show-business
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    George White's Scandals (1945)

    Backstage lovers (Joan Davis, Jack Haley) and a dancer's (Martha Holliday) absence threaten a...

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    The Goldwyn Follies (1938)

    A Hollywood producer (Adolphe Menjou) with a string of flops hires a girl (Andrea Leeds) to tell him...

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    Hats Off

    The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae ...

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    It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)

    A returned GI (Frank Sinatra), a British nobleman (Peter Lawford), a school janitor and a teacher...

  • Jolson Sings Again picture
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    Jolson Sings Again (1949)

    Al Jolson (Larry Parks) comes back to entertain World War II troops and falls in love with a nurse...

  • The Jolson Story picture
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    The Jolson Story (1946)

    Cantor's son Asa Yoelson (Larry Parks) goes into show business as Al.

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    Lady Killer (1933)

    A New York usher (James Cagney) turns mobster, then goes to Hollywood and becomes a movie star.

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    The Lady Is Willing (1942)

    An actress (Marlene Dietrich) talks a doctor (Fred MacMurray) into a marriage of convenience in...

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    Let's Dance (1950)

    Fred Astaire and Betty Hutton make a surprisingly copacetic screen team in Let's Dance. Hutton plays...

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    Let's Sing Again

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

  • Look for the Silver Lining picture
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    Look for the Silver Lining (1949)

    Marilyn Miller's (June Haver) life unfolds in flashbacks, from her vaudeville family to Broadway...

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    Mr. Skitch

    Mr. Skitch was filmed under such working titles as See America First and Green Dice, which was also...

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    Pin-Up Girl (1944)

    A Missouri stenographer (Betty Grable) poses as a Broadway star to impress a sailor (John Harvey)...

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    Rhythm Parade

    During the '40s, Monogram ground out musical comedies by the ton, most of them starring their...

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    Sailing Along

    A dancing British deckhand (Jessie Matthews) loves one man (Barry Mackay), then meets one who can...

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    Thomas Graal's Best Film

    Originally titled Tomas Graals basta film, Mauritz Stiller's Swedish comedy Thomas Graal's Best Film...

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    Thursday's Child (1983)

    A couple's (Wilfrid Lawson, Kathleen O'Regan) little girl (Sally Ann Howes) becomes a movie star,...

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    Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)

    An unknown singer (Tony Martin) gets his girlfriend's (Janet Leigh) quartet on bandleader Bob...

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    Virtue's Revolt

    A very minor show business melodrama from Poverty producer William Steiner, Virtue's Revolt starred...

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    Whoopee! (1930)

    Adapted from Owen Davis's stage comedy The Nervous Wreck (itself filmed in 1927), Flo Ziegfeld's...

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    Beloved Imposter

    The British Beloved Imposter was inspired by Ethel Mannin's novel Dancing Boy. Fred Conynghamplays a...

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    Bloodhounds of Broadway

    A New York bookie (Scott Brady) returns from his Georgia hide-out with a stagestruck singer (Mitzi...

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    Bowery to Broadway

    Two Bowery vaudevillians compete to be the first to produce shows on Broadway. They might be friends...

  • The Bride Goes Wild picture
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    The Bride Goes Wild (1948)

    A New England teacher (June Allyson) is hired to illustrate a book for Uncle Bump (Van Johnson), a...

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    Broadway to Hollywood

    A vaudeville couple (Alice Brady, Frank Morgan) quit to raise a son, then come back with their...

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    Calling the Tune

    Calling the Tune uses its skeletal plot to celebrate the British record industry, circa 1936. Adele...

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    Charing Cross Road

    Charing Cross Road is a London thoroughfare where several theatrical boarding houses have set up...

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    Close Harmony

    This tuneful tale revolves around a shy warehouse clerk who, at the encouragement of his girlfriend...

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    Dance, Charlie, Dance

    This drama is based upon a play by George S. Kaufman, The Butter and Egg Man. It tells the tale of...

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    Dancing Co-Ed

    A studio press agent (Roscoe Karns) plants a girl (Lana Turner) in a college so she can win a bogus...