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1. Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Maureen Stapleton, Bobby Rydell, Paul Lynde
George Sidney's adaptation of the satiric Broadway musical smash by Michael Stewart, Charles Strouse, and Lee Adams -- about an Elvis Presley ... More
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2. Show Boat (1951)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ava Gardner, Joe E. Brown, Marge Champion
The third and (to date) last film version of the Edna Ferber/Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical Show Boat falls just short of greatness but is ... More
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3. The Three Musketeers (1948)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury
The third talkie version of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this splashy MGM adaptation is also the first version in Technicolor. Gene Kelly romps his ... More
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4. The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Tyrone Power, Kim Novak, Victoria Shaw, James Whitmore, Rex Thompson
Tyrone Power stars in this tear-jerking biography of the beloved but short-lived pianist and bandleader Eddy Duchin. Boston-born Eddy Duchin (Tyrone ... More
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5. Kiss Me Kate (1953)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, Bobby Van
Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate is a musical within a musical -- altogether appropriate, since its source material, Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, ... More
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6. Pal Joey (1957)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Barbara Nichols, Bobby Sherwood, Elizabeth Patterson, Barry Bernard
The John O'Hara/Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Broadway musical Pal Joey created quite a stir during its original theatrical run in 1940. Here we had a ... More
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7. Half a Sixpence (1967)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Tommy Steele, Julia Foster, Cyril Ritchard, Grover Dale, Penelope Horner, Elaine Taylor
British musical star Tommy Steele had starred in Half a Sixpence in London and on Broadway, thus he was first choice for this garish film version. ... More
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8. Scaramouche (1952)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer, Henry Wilcoxon
This delightful adaptation of Rafael Sabatini's swashbuckling novel stars Stewart Granger as Andre Moreau, an 18th-century French nobleman who is ... More
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9. Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold
Judy Garland was originally slated to star in MGM's film version of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, but she was forced to pull out of the ... More
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10. The Harvey Girls (1946)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Angela Lansbury, Marjorie Main, Preston S. Foster
This glorified Technicolor commercial for the Fred Harvey restaurants stars Judy Garland as a 19th-century mail-order bride. Upon arriving in New ... More
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11. Young Bess (1953)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh
This costume drama was based on the historical fiction of Margaret Irwin, which embellishes the facts of the early years of England's eventual Queen ... More
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12. Thousands Cheer (1943)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Kathryn Grayson, Mickey Rooney, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Mary Astor, Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell, John Boles, Ann Sothern, José Iturbi
Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his fellow serviceman. Along ... More
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13. Cass Timberlane (1947)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachary Scott, Tom Drake, Mary Astor
A visibly uneasy Spencer Tracy plays the title role in this lavish MGM screen version of Sinclair Lewis' 1945 magazine serial. A small-town bachelor ... More
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14. Key to the City (1950)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Morgan, Raymond Burr
George Sidney directs this pleasant romantic comedy concerning mayoral love. During a convention of mayors in San Francisco, Clarissa Standish ... More
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15. Holiday in Mexico (1946)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Linda Christian, Ann Codee, Xavier Cugat, Hugo Haas
Too long by at least two reels, Holiday in Mexico is nevertheless one of the more enjoyable MGM Technicolor musicals of the 1940s. Walter Pigeon is ... More
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16. The Red Danube (1949)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Walter Pidgeon, Ethel Barrymore, Peter Lawford, Angela Lansbury, Janet Leigh
One of the more palatable of Hollywood's anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s-early 1950s was MGM's The Red Danube. Janet Leigh plays Maria Buhlen ... More
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17. Pilot No. 5 (1943)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Franchot Tone, Marsha Hunt, Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Alan Baxter
Pilot No. 5 is an oddly liberal-minded film to come from conservative old MGM. Franchot Tone plays an army pilot stationed in Java who volunteers for ... More
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18. Who Was That Lady? (1960)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Tony Curtis, Dean Martin, Janet Leigh, James Whitmore, John McIntire
A screwball comedy that turns into political farce, this film was something of a throwback even in 1960. Real-life husband and wife Tony Curtis and ... More
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19. Viva Las Vegas (1964)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova, William Demarest, Nicky Blair
Viva Las Vegas, one of Elvis Presley's most popular vehicles, adheres as rigidly to formula as a Kabuki dance. Elvis plays a race-car driver ... More
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20. Anchors Aweigh (1945)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi, Dean Stockwell
This mammoth musical is at base the story of two sailors on leave in Hollywood. Brash Joseph Brady (Gene Kelly) has promised his shy pal Clarence ... More
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21. Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
directed by Charles Walters, George Sidney, Lemuel Ayers, Norman Taurog, Robert Lewis, Roy Del Ruth, Vincente Minnelli
featuring Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Fanny Brice, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly
The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an impressionable viewer from ... More
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22. Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration With Louis Armstrong (1970)
directed by George Wein, Sidney J. Stiber
featuring Louis Armstrong
This music release offers a never-before-seen concert performance by jazz legend Louis Armstrong at the 1970 Newport Jazz Festival, in honor of ... More
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