, every studio drew up plans to release annual "all-star" musical...