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    The Girl Friend

    A man comes between two lesbian lovers, hence forming a triangle with bleak consequences.

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    Give My Regards to Broadway

    Charles Winninger plays the head of a vaudevillian family who, when jobs become scarce, takes a...

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    Go into Your Dance (1935)

    Broadway legend Al Jolson and his second wife Ruby Keeler costarred in this thin backstage musical....

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    The Great Flirtation

    In this melodrama, set backstage at the theater, a fading, but still egotistical Hungarian star and...

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    Hellzapoppin' (1941)

    Hellzapoppin' is the film version of the "anything goes" Broadway hit starring Ole Olsen and Chic...

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    Hollywood Roundup

    This drama offers a fascinating backstage look at the making of westerns. The story centers around a...

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    I Live for Love

    Though Busby Berkeley is the director of I Live for Love, there isn't a dancer or dance number...

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    I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

    1890s songwriter Joe Howard (Mark Stevens) goes from selling organs in Weehawken to writing for...

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    It Couldn't Have Happened But It Did

    Playwright Greg Stone (Reginald Denny) spends most of his spare time at the theater where his latest...

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    It's Love I'm After (1937)

    Bette Davis and Leslie Howard play an egotistical Broadway acting team famous for their romantic...

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    Journal of a Crime

    A Hollywood version of Jacques Deval's 1933 French drama Un Vie Perdue, Journal of a Crime stars...

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    Kiss the Boys Goodbye

    The nationwide search for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind formed the basis...

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    Ladies at Ease

    Polly (Pauline Garon) and Gert (Gertrude Short) are a pair of lingerie models, ever on the prowl for...

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    Ladies Love Danger

    Hoping to finish his latest play in peace, writer Ricardo Souchet (Gilbert Roland) loses his train...

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    Let's Go Places

    In this backstage musical, an aspiring actor comes to Hollywood to get his big break. Trouble ensues...

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    Manhattan Parade

    Producer brothers hire a European director who goes on to ruin their Broadway show.

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    The Merry Monahans

    The Merry Monahans is one of the higher-budgeted Universal musicals of the 1940s, even though the...

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    Myrt and Marge (1933)

    Were it not for the diligence of old-time radio buffs and Three Stooges fans, the 1933 Universal...

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    New York

    One suspects that the cliches inherent in the Pathe five-reeler New York were already in place in...

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    The Night of Nights

    Directed by Lewis Milestone nine years after taking home the best director Academy Award for All...

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    Nix on Dames

    In her first important screen role, Mae Clarke is cast as Jackie Lee, a saucy vaudeville dancer....

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    On the Avenue (1937)

    An irate heiress (Madeleine Carroll) falls for the star (Dick Powell) of a Broadway revue about her.

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    On with the Show

    The producer is broke, the box office has been robbed, and the coat-room girl (Sally O'Neil) bumps...

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    On Your Toes

    A Russian maestro (Alan Hale) plots to kill a composer (Eddie Albert) for flirting with a ballerina...

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    The Reward

    Chorus girl Jane Wallace (Bessie Barriscale) has earned the soubriquet "Iceberg" because of her...

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    Shine On, Harvest Moon

    Nora Bayes (Ann Sheridan) and Jack Norworth (Dennis Morgan) become partners in circa-1910...

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    Something to Shout About

    This backstage musical offers a peek at vaudeville behind-the-scenes. The story centers on a...

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    The Specter of the Rose

    Ben Hecht wrote and directed this bizarre comedy/suspense/dance film, featuring a discordant musical...

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    Stage Struck

    Stage Struck is one of the least known of Busby Berkeley's Warner Bros. musicals, chiefly because...

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    Sweet Music

    Rudy Vallee made his third feature-film starring appearance in the breezy Warner Bros. musical Sweet...