Musical movies



Hair (1979)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical
Countries: USA | West Germany
Actors: Savage, John | Williams, Treat | D'Angelo, Beverly | Golden, Annie | Wright, Dorsey | Dacus, Don | Barnes, Cheryl | Bright, Richard | Nicholas, Ray | Rae, Charlotte | Chapin, Miles | Tailer, Fern | Denny, Charles | Meckler, Herman | Breen, Agness
Directors: Forman, Milos
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This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. There he strikes up a friendship with a group of hippies, led by Berger, and falls in love with Sheila, a girl from a rich family. However, their happiness is short because Claude must go to the Vietnam war.

Guys and Dolls (1955)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Brando, Marlon | Simmons, Jean | Sinatra, Frank | Blaine, Vivian | Keith, Robert | Kaye, Stubby | Pully, B.S. | Silver, Johnny | Leonard, Sheldon | Dayton, Danny | Stone, George E. | Toomey, Regis | Givney, Kathryn | Borg, Veda Ann | Hokanson, Mary Alan
Directors: Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
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All the hot gamblers are in town, and they’re all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week’s incarnation of “The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York”; the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place. Throw in Sarah Brown, who’s short on sinners at the mission she runs; Sky Masterson, who accepts Nathan’s $1000 bet that he can’t get Sarah Brown to go with him to Havana; Miss Adelaide, who wants Nathan to marry her; Police Lieutenant Brannigan, who always seems to appear at the wrong time; and the music/lyrics of Frank Loesser, and you’ve got quite a musical. Includes the songs: Fugue for Tinhorns, “Luck Be a Lady”, “Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat”.

Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Hutton, Betty | Keel, Howard | Calhern, Louis | Naish, J. Carrol | Arnold, Edward | Wynn, Keenan | Venuta, Benay | Sundberg, Clinton | Bell, Hal | Butler, Archie | Charlot, André | Dugan, Michael | Dunham, Phil | Earle, Edward | Evans, Herbert
Directors: Berkeley, Busby
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Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who was raised ‘Doin’ What Comes Naturally’. Frank Butler, the star sharpshooter in ‘Colonel Buffalo Bill’’s show, however, knows full well that’s not how ‘The Girl That I Marry’ must be. Anyway, not at least until he finds that ‘My Defences are Down’. Though Annie defiantly says ‘Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better’, she realizes that ‘You Can’t Get a Man With a Gun’. The victor at the end is love; as you know, ‘It’s Wonderful’. After all, ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business’.

American in Paris, An (1951)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kelly, Gene | Caron, Leslie | Levant, Oscar | Guétary, Georges | Foch, Nina | American In Paris Ballet, The | Ames, Robert | Bastin, Charles | Bieber, Rodney | Bolognese, Dino | Borden, Eugene | Camlin, Peter | Charisse, Andre | Chatham, Bill
Directors: Minnelli, Vincente
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Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is “discovered” by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry’s art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications abound.

42nd Street (1933)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Baxter, Warner | Daniels, Bebe | Brent, George | Keeler, Ruby | Kibbee, Guy | Merkel, Una | Rogers, Ginger | Sparks, Ned | Powell, Dick | Jenkins, Allen | Nugent, Edward J. | McWade, Robert | Stone, George E. | Akst, Harry | Clark, Wallis
Directors: Bacon, Lloyd
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The source from which all modern musicals flow: An ailing Broadway director returns to produce one final show, but his leading lady is injured and must be replaced by a novice. Call it dated, but it’s aged to perfection, and the final twenty minute sequence will leave you tapping your toes, with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Movies—never mind musicals—just don’t get any better than this.

Hunchback of Notre Dame II, The (2002)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Alexander, Jason | Hewitt, Jennifer Love | Hulce, Tom | Kandel, Paul | Kimbrough, Charles | Kline, Kevin | McKean, Michael | Moore, Demi | Osment, Haley Joel | Withers, Jane | Cummings, Jim | Lala, Joe | Welker, Frank | Winchell, April
Directors: Raymond, Bradley
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Now that Frollo is gone, Quasimodo rings the bell with the help of his new friend and Esmeralda’s and Phoebus’ little son, Zephyr. But when Quasi stops by a traveling circus owned by evil magician Sarousch, he falls for Madellaine, Sarouch’s assistant. But greedy Sarousch forces Madellaine to help him steal the Cathedral’s most famous bell.

Hello, Dolly! (1969)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Streisand, Barbra | Matthau, Walter | Crawford, Michael | McAndrew, Marianne | Lockin, Danny | Peaker, E.J. | Ames, Joyce | Tune, Tommy | Knaiz, Judy | Hurst, David | Feld, Fritz | Collier, Richard | O'Malley, J. Pat | Armstrong, Louis
Directors: Kelly, Gene
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Film adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical. Concerns itself with Dolly Levi, a New York-based matchmaker who merrily arranges things… like furniture and daffodils and lives. A widow, she has found herself in love with a “half-a-millionaire” Yonkers merchant named Horace Vandergelder. So she proceeds to weave a web of romantic complications involving him, his two clerks, a pretty milliner and her assistant. Eventually, of course, all is sorted out, and everyone ends up with the right person.

Doctor Dolittle (1967)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Murphy, Eddie | Davis, Ossie | Platt, Oliver | Boyle, Peter | Schiff, Richard | Wilson, Kristen | Tambor, Jeffrey | Pratt, Kyla | Raven | Gilborn, Steven | Dellums, Erik | Christopher, June | Franklin, Cherie | Adair-Rios, Mark | Calfa, Don
Directors: Thomas, Betty
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Doctor Dolittle is a world-renowned veterinarian who speaks a wide array of animal languages. He sets off from his home in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England, in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. In so doing, he and his friends meet such exotic creatures as the Pushme-Pullyu and the Giant Moon Moth. This musical is the source of the hit song, “If I Could Talk To The Animals.”

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Topol | Crane, Norma | Frey, Leonard | Picon, Molly | Mann, Paul | Harris, Rosalind | Marsh, Michele | Small, Neva | Glaser, Paul Michael | Lovelock, Ray | Edwards, Elaine | Bonstein, Candy | Ruskin, Shimen | Scooler, Zvee | Zorich, Louis
Directors: Jewison, Norman
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Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of ’shtetl’ life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.

Torch Singer (1933)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Colbert, Claudette | Cortez, Ricardo | Manners, David | Roberti, Lyda | Baby LeRoy | Grapewin, Charley | Godfrey, Sam | Roberts, Florence | Hammond, Virginia | Washington, Mildred | Collins, Cora Sue | Eddy, Helen Jerome | Conti, Albert | Griffies, Ethel | Burke, James
Directors: Hall, Alexander
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Sally Trent has an illegitimate child, but cannot support her and gives the baby up for adoption. The father, Michael Gardner, leaves for China not knowing about the baby, and she assumes he has abandoned her for life. She gets a job as a torch singer, changes her name to Mimi Benton, and becomes notorious for her drinking and philadering. Mimi fills in on a children’s radio program as the character “Aunt Jenny,” singing and telling bedtime stories, and eventually uses the airtime to find her long lost daughter, part with her wild lifestyle, and reunite with Michael.