42nd Street

42nd Street (1933) is a timeless story which happens to take place during the Great Depression. Watching the outstanding singing and dancing, the viewer drifts back through time. But for the black and white picture, we would forget that we are watc...

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Anything Goes

Great music and terrific dancing certainly make "Anything Goes" (1956) worth watching. The story, screenplay by Sidney Sheldon based on the play by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, is trite, but who cares when Bing Crosby is singing and Do...

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Brigadoon

Brigadoon (1954) embodies the movie's theme of enchantment from the very first shot. The way the scene is masterfully lit by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg is  beautifully enhanced. The sun slowly moves over elements of the sleepy town of Br...

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Cabaret

Cabaret (1972) wasn't the world's first offbeat musical, and it's far from the last. It certainly got the ball rolling, encouraging everything from Rocky Horror to Repo! The Genetic Opera to explore the genre's more sordid side. Bob...

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Cabin In The Sky

Cabin In The Sky (1943) was Vincente Minnelli's (An American in Paris, Gigi), film debut as a director, and perceived at the time as an early attempt by Hollywood to feature African-Americans and their culture through quaint folktales and lots of m...

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Daddy Long Legs

A DELIGHTFUL AND FUN MUSICAL - Daddy Long Legs (1955), based on the 1912 novel by Gene Webster, stars Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron in a delightful story about a wealthy playboy who becomes an anonymous benefactor of a young girl and tries d...

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Fiddler On The Roof

Fiddler On The Roof (1971), adapted from the stage play, is a joyous and nostalgic musical of hope and family love. The story follows Tevye (Topol) a poor milkman whose family is about to face oppression from his Russian czar. Nominated for eight A...

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Goldwyn Follies, The

What would you do if you were a movie producer dealing with a string of box office flops? Well, if you're Oliver Merlin (Adolphe Menjou) you'd hire an innocent country girl (Andrea Leeds) to put you back in touch with the real people. Then ...

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Romance On The High Seas

The romantic comedy/musical Romance On The High Seas starring Doris Day starts with the wedding of socialite Elvira (Janis Page) to Michael Kent (Don DeFore, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo). While walking down the aisle she sees him making eyes at someo...

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State Fair

I'll always have a certain amount of affection for State Fair. Being a budding theatre buff, it was the first show I was involved in, and a complete blast to perform. The premise and execution behind State Fair makes it plenty likeable on a dif...

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