Gene Kelly, producer Arthur Freed, director Vincente Minnelli and screenwriter Alan Jay Lerner create an entertainment for the ages. Kelly plays an ex-GI who loves Paris and an alluring (but engaged) perfume-shop clerk (Leslie Caron in her beguiling screen debut).... Read more
James Cagney thrills in a rare (and limber) song-and-dance performance as composer-entertainer George M. Cohan. This nostalgic biography is told in flashbacks, covering Cohan's formative years becoming Broadway's brightest star and touching upon his loves, musicals, and artistic triumphs.... Read more
Business at showman Florence Ziegfeld Jr.'s midway attraction was good (with broadway's legendary follies and more), bad and rarely lacking optimistic excess.... Read more
Meet a dewy-eyed ingenue, a gee-whiz tenor, stuck-up stars, hard-up producers, brassy blondes and "shady ladies fromt he '80s." They're all denizens of 42nd Street, belting out ageless Harry Warren/Al Dubin songs and tapping out Busby Berkely's sensational Depression-lifting numbers.... Read more
History's first "All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing!" movie was also All Hit, drawing enough 35-cents admissions to pile up an enormous $4-million box office.... Read more
When The Jazz Singer was released in theaters, the future of Hollywood changed. For the first time in a feature film, an actor spoke on screen, stunning audiences and leaving the silent era behind.... Read more
“Gypsy” was first released in 1962, but it has been digitally remastered and re-released on Blu-ray. The movie is about Rose (Rosalind Russell) living her dreams of stardom through her two daughters, June (Morgan Brittany) and Louise (Natalie Wood).... Read more
The King's Speech's Tom Hooper directs this adaptation of Cameron Mackintosh's successful musical version of Victor Hugo's classic novel. The drama surrounds the obsessive quest of Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe) as he spends years in an effort to capture escaped convict Jean Valjean.... Read more
Oklahoma!” was a play that was written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. It was first performed on Broadway around 1943. This version was directed by Trevor Nunn and makes you feel like you are watching a musical play at the Royal National Theatre in London.... Read more
I’ll admit it, when Fred Figglehorn first arrived on the scene I thought the characters creator (Lucas Cruikshank) was a creative kid that did big things with very little- that being a voice effect, silly stories, and a heaping amount of charisma and flamboyance.... Read more