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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 4,133 films · Page 141.
musical film
In a fictional, Central European kingdom, a vivacious but dimwitted young lady works as a singer in a beer garden for her lease cash. In the meantime, the ruler is confronting bankruptcy for his small country, unless he weds a wealthy, but undesirable ruler of another Central European territory. Eventually he takes in the struggling young singer, and they fall in love, despite possible bankruptcy and ruin.
musical film
Kay Martin works on a Thames barge with her adopted father Skipper Barnes and his son Steve, a would-be commodities analyst. She's singing and dancing on deck as they sail past soup millionaire Anthony Gulliver; he at once offers to put her name in lights and introduces her to star/producer Dicky Randall and his flirtatious wife Stephanie, who sneers at her and quarrels with Dicky before leaving with Steve, who's turned up on Kay's trail. Anthony and his sister Victoria train Kay in social graces; she and Dicky enjoy themselves at clubs.
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The film, a musical comedy, tells the story of an elderly widow battling the government to save her home from tax foreclosure, and of the families who help her.
musical film
Set in 1939 with the occupation of Western Ukraine, the Bolsheviks remain several weeks. In Vorokhta comes an American of Ukrainian origin Yaro (Maxim Lozinsky) to marry a Ukrainian. Only on this condition, he can the inherit large wealth of his father.
musical film
musical film
Chuck Stephens is fooled by his sailor pals Swifty and Mike into believing (and betting on) that if he marries by his 27th birthday, he will inherit $25,000. With only days to go before his deadline, a frantic Chuck is taken to Aunt Navy's nightclub in San Pedro, California and introduced to singer Linda Hall, making a bad first impression. Linda eventually grows more interested in Chuck, but ends up arrested after a bracelet he gives her as a gift turns out to be stolen.
documentary film, hood film, musical film
musical film
musical film
musical film, musical comedy
A garbage truck driver, Eddie Martin (Fred Brady) from Manhattan finds a bag of $5,000 during his rounds. He decides to take his sweetheart, Julie Connors (Jeff Donnell) for a wild night on the town, buying and spending on things they've always wanted, but never thought they would have. Problem 1 is that the money actually belonged to a blackmailing hood named Steve Crawford (William Wright).
musical film
Three operators of a lonely hearts club are investigated by two detectives.
musical film
musical film
musical film
During World War II, a dance band and other entertainers go to work in a munitions factory to help the war effort and stage a morale-boosting show.
Anarchic Comedy Film, musical film, Political Satire
Singer Matthew Crowe (Fabian Forte) teams up with a tent show preacher (Tony Russel) who uses him as part of his touring show. Matthew lands a record deal and the preacher becomes his manager. They hire a group of musicians and become very successful.
Biography, musical film
musical film
At a radio station run by Thomas Marsden, a songwriter, Jimmy Rhodes, skips town without fulfilling a contractual obligation, so amateur songstress Lynn Bird is hired to replace him, Marsden mistakenly believing her to be Rhodes's partner. Bird composes and writes a few songs, with help from Marsden's assistant, Chester Willoughby, and her success helps save the station.
musical film, romantic comedy
In Paris, nightclub entertainer Jeanne falls in love with her dance partner, the idle, womanising Marcel. When Marcel runs off with rich and glamorous film star Norma, Jeanne's true love Pierre comes to her aid, and helps find her work on the radio. After becoming a successful radio star, Jeanne becomes attractive once more to Marcel, but the faithful Pierre cannot risk losing her again.
musical film
The film is set in a street market in the Old Kent Road. One of the stallholders, Kate, is a flower seller who many of the leading music hall stars buy their flowers from. When Kate falls ill and visits the Doctor she is prescribed a stay at the seaside to restore her health.
musical film
A southern girl (Withers) goes to a National Youth Association camp after her father goes to jail for bootlegging. When a mean tycoon tries to buy the campground for himself, she stages a show that endears her to him. When her father escapes and catches the crooks who took the tycoon's money, all is saved.
musical film, musical comedy
musical film
musical film
United States Merchant Marine Tom Garrison is the owner of a ranch being run by the Andrews Sisters, and all his cattle have been stolen. He hires neighbor Pasqualito Luigi to find the missing livestock.
musical film
Kitty O'Hara has a good singing voice but will have nothing to do with trying to use it in the theatre or on the radio. She and her grandfather, Danny O'Hara, an ex-vaudeville hoofer, work in a Broadway drug store, rendezvous with young aspiring actors and performers, Danny and his friend Johnny McCloud, writer of musicals, conspire to have Kitty's voice auditioned by radio man Harry Gage. Her anger at discovering she's been tricked subsides when Johnny's induction notice into the U.S.