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Singin' in the Rain
California The 1920sWhat a Glorious Feeling! — In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
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Moulin Rouge
The 1900s The 1890s The 1880sWild, wicked, wonderful Paris...all her loves, ladies and lusty legends! — Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
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Hans Christian Andersen
🇩🇰 Denmark The 19th CenturyThe glorious story of the greatest storyteller of them all! — A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.
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Limelight
England The 1910sThe masterpiece of laughter and tears from the master of comedy! — A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
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April in Paris
🇫🇷 FranceWhen they sing... your heart dances! When they dance... your heart sings! — A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.
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Million Dollar Mermaid
New York England The 1910s The 1900sInspired by the true story of bathing beauties! — After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
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Lovely to Look At
🇫🇷 FranceM-G-M's TECHNICOLOR SPECTACLE! JEROME KERN'S MUSIC! — Three broke Broadway producers are desperately looking for backers for a new show. When they are about to give up, one of them discovers that they are an heir to a Parisian dress salon. Off to Paris they go!
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The Belle of New York
New York The 1900sM.G.M's Gay TECHNICOLOR Musical! — In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. The object of his affections is beautiful Angela Bonfils, a mission house worker in the Bowery. He promises to reform his dissolute life, even trying to do an honest day's work.
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Beauties of the Night
The 1950s The 1890s The 1800sA daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.
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Man of Music
The 19th CenturyThe young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music, and reacts coldly to the creation of the composer. This makes him very sad, but soon he decides to go learn the art of music in Italy. After returning from Italy, he is full of desire to write national Russian opera. Vasily Zhukovsky proposes a subject: a feat of Ivan Susanin. Tsar Nicholas I change the name of the opera to A Life for the Tsar and assigns a librettist - Baron Rosen. Acquaintance with the future co-author shocked Glinka: Rosen speaks Russian with a noticeable German accent. The premiere was successful, but Glinka was still not entirely happy with the libretto: "False words were written by Rosen". When Nicholas I learned that Ruslan and Lyudmila was written on Pushkin's subject, he sees it as sedition. The bitter experience of the composer brighten his supporters.
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I Dream of Jeanie
The 1840sROMANCE - MUSIC - COMEDY of SHOWBOAT DAYS! — The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.
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Barbed Wire
TexasGENE'S DOUBLE DYNAMITE! — A cattle buyer (Gene Autry), a federal agent (Pat Buttram) and a newswoman (Anne James) snip a railroad plot.
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The White Horse Inn
🇦🇹 Austria The 1900sHead waiter Leopold has been secretly in love with the hostess Josepha for a long time, but she only has eyes for Dr. Siedler, a guest in the White Horse Inn. Leopold tries to get Dr. Siedler interested in the daughter of Industrialist Giesecke, who would rather see his daughter married to Sigismund.
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The Merry Widow
🇫🇷 France The 1900sM-G-M presents the saucy new musical! — Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Glory Alley
LouisianaStreet of tough guys, hot tunes, temptation! — A New Orleans boxer (Ralph Meeker) backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend (Leslie Caron) for Korea.
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Die Försterchristl
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Città canora
🇮🇹 ItalyA comedy with lots of Neapolitan songs and shots of the Bay of Naples finds Maria Morelli unable to marry her singing sailor/lover, Giacomo because her father, Don Salvatdore Morelli objects. She can't elope because her father has an heart ailment and uses it to hold Maria. Giacomo misunderstands and takes off on a global singing tour.
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An American in Paris
🇫🇷 FranceWhat a joy! It's M-G-M's Technicolor musical! — Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
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Royal Wedding
England The 1940sA story of a famed singing, dancing, brother and sister team! — Tom and Ellen are asked to perform as a dance team in England at the time of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. As brother and sister, each develops a British love interest, Ellen with Lord John Brindale and Tom with dancer Anne Ashmond.
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Mr. Imperium
California The 1930s The 1950sA pretty singer/dancer is becoming an actress whereas the playboy crown prince is becoming a monarch. The both will have their clandestine romance interfered with by their changing circumstances.
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The Lemon Drop Kid
New York FloridaDamon Runyan's zaniest Broadway characters come alive with fun...especially the Lemon Drop Kid (Bob, natch!) — When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
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On Moonlight Bay
Indiana The 1910sThe lovin'est musical in many a moon! — The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time. His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president
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Lullaby of Broadway
New YorkBig and Gay as the Gay White Way! — Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. She doesn't know that her mother is actually a burnt-out cabaret singer with a love for whiskey. When she arrives at the mansion, she is taken in by the two servants who are friends of her mother's. The house actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell, a kind-hearted Broadway producer who also gets drawn into the charade. Hubbell takes a shine to Melinda and agrees to star her in his next show. Melinda also finds romance with a handsome hoofer who's also in the show. All is going well for Melinda except that she wants to see her mother who keeps putting off their reunion.
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Texas Carnival
TexasM-G-M's High, Wide and Handsome TECHNICOLOR Musical! — A Texas carnival showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister.
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The Tales of Hoffmann
🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy The 1800s The 1810sYou Will Never See Anything Finer On The Screen! — In this film adaptation of the Offenbach opera, a young poet named Hoffman broods over his failed romances. First, his affair with the beautiful Olympia is shattered when he realizes that she is really a mechanical woman designed by a scientist. Next, he believes that a striking prostitute loves him, only to find out she was hired to fake her affections by the dastardly Dapertutto. Lastly, a magic spell claims the life of his final lover.
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Full Spead Ahead
Ciudad de MéxicoA drifter lands a job as an officer in Mexico City's elite motorcycle police unit. Once there, he falls in love with a girl, who is also courted by his commanding officer. Both policemen try to avoid this from interfering with their friendship and profession. Written by Salvador Monroy Ordaz
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Café Cantante
The 19th CenturyIn the mid nineteenth century, flamenco singing and dancing bring together their most loyal fans in a tablao in Andalusia where Rosarillo, an attractive singer unleashes the passions of his audience. On her wedding night, while the gypsy sings from deep emotion of her heart, her husband is murdered. Her feelings will be truncated at once, and in front of all those present, she swears revenge.
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Double Dynamite
CaliforniaDouble Fun! Double Joy! Double Everything! — An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.
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The Great Caruso
New YorkThe Intimate Story of a Man with a Voice as Great as His Heart! — Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons. Caruso is unacceptable to both women's fathers: to one, because he sings; to Dorothy's, because he is a peasant. To New York patricians, Caruso is short, barrel chested, loud, emotional, unrefined. Their appreciation comes slowly. The film depicts Caruso's lament that "the man does not have the voice, the voice has the man": he cannot be places he wants to be, because he must be elsewhere singing, including the day his mother dies. Throughout, Mario Lanza and stars from the Met sing.
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Happy Go Lovely
ScotlandLove...Fun...Youth...Set to Music! — B.G. Bruno, a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe visiting Edinburgh wants to produce a musical in town but has trouble getting backers. Bruno meets several of the leading ladies of the show; through a misunderstanding he doesn't correct they think that he's a newspaper reporter. He falls in love with one of the women, who reciprocates; he grows more lively and friendly, to the surprise of his employees. After a series of mishaps and comic incidents comes a happy ending: a successful show and true love.
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Rich, Young and Pretty
🇫🇷 FranceMGM's happy-go-lucky Technicolor musical! — A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love.
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Bountiful Summer
🇺🇦 UkraineThe war is over. The Red Army soldier Pyotr tries to find himself in a peaceful life. He takes the place of an accountant, and long-time friend Nazar, who has already grown to the post of the head of a collective farm, helps him in this. Together they achieve high performance indicators of their wards, skillfully solving controversial issues and emerging from confused situations.
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Starlift
California 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950s18 Stars are in it... and more wonders than you can count! — To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.
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Enrico Caruso - Leggenda di una voce
🇮🇹 Italy The 19th CenturyThe UNTOLD intimate story of his most PASSIONATE years, his most GLORIOUS songs, his most EXCITING escapades!
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Call Me Mister
🇯🇵 JapanFrom 20th Century-Fox...The All-Time Big-Time Good-Time Show of the Year! — A G.I. in occupied Japan tries to re-woo his old love, who's putting on a show for the troops.
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Cuban Fireball
California 🇨🇺 CubaCuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself." The plot finds Estelita arriving in Los Angeles to claim a multimillion-dollar inheritance. To fend off fortune hunters, she disguises herself as a meek little old lady.
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Serenata en Acapulco
GuerreroThree broke-ass promoters ingratiate themselves with the owners of a hotel aand a rich guest, all with an eye toward putting on a show.
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Helen of Troy
🇬🇷 Greece 🇹🇷 Turkey Ancient HistoryIntrigues and entanglements before Prince Paris wins the heart of beautiful Helena. It all happens in the small kingdom of Arcadia at the time of the Trojan War. Swedish version of Jacques Offenbach's operetta of the classic Greek myth.
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Tea for Two
New York The 1920sA story that's a joy to be told! They hitch their lovin' to a song and take everyone along for the ride! — In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she can invest the money in a Broadway show featuring songs written by her beau, and of course, in which she will star. Trouble is, she doesn't realize her uncle's been wiped out by the Stock Market crash.
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Three Little Words
New York The 1910s The 1920sA wonderful musical! — Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury for while, so he has to earn his money as a lyricst. Per chance he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry is former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact, that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their relation.
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Summer Stock
ConnecticutMGM brings on the show with music - dancing - Technicolor — To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores in exchange for food. Her reluctance becomes attraction when she falls in love with the director, Joe, who happens to be her sister's fiance.
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Two Weeks with Love
New York The 1900sThe Gayest LOVE STORY EVER FILMED! — The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti is at a disadvantage because her parents think she is too young for boys. But with Patti singing at an amateur show and a dance, her adventures in quest of Armendez ends happily.
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Pagan Love Song
South Pacific - GeneralSOUTH SEAS TECHNICOLOR MUSICAL! — Island girl Mimi plans to leave Tahiti, but maybe she'll have a reason to stay when Mr. Endicott arrives.
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The Toast of New Orleans
Louisiana The 1900sM-G-M's Technicolor fiesta! — Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him to sing opera but comes to regret this rash decision when the singers fall in love.
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Fancy Pants
New Mexico England The 1900sBob tames that "Wildcat" Gal! — An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The complications increase when the town believes the actor/butler to be an earl and President Roosevelt decides to pay a visit.
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