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    Four Daughters (1938)

    A music professor (Claude Rains) presides over his four daughters and their suitors, one (John...

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    Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

    A songwriter's (Dick Powell) big check puts chorus girls (Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler) to work but...

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    The Great Waltz (1938)

    Composer Johann Strauss (Fernand Gravet) marries a baker's daughter (Luise Rainer), woos a soprano...

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    Harmony Lane

    Composer Stephen Foster (Douglass Montgomery) writes plantation melodies for E.P. Christy's (William...

  • Home, Sweet Home picture
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    Home, Sweet Home

    Home Sweet Home has been referred to by its leading lady Lillian Gish as "the first all-star film."...

  • I Dream Too Much picture
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    I Dream Too Much (1935)

    A French opera singer (Lily Pons) becomes famous, and her composer husband (Henry Fonda) resents it.

  • I'll See You in My Dreams picture
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    I'll See You in My Dreams

    The ultra-sentimental I'll See You in My Dreams is based on the life and work of composer Gus Kahn....

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    Life of Donizetti

    Amedeo Nazzari portrays famed Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti in this expansive biopic. Told in...

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    Men of Two Worlds

    An Anglicized African composer (Robert Adams) returns to help British officials (Phyllis Calvert,...

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    The Mozart Story

    In a sense, The Mozart Story can qualify as an international production. The balance of the film was...

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    Mr. Music

    The owner (Mick Fleetwood) of a flagging record company hires a teen music fan (Jonathan Tucker) as...

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    Night and Day (1946)

    Ivy League songwriter Cole Porter (Cary Grant) joins World War I, marries a rich British nurse...

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    Nocturne (1946)

    A police detective (George Raft) asks too many questions about a Hollywood composer's so-called...

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    Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

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

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    Senora Tentacion

    In this Spanish language musical melodrama, a composer fights to free himself from his clinging...

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    A Song to Remember (1945)

    Polish composer Frederic Chopin (Cornel Wilde) flees to Paris with his mentor (Paul Muni) and meets...

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    Three Little Words (1950)

    Bert Kalmar (Fred Astaire) and Harry Ruby (Red Skelton) team up to write ``Thinking of You'' and...

  • Till the Clouds Roll By picture
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    Till the Clouds Roll By (1947)

    Songwriter Jerome Kern (Robert Walker) recalls his career on the opening night of his ``Show Boat,''...

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    The Uninvited

    A British brother (Ray Milland) and sister (Ruth Hussey) move to a coastal mansion haunted by two...

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    Words and Music (1948)

    Richard Rodgers (Tom Drake) and Lorenz Hart (Mickey Rooney) team up in the 1920s to write songs...

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    The Dancing Years

    The Dancing Years was written by British theatrical favorite Ivor Novello, who also penned the...

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    Quartet

    Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales: ``The Facts of Life,'' ``The Alien Corn,'' ``The...

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    Song of Love (1947)

    Young Johannes Brahms (Robert Walker) loves struggling German composer Robert Schumann's (Paul...

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    The Alley Cat

    A man on the run mistakenly believes he has killed somebody. He is taken in by a woman and...

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    April Blossoms

    April Blossoms is based loosely on incidents in the life of composer Franz Schubert, here portrayed...

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    Beggar on Horseback

    This satirical film was based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Neil McRae (Edward...

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    La Part de l'Ombre

    In this French romance, a genius composer/violinist finds great success but no love because he...