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BLACK TIGHTS Syd Charisse, Maurice Chealier. Maurice Chevalier introduces 4 ballets performed by Roland Petit's Les Ballets de Champs Elysees. Excellent productions in vivid Technicolor with all-star credits in every category: Cyd Charisse, Moira Shearer and Zizi Jeanmarie in leading roles, costumes by Yves Saint-Laurent and Christian Dior and music by Jean-Michel Damase, among others. Fans of ballet and all things French will delight. 1960 color 140 min

DAMN YANKEES Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Shannon Bolin, Nathaniel Frey, Jean Stapleton. Aging baseball fan sells his soul to the devil in exchange for becoming the world's greatest baseball player and helping his favorite team win the World Series...but the devil has his own agenda. Songs include: "You've Gotta Have Heart", "Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets", "Shoeless Joe From Hannibal, MO", "There's Something About An Empty Chair", "Two Lost Souls" & more. Produced by George Abbott & Stanley Donen, adapted from the play by George Abbott and the novel by Douglass Wallop.  Color. 110 mins. 

 

FABULOUS DORSEYS  Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Paul Whitman, Charlie Barnet, Ray Eberly, Helen O'Connell and a score of jazz greats play themselves. Also in the cast Janet Blair, William Lundigan , Arthur Shields. This is story of the  rise of the Fabulous Dorsey brothers is charted in this whymsical step down memory lane, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey play themselves in this vehicle for their excellent music. From being raised by their father who insists on them learning music, to the split that just saw their careers rise even further.  1947 B&W 88 minutes

CALENDAR GIRL Lively musical set in a turn-of-the-century boarding house where a painter and a composer become romantic rivals for a girl. Songs include "Have I Told You Lately?," "Calendar Girl," "New York's a Nice Place to Visit." Stars Jane Frazee, William Marshall and Victor Mc Laglen. 1947 88 min.

GOLDEN HOUR, THE aka "Pot Of Gold" Jimmy Stewart, Paulette Goddard. Charles Winninger. This one revolves around the "Pot Of  Gold" radio show and a contestants quest to win the prize. Comedy, Romance, Music and scenes depicting a live radio broadcast patterned  after many of the era. 1941 B&W  

GOOD NEWS June Allyson, Peter Lawford. Raccoon coats, "Oh, you kid," ukuleles, "Varsity Drag"...it's college life in the '20s as seen by Betty Comden and Adolph Green ("Singin' in the Rain"). June Allyson and Joan McCracken are the campus coeds after grid star Peter Lawford. Songs include "French Lesson," "Best Things in Life Are Free" and "Pass the Peace Pipe." A college football player will flunk out if he doesn't pass French lessons. Songs include Good News, My Blue Heaven, Lucky in Love and The Best Things in Life are Free. 1947 color 95 minutes.


STAGE DOOR CANTEEN  Dozens of stars appear as themselves in this fun musical, including Judith Anderson, Kenny Baker, Tallulah Bankhead, Ralph Bellamy, Edgar Bergen, Ray Bolger, William Demarest, Gracie Fields, Helen Hayes, Katherine Hepburn, Jean Hersholt, Sam Jaffe, Allen Jenkins, George Jessell, Roscoe Karns, Tom Kennedy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Harpo Marx, Ethel Merman, Paul Muni, Merele Oberon, George Raft, Ethel Waters, Johnny Weissmuller, Ed Wynn. Plus Xavier Cugat, Peggy Lee, Benny Goodman, Kay Kyser and Guy Lombardo. "Dakota," a young soldier on a pass in New York City, visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theatre and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. Dakota meets a pretty young hostess, Eileen, and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance.1943 B&W 132 minutes.

PERILS OF PAULINE Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billie De Wolfe and William Demerst. A virtual who's who's of 40't movie musicals. Musical  Comedy about fun loving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take Musical Comedy about silent screen star Pearl White. Song hits "I Wish I didn't Love You So" and "Papa Don't Preach" by Frank Loessor were introduced in this film. 1947 Color 96 minutes.

PRIVATE BUCKAROO (1942, BW, 68 MIN) Joe E. Lewis, The Andrew Sisters, Dick Foran, Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, Jennifer Holt with the Harry James Band, directed by Edward Cline. An army camp show is the focus of this fun musical. Features a rousing production number built around the World War Two hit song "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree" with the Andrew Sisters.

RADIO CITY REVELS An all-star musical to show off New York City's Radio City Music Hall. Starring Bob Burns, Jack Oakie, Milton Berle, Kenny Baker, Victor Moore, Ann Miller, Jane Froman and more. 1938 B&W  85 Minutes.

ROYAL WEDDING Fred Astaire. A dance act goes to London during the  time of Queen Elizabeth. Astaire performs the most famous dance routine ever filmed dancing on the walls and ceiling in the classic MGM film. Brilliant Color (Digital Remaster) 1951 Color 93 minutes USA  

NEW ADVENTURES OF HEIDI  Burl Ives, Kathy Kurtzman, John Gavin. Warm hearted retelling of the family favorite. In this version is sent to live with hateful relatives in New York when it is believed that Grand Father (Burl Ives) is going blind. This made for TV Musical has ten songs. 1978 COLOR  82 Minutes.

PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN, THE  Van Johnson, Kay Starr, Claude Rains, Jim Backus, directed by Bretaigne Windust, produced by Hal Stanley. Colorful musical adaptation with Van Johnson as the forlorn piper seeking to have Hamelin's Mayor, Claude Rains, keep his promise of payment for ridding the village of its rodent population by threatening to rid the town of all its children as well. 1957, BW, 87 Minutes

PINOCCHIO Sandy Dennis, Flip Wilson and Danny Kaye. Charming made for TV musical. This tuneful children's adventure offers another retelling of the classic tale of a marionette who achieves his dream of becoming a real live boy. Color USA 1976 76 Minutes made for TV.  


PIPPIN Ben Vereen, William Katt, Leslie Denniston, Chita Ravera, Martha Raye. Musical created by Bob Fosse of "All that Jazz" fame. Filmed on stage before a live audience. A performing troupe enacts the life and times of Prince Pippin, son of Charlemagne. (Stellar  Exclusive!)  Pippen is distinguished as the first Broadway musical to be videotaped for television broadcast. Ben Vereen turns in one of the greatest performances of his life. Here's a Broadway musical about a young man who sets out to discover true meaning in his life, dabbling in war, sex, and politics before finding love. That may sound conventional, but it isn't. The title character of Pippin is the son of Charlemagne, the 9th-century emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, and when Bob Fosse directed the original Broadway production in 1972, he transformed what had begun as a fairly innocent college project for composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz into a burlesque filled with broad comedy, bawdy characters, and magical but dark situations. Pippin (played by William Katt, of TV's The Greatest American Hero) embarks on his quest, all the way coaxed and goaded by a narrator figure known as the Leading Player (Ben Vereen) while his stepmother (Chita Rivera) schemes. Filmed live on stage in Australia. 1981 Color 112 minutes.

SECOND CHORUS (1940, BW, 83 MIN) Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Artie Shaw, directed by H.C. Potter. A movie about the rivalry of two trumpet players for one girl and a job with the Artie Shaw Orchestra. Music, dance, and romance make good entertainment.  

SWING HIGH, SWING LOW (1937, BW, 97 MIN) Fred MacMurray, Carole Lombard, Charles Butterworth, Jean Dixon, Dorothy Lamour, Anthony Quinn, directed by Mitchell Leisen. A cross between a musical and a tear jerker, this film tells the story of a likeable musician (MacMurray) who has a problem choosing between the women who love him (Lombard and Lamour) and the bottle. It seems he wants them all.  

SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT James Cagney, Gene Lockhart. New York band leader becomes film dancer. (Digital Remaster) 1937 B&W 93 minutes  

TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne.  MGM musical on the life of Kern. Elaborate production numbers. Filling the screenv are such stars such as Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Tony Martin, Angela Lansbury, June Allyson, Lena Horne, Katherine Grayson, Cyd Charisse, Ray McDonald amongst others singing and performing on stage, there's magic in the air. Robert Walker as Kern does prove likable enough in the lead role and there's an innocent charm at work in these proceedings. One of  the finest musicals ever made. (Our Digital Remaster from 35mm print.) 1974 Color 132 minutes

THE ENTERTAINER Lawrence Olivier, Albert Finney. Down and out vaudevillian makes desperate bid for the fame his father once enjoyed and destroys all around him.

THIS IS THE ARMY  Ronald Regan, Kate Smith, George Murphy, Irving Berlin.  In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called "This Is The Army". But in his personal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over. Kate Smith Sings God Bless America in one of the most spectacular productions of the era. A Patriotic stand out! 1943 COLOR 121 Minutes

HAPPY GO LOVERLY David Niven, Caesar Romero Vera-Lynn. A producer hires chorus girl in hopes her boy friend will finance the show. 1951 color 87 minutes

I DREAM OF JEANNIE Lynn Barry, Ray Middleton, Bill Shirley, Lousie Beavers plays Mammy. Rex Allen is the narrator of this Republic Picture. .A musical biography of American composer Stephen Foster. The famed 19th century composer, pines over Inez while Jeanie is really the girl for him. This is a remake of the 1939 film Swaunee River.  Ray Middleton plays the famous Minstrel Man, Edwin P. Christy. An entire Black Face Minstrel is presented within the film. Watch for an appearance by Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer of The Our Gang Comedies. 1952 color 90 minutes

MINISTRAL MAN Bennie Fields, Gladys George, Roscoe Karns, John Raitt, William Frawley.  An offbeat and entertaining musical "B" drama, starring Bennie Fields as a minstrel show performer forced to give his daughter up for adoption after his wife dies, only to be reunited with the girl years later. Authentic minstrel routines are performed onstage. John Raitt appears as himself, 1944 B&W. 69 min.

NO NO NANETTE Victor Mature, Anna Neagle, Zazu Pitts, Roland Young. A highly enjoyable musical, though released in 1940, contains all the conventions of the thirties comedies: A perky heroine who meddles in everyone's lives with sociopathic "pranks", and exotic gold-diggers whom she's combating; a ludicrously lecherous uncle, and a knowing, wisecracking wife; anti-cultural attitudes, yet hilariously pseudo-cultural touches in numbers; sublimely silly plot complications and coincidences with surrealistically unlikely outcomes; and an environment where airplanes have sleeping-bunks, all women own enormous wardrobes of real fabric and real fur, and homes and hotels are all done in snowy white. Plus it's great fun to see some of Hollywood's then-abundant great "character" players working together, and to catch later stars before their images were forever fixed. Just imagine the innocence and aspirations of a world where an airline stewardess is clothed in an expensive military-style uniform, all of white! 1940 B&W 96 minutes

 

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