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Mrs. Santa Claus (1996) starring Angela Lansbury, Charles Durning, Michael Jeter

Mrs. Santa Claus

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Mrs. Santa Claus (1996) starring Angela Lansbury, Charles Durning, Michael Jeter

Angela Lansbury stars in Mrs. Santa Claus, and proves it takes two to make Christmas run smoothly. At the North Pole, her contributions go unappreciated as Santa prepares for the biggest night of the year. She takes the sleigh to check out a new route. But when one of the reindeer is injured, she must make an emergency landing in New York City. Mrs Claus immediately begins to spin her holiday magic just like she did at the North Pole, while warming the hearts of New Yorkers. Back at the North Pole, Santa (Charles Durning) is lost without her. Even his trusty elf (Michael Jeter) can’t fill her shoes. With Christmas Eve just around the corner, they desperately want her back and they really need the sleigh! What will it take to get her home in time?

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Flying Down to Rio

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Synopsis of Flying Down to Rio

Flying down to Rio is an RKO musical, built around a romantic triangle.  The main characters are played by Dolores del Rio, Gene Raymond and Raul Roulien. But it’s remembered for the third- and fourth-billed couple.  Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are paired for the first time, and steal the show. When the film ends, the last image we see isn’t the leads. It’s Fred and Ginger.

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The Perils of Pauline

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The Perils of Pauline (1947) starring Betty Hutton, John Lund, William Demarest, Billy De Wolfe, Constance Collier

Perils of Pauline is the musical biography of Pearl White, popular star of silent movie serials.

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My Dream is Yours

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My Dream is Yours (1949) starring Doris Day, Jack Carson, Lee Bowman, Eve Arden

In My Dream is Yours, an agent discovers a talented singer who’s also a single mom. He tries to make her a radio star, not expecting to fall in love with her.

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Robin And The 7 Hoods

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Robin And The 7 Hoods (1964) starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby, Peter Falk

Synopsis of Robin And The 7 Hoods

It’s The Rat Pack meets Robin Hood in this sly Runyonesque musical revision of the Robin Hood legend, done up Chicago gangland style. Frank Sinatra stars as Robbo, caught up in a gang war with rival mobster Guy Gisborne (Peter Falk) after mob chieftain Big Jim (Edward G. Robinson, in an uncredited cameo) get the big rub-out. With allies Will (Sammy Davis, Jr,) and John (Dean Martin) at his side, Robbo gets suborned by Big Jim’s daughter Marian (Barbara Rush) to ice the man that iced her dad to the tune of 50 Gs.

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Thoroughly Modern Millie

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Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) starring Julie Andrews, John Gavin , Mary Tyler Moore, Beatrice Lillie, James Fox, Carol Channing, Jack Soo, Pat Morita

Thoroughly Modern Millie a zany, funny spoof of the Roaring Twenties. It stars Julie Andrews as Millie, an innocent country girl. She comes to the big city to find a husband. She makes friends with sweet Miss Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore), zany Muzzy (Carol Channing) and … Is nearly kidnapped by white slavers?!?

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Romance on the High Seas

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Romance on the High Seas (1948), starring Doris Day, Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, S.Z. Sakall, Eric Blore, Franklin Pangborn, Oscar Levant directed by Michael Curtiz

Synopsis of Romance on the High Seas

In Romance on the High Seas, Elvira is supposed to go on a cruise, but decides to stay home when she suspects her husband is cheating on her. Her husband suspects the same of his wife, and sends an investigator to spy on her on the cruise – but he is really spying on Elvira’s husband.

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Springtime in the Rockies

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Springtime in the Rockies (1942) starring Betty Grable, John Payne, Carmen Miranda and Cesar Romero

Springtime in the Rockies – Two Broadway dance partners rekindle their romance in a series of comic misunderstandings set around the backdrop of the Canadian Rockies.

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Show Boat

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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 up onboard a sailing theater, plying the river from town to town to entertain people, and she has always dreamed of a life on stage. When the star’s, Julie LaVerne part African American ancestry is revealed and she is forced to leave, Magnolia steps in to take Julie’s place on stage.

Magnolia soon falls in love with her leading man, the handsome gambler and rogue, Gaylord Ravenal (Howard Keel—Kiss Me Kate, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), and the two marry, have a daughter and live happily–for a while. But Ravenal’s gambling debts force Magnolia to find a job, and Julie LaVerne again leaves her starring role–this time voluntarily–to give Magnolia the break she needs, an opportunity that leads to stardom.

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April in Paris (1952)

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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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