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Evensong
The 1910s The 1900sLoosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...
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Road House
England 🇫🇷 France The 1920s The 1910sRoad House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
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Aunt Sally
EnglandAn ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she finds herself in the middle of a dispute between Mike Kelly, the club's Chicago-born owner, and a group of American gangsters bent on taking over the club. To put pressure on Kelly, the gangsters kidnap "Zaza".
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Say It with Flowers
EnglandWarm-hearted Cockneys stage a show to help a sick flower-seller.
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Unfinished Symphony
🇦🇹 Austria The 1820sComposer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in front of a princess of the royal family. Schubert performs a version of his new work, "Symphony in B Minor", for the princess, but a misunderstanding results in Schubert storming out of the concert in a rage. Complications ensue.
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Give Her a Ring
🇩🇰 DenmarkA telephonist falls for her employer.
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42nd Street
New York The 1930sThe Greatest Musical hit the Screen Has Ever Known! — A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
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Flying Down to Rio
Florida 🇧🇷 BrazilToo big for the world... So they staged it in the clouds... Too beautiful for words... So they set it to music! — A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.
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Footlight Parade
New YorkClimaxing Warner Bros.' glittering parade of musicals! — A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
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Roman Scandals
🇮🇹 Italy The 4th Century The 3rd CenturyA kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
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Dancing Lady
New YorkThe Scenes Are Enthralling! The Electrical Ballet! Girls in Cellophane! Mirrors of Venus! Merry-Go-Round Girls — Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.
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The Devil's Brother
🇮🇹 Italy The 18th CenturyGreat lords lost their gold to him—great ladies their hearts. — Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.
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Lover Divine
🇦🇹 Austria The 1820sA section from the life of composer Franz Schubert as a material for a love story. Also known in English as Gently My Songs Entreat. An English version called Unfinished Symphony would follow in 1934.
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The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives
The 1930sChristmas Eve. A poor orphan boy trudges through the snow, pathetically. He finally arrives at his miserable cabin. While he is crying, Santa arrives and, singing the title song, offers to take the boy to his workshop. They arrive, and the toys go wild (in the full version, they sing the title song, but this has been censored in some versions due to outdated stereotypes). He plays with a few toys. A candle falls off the tree and starts a fire. The toys try in vain to fight the fire; the boy hooks up a hose to a set of bagpipes and takes care of it.
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
New York The 1930sA New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
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Britannia of Billingsgate
EnglandThe owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.
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The Good Companions
EnglandFilm musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
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A Bedtime Story
🇫🇷 FranceSOME BABE-E ...Eh Kid? She's the queen of our nursery...and the queen of our hearts! And are we all tied in knots telling 'A Bedtime Story' to HER! — Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.
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Victor and Victoria
The 1930sAspiring singer Susanne takes over one night for her sick colleague, the slap-stick actor Viktor, at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works as a female impersonator. By chance, Susanne is then "discovered" by an agent, who thinks she′s really a man. She becomes famous and goes on tour to London. But when the local womanizer Robert catches on to her game, Viktor then has to jump in for Susanne as "Viktoria".
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The Only Girl
🇫🇷 France The 19th CenturyA dashing marquis bends from his horse when he discovers a lost garter in the woods and falls. During his delirium he is serenaded by a little hairdresser. She is the person who lost the garter to begin with and has only come to get it back having borrowed it from her employer--the empress of France. The marquis mistakenly thinks he was nursed by the empress, herself, and decides to woo her.
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The Song You Gave Me
🇦🇹 AustriaSet in Vienna, this lively musical comedy stars Bebe Daniels as an actress who falls in love with her secretary, but has difficulty in persuading him to propose to her.
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Liebe muss verstanden sein
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Bitter Sweet
🇦🇹 Austria The 19th CenturyA young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. However, their marriage is threatened by a wealthy man.....
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The Flower of Hawaii
Hawaii The 1890sAn adaptation of the operetta The Flower of Hawaii by Paul Abraham. It is based on the life of the last Queen of Hawaii Liliuokalani.
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Adventure on the Lido
🇮🇹 ItalyThe already successful tenor Mattei is discovered after he already retired into private life. Der Wiener Staatsoper place a significant part in this musical comedy drama.
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Der Zarewitsch
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Waltz Time
🇦🇹 Austria The 1890sAn author travels to Vienna, Austria, to do some background research for his new book.
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Best of Enemies
🇩🇪 GermanyA new Buddy Rogers putting on a grand show. — Buddy Rogers and Marian Nixon playing the grown children of feuding German-Americans Frank Morgan and Joseph Cawthorn. Romance blossoms between Rogers and Nixon, while Morgan and Cawthorn continue muttering Teutonic imprecations at one another.
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The Girl from Maxim's
🇫🇷 France The 1900sA Doctor tries to pass off a singer as his wife in Paris in 1904.
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For Love of You
🇮🇹 ItalyThe second of two "Jack and Jim" musicals, starring Arthur Roscoe and Naunton Wayne.
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It's Great to Be Alive
Pacific OceanAn aviator who crash landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the last fertile man left on Earth after an epidemic of masculitus.
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Horse Feathers
MaineThe Maddest Comics of the Screen! — Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.
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Singapore Sue
🇸🇬 SingaporeFour sailors enter a Singapore dive, meet a Chinese girl from Brooklyn, and find there's more to her than meets the eye. Two songs.
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The Bartered Bride
🇦🇹 Austria 🇨🇿 Czechia The 1850sBohemia in the 19th century, stage-coach driver Hans, loves the mayor's daughter Marie, but she is promised Wenzel, the son of another wealthy farmer. Marie refuses to marry Wenzel because of Hans, but the marriage arranger tries to "buy" Marie from Hans. But when Wenzel tells Hans, that he doesn't want to marry Marie, either, because he loves circus director Brummel's daughter, Hans decides to accept the offer of money for not interferring in the relations of Hans and Marie. But when Marie hears about this, she doesn't want to see Hans again.
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There Goes the Bride
🇫🇷 FranceA businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train. When she refuses to tell him who she really is, her accuser decides to take her home where he can keep an eye on her until 12 o'clock the next day, the time at which she has calculated that it will be safe to tell the truth! But when his fiancée arrives unexpectedly and then his 'guest' is mistaken for her, it all gets rather embarrassing...
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Pagan Moon
South Pacific - GeneralOn a tropical island, a native boy sings "Pagan Moon" to his sweetheart. Later, he plays music underwater with an octopus-pianist and other jazz-loving sea life.
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Sehnsucht 202
🇦🇹 AustriaAfter a mix-up with a newspaper advertisement, a shop-girl and a millionairess are mistaken for one another by two businessmen. A musical romantic comedy.
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Gipsy Blood
🇪🇸 Spain The 19th CenturyIn 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimée’s classic story of passion and fatal jealousy, Carmen. With a score based on Bizet’s opera, Gipsy Blood features celebrated American soprano Marguerite Namara as the capricious gypsy girl from the cigarette factory; her co-performers include Thomas Burke as Carmen’s tormented lover, Don José, and New Zealand-born baritone Lance Fairfax as his rival, the toreador Escamillo.
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The Blue of Heaven
🇩🇪 GermanyOut of unlikely circumstances an underground ticket vending girl and a mail pilot fall in love.
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The Company's in Love
🇩🇪 GermanyThe story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village. After their temperamental leading lady drops out of the film, they decide to replace her with the village's young post office clerk Gretl, who returns to Berlin with them. There she has to struggle with the movie's all-male crew, who all try to woo and win her.
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For the Love of Mike
EnglandA useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.
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Love on Wheels
EnglandA department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
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Good Night, Vienna
🇦🇹 Austria The 1910sMax is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with Vicki. Attending a party given in his honour, they are informed that war has broken out. Max writes a note to Vicki and goes off to war. Unfortunately the note is lost. Some time after the war, Max is just a shoe shop assistant while Vicki is now a famous singer. They meet and at first she snubs him but then falls in love with him again
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