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Show Boat

Showboat (1951) starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner
Show Boat (1951) starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner Product description of Show Boat  One of the greatest Broadway musicals comes to the screen in this tale of music, racial bigotry and enduring love as outsized as the American heartland set aboard a Mississippi River Show Boat. Magnolia Brown has grown...
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April in Paris (1952)

April in Paris (1952) starring Doris Day, Ray Bolger
April in Paris (1952) starring Doris Day, Ray Bolger In April in Paris, a chorus girl (Doris Day) is wrongly sent to Paris on a cultural junket. it’s due to the mistake of stuffy diplomat(Ray Bolger) and then …
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Finian’s Rainbow

Finian's Rainbow (1968) starring Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Keenan Wynn
Finian’s Rainbow (1968) starring Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Keenan Wynn Fred Astaire sang and danced his last musical lead in Finian’s Rainbow, director Francis Ford Coppola’s movie of the 1947 Broadway hit. Astaire plays an Irish rogue who plants a stolen crock of leprechaun gold in...
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Mother Wore Tights

Mother Wore Tights (1947) starring Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall
Mother Wore Tights (1947) starring Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall Dan Dailey and Betty Grable star as a young man and woman, whom team up as performers during the age of vaudeville and soon fall in love. Mother Wore Tights story of their rise to...
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Calamity Jane

Calamity Jane, starring Doris Day, Howard Keel
Calamity Jane (1953), starring Doris Day, Howard Keel Synopsis of Calamity Jane Doris Day saddles up as wild West heroine Calamity Jane.  She’s a tomboy gunslinger who leaves Arizona to go to Chicago to bring back a stage star to perform in a frontier saloon.  She pines for an...
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Two Girls and a Sailor

Two Girls and a Sailor, starring Van Johnson, Gloria DeHaven, June Allyson, Jimmy Durante
Two Girls and a Sailor, starring Van Johnson, Gloria DeHaven, June Allyson, Jimmy Durante Synopsis of Two Girls and a Sailor Emmy-nominee Van Johnson (“Too Young to Kiss,” “Thrill of a Romance“), Golden Globe-winner June Allyson (“Too Young to Kiss,” Little Women“) and Gloria Dehaven (“The Yellow Cab Man,” So This...
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Happy Go Lovely [musical]

Happy Go Lovely (1951) starring Vera-Ellen, David Niven, Cesar Romero
Happy Go Lovely (1951) starring Vera-Ellen, David Niven, Cesar Romero In Happy Go Lovely, a chorus girl becomes the star in a broke producer’s show after she’s mistakenly linked with a millionaire in Scotland.
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Summer Stock

Summer Stock, starring Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Phil Silvers
Summer Stock (1950), starring Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Phil Silvers Summer Stock is an enjoyable musical with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. It’s the story of two mismatched romances, a family farm facing foreclosure, and an acting troupe that shows up unannounced …
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Copacabana

Copacabana (1947) starring Groucho Marx, Carmen Miranda, Steve Cochran, Andy Russell, Gloria Jean
Copacabana (1947) starring Groucho Marx, Carmen Miranda, Steve Cochran, Andy Russell, Gloria Jean In Copacabana, a zany agent (Groucho Marx) double-books a Brazilian bombshell (Carmen Miranda) as a French singer, in the same club on the same night. Every night! Romantic shenanigans and songs ensue …
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