Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore stories told through song and musical performances.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 4,133 films · Page 125.
LGBTQ-related film
At the age of 40, porn star Colton Ford decides to leave the industry and pursue his true calling—a singing career. He feels he has the voice, but his "overexposed" past could be the hook that gets him noticed or the hook that yanks him off stage. Naked Fame follows Colton and his former life-partner, porn star Blake Harper, as they try to ease their way back into the mainstream.
Musical, musical film, romantic comedy
A small radio station in Brooklyn, WPX, is saved from going bankrupt by a backer (Mary Boland), who agrees to invest money for television equipment if the owner (Kenny Baker) allows her dancing daughter Annabelle (Ann Miller) to dance and sing on the screen. Due to her voice, her singing needs to be dubbed by the owner's girlfriend, Pat Abbott (Frances Langford). Problems arise when the owner starts dating Annabelle.
crime film, drama film
The film, based on a story by former crime reporter Martin Mooney, is about a newspaper journalist who faces prison time because he refuses to name his sources. To complicate matters more, the reporter falls in love with the sister of one of the racketeers he's trying to take down.
musical film
comedy film, musical film
Wealthy Jay Newport Bates breaks off an engagement after discovering his fiancée is a gold digger. He joins the Navy anonymously but his family insist he be chaperoned by Phil North. While on leave in Miami, Jay meets cigarette girl Teddy Collins, who once was engaged to Phil.
musical film, mystery film
Lila Laughton is a Rockette figure skater at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. She's dating orchestra conductor Don Jordan. Her ex-flame, producer Carl Lang, gets out of jail and visits her.
children's music
drama film, musical film
Big Fella is set on the docks and streets of Marseille. Paul Robeson stars as a street-wise but honest dockworker who struggles with deep issues of integrity and human values. Elisabeth Welch plays opposite him as a café singer in love with him.
comedy horror, musical film
"Everyone knows someone who's had a run-in with an angry racoon. Some people even believe that racoons are smarter than people." Outside the small rural town of Independence, college buddies Ty Smallwood (Lehr Beidelschies) and Zach (Colin Scianamblo) join a small group of college students visiting the Raccoon Creek Campground to have what they hope will be the best summer break of their lives. Their hopes are dashed when they have run-ins with frat guys, rednecks, hippies, bible students, and an inept set of camp counselors.
musical film
A wealthy young man bets that he can turn a cleaning woman into a sophisticated lady and trick three men into wanting to marry her.
musical film
musical film
musical film
College student Linda Strong speaks to friend Susie about the upcoming dance lamenting her plain looks from getting her a date. On a dare, fraternity pledge Donald Whiting is forced to ask Linda to the Dance which she gleefully accepts. Once home her guardian and older half-sister, Eileen Strong, does not allow her to go even after her cook Katy has gotten excited for her.
musical film, romantic comedy
When Catherine Terris' career in Hollywood begins to falter, she returns to Broadway, where her first great triumphs occurred. She takes the lead in a play directed by Rick Sommers, with whom she had a romantic past. Sommers is still bitter that she left him to become the toast of Hollywood years earlier.
Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film
After clashing with the French star of his film who then quits, a Hollywood director recruits an American singer whom he tries to pass off as a Frenchwoman.
musical film, romantic comedy
Pip-Emma Binns is a New York tomboy with 11 uncles, who wear uniforms and teach her the professional tricks of their trades. Pip-Emma is invited—as a charity case—to a summer camp for wealthy girls. The snobby "Purple Order of Penguins" resent Pip-Emma's brash behavior, plain-spoken opinions, and streetwise skills learned from her uncles, and she is bullied by the other girls.
musical film
Shortly after becoming engaged to a socialite, an upper-class American named Terry enlists in the U.S. Marine Corps to get his wild urges out of his system. He and his two friends and comrades get into many scrapes, frequently ending up in the brig.
musical film
musical film
Two singers, Phil Young and Frankie Laine, help Cathy Burke, an aspiring actress whose grandmother Martha Blake opposes her launching a show-business career.
musical film
The story of a show business quartet who does their best to stay close, even when the demands of the profession separate them. George Doane is initially the most successful with his dance act. On "Amateur Night", George is intrigued by Eddie Martin (Cantor), who keeps up his act while dodging missiles from the audience.
Musical, musical film
Kansas City girl Joan Terry has come to New York to conquer Broadway as thousands have before her. Advised to maintain an appearance of wealth, she has been living in an expensive hotel until she is discovered. With no offers coming in she moves to an economical women's boarding house full of equally unsuccessful actresses, singers, and dancers.
Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film
Quinceton College Zeta fraternity stages a revue with members in drag. The resulting publicity catches the attention of newspaperman Hap Holden (Harry Langdon) and Virginia Collinge (Frances Langford). They convince Virginia's aunt Matilda Collinge (Esther Dale), president of failing Mar Brynn (a woman's horticultural college), to refute the school's staid image by sponsoring a contest awarding a dozen free scholarships aimed at "unusual girls", winners of pageants for fruits, vegetables and flowers, as women most likely to succeed and to be showcased in a musical presentation during the Fall Festival.
comedy film
Radio star Jerry Wade's program ratings are falling and he suggests to his sponsors a show that is different and he goes to Kentucky to find an idea. Caroline, a Kentucky girl in New York trying to crash into radio, learns of Wade's quest and takes her three friends, Harry, Jimmy and Al Ritz, also aspiring to show-business fame, to Kentucky with her, where Wade discovers them in beards, guns, feuds, moonshine and every cliché that fits the hillbillies lifestyle. He stages a broadcast from the hills, which is not heard because of technical difficulties.
musical film
Bandleader Cab Calloway and his Orchestra perform "Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz" and "Long About Midnight" at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York before going to a house party and performing "Jitterbug". In the final sequence, a young Lena Horne can be seen as a Cotton Club dancer doing the jitterbug.