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Babes in Arms (1939) starring Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, directed by Busby Berkeley

Babes in Arms

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Babes in Arms (1939) starring Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, directed by Busby Berkeley

In Babes in Arms, Mickey Moran, son of an old vaudeville-team puts on his own show to avoid being sent with other vaudevillians’ children to a work farm, but that isn’t that easy.

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42nd Street

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42nd Street (1933) starring Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Warner Baxter

42nd Street is the classic musical, starring Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers. “You’re going out there a nobody, but coming back as a star!”

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The Music Man

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The Music Man (1962) starring Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Ron Howard

Synopsis

Let 76 trombones lead the big parade! It’s The Music Man, the screen version of one of Broadway’s all-time blockbusters. Starring Robert Preston as the slick salesman and Shirley Jones as the not-quite-gullible librarian.

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Top Hat

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Top Hat (1935) starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore

Synopsis of Top Hat

The story of Top Hat centers on wealthy Dale Tremont (Ginger Rogers), on holiday in London and Venice. She assumes that American entertainer Jerry Travers (Fred Astaire) is the husband of her friend Madge (Helen Broderick) — who’s actually the wife of Jerry’s business manager Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton)

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The Gay Divorcee

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The Gay Divorcee (1934), starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Alice Brady, Eric Blore

Synopsis

In The Gay Divorcee, Mimi Glossop (Ginger Rogers) is looking for a way out of her unhappy marriage. So, her busybody aunt (Alice Brady) hires a professional correspondent to pose as her niece’s lover. When Mimi meets American dancer Guy Holden (Fred Astaire), she thinks he’s the faux beau, and she confuses his genuine interest for part of the act.

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In Person

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In Person (1935) starring Ginger Rogers, George Brent

Synopsis

In Person is the story of Miss Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her fame, that she goes around in disguise. She later meets a rugged outdoors man who is unaffected by her star status. And pursued by her frequent co-star, who likes her. But doesn’t respect her acting ability.

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An American in Paris

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An American in Paris (1951), starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, directed by Vincente Minelli

Synopsis of An American in Paris

Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron sing and dance to the music of George and Ira Gershwin in An American in Paris. When ex-GI Jerry Mulligan (Kelly) remains in Paris to pursue life as an artist, he is discovered by a wealthy patroness interested in more than his art. But Mulligan falls in love with a French shop girl (Caron). And she is engaged to his friend.

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In the Good Old Summertime

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In the Good Old Summertime (1949) starring Van Johnson, Judy Garland, S. Z. “Cuddles” Sakall, Buster Keaton

Synopsis

In the Good Old Summertime is the story of two clerks in a turn of the 20th century Chicago sheet-music store. They’re intensely antagonistic toward each other at work. But unknown to them, they’re getting very chummy as pen pals. It’s a musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner.

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Too Many Girls

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Too Many Girls (1940), starring Lucille Ball, Richard Carlson, Desi Arnaz, Ann Miller, Eddie Bracken, Frances Langford, Hal Le Roy

Synopsis

Spoiled heiress Connie Casey (Lucille Ball) goes off to college. Unknown to her, her father secretly sends along four Ivy League football stars as her bodyguards. In no time, they turn tiny Pottawatomie U into a gridiron powerhouse! Fast-paced and funny, Too Many Girls is celebrated for its George Abbott-produced Broadway roots, its buoyant Rodgers and Hart score, and the movie debuts of three talents from the original stage version: Eddie Bracken, Van Johnson and Desi Arnaz. It’s also where Desi met the film’s leading lady, Lucille Ball.

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Dancing Lady

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Dancing Lady (1933) starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone

Synopsis of Dancing Lady

In Dancing Lady, a musical star is torn between a millionaire playboy and her stage manager.

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