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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 4,133 films · Page 140.

Home Sweet Home (1945)

musical film

Spirited orphan Jacqueline Chantry is the chauffeuse to wealthy colonel Wright and his family. Son Eric Wright and Jacqueline fall in love and plan to marry, but the class conscious colonel's wife refuses to give her blessing. Saddened, Jacqueline packs her bags and leaves; eventually becoming a nightclub singer.

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Invitation to the Waltz (1935)

Drama, musical film

In London, Jenny, an aspiring ballet dancer, meets an aide to the Duke of Wuerttemberg who is in Britain for a marriage alliance and financial treaty to supply troops to Britain for the war against Napoleon. After being discovered by an Italian impresario she goes to Venice to be trained as a great dancer. The visiting Duke of Wuerttemberg becomes fascinated with her and engages her to perform at the state opera house in his capital of Stuttgart, hoping also to make her his mistress.

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Men of the Sky (1931)

musical film

In the years before World War I, a love affair takes place between an American pilot named Jack Ames and a French spy named Madeleine Aubert. Madeleine leaves her American fiancé to join her father, another French spy, at an estate in Germany. Her father instructs her to accept the invitation of a Prussian officer, Eric von Coburg, to live at his estate for a month.

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Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935)

musical film, Western

Gene Autry (Gene Autry) returns to his home after a five-year absence as a singing cowboy with a group of strolling players that includes Smiley (Smiley Burnette) and Eightball (Eugene Jackson), who sell Dr. Parker's Painless Panacea. Gene's father, a cattle baron and one of the original "nesters" in the West, was recently murdered during a conflict with his landlord.

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Gold Mine in the Sky (1938)

Western

Gene Autry plays a singing ranch foreman who, as executor of the will of the property's owner, must ensure that Cody, the daughter/heiress (played by Hughes) doesn't marry without his approval. Cody wishes to marry Larry Cummings (Craig Reynolds), but Gene refuses, prompting Cummings to attempt to have Gene killed. When this fails, Cummings then demands money so Cody stages a fake kidnapping to raise the funds.

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Gangway (1937)

musical film

Newspaper film critic Pat Wayne boards an ocean liner to New York to interview glamorous movie star Nedda Beaumont. Once aboard, Pat somehow gets mixed up with a gangster, and a Scotland yard inspector, who both mistake her for a female jewel thief called "Sparkle."

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Moe and the Big Exit (2007)

Moe and the Big Exit tells the story of Moses, or Moe for short , a cowboy living a privileged life while his relatives dig the Grand Canyon as slaves. After Moe stands up to the zucchini foreman who are over his family, he ends up accidentally causing the official to fall down the Grand Canyon and drown in the Colorado River. Guilty of his mistake he escapes to the hills fearing for his safety.

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Spotlight Scandals (1943)

Drama, musical film, prison film

Entertainer Frank Fay is stranded in a midwestern town, where local barber Billy Gilbert is stage-struck. Billy offers to pay Frank's railroad fare east, provided Frank will help Billy pursue a stage career in New York. Billy struggles through desperately comic songs, and Frank tries to help his friend by keeping up a running patter while Billy is on stage.

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Going Highbrow (1935)

musical film, musical comedy

Cora Upshaw wishes to climb into New York Society, but her more humble Kansas millionaire husband Matt prefers a more humble life. Returning from a European tour on which they purchased a painting by Tintoretto and other works of art, they are featured in the society pages of the New York newspapers. Augie Witherspoon, financial manager for wealthy Mrs.

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The Kidnappers Foil (1930)

Crime, musical film

In the plot of the films, a young girl is kidnapped from her birthday party and rescued by a search party of local kids. The relieved neighbors celebrated with a party where youngsters would display their musical talents. A few weeks after filming, the town would screen the 15- to 20-minute picture to the delight of the local audience.

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I'll Remember April (1945)

Comedy, musical film

Garrett Garfield is on the board of directors of financier Henry Childs's company. The board is shocked when Childs confesses that he has embezzled six million dollars. Garfield, who has invested all of his money with Childs, suffers a heart attack after threatening to kill Childs.

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