Description: Musicals from the golden age of Hollywood
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Mary Poppins
( 1965 )
In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
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Singin' in the Rain
( 1952 )
A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
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West Side Story
( 1961 )
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
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Fiddler on the Roof
( 1971 )
In 1905 Russia, a traditionalist Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals, all while anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
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Oliver!
( 1968 )
After being sold to the mortician Sowerberry, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by their elderly mentor Fagin in 1830s London in this musical based on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist.
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Brigadoon
( 1954 )
Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.
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Hans Christian Andersen
( 1953 )
The opening scene of the movie describes it best: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy tales."
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Song of the South
( 1946 )
The kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.
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Can-Can
( 1960 )
In 1896 Paris, a female nightclub proprietor fights against the forces of public morality for the right to feature her performers doing the risqué dance, the Can-Can.
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My Fair Lady
( 1964 )
In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make a crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.
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The Music Man
( 1962 )
Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' band leader to raise money before he can skip town.
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Top Hat
( 1935 )
An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.
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Meet Me in St. Louis
( 1944 )
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
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On the Town
( 1949 )
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
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Holiday Inn
( 1942 )
At an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.
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State Fair
( 1945 )
Each member of the Frake clan has his/her own reason for attending the annual Iowa State Fair.
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown
( 1964 )
A poor, uneducated mountain girl leaves her cabin in search of respect, a wealthy husband, and a better life in this fictionalized biopic of Margaret "Molly" Brown, who survived the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.
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In the Good Old Summertime
( 1949 )
In turn-of-the century Chicago, Andrew and Veronica are co-workers in a music shop who dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
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The King and I
( 1956 )
A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.
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The Band Wagon
( 1953 )
An aging movie star uncertain of his future teams up with a top ballerina to headline a new Broadway musical, but the pretentiously artistic goals of its director threaten to change it beyond recognition.
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Going My Way
( 1944 )
When young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of his new assistant.
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
( 1938 )
This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.
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Half a Sixpence
( 1967 )
Arthur Kipps, an orphan apprenticed to a tyrannical owner of a mercantile, has a sudden abrupt change of life when his wealthy grandfather dies and leaves him a pile of money.
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The Desert Song
( 1953 )
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an inves...Read all
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This Is the Army
( 1943 )
A soldier wounded in the War (WWI) becomes a producer and stages a show for the forces.
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Follow the Fleet
( 1936 )
A Navy sailor tries to rekindle a romance with the woman he loves while on liberty in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
( 1936 )
A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally, in 1906 San Francisco.
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Pennies from Heaven
( 1936 )
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promise an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help.
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Swing Time
( 1936 )
Roguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning the bucks.
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Shall We Dance
( 1937 )
A ballet dancer and a showgirl fake a marriage for publicity purposes, then fall in love.
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The Wizard of Oz
( 1939 )
Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.
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Broadway Melody of 1940
( 1940 )
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
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Road to Zanzibar
( 1941 )
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con women.
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You'll Never Get Rich
( 1941 )
In order to cover up his philandering ways, a married Broadway producer sets one of his dancers up on a date with a chorus girl for whom he had bought a gift, but the two dancers fall in love for real.
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The Fleet's In
( 1942 )
After a shy sailor is kissed by a female starlet as part of a publicity stunt, he becomes known as a stud; his friends then bet that he'll be able to defrost an icy nightclub singer.
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Ship Ahoy
( 1942 )
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.
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For Me and My Gal
( 1943 )
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
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Road to Utopia
( 1946 )
Two vaudeville flops pose as bad guys and join the Klondike gold rush with a saloon singer.
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Blue Skies
( 1946 )
An ex-dancer and New York radio star narrates his love story for a band singer who loved a self-centered man who was unable to commit to his nightclub business or his family.
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The Inspector General
( 1949 )
A town's corrupt officials think a fool is actually an investigator in disguise.
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Summer Stock
( 1951 )
A small-town farmer, down on her luck, finds her homestead invaded by a theatrical troupe invited to stay by her ne'er-do-well sister.
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Show Boat
( 1951 )
The daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairy tale romance is threatened after his luck turns sour.
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Call Me Madam
( 1953 )
Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
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Walking My Baby Back Home
( 1953 )
World War II veteran Clarence "Jigger" Millard forms a band with several other former GIs. The band fails to take off and he is forced to join a minstrel show headed by Colonel Wallace. He soon falls for Wallace's niece Chris Hall.
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Kiss Me Kate
( 1953 )
An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and two gangsters looking for some money owed to them.
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Three Sailors and a Girl
( 1953 )
Three navy men run into a shady producer who convinces them to invest into his new show. When they meet the show's female star attraction, they're sold. Have they become the latest showbiz players or just three more suckers?
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Calamity Jane
( 1953 )
The story of Calamity Jane, her saloon, and her romance with Wild Bill Hickok.
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon
( 1954 )
Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.
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A Star Is Born
( 1954 )
A fading matinee idol helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
( 1954 )
When a backwoodsman in 1850s Oregon brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
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Ain't Misbehavin'
( 1955 )
A rowdy young girl crashes high society when a wealthy older man falls for her.
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Daddy Long Legs
( 1955 )
A wealthy American has a chance encounter with a joyful young French woman, and anonymously pays for her education. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor, nicknaming him from the description given by some of her fellow orphans.
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Kismet
( 1955 )
A roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir's harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph.
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Guys and Dolls
( 1955 )
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.
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The Court Jester
( 1956 )
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against an evil ruler who has overthrown the rightful King.
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Carousel
( 1956 )
Fifteen years after his death, a carousel barker is granted permission to return to Earth for one day to make amends to his widow and their daughter.
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High Society
( 1956 )
With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.
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Funny Face
( 1957 )
An impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.
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Gigi
( 1958 )
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.
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Gypsy
( 1962 )
Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
( 1968 )
A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land.
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Hello, Dolly!
( 1969 )
Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.
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Grease
( 1978 )
Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?
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An American in Paris
( 1951 )
Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
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South Pacific
( 1958 )
On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.
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Annie Get Your Gun
( 1950 )
The story of the great sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who rose to fame while dealing with her love/professional rival, Frank Butler.
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Anything Goes
( 1956 )
Two producers find different actresses in Paris for the same Broadway role. Each promises her the part without telling the other. Drama unfolds on their ocean voyage back when both women learn the truth.
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Finian's Rainbow
( 1968 )
An Irish immigrant and his daughter move into a town in the American South with a magical piece of gold that will change people's lives, including a struggling farmer and African American citizens threatened by a bigoted politician.
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Easter Parade
( 1948 )
A nightclub performer hires a naive chorus girl to become his new dance partner to make his former partner jealous and to prove he can make any partner a star.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
( 1953 )
Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.
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Silk Stockings
( 1957 )
A Russian government official is sent to Paris to bring back her comrades; she soon gets a taste of Paris life and falls in love with an American movie producer.
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