That's Black Entertainment - Classic Hollywood Movies with Great Black Musical Numbers
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- DirectorAndrew L. StoneStarsLena HorneBill RobinsonCab Calloway and His Cotton Club OrchestraThe relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliBusby BerkeleyStarsEthel WatersEddie 'Rochester' AndersonLena HorneA compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsEddie CantorDennis MorganHumphrey BogartTwo producers are putting together a wartime charity show with an all-star cast, but the egotism of radio personality Eddie Cantor disrupts their plans.Beautiful number with Hattie McDaniels, Willie Best, and Rita Christiani, called "Ice Cold Katy."A beautiful production with beautiful black women and great dancing and singing. A Must See!
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsWarner BaxterJoan BennettHelen VinsonThe blueblooded Van Kletterings are broke; debutante Wendy, slated to remedy this by marrying rich bore Henry Morgan, instead leaves him at the altar and goes to work as a model for high-fashion clothing designer George Curson, whom she soon falls for. But he's happily married (at least on his side) and going into debt financing a show to please wife Mary's desire for stardom. Vindictive Morgan, jealous of George, hopes to hasten his ruin. Can the House of Curson be saved?One of the hottest, sexiest, exciting musical numbers with a black cast is in this film, the number is called "Turn On Your Red Hot Heat and Burn Your Blues Away" featuring Dotty Saulter, Maurice Rocco, and sexy black dance girls in a Cotton Club type setting. You will enjoy this! Surprised it got past the censors.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsCarl BrissonVictor McLaglenJack OakieA homicide detective with an eye for the ladies, investigating a murder in Earl Carroll's Vanities, allows the music revue to continue during the investigation.A very sexy musical number with Duke Ellington and beautiful black dancing girls dress very risque in "Ebony Rhapsody." Amazed this number made it passed the censors.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsDick PowellAnita LouiseAllen JenkinsA sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.A great number, Mutiny in the Nursery, with excellent talent, Louis Armstrong, Maxine Sullivan, The Dandridge Sisters (Dorothy Dandridge), and other talents, that includes great singing and dancing, which makes it one of the best black musical numbers.
- DirectorJack ConwaySam WoodStarsGus VanJoe SchenckBessie LoveWhen Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary, but a gold digger named Daisy has worked her way into his confidence. When Mary sees Jack and Daisy together, she leaves Jack and Jack marries Daisy the next day. When Daisy decides that she wants into the Vaudeville act, she has Jack dump both Jerry and his baseball contract. But Jack soon finds that - no act - means no money - means no Daisy.Nina Mae McKinney steals the movie with the hot number "Harlem Madness."
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyBusby BerkeleyStarsAl JolsonSybil JasonBeverly RobertsSinging star loses his voice, recuperates in the country, meets aspiring playwright and her daughter.Cab Calloway and a chorus of beautiful black women perform in a must see musical number!
- DirectorSam WoodStarsGroucho MarxChico MarxHarpo MarxA veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.Exciting black musical numbers that include Ivie Anderson and hot jitterbug and lindy hop dancing (in a barn!) Includes Dorothy Dandridge and her sisters as very young girls, in the background dancing.
- DirectorLeigh JasonStarsKay KyserAnn MillerVictor MooreBand Leader Kay Kyser wants to take a holiday, but his publicist Charlotte has promised that he'll give a concert for defense plant workers. Due to the fact that his vocalist has quit to get married, the plant owner's daughter Julie sings instead. But Kay dislikes her idea of joining the band.Harold Nicholas of The Nicholas Brothers and June Richmond appear in the great number "Mr. Beebe," very entertaining number with beautiful black dancing girls and dancing guys.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsGeorge MurphyGinny SimmsCharles WinningerA reluctantly-retired vaudevillian clashes with his producer son, who thinks his father's entertainment is passe'--audiences need something more sophisticated. Meanwhile, the producer's father and sister secretly produce their own show.Lena Horne performs two numbers "Somebody Loves Me" and the entertaining "Brazilian Boogie" that includes a cast of beautiful black dancing girls and dancing guys in glorious technicolor.
- DirectorRay McCareyStarsConstance MooreStanley BrownCharley GrapewinVaudeville acts are re-created in the story of how Atlantic City became a famous resort.A young Dorothy Dandridge sings and dances with Louis Armstrong and Buck and Bubbles, including a cast of singers and dancers, in Harlem on Parade and Rhythm For Sale. Very enjoyable number!
- DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsJohn CarrollSusan HaywardGail PatrickOne of the many films made at Republic with a year attached to the "Hit Parade" title, which came from the "Hit Parade" radio program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes. On re-issue, all of the entries underwent a title change from "Hit Parade of 19??" to, usually, a title of a song contained in the film, as happened in the case of this film when it was reissued as "Change of Heart" in 1949. Not re-issuing the film under the original title of "Hit Parade of 1943" had a two-fold purpose; the audiences of that era were not much interested in seeing a film twice, and a changed title - even when the original title was clearly shown in (very) small print in the ads and on the posters---had a chance of being seen again by that segment of the ticket-buying public who didn't read the small print. The plot here is just a trifle---Susan Hayward ghost writes songs for composer John Carroll, whose charms evidently outweighed his song-writing ability---played in and around some great singing and dancing numbers by, for its time, a large number of black performers including Dorothy Dandridge, Count Basie, dancing by the great Jack Williams and the team of "Pops and Louie" (Albert Whitman and Louis Williams) and others, including Spanish dancer Chinita Marin, billed as Chinita. The song "Change of Heart", by Jule Styne and Harold Adamson, was Oscar-nominated, and also became the title of the film on 1949 re-issue. Walter Scharf also was Oscar-nominated for Best Scoring of a Musical. Republic seldom got two nominations in any single year, much less two in the same film.A great musical number with a black cast including a young Dorothy Dandridge, Count Basie, Pops and Louie, and a cast of dancers and beautiful black chorus girls in "Harlem Sandman."
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodBusby BerkeleyStarsEleanor PowellAnn SothernRobert YoungA composer and his songwriter wife clash as they succeed in working together, writing hit Broadway shows, but fail in their marriage to the point of getting divorced twice.Unsung Berry Brothers do exciting, acrobatic dances in various numbers.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsAnna NeagleRay MillandRoland YoungSent by her employers on an errand to the home of the wealthy Mrs. Vincent, Irene O'Dare meets Don, a friend of Mrs. Vincent's son Bob. Attracted to Irene, Don decides to invest some money in Bob's latest venture, the "Madame Lucy" dress shop, in order to give Irene a job there as a model. She is very successful and Bob also becomes attracted to her. Smith, the manager, assigns Irene and other models to display gowns at Mrs. Vincent's charity ball, but Irene ruins the gown she was to wear, and appears instead in a quaint blue dress that had belonged to her mother--and it is a big hit. A guest, Princess Minetti, places her as the niece of Ireland's Lady O'Dare, and Irene does not deny the relationship. Smith decides to set her up in a Park Avenue suite as Lady O'Dare's niece so she can attend socially-important gatherings, wearing and displaying "Madame Lucy" gowns. A jealous model tells the truth to a newspaper columnist who writes an expose' that strains the relationship between Irene and Don, who had been away and was unaware of the scheme--and is the real owner behind the "Madame Lucy" front.A nice number with a black cast called "Alice Blue Gown," The Dandridge Sisters (Dorothy Dandridge) sing the title song, which includes great singing and dancing.
- DirectorGeorge MarshallA. Edward SutherlandStarsBing CrosbyBob HopeFred MacMurrayA Paramount Studios security guard who was a major actor during the silent film era must carry out the illusion that he is still a big deal when his sailor son comes to visit.Wonderful black musical number set on the streets of Harlem with Eddie Rochester and Katherine Dunham performing "Sharp As A Tack" with a cast of beautiful black dancing girls and dancing guys. Very entertaining number!
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsSonja HenieJohn PayneGlenn MillerAfter Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort, its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. Later, soloist Vivian Dawn quits and Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.Dorothy Dandridge and The Nicholas Brothers perform a fabulous number "Chattanooga Choo Choo."
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsRed SkeltonEleanor PowellRichard AinleyA bumbling pants presser at an upscale hotel's valet service nurses an unrequited crush on a Broadway star. He gets more than he bargained for when she agrees to marry him, to spite her womanizing fiance, and encounters Nazi saboteurs.Beautiful Lena Horne and Hazel Scott appear glamourously in a religious, hot number called "Jericho" that includes an attractive black chorus. Lena provides the class, Hazel provides the hot boogie woogie.
- DirectorLemuel AyersRoy Del RuthRobert LewisStarsWilliam PowellJudy GarlandLucille BallThe late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. looks down from Heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.Lena Horne sings the number "Love" with a cast of beautiful black women.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsAnn MillerJess BarkerCharles D. BrownTerry Baxter is a never-say-die Hollywood newcomer from Waterfall Kansas, determined to make it big. And does she have talent. Filled, of course, with lots of musical numbers that showcase her many talents.Louis Armstrongs in a bar scene sings "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" to six black beauties dress glamourously.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsEsther WilliamsJoan EvansVivian BlaineThree women in three different situations report for induction at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station and end up roommates. What follows is a frothy and fun musical.There's a wonderful scene in this movie with a black female drill team that you will certainly enjoy.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsAnn SothernGene RaymondBill RobinsonA young man with money falls for singer Pat Thatcher, and her con man father makes the most of it.A wonderful number with Bill Robinson and Jeni LeGon called "Living In A Great Big Way," including Fats Waller.
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsJack BennyEllen DrewEddie 'Rochester' AndersonJack Benny (as himself) tries to make good his fictitious boasts about roughing it in Nevada, in a spoof of Western cliches.Unsung Hollywood talent Theresa Harris and Eddie Rochester sings and does a variety of dances in "My, My."
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJack OakieGeorge BurnsGracie AllenSpud Miller hopes to save his struggling radio station by winning a broadcast competition, with the help of the Radio Eye, an invention that can display live events from anywhere in the world.The Dandridge Sisters, Dorothy Dandridge with her sisters sings a number, also there's The Nicholas Brothers and Bill Robinson are wonderful in "Miss Brown To You." A big wonderful dancing scene with The Nicholas Brothers and Bill Robinson, including beautiful black dancing girls.
- DirectorIrving RapperStarsRobert AldaJoan LeslieAlexis SmithGeorge Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.Beautiful, talented Hazel Scott performs many numbers and she is very exciting. Also, there includes a black cast performing a number from Porgy and Bess.
- DirectorGregory RatoffStarsMae WestVictor MooreWilliam GaxtonWhen his biggest star joins a rival's show, a Broadway producer bluffs and schemes to get her back.Hot Hazel Scott appear in two "The White Keys and The Black Keys" and "The Caisson Song" which includes beautiful black dancing girls!
- DirectorLeigh JasonStarsJoe PennerMilton BerleHarry EinsteinA crooked producer tries to link his backers by producing a flop and disappearing with the money. Patricia, one of the chorus girls, has given her money too, and after the producer disappears, one of the backers is in charge of production, trying the same trick. But Patricia tries to convince him to give the show a chance.A very entertaining number called "Peckin," which was a popular dance in the 1930's and 1940's, including The Chocolateers, who invented the dance, and also beautiful black dance girls peckin' like chickens.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsDaniel L. HaynesNina Mae McKinneyWilliam FountaineA sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.
- DirectorMarc ConnellyWilliam KeighleyStarsRex IngramOscar PolkEddie 'Rochester' AndersonGod, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsHarry BelafonteDorothy DandridgePearl BaileyContemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.
- DirectorDel LordStarsPhil HarrisEddie 'Rochester' AndersonLeslie BrooksAs house painters Newton H. Newton and Phil Burton remodel the Club Monterey on Broadway, owner Gibley auditions acts for his club's reopening. Theatrical agent B. Templeton Jones brings his client, aspiring singer Ann Stuart, to try out for a spot, and when Gibley doesn't hire her, Ann becomes discouraged. When Phil, who has watched Ann perform from his ladder, enters a dressing room and tries on a suit from the costume rack, Ann mistakes him for one of Gibley's partners and asks his help in winning a contract. Phil sympathizes with Ann, and when she runs off stage, he follows her, trips and hits his head. After Phil awakens in a hospital room and discovers that he is suffering from amnesia, his physician, Dr. Gardiner, dubs him "John Doe" and suggests he return to the Club Monterey, where someone might recognize him. While seated at a table in the club, Phil begins directing the band, giving Gibley the idea to launch a publicity campaign exploiting Phil as an amnesiac band leader. Gibley's angle proves a huge success and Phil becomes a hit. When Newton rescues Phil from a group of adoring fans one day, the band leader hires him as his bodyguard. Although Phil reminds Newton of his old painting partner, Newton believes that his new employer really is a band leader. Now employed as a hat check girl at the Club Monterey, Ann checks Jones's hat, and when she recalls her earlier meeting with Phil, the agent informs Gibley. Recognizing a good publicity angle, Gibley decides to promote Ann as Phil's fiance and hires her to sing in the club. Ann protests the ruse, but when reporters descend upon her and demand the name of her fiance, she claims that he is George Drake from Buffalo. When Dr. Gardiner encourages Ann to continue the deception to help Phil's recovery, she agrees and soon finds herself falling in love with the band leader. Upon returning home from a date with Phil one evening, Ann finds Edwin, her former beau from Buffalo, waiting for her in the lobby. When Edwin demands an explanation for Ann's alienation of affection, she invites him to her room and tells him the whole story. Unknown to Ann, Phil is just outside her door, and when overhears her tale, he thinks that Ann doesn't love him and leaves, dejected. Later Phil tells Newton about Ann's story and announces that he plans to quit and leave town. Newton finally realizes that the band leader really is his former painting partner and hurries to Dr. Gardiner for advice. In Newton's absence, Phil disappears and Ann, feeling responsible for his misery, refuses to perform. After tracking Phil to the train station, Newton convinces two police officers to arrest the band leader for stealing a suit and deliver him to the Club Monterey. At the club, Jones tries to persuade Phil that Ann is in love with him, but when Phil refuses to believe the agent's story, Newton hits his old friend over the head with a brush. The blow brings back Phil's memory, and after he sees Ann, he remembers meeting her as an aspiring young singer, and the two embrace.Eddie Rochester sings and flirts with two black beautiful women and the black female singing group, The Four Vees, sings "My My, Ain't That Somethin'"
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsMary MartinDick PowellBetty HuttonA gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.Unsung great dancer Rita Christiani dances and calypso singer Sir Lancelot sings.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsDanny KayeVirginia MayoBenny GoodmanWith her gangster boyfriend under investigation by the police, a nightclub singer hides out in a musical research institution staffed by bachelor professors - one of whom begins to fall for her.Louis Armstrong and Lionel Hampton plays a lot of great music. There's a great black scene with those two playing hot jive. The Golden Gate Quartette also sings and Buck and Bubbles dances.
- DirectorCrane WilburStarsFritz FeldCharley FoyKathryn KaneTemperamental film director Nitvich sees himself as an auteur long before the term was coined and feels he must change the scripts to suit himself.Some hot jitterbug dancing by blacks.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsBarbara StanwyckGeorge BrentDonald CookA young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank by gleefully seducing her way to the top.Theresa Harris sings "St. Louis Blues." She steals every scenes she's in.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsGinger RogersNorman FosterZasu PittsA vice-free radio singer wants to experience the dark side of life, so a press agent convinces her sponsor to choose a "professional sweetheart" from her fans.Theresa Harris sings the title of the movie.
- DirectorVincent ShermanStarsIda LupinoSydney GreenstreetWilliam PrinceA traveling saleswoman convinces an army lieutenant to pose as her husband so that she can rent an apartment during the World War II housing shortage.Dorothy Dandridge sings and Louis Armstrong sings and plays his hot trumpet in "Whatcha Say"
- DirectorWill JasonStarsVirginia GreyRoger ConverseCharles JudelsIn an attempt to win the girl of his dreams, a savory sausage salesman at Gibson's Department Store enters the store's indoor ski jump contest.Dorothy Dandridge and her sisters sing and appear with Cats and the Fiddle in an interesting Harlem Yodel number!
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodRoy Del RuthVincente MinnelliStarsRed SkeltonAnn SothernRags RaglandSailors suspicious of spies and a singer who is in love enjoy life in the Canal Zone.Lena Horne sings "Just One of Those Things" and "The Spring" that includes dancing by The Berry Brothers.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsGeorge BancroftFay WrayRichard ArlenA criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.Unsung Hollywood talent Theresa Harris sings "Daddy Won't You Please Come Home."
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloDick ForanTwo peanut vendors at a traveling rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that both know nothing about cowboys, horses, or much of anything.Ella Fitzgerald sings!
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsKathryn GraysonGene KellyMary AstorAcrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.Lena Horne glamourously sings "Honeysuckle Rose" in beautiful technicolor.
- DirectorGlenn TryonStarsMarsha HuntJohn HowardEugene PalletteIn this comedy, kiddie-show host Uncle Rodney finds himself assuming guardianship of a bratty lad at the behest of his radio station, which thinks it would boost ratings. The host will also become the trustee of the boy's estate. When the host meets the boy's lovely big sister, he is elated. But nothing is as easy as it looks.The Dandridge Sisters sing! Dorothy Dandridge with her sisters do a number together.
- DirectorRichard WhorfVincente MinnelliGeorge SidneyStarsRobert WalkerVan HeflinLucille BremerSongwriter and Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern is unable to find immediate success in the U.S. He sought recognition abroad. He journeyed to England where his dreams of success became real and where he met his future wife Eva Leale.Lena Horne sings "Show Boat" and "Why Was I Born" with a cast of blacks assisting her.
- DirectorHamilton MacFaddenStarsRalph BellamyBetty FurnessRobert ArmstrongRuss Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.Dorothy Dandridge with her sisters, do some singing.
- DirectorTim WhelanStarsKay KyserMarilyn MaxwellWilliam GarganLowell Blackford (Kay Kyser) is blessed with a gift of music,but also cursed with a hereditary "evil eye" which hypnotizes people,and he is virtually a recluse. He goes in search of a Broadway publisher for a symphonietta he has written, and ends up crashing an audition at the Swing Publishing Company, where he meets torch singer Ginger Gray (Marilyn Maxwell) and her fiance and promoter, Waltzy Malone (William Gargan). Ginger accidently walks off with his music and he follows her to a gym where Waltzy's fighter, "Killer" Kennedy (Nat Pendleton), has just been kayoed by his sparring partner. Waltzy learns of Lowell's hypnotic power and believes that Kennedy can win the championship if Lowell uses his power against the champ. He arranges for Lowell to lead the band at the club where Ginger sings. The latter objects to the role she is to play in getting Lowell to use his "evil eye" but Waltzy persuades her to go along by telling Lowell that Kennedy is her brother and it means everything to her if he wins the fight. Lowell, after having Ginger turn down his marriage proposal, joins the Tank Corps. Waltzy is frantic and he has a phoney doctor tell Lowell he needs rest followed by attending a prize fight, and also tells him Ginger has accepted his proposal.Lena Horne sings "You're so Indifferent."
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsVan JohnsonJune AllysonGloria DeHavenMusical in which two singing sisters set up a canteen to entertain soldiers, their enterprise funded by a mysterious wealthy admirerLena Horne sings "Paper Doll."
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsMickey RooneyTom DrakeJune AllysonMusical biography chronicling the songwriting partnership of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.Lena Horne sings "The Lady Is A Tramp" and "Where or When."
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsEsther WilliamsVan JohnsonJohn LundEllen Hallet is in love with her playboy boss, Douglas Morrison, but too timid to do anything about it. Her roommate Chris devises a plan to help her: she follows Morrison on his trip to Sun Valley, Idaho and plays the overattentive female, hoping he'll send for Ellen, who often plays his "fiancée" when he has a female he can't discourage otherwise. Complications arise when Chris catches the eye of band leader Dick Layn and lands in a triangle with the two men.Lena Horne sings "Baby Come Out of the Clouds."
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsDan DaileyCyd CharisseAgnes MooreheadIn 1950s Las Vegas, a gambling rancher and a ballerina discover that some people have luck at cards while others have luck at love.Lena Horne sings "If You Can Dream."
- DirectorRoy Del RuthWilly PoganyStarsEddie CantorAnn SothernEthel MermanA musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy (Eddie Cantor) who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but must go to Egypt to claim it.The Nicholas Brothers dance to "Mandy"
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsDon AmecheBetty GrableCarmen MirandaAn American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner.The Nicholas Brothers dance in technicolor!
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsAlice FayeJack OakieJohn PayneAfter WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together.The Nicholas Brothers dance to "Alabamy Bound" and The Ink Spots sing their famous song "If I Didn't Care" and "Alabamy Bound."
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsJudy GarlandGene KellyWalter SlezakA girl is engaged to the local rich man, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.The Nicholas Brothers dance to "Be A Clown."
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsGeorge MontgomeryAnn RutherfordGlenn Miller and His OrchestraConnie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.The Nicholas Brothers perform "I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo."
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsJohnny DownsBetty BurgessJack HaleySouthern California's Hotel Coronado caters to, and is frequented by, members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego tracks, in a tent-city with her father Otto and ditzy sister Violet, June Wray is a singer with the Eddy Duchin Orchestra who play at the hotel. Johnny Marvin, an aspiring songwriter and the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, is staying at the hotel, and the moment June and Johnny meet, they fall instantly in love. Trouble arises when Johnny's father objects to the romance, and complications and help arrive in the form of two Marine-hating sailors, Chuck Hornbostel and "Pinky" Falls, when Chuck marries June's sister Violet.Harold Nicholas of The Nicholas Brothers dance.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsBruce CabotJulie BishopHarry CareyHonest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring.The Nicholas Brothers dances.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsAlice FayeBetty GrableJack OakieSongwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.The Nicholas Brothers perform "The Sheik of Araby."
- DirectorFelix E. FeistStarsGloria JeanHenry StephensonKathleen HowardLinda Wadsworth (Gloria Jean) rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth (Henry Stephenson), and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.Harold Nicholas performs "Mama yo quiero" and The Delta Rhythm Boys sing "Get On Board, Little Chicken."
- DirectorLeigh JasonStarsJoan BlondellJohn WaynePhilip MerivaleGambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.A black musical number with singing and dancing called "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel."
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsRobert MitchumJane GreerKirk DouglasA private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.A black nightclub scene with music!
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsMary HatcherOlga San JuanDeForest KelleyAlmost everyone under contract to Paramount Pictures at the time make cameos or perform songs, with particularly large amounts of screen time featuring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.Pearl Bailey sings "I'm Tired."
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsBarbara StanwyckJoel McCreaWalter BrennanBelieving he has killed a guest, a groom flees on his wedding night.Theresa Harris sings "St. Louis Blues."
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsAnn MillerEddie 'Rochester' AndersonJohn HubbardFreddy Martin and his band go on a trailer vacation, taking along Rochester as a handy man. They run out of gas in a ghost town and have to spend the night in the deserted Palace Hotel. The next morning, Ann Crawford and her three friends, Josie, Billie and May, arrive as Ann has inherited the hotel and most of the surrounding property, and she and her friends have pooled their savings to pay off the debts and formed a company to run the hotel. Jimmie Ross, singer with the band, decides to help the girls and has the hotel done over at his expense. Rochester, digging in the Victory Garden he has started, finds a gold nugget and the rush is on. Gangster Pete Hartley and his henchmen move in with intentions of taking over. He succeeds, over Ann's protests, in buying the property from her friends. Jimmie returns and thinks Ann has double-crossed him and they quarrel and part. Jimmie discovers that Rochester's gold nugget was his own gold inlay. Later, back on the radio with Freddie's band, Jimmie sings a song especially to Ann, who he hopes is listening.Eddie Rochester and Theresa Harris perform "Ain't That Just Like A Man."
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJane RussellGilbert RolandArthur HunnicuttWhen her fiancé leaves her, an oil heiress takes a cruise incognito in order to find a man who will love her for herself and not for her money.Theresa Harris sings "Well! I'll Be Switched."
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsShirley TempleJoan DavisCharles FarrellShirley helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum-clearance project; the little miss dances with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Based on Paul Gerard Smith's book "Lucky Penny."Bill Bojangles Robinson performs a variety of dances, one with a black male chorus.