Hollywood
see all genres ›The Hollywood musical is as rich in genre conventions (and as identifiable by its tropes) as any other you could name. Hollywood embraced this extension of musical theater the moment that the movies could talk. But why talk when you could sing (and dance)? Let's put on a show!
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A Night in a Dormitory
Top-billed Ginger Rogers, three years before her initial career-making teaming with Fred Astaire, was just dipping her tapping toes in the movies when she made this Pathé melody comedy. Having already conquered vaudeville and Broadway, she is introduced here under her own name...Watch Movie
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Royal Wedding
This delightful Technicolor MGM musical was a special project for Fred Astaire as it was somewhat based on his early stage partnership with sister Adele. It was also director Stanley Donen's only musical between the classics ON THE TOWN and SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (both co-directed with star Gene...Watch Movie
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Something to Sing About
Though one of Warner Brothers' most popular stars, James Cagney was often at odds with his studio, complaining that they worked him harder and paid him less than many smaller box-office names. Walking out during one contract dispute in 1938, he made two independent features,...Watch Movie
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The Gay Desperado
Ida Lupino and Metropolitan Opera star tenor, Nino Martini, star in this classic musical comedy directed by the great Rouben Mamoulian. After watching an American gangster film, Pablo Braganza, a fierce Mexican bandit, is inspired to reorganize his outlaw gang to Chicago...Watch Movie
