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Finian's Rainbow (1968) starring Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Keenan Wynn

Finian’s Rainbow

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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 the soil near Fort Knox to reap what he thinks will be a rich harvest. In tow are his spirited daughter (Petula Clark), a lovestruck leprechaun (Tommy Steele) and a bigoted Southern senator (Keenan Wynn) transformed by misbegotten magic.

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Mother Wore Tights (1947) starring Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall

Mother Wore Tights

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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 fame, and the subsequent professional and personal setbacks, is told in flashback and set against a rousing musical score.

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Calamity Jane, starring Doris Day, Howard Keel

Calamity Jane

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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 attractive soldier and swoons over rough-riding Wild Bill Hickock.

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Two Girls and a Sailor, starring Van Johnson, Gloria DeHaven, June Allyson, Jimmy Durante

Two Girls and a Sailor

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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 is Paris“) take part in a romance where one sister falls in love with a World War II sailor, but the sailor finds himself in love with the other sister instead.

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Happy Go Lovely (1951) starring Vera-Ellen, David Niven, Cesar Romero

Happy Go Lovely [musical]

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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, starring Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Phil Silvers

Summer Stock

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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 (1947) starring Groucho Marx, Carmen Miranda, Steve Cochran, Andy Russell, Gloria Jean

Copacabana

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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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Down to Earth (1947), starring Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks

Down to Earth [Rita Hayworth]

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Down to Earth (1947), starring Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks

Upset about a new Broadway musical’s mockery of Greek mythology, the goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth …. And lands a part in the show. She works her charms on the show’s producer and he incorporates her changes into the show. Unfortunately, her changes also produce a major flop!

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Lili (1953), starring Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kurt Kasznar

Lili [Lesli Caron, Mel Ferrer]

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Lili (1953), starring Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kurt Kasznar

Synopsis of Lili

In Lili, a 16-year-old French orphan joins a carnival after her father’s death. She find a home ith a curious puppet show. The embittered puppeteer shows contempt for her …. But he’s secretly falling in love with the young lady.

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