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1	Tea for Two (1950) more movies like this directed by David Butler featuring Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Eve Arden, Patrice Wymore, Billy De Wolfe Tea for Two is a Technicolor adaptation of the 1924 Broadway musical No No Nanette, previously filmed under its own title in 1929. Doris Day stars as Nanette, a Roaring '20s Jazz Baby with showbiz aspirations. Nanette offers to put up $25,000 if producer Billy DeWolfe will star her in a Broadway show. The girl's wealthy, and stingy uncle S.Z. ... see all copies from £4.04! new only from £22.00!
2	Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Musical Movie (2000) more movies like this directed by Todd Kessler Blue the Dog (from the popular children's TV series Blue's Clues) stars in her first full-length musical adventure. Blue (voice of Traci Paige Johnson) and her master Steve (voice of Steve Burns) are putting on a show in their backyard, but suddenly Tickety Tock the Clock (voice of Kelly Nigh) loses his voice, leaving poor Blue without a singing ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £5.13!
3	Easter Parade (1948) more movies like this directed by Charles Walters featuring Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin Fred Astaire had announced his retirement before the cameras began to roll on Easter Parade, but he decided to accept the film's leading role when its original star Gene Kelly became incapacitated. The thinnish plot, which finds Astaire trying to turn chorus girl Judy Garland into a star in order to show up his former partner Ann Miller, is hardly ... see all copies from £1.90! new only from £6.45!
4	Kiss Me Kate (1953) more movies like this 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, was a play within a play. Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson star as famous Broadway singing team who haven't worked together since their acrimonious divorce. Keel, collaborating with Cole Porter ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £8.32!
5	Stormy Weather (1943) more movies like this directed by Andrew L. Stone featuring Lena Horne, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Fats Waller, Dooley Wilson, Cab Calloway Built around the premise of a Big Stage Show, Stormy Weather affords rare "mainstream" leading roles to some of the era's greatest African-American entertainers Lena Horne, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Dooley Wilson, Cab Calloway, Katherine Dunham, Fats Waller, and the Nicholas Brothers. The thinnish plotline -- dancer Robinson has an on-again-off ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £7.56!
6	A Chorus Line (1985) more movies like this directed by Richard Attenborough featuring Michael Douglas, Terrence Mann, Alyson Reed, Cameron English, Vicki Frederick Broadway's celebratory musical about rejection makes it to the screen in a fizzless adaptation by Richard Attenborough that misses the whole point of the Broadway show -- i.e. the dancing and the dancers. Instead, the dancers become a limp Greek chorus for the dead love affair between a choreographer, Zach (a pre-Gordon Gekko Michael Douglas) and ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £7.56!
7	There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) more movies like this directed by Walter Lang featuring Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray Like Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), 20th Century-Fox's There's No Business Like Show Business is a "catalogue" film, its thinnish plot held together by an itinerary of Irving Berlin tunes. The story chronicles some twenty years in the lives of a showbiz family, headed by Dan Dailey and Ethel Merman. Two of the couple's three grown children -- ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £7.65!
8	Dancing Lady (1933) more movies like this directed by Robert Z. Leonard featuring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Winnie Lightner, Fred Astaire Virtually everybody except President Roosevelt was in the lavish MGM backstage musical Dancing Lady. Joan Crawford stars as Janie Barlow, an impoverished dancer reduced to working in a seedy Manhattan burlesque house. While on a slumming party with his society friend, wealthy young Tod Newton (Franchot Tone) spots Janie in the burleycue chorus ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £8.05!
9	The Cat and the Fiddle (1934) more movies like this directed by William Howard featuring Jeanette MacDonald, Frank Morgan, Charles Butterworth, Jean Hersholt Based on the stage musical by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach, The Cat and the Fiddle stars Jeanette MacDonald as a music student and Ramon Novarro as a struggling composer. When the leading lady walks out of Victor's (Novarro) upcoming operetta, the star's husband pulls his financial support. The leading man ankles the production shortly thereafter, ... see all copies from £5.13! new only from £16.60!
10	Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) more movies like this directed by Norman Taurog featuring Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Frank Morgan, Ian Hunter MGM's third follow-up to its landmark Broadway Melody is short on story, but that's okay, since the plot is merely a clothesline upon which to hang sleek and opulent musical production numbers by Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell -- particularly a breathless and eye-popping gloriously black-and-white six-minute tap dance finale between Astaire and ... see all copies from £8.31! new only from £11.36!
11 view cover	Orchestra Wives (1942) more movies like this directed by Archie Mayo featuring George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Glenn Miller, Cesar Romero, Lynn Bari, Jackie Gleason In his last screen appearance, bandleader Glenn Miller plays--are you sitting down?--a bandleader. The film's main plot involves small-town girl Ann Rutherford, who impulsively marries George Montgomery, a trumpeter in the Miller band. Rutherford soon finds that she isn't particularly suited for life on the road, nor is she prepared for the petty ... see all copies from £3.43! new only from £7.56!
12 view cover	The Band Wagon (1953) more movies like this directed by Vincente Minnelli featuring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan One of the most subtle and sophisticated of the musical comedies that came out of MGM's Arthur Freed Unit in the '40s and '50s, The Band Wagon stars Fred Astaire as Tony Hunter, a movie star whose career is in a downturn. Looking for a boost, Tony decides to try starring in a Broadway musical. His friends Lester and Lily Marton (Oscar Levant and ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £4.50!
13 view cover	42nd Street (1933) more movies like this directed by Lloyd Bacon featuring Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Una Merkel, Guy Kibbee, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to opening night. Warner Baxter plays famed director Julian Marsh, who despite failing health is determined to stage one last great production, "Pretty Lady." Others involved include "Pretty Lady" star Dorothy Brock (Bebe Daniels) ... see all copies from £3.91! new only from £10.54!
14 view cover	The Great Ziegfeld (1936) more movies like this directed by Robert Z. Leonard featuring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Fanny Brice In MGM's three-hour-plus The Great Ziegfeld, William Powell stars as the titular theatrical impresario, whose show business empire begins when he stage-manages a tour for legendary strongman Sandow (Nat Pendleton). With nary a penny in the bank, he charms European stage star Anna Held (Luise Rainer) to headline his "Follies", and later marries the ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £7.78!
15 view cover	The Stork Club (1945) more movies like this directed by Hal Walker featuring Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald, Don DeFore, Andy Russell, Iris Adrian, Robert Benchley The Stork Club, the famed New York nightspot immortalized by columnist Walter Winchell (in return for special favors from its owners), is the setting for this typically brash Betty Hutton musical. Hutton plays a young hat check girl who rescues an elderly tramp (Barry Fitzgerald) from drowning. The old bum turns out to be a millionaire, and ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £2.77!
16 view cover	The Broadway Melody (1929) more movies like this directed by Harry Beaumont featuring Anita Page, Bessie Love, Charles King, Jed Prouty, Ken Thomson This landmark MGM backstage musical of the early sound era about broken dreams on the Great White Way features a bevy of standards by the songwriting team of Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown. Freed later became unit producer of the legendary Freed Unit at MGM, which is the reason many of the tunes from Broadway Melody --""You Were Meant For Me"", ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £7.89!
17 view cover	The Boy Friend (1971) more movies like this directed by Ken Russell featuring Ann Jameson, Sally Bryant, Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian, Bryan Pringle, Murray Melvin The Boy Friend began life as Sandy Wilson's small-scale pastiche of British musical comedies of the 1920s. When the play was brought to America in 1954, its star was the teenage Julie Andrews. Because The Boy Friend requires a minimum of sets, props, and costumes, it has become a favorite of amateur theater groups throughout the world. But ... see all copies from £27.03!
18 view cover	Babes in Arms (1939) more movies like this directed by Busby Berkeley featuring Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee, June Preisser This fun-filled spin-off of the Rodgers & Hart Broadway musical by the same name, features Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney as two young children of vaudevillian parents who aren't included in their parents travels, so they set out to produce a show of their own. Rooney's the driver here and he's up against the administrators of a fogy state-run ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £11.10!
19 view cover	Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) more movies like this directed by Dorothy Arzner featuring Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Ralph Bellamy, Virginia Field Based on a story by Vicki Baum (of Grand Hotel) fame, Dance, Girl Dance finds innocent young Judy (Maureen O'Hara) journeying to the Big Apple in hopes of gaining fame as a classical dancer. Instead she ends up as the "stooge" for raucous strip-tease artist Bubbles (Lucille Ball), who attempts to perform ballet before leering, catcalling, ... see all copies from £7.59! new only from £7.59!
20 view cover	The First Nudie Musical (1975) more movies like this directed by Bruce Kimmel, Mark Haggard featuring Stephen Nathan, Cindy Williams, Bruce Kimmel, Leslie Ackerman, Alan Abelew The owner of a financially foundering skin-flick production company decides that the only way to save it is to put on a Busby Berkeley-esque pornographic musical -- sort of a Broadway meets Times Square affair. Ribald humor, bawdy songs and plenty of skin abounds in this sophomoric satire that while unabashedly trashy, has developed a bit of a ... see all copies from £10.36! new only from £15.75!
21 view cover	Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937) more movies like this directed by Roy Del Ruth featuring Robert Taylor, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Binnie Barnes, Buddy Ebsen, Judy Garland This third entry in MGM's "Broadway Melody" series may not have been the biggest or best, but thanks to a masterpiece of casting it is one of the most memorable of the batch. Signed by MGM in 1935, 15-year-old Judy Garland made her first feature-film appearance under the aegis of Leo the Lion, immediately capturing the hearts of moviegoers ... see all copies from £4.16! new only from £21.33!
22 view cover	Wonder Bar (1934) more movies like this directed by Lloyd Bacon featuring Kay Francis, Dick Powell, Al Jolson, Dolores Del Rio, Ricardo Cortez Based on Al Jolson's 1931 Broadway hit, Wonder Bar transposes the "Grand Hotel" formula to a lavish nightclub in Paris' Montmartre district. Presiding over the evening's entertainment is manager-emcee Al Wonder (Jolson), who after greeting his guests in a multitude of languages (a la Joel Grey in Cabaret) introduces a steady stream of top variety ... see all copies from £21.39!
23 view cover	Varsity Show (1937) more movies like this directed by William Keighley featuring Dick Powell, Fred Waring, Priscilla Lane, Walter Catlett, Ted Healy If you're wondering which Warners musical featured the songs "Old King Cole" and "Have You Got Any Castles?," we refer you to Varsity Show. Dick Powell stars as a musical producer, called back to his alma mater to stage the annual college variety show. Uptight dean Walter Catlett is dead set against Powell's "scandalous" form of entertainment. The ... see all copies from £11.39! new only from £11.39!
24	Mother Wore Tights (1947) more movies like this directed by Walter Lang featuring Betty Grable, Robert Arthur, Dan Dailey, Veda Ann Borg, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall, Vanessa Brown, Chick Chandler, Sara Allgood A woman looks back at her childhood in show business in this musical comedy. At the turn of the century, Myrtle McKinley (Betty Grable) is working her way through business school and gets a job dancing at a San Francisco vaudeville house. She meets fellow hoofer Frank Burt (Dan Dailey), and they soon fall in love. Marriage follows, and Myrtle and ... see all copies from £27.37!
25 view cover	Hellzapoppin' (1941) more movies like this directed by H.C. Potter featuring Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert, Jane Frazee, Mischa Auer Hellzapoppin' is the film version of the "anything goes" Broadway hit starring Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson. The original production was part musical comedy, part "blackout" revue, with wild sight gags, zany props, audience participation sequences, dirty jokes, and never-ending gunshots. There was no plot, and in fact no two performances were ... see all copies from £11.78! new only from £11.78!

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