Titles: A B C D E F G H I-J K L M-N O P-Q R S T W-Z South/Southeast Asian film videography (for Bollywood musicals ) Rap and Hip-hop movies Film genre page (via Tim Dirks' Greatest Films web site) All That Jazz (1979) Directed by Bob Fosse. Cast: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen, Erzsebet Foldi. Bob Fosse's spellbinding film and four time Academy Award winner is a powerful story of a man driven compulsively to find perfection in his work. It is a musical which celebrates show business, yet strips it of its glitter. 123 min. DVD 5209; vhs 999:1015 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database American in Paris (1951) Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guetary, Nina Foch. Music by George Gershwin: lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Winner of 8 academy awards. A musical based on George Gershwin's popular songs about an ex-American G.I. artist in Paris after the war who becomes involved in a love triangle, between his sponsor, best friend and a lovely young girl. 102 min. DVD 1432; vhs 999:26 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Anchors Aweigh (1945) Directed by George Sidney. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Jose Iturbi, Dean Stockwell. Two lovesick sailors on shore leave in Hollywood fall hard for the same beautiful singer. The race for Susie's heart leads them both into a series of comical and musical adventures. The film is notable for the mixed live and animated scene with Gene Kelly dancing with an animated Jerry (of the Tom and Jerry cartoon) Special features: Interview with animation legends William Hanna and Joseph Barbera ; except from "MGM: when the lion roars" documentary series ; interactive menus, three theatrical trailers. 140 min. DVD 7269 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Annie (1981) Directed by John Huston. Cast: Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry, Geoffrey Holder, Edward Herrmann, Aileen Quinn. Charles Strouse, music: Martin Charnin, lyrics. A lavish musical production of the story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is chosen to stay for one week with the famous billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks. One week turns into many, and the only person standing in the way of Annie's fun is Miss Hannigan, the gin-soaked ruler of the orphanage. Based on the stage play by Charles Strouse, which was based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, created by Harold Gray. 127 min. DVD 1436 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Annie Get Your Gun (1950) Directed by George Sidney. Cast: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish. Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Based on the musical play produced on the stage by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, II. Based on the book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields. Frank Butler, handsome star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, bags clay pigeons and ladies' hearts. He's the best marksman in the world--until a backwoods hoyden challenges him. Her name? Annie Oakley. Special features include: Original theatrical trailer, new introduction by Annie get your gun Broadway revival star Susan Lucci, 3 rare outtake musical numbers, Let's go west again with Betty Hutton, and a pair with the originally cast Judy Garland, Doin' what comes natur'lly and I'm an Indian too. 127 min. DVD 395 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Applause (1930) Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Cast: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish, Jr., Jack Cameron, Henry Wadsworth. Filmed when talking pictures were first coming to the screen, director Rouben Mamoulian produced this sophisticated film in a desert of stage-bound early talkies. Tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated daughter April from following in Mom's footsteps. Special features: Film clips; interviews with Mamoulian; gallery of photographs and promotional materials; excerpt from Brown's novel; excerpts from the 1929 censorship files. 79 min. DVD 395 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Babes in Arms (1939) Directed by Busby Berkeley. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee, June Preisser, Grace Hayes, Betty Jaynes, Douglas McPhail. Based on the play "Babes In Arms" by Rodgers and Hart. Learning that his parents are in financial straits, the son of a famous vaudeville team rounds up all the stage kids and puts on a lavish show to raise money. Special DVD features: All-new introduction by Mickey Rooney; commentary by historian John Fricke; vintage "Our Gang" short "Duel personalities", classic cartoon "The mad maestro"; 1939 newsreel; theatrical trailer ; Audio bonuses: "Leo is on the air" radio promo; 3 radio shows with Rooney and Garland. 91 min. DVD 8479; vhs 999:1848 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Babes in Toyland (March of the Wooden Soldiers) (1934) Directed by Gus Meins and Charley Rogers. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Virginia Karns, Charlotte Henry, Felix Knight, Florence Roberts, Henry Kleinbach. Based on the operetta Babes in Toyland, by Victor Herbert: book and lyrics by Glen MacDonough. Musical comedy with Laurel and Hardy in a story that takes them to Toyland where they try to pay off the mortgage on Widow Peep's shoe. 77 min. DVD 6015 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Babes on Broadway (1941) Directed by Busby Berkeley. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Bainter, Virginia Weidler, Ray McDonald, Richard Quine, Donald Meek, Alexander Woollcott. One of the famous old musicals that combines captivating music and lavish production numbers by the master, Busby Berkeley. The story is the standard tale of two struggling Broadway hopefuls, and is filled with 16 song and dance numbers. Special features: All-new introduction by Mickey Rooney; "Pete Smith specialty" comedy short "How to hold your husband-- back"; classic cartoon "Dance of the weed"; theatrical trailer ; Audio bonuses: 2 "Leo is on the air" radio promos; radio show adaptation of "Merton of the movies" with Rooney and Garland; "Chin up! Cheerio! Carry on!" song demo performed by Burton Lane. 118 min. DVD 8479 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Band Wagon (1953) Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan, James Mitchell. A Hollywood song-and-dance man finds trouble when persuaded to star in a Broadway musical. Special features: (Disc one): Commentary by Liza Minnelli and Michael Feinstein; Astaire trailer gallery; (Disc two): new making-of documentary "Get Aboard! The Band Wagon;" vintage documentary "The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli;" outtake musical number "Two Faced Woman," plus dailies; musical short "Jack Buchanan with the Glee Quartet." 112 min. DVD 3558; also VHS 999:213 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) Directed by Charles Walters. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant, Billie Burke, Jacques Francois, Gale Robbins. Music, Harry Warren: lyrics, Ira Gershwin: musical numbers directed by Robert Alton. In their first film together in a decade, Fred and Ginger play a bickering show biz couple. Songs include "You'd be hard to replace" and "They can't take that away from me." Special features: New featurette "Reunited: Astaire and Rogers together again"; vintage short "Annie was a wonder"; classic Droopy cartoon "Wags to riches"; theatrical trailer. 110 min. DVD 4256 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Vanneman, Alan. "The Barkleys of Broadway: Fred & Ginger's Last Dance: Ten Pounds Shy of a Gem?" Bright Lights Film Journal, vol. 50, pp. (no pagination), November 2005 Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) Directed by William Asher. Cast: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Deborah Walley, Harvey Lembeck, John Ashley, Jody McCrea, Donna Loren, Marta Kristen, Linda Evans, Don Rickles, Paul Lynde. In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei. 97 min. DVD 8374 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Griffin, Annie The blondest thing on the beach." Sight and Sound August 1993 v3 n8 p35(1) Morris, Gary "Beyond the beach." Journal of Popular Film and Television Spring 1993 v21 n1 p2(10) UCB users only Rutsky, R. L. "Surfing the Other." (surf films from 1950's, 1960's and how teenagers responded) Film Quarterly, Summer 1999 v52 i4 p12 UCB users only Beach Party (1963) Directed by William Asher. Cast: Bob Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Harvey Lembeck, Jody McCrea, John Ashley, Morey Amsterdam, Eva Six. A college professor nearly blows his credentials when one of his gorgeous students decides the subject she wants to study is romance. 100 min. DVD 8375; vhs 999:1488 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Griffin, Annie The blondest thing on the beach." Sight and Sound August 1993 v3 n8 p35(1) Morris, Gary "Beyond the beach." Journal of Popular Film and Television Spring 1993 v21 n1 p2(10) UCB users only Rutsky, R. L. "Surfing the Other." (surf films from 1950's, 1960's and how teenagers responded) Film Quarterly, Summer 1999 v52 i4 p12 UCB users only The Belle of New York (1952) Director, Charles Walters. Cast: Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn, Alice Pearce, Clinton Sundberg, Gale Robbins. Music, Harry Warren ; lyrics, Johnny Mercer. He's a playboy who sings and dances. She is a charity worker likelier to prefer a fella with his feet on the ground, that is until the playboy dances the proper miss off her feet. Special features: Comedy short and classic cartoon; "I wanna be a dancin' man" alternate version; theatrical trailer. 81 min. DVD 8293 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bells Are Ringing (1960) Director, Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Dean Martin, Judy Holliday, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy, Jr., Jean Stapleton. Screenplay, Betty Comden and Adolph Green; music, Jule Styne. In this musical comedy a switchboard operator gets caught up in the personal lives of the clients of an answering service, including that of a playboy. Special features: New featurette Bells are ringing: just in time: outtake musical numbers: alternate take of the song The Midas touch: theatrical trailer. 126 min. DVD 3648 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bikini Beach (1964) Directed by William Asher. Cast: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Martha Hyer, Harvey Lembeck, Don Rickles, John Ashley, Jody McCrea, Candy Johnson, Little Stevie Wonder, The Pyramids, The Exciters Band, Keenan Wynn. Millionaire Harvey Huntington Honeywagon III tries to prove to his colleague Vivian Clements that his chimp, Clyde, is more intelligent than the average American teenager. Meanwhile Dee Dee is torn between Frankie and British recording star, the Potato Bug. Eric Von Zipper shows up to aid Harvey's anti-teen campaign. 100 min. DVD 8375 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Blue Melodies (1929-34; Hollywood rhythm: Paramount Musical Shorts: 3) Eight mini musicals Cast: landmark performances by the legends of jazz and blues from the early years of sound film production. Bessie Smith stars in her only film, the once-notorious musical St. Louis Blues. Tennaged Billie Holiday performs with Duke Ellington's orchestra while another piece, Bundle of Blues, spotlights Ellington's favorite band singer, Ivie Anderson. And, months before her Broadway debut, a girlish Ethel Merman defends her life before a judge in Her Future. Directed by various Paramount directors: Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life - Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday (1935); Those Blues - Vincent Lopez (1932); Ol' King Cotton - George Dewey Washington (1930); A Bundle of Blues - Duke Ellington, Ivie Anderson (1933); Jitterbug Party - Cab Calloway (1934); Her Future - Ethel Merman (1930); St. Louis Blues - Bessie Smith (1929); Blue of the Night - Bing Crosby (1933). 85 min. 999:1692 Bride & Prejudice (2004) Directed by Gurinder Chadha. Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Madira Babbar, Anupam Kher, Naveen Andrews, Namrata Shirodkar, Daniel Gillies, Indira Varma, Sonali Kulkarni, Nitin Ganatra, Ashanti. Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, with a Bollywood twist. In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - but is it love? 111 min. DVD 4541 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Wilson, Cheryl A. "Bride and Prejudice: A Bollywood Comedy of Manners." Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 323-31, 2006 UC users only Brigadoon (1954) Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart, Barry Jones, Albert Sharpe. Based on the musical play with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. Two Americans find a Scottish village which comes to life only one day every hundred years. Based on the musical play with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. 109 min. DVD 1453; vhs 999:751 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Bright Eyes (1934) Directed by David Butler. Cast: Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Jane Darnell, Judith Allen, Lois Wilson. Music, Richard A. Whiting: lyricist, Sidney Clare: Choreographer, Sammy Lee. Five-year-old Shirley Blake is the daughter of a crack aviator who died in a plane crash, and when her mother also dies she becomes the center of a bitter custody battle. 83 min. 999:3745 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Broadway Melody (1929) Directed by Harry Beaumont. Cast: Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love. Music, Nacio Herb Brown: lyrics, Arthur Freed. This was billed as the first full-length, all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing musical and is the first musical to win a Best Picture Oscar. Two sisters in love with the same man suffer behind the scenes, but learn the show must go on. 111 min. DVD 4001; vhs 999:804 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) Directed by Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Jack Benny, Robert Taylor, Eleanor Powell, Una Merkel. Lovely, gifted Irene Foster (Eleanor Powell) hopes that her c Music and lyrics, Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed. Lovely, gifted Irene Foster (Eleanor Powell) hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon (Robert Taylor) will recognize her--and her talent. Gordon is too busy sparring with a dirt-dishing gossip columnist (Jack Benny) to notice, but his wisecracking, heart-of-gold secretary (Una Merkel) certainly does. She and Irene must use their wits to show him what he's missing! 101 min. 999:845 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Broadway Melody of 1938 (1938) Directed by Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Binnie Barnes, Buddy Ebsen, Sophie Tucker, Judy Garland, Charles Igor Gorin, Raymond Walburn, Robert Benchley, Willie Howard, Charley Grapewin, Robert Wildhack. Music, Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed. On her way to the top, a girl who dreams of "making it big" on Broadway, has two memorable encounters-- a racehorse named Stargazer whose winning ways could help to make her dream come true and with a romantic and dashing Broadway producer-composer who makes it all happen. 113 min. 999:811 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) Directed by Norman Taurog. Cast: Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Frank Morgan, Ian Hunter, Florence Rice, Lynne Carver. Lyrics and music, Cole Porter. A backstage yarn about Johnny Brett and King Shaw, who are an ambitious dance team working in a dance hall. A mistake in names shoots King instead of Johnny into the lead of a Broadway musical. On opening night King is drunk and unable to dance and Johnny is forced to perform to save his partner's reputation. The show's producers realize their mistake and all is resolved. Special features: Ann Miller hosts "Cole Porter in Hollywood: Begin the Beguine;" Our Gang short "The Big Premiere;" theatrical trailer; behind-the-scenes notes. 104 min. DVD 2831; vhs 999:800 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Vanneman, Alan. "Fred Goes Over the Top with Eleanor Powell in Broadway Melody of 1940" Bright Lights Film Journal, vol. 38, pp. (no pagination), November 2002 The Busby Berkeley Disc Features 21 song-and-dance spectaculars staged and directed by Busby Berkeley, from movie musicals released in the 1930's. Included are excerpts from "42nd Street" (1933), "Gold diggers of 1933" (1933), "Fashions of 1934" (1934), "In Caliente" (1933), "Footlight parade" (1933), "Wonder Bar" (1934), "Dames" (1934), "Gold diggers of 1935" (1935), and "Gold diggers of 1937" (1937). Contents: Shuffle off to Buffalo -- Young and healthy -- 42nd Street -- We're in the money -- Pettin' in the park -- Shadow waltz -- Remember my forgotten man -- Ah, the moon is here -- Sittin' on a backyard fence -- Honeymoon hotel -- By a waterfall -- Shanghai Lil -- Spin a little web of dreams -- Don't say goodnight -- The girl at the ironing board -- I only have eyes for you -- Dames -- The words are in my heart -- Lullaby of Broadway -- The lady in red -- All is fair in love and war. Cast: : Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers, Joan Blondell, James Cagney. 163 min. DVD 5300 Bye Bye Birdie (1963) Directed by George Sidney. Cast: Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Maureen Stapleton, Bobby Rydell, Jesse Pearson, Ed Sullivan,Paul Lynde. When rock star Conrad Birdie gets drafted, his manager organizes a nationwide contest in which one lucky girl wins a farewell kiss on The Ed Sullivan show. Based on the musical play of the same title with music by Charles Strouse. 112 min. DVD 5722; vhs 999:2019 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Cabaret (1972) Directed by Bob Fosse. Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey. An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret. Special DVD features: 1972 documentary: The Recreation of an era ; Kit Kat Klub memory gallery and 1997 documentary, Cabaret: a legend in the making ; theatrical trailer. Based on the musical play by Joe Masteroff, the play I am a camera by John Van Druten and Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories. 124 min. DVD 339; vhs 999:794 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Cabin in the Sky (1943) Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Ethel Waters, Eddie Anderson, Lena Horne. Petunia Jackson, a poor but devout woman, is burdened with a shiftless husband called Little Joe. When Little Joe is seriously wounded in a fight and seems about to die, the forces of heaven and hell begin a battle for his soul. Special DVD features: Commentary by Evangela Anderson and Eva Anderson (wife and daughter of Eddie "Rochester" Anderson), Fayard Nicholas, Black cultural scholars Todd Boyd and Drew Casper, with interview excerpts of Lena Horne; vintage Pete Smith specialty shor studio visit; audio-only bonus: Louis Armstrong "Ain't it the truth" outtake; theatrical trailer. 99 min. DVD 5684; vhs 999:357 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Calamity Jane (1938) Directed by David Butler. Cast: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick Wesson. In this musical-comedy set in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, Calamity Jane is a calamity at love --she's too busy cracking a bullwhip to pay much mind to dresses and perfume. But then one of her boasts requires that she go to Chicago to recruit an actress for the Golden Garter stage. When the actress arrives, the lady in question appears to be a more feminine rival for the favors of Jane's male friends...including her friendly enemy Wild Bill Hickok. 101 min. DVD 8882 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Camelot (1967) Directed by Joshua Logan. Cast: Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, David Hemmings, Lionel Jeffries, Laurence Naismith. Screenplay and lyrics, Alan Jay Lerner: music, Frederick Loewe. A musical interpretation of the legend of King Arthur and his pure, perfect kingdom that was shattered because of the tragic passion between Queen Guenevere and the Round Table's bravest knight Lancelot. Special features: two documentaries, The Story of Camelot and Camelot world premier: alternate music-only track: interactive menus: production notes: five theatrical trailers. 180 min. DVD 564 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Captain January (1936) Directed by David Butler. Cast: Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, Buddy Ebsen, Slim Summerville. Star, an irrepressible orphan loves her somewhat unusual life in the loving care of the wonderful old keeper of the lighthouse who rescued her from a shipwreck when she was a baby. Then a mean truant officer begins a relentless campaign to have Star sent far away to a boarding school. 76 min. DVD 6028 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Carefree (1938) Directed by Mark Sandrich. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy, Luella Gear, Jack Carson, Clarence Kolb, Franklin Pangborn. Dr. Tony Flagg's friend, Steven, has problems in the relationship with his fiancee, Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Dr. Flagg. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with Dr. Flagg. When he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, things get complicated. Special features: Vintage musical short "Public jitterbug no. 1"; Classic cartoon "September in the rain." Choreography: Hermes Pan. Music: Irving Berlin. 83 min. DVD 6744 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Carmen Jones (1954) Directed by Otto Preminger. Cast: Harry Belafonte, Dorthy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Olga James, Joe Adams, Diahann Carroll. Joe, a military policeman about to make officer, is infatuated with the flirtatious and sexy Carmen Jones. Their ill-fated romance comes to a grisly end by the conclusion of the drama but not before their liaison has wreaked havoc with their lives and all who cross their paths. 105 min. DVD 3429; vhs 999:1169 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Carousel (1956) Directed by Henry King. Cast: Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Ruick, Claramae Turner, Robert Rounseville, Gene Lockhart. A smooth-talking carny barker falls in love with a millworker in Maine. The night before the birth of his daughter he is killed while committing a robbery. Now in heaven, years later, he returns to earth for one day to teach his daughter a valuable lesson. Special features on DVD 6861: Disc 1: Audio commentary by Shirley Jones and Nick Redman; exclusive isolated musical score; songs-only option; singalong karaoke subtitles (English): Disc 2: Bonus film: 1934 classic "Liliom" (116 min., b&w); "Turns on the 'Carousel'" featurette; vintage stage excerpt: The "If I loved you" extended sequence with original Broadway stars Jan Clayton and John Raitt; stills and audio from deleted numbers: "You're a queer one, Julie Jordan," performed by Barbara Ruick and Shirley Jones, "Blow high, blow low" performed by Cameron Mitchell and chorus; Fox Movietone News: "'Carousel' opens at New York and Hollywood in CinemaScope 55"; behind-the-scenes still photo gallery; original theatrical trailer. 128 min. DVD 6861; DVD 566; VHS 999:560 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Casbah (1948) Directed by John Berry. Cast: Yvonne DeCarlo, Tony Martin, Peter Lorre, Marla Toren. A criminal, Pepe Le Moko, eludes capture in the Casbah section of Algiers until he is lured out of hiding by a beautiful woman in this thrilling musical tale of love and betrayal. Based on the novel by Detective Ashelbe; remake of the French motion picture, Pepe Le Moko (1937). 94 min. 999:2499 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Chicago (2002) Directed by Rob Marshall. Cast: Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reily, Lucy Liu, Taye Diggs, Christine Baranski. Music, John Kander: lyrics, Fred Ebb: original score music, Danny Elfman. In this dazzling musical set at a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends. Based on the musical play Chicago, directed and choreographed for the stage by Bob Fosse. 113 min. DVD 1850 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database A Chorus Line (1985) Directed by Richard Attenborough. Cast: Michael Douglas, Alyson Reed, Terrence Mann, Yamil Borges, Vicki Frederick, Nicole Fosse. Music, Marvin Hamlisch: lyrics, Edward Kleban. In this movie musical about selecting a cast for a Broadway musical, the director, Zach, must select eight dancers from the hundreds who audition. He asks each of the seventeen finalists to talk about themselves, which they do in song and dance. Special features: "Marvin Hamlisch: From Broadway to Hollywood" featurette: original theatrical trailer. 117 min. DVD 1743; vhs 999:1133 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Chu Chin Chow (1934) Directed by Walter Forde. Cast: George Robey (Ali Baba), Anna May Wong (Zahrat), Fritz Kortner (Abu Hasan), John Garrick (Nur-al-din). A musical retelling of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Penniless woodcutter Ali Baba finds himself wealthy when he discovers the secret treasure cave of the Forty Thieves, but soon finds he must contend with Abu Hasan, a thief posing as a Chinese mandarin in order to steal Ali Baba's riches. Wong plays the slave girl who must help Ali Baba in his adventure. 102 min. DVD 4118 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Circus (1936) Director, Grigori Alexandrov. Russian film producer Grigori Alexandrov's attempt at importing American musical comedy into Soviet film. An American circus star is on tour in Moscow with her German manager. There she falls in love with a Soviet engineer, but her manager blackmails her with her dark spot in her life, she has a black baby. 86 min. 999:3252 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Holgren, Beth. "The Blue Angel and Blackface: Redeeming Entertainment in Aleksandrov's Circus." Russian Review: An American Quarterly Devoted to Russia Past and Present, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 5-22, Winter 2007 To the top Daddy Long-Legs (1955) Directed by Jean Negulesco. Cast: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter. Words and music by Johnny Mercer: ballets by Roland Petit. Millionaire playboy Jervis Pendleton III becomes enamored with a young woman living in a French orphanage, and decides to anonymously sponsor her college education in America. When they finally meet face-to-face two years later, romance blossoms but is complicated by Jervis's hesitance towards their age differences. Special DVD features: Audio commentary by Ava Astaire McKenzie and film historian/author Ken Barnes with archival commentary by songwriter Johnny Mercer; Fox Movietone news footage - Hollywood, New York and London premieres; still photo gallery. 126 min. DVD 5261; vhs 999:2094 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Dames (1934) Directed by Ray Enright. Cast: Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, ZaSu Pitts, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert. In this musical, three relatives stand to inherit a multi-millionaire's money if they will turn against his pet hate, the theater. 92 min. DVD 5320; vhs 999:1664 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Damn Yankees (1958) Directed by Stanley Donen & George Abbot. Cast: Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Tab Hunter. Joe Boyd, an armchair athlete, would give anything to watch his sad-sack Washington Senators murder those invincible New York Yankees and grab the American League pennant--even sell his soul to the devil. He succumbs and the devil interferes in the fortunes of the failing baseball team. Based upon the play "Damn Yankees", book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop. 111 min. DVD 5707; vhs 999:777 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Casper, Joseph Andrew. Stanley Donen Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1983. (MAIN: PN1998.A3 D592 1983; MOFF: PN1998.A3 D592 1983) Silverman, Stephen M. Dancing on the ceiling : Stanley Donen and his movies. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996. (MAIN: PN1998.3.D65 S55 1996; MOFF: PN1998.3.D65 S55 1996) Dancer in the Dark (2000) Directed by Lars von Trier. Cast: Bjork, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Jean-Marc Barr, Joel Grey. Selma, a factory worker in rural America and single mother, is losing her eyesight from a hereditary disease. Determined to protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate, Selma is saving her money to get him an operation. In the evenings, Selma escapes by rehearsing for a production of The Sound of Music with her best friend. When a neighbor betrays her trust, Selma's life spirals out of control and the lines between reality and fantasy blur until she begins to believe that her life has actually become a Hollywood musical. 141 min. DVD 1087 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Dancing Lady (1933) Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Winnie Lightner, Fred Astaire, Robert Benchley, Ted Healy and His Stooges. A Broadway chorine needs a little help with her hoofing, so her dance director gets an idea. A good idea. "Do you feel like going through that opening number with Mr. Astaire?" And Fred Astaire, making his screen debut, shows the lady how it's done. Three film icons give this backstage musical a jolt of superstar electricity in a song-, dance-, and romance-filled extravaganza. Special features : 2 vintage musical short films : Plane nuts (with Ted Healy and The Three Stooges): Roast beef & movies (with Curly Howard) -- Theatrical trailer. 92 min. DVD 5730 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Dimples (1936) Directed by William A. Seither. Cast: Shirley Temple, Frank Morgan, Robert Kent, Helen Westley, Stepin Fetchit. A little girl with nothing but tiny dimples and a huge amount of talent makes her way from poverty to potential stardom. 78 min. DVD 6030 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Down Argentine Way (1940) Directed by Irving Cummings. Cast: Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, J. Carroll Naish, Henry Stephenson, Katharine (Kay) Aldridge, Leonid Kinskey, Chris-Pin Martin, Nicholas Brothers. A musical romance about Glenda, a rich New Yorker who collects fine horses and Ricardo, an Argentine rancher renowned for his prize jumpers. Their families have been feuding for years so they have to conduct a Romeo and Juliet romance. Special features: Commentary soundtrack by film historian Sylvia Stoddard; featurette "Betty Grable: behind the pin-up"; photo gallery; 4 lobby cards; theatrical trailer; trailer for Betty Grable film "The Dolly sisters." 88 min. DVD 7485 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Dreamgirls (2006) Directed by Bill Condon. Cast: Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, Anika Noni Rose, Keith Robinson, Sharon Leal, Hinton Battle, Jennifer Hudson. Deena Jones, Effie White, and Lorrell Robinson, three young African-American women in 1960s Detroit, dream of becoming pop stars. They get their wish after a local talent show when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early. As they become more successful over time, each of the girls discovers the costs and compromises exacted by their desire to be in the music business. Special features (Disc 1): 12 never-before-seen extended musical numbers; Listen (Beyonce music video). (Disc 2). Building the dream (behind-the-scenes full-length documentary); original auditions and screen tests; previsualization sequences; image gallery; additional featurettes. 130 min. DVD 7816 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Duke is Tops (1938) Directed by William Nolte. Cast: Lena Horne, Ralph Cooper, Monte Hawley, Lawrence Criner, Vernon McCalla, Edward Thompson. Lena Horne, in her film debut, plays a successful singer who very nearly loses her man because his career as a producer is on the skids. 72 min. 999:1168 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Eastside Stories "That's Entertainment," Communist style. A documentary of Soviet and Eastern bloc communist musical films. Comrades drive tractors, sweep factory floors, feed farm animals, harvest crops, all the while singing their hearts out about the joys of socialism. Included are interviews with people involved in the making of some of these movies, as well as a film historian and moviegoers. Film excerpts: Antique coin (Bulgaria, 1965) -- Adventure in Marienstadt (Poland, 1954) -- Handful of notes (GDR, 1961) -- Vacation on the Black Sea (Romania, 1963) --My wife wants to sing (GDR, 1958) -- New Years punch (GDR, 1960) -- Wayward wife (Czech., 1965) -- I don't want to marry (Romania, 1961) -- Carnival night (USSR, 1957) -- Jolly Fellows (USSR, 1934) -- Volga, Volga (USSR, 1938) -- Swineherd and the shepherd (USSR, 1941) -- Tractor drivers (USSR, 1939) -- Bright path (USSR, 1940) -- Cossacks of the Kuban River (USSR, 1946) -- At 6PM at the end of the war (USSR, 1944) -- Ernst Thalman, class leader (GDR, 1955) -- Midnight revue (GDR, 1962) -- Lovable white mouse (GDR, 1964) -- Hot summer (GDR, 1968) -- No cheating darling (GDR, 1973) -- Woman on the rails (Czech., 1965) 79 min. Video/C 6396 Rinke, Andrea. "Eastside stories: Singing and dancing for socialism." Film History (Bloomington, IN) v. 18 no. 1 (2006) p. 73-87 UC users only Easter Parade (1948) Directed by Charles Walters. Cast: Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Ann Miller. A 1912 song-and-dance man quarrels with one partner but finds another. His new partner falls head over heels for the king of the hoofers. Special features: (Disc one): Commentary by Fred Astaire's daughter Ava Astaire McKenzie and Judy Garland biographer John Fricke; Garland trailer gallery. (Disc two): new making-of documentary "Easter Parade: On the Avenue;" three-time Emmy Award-winning American Masters documentary profile "Judy Garland: by myself;" outtake musical number "Mr. Monotony;" audio-only bonuses: radio production with the film's stars; radio promo. 102 min. DVD 3560; VHS 999:1013 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Everyone Says I Love You (1996) Directed by Woody Allen. Cast: Alan Alda, Woody Allen, Drew Barrymore, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts, Tim Roth. Romance meets comedy in Woody Allen's first movie musical, a fun-filled story of one wealthy, eccentric and romantically challenged extended family from New York's Upper West Side. 101 min. DVD 108; VHS 999:1872 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Evita (1996) Director, Alan Parker. Cast: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail. Based on the musical play with music by Andrew Lloyd Lyrics, Tim Rice: music, Andrew Lloyd Webber. Webber, presents the true-life story of Eva Peron, who rose above childhood poverty and a scandalous past to achieve fortune and fame as the wife of the Argentinian president. 135 min. DVD 2675 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top The Fantasticks (1995) Directed by Michael Ritchie. Cast: Joel Grey, Barnard Hughes, Jean Louisa Kelly, Brad Sullivan, Joe McIntyre, Jonathon Morris, Teller. Two teenagers on neighboring farms steal glances and hide their romance from their feuding fathers. Little do these love-birds know, however, that their fathers are actually good friends who've hatched a plan--with the help of a mystical roving side-show and its equally mysterious ring master--to get these lovers down the aisle! But be careful what you wish for, because to bring these families together, they must first be torn apart! Based on the play "The fantasticks" by Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt. Special features: Audio commentary by director Michael Ritchie; theatrical trailer(s); deleted songs (Try to remember: Plant a radish: It depends on what you pay (The rape song)); full-length songs (Never say no: Metaphor: The abduction song: Soon it's gonna rain); eleven deleted scenes plus an alternate ending; "Jump to a song" feature. 87 min. DVD 1340 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Fiddler on the Roof (1971) Directed by Norman Jewison. Cast: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann. Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. His people's traditions keep him strong when his existence is as precariously balanced as a fiddler on the roof. DVD special features: "Norman Jewison, filmmaker" documentary, audio commentary by Norman Jewison and Topol, never-before-available deleted song "Any day now", "Tevye's dream" in full color, stories of Sholom Aleichem and historical background read by Norman Jewison, and storyboard to film comparison. 180 min. DVD 2578; vhs 999:768:1&2 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Finian's Rainbow (1968) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Cast: Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Don Francks, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Steele, Barbara Hancock. Based on the broadway play and book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy. A leprechaun tries to retrieve a crock of gold from an old wanderer who has taken it to America where he has planted it in the soil thinking he will reap a rich harvest. Fred Astaire sings and dances his last musical lead in this film based on the 1947 Broadway play. 145 min. DVD 3649 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database First a Girl (1935) Directed by Victor Saville. Cast: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Griffith Jones, Anna Lee, Alfred Drayton. A racy musical starring English songbird Jessie Matthews as a girl who leads a double life, pretending to be a boy who is a female impersonator at a famed Paris cabaret. She becomes an overnight sensation, but it also complicates her love life greatly. Based on the play Viktor Und Viktoria by Reinhold Schunzel. "Made as a follow-up to the successful Jessie Matthews film, Evergreen, this musical was based on a German play (and silent film). It also inspired the 1982 film, Victor Victoria. 93 min. 999:3144 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Flower Drum Song(1961) Directed by Henry Koster. Cast: Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Benson Fong, Jack Soo, Juanita Hall, Miyoshi Umeki. This unforgettable Broadway smash, filled with memorable songs and brilliant dances, centers on a Hong Kong girl who comes to San Francisco for an arranged marriage to an Americanized nightclub owner who is already engaged to a sultry singer. Based on the novel by C.Y. Lee. Special features: A classic evolves: from print to stage to screen; Faces of the east : casting Flower drum song; The songs of Flower drum song; An all-access pass to the sets and costumes of Flower drum song; The legacy of Rodgers and Hammerstein; feature commentary with actress Nancy Kwan and film historian Nick Redman. DVD 6548; vhs 999:537 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Lewis, David H. Flower drum songs : the story of two musicals Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2006. (Main Stack ML410.R6315.L48 2006; Moffitt ML410.R6315.L48 2006) Ma, Sheng-mei. "Rodger's and Hammerstein's "Chopsticks" musicals.(Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein; "The King and I," "Flower Drum Song" and "South Pacific")(Critical Essay)." Literature-Film Quarterly 31.1 (Jan 2003): 17-26. UC users only McConachie, Bruce A. "The 'Oriental' Musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein and the U. S. War in Southeast Asia." Theatre Journal v46.n3 (Oct 1994): pp385(14). (7770 words) UC users only Flying Down to Rio (1933) Directed by Thornton Freeland. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Delores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien. This film, containing the first of many Fred Astaire - Ginger Rogers partnerships, concerns a troupe of entertainers stranded in Rio. Songs include "The Carioca," "Orchids in the Moonlight," and the title song. Notable for a brilliantly photographed finale with chorus girls on the wings of flying airplanes, the movie was the musical that broke with the rather contrived Busby Berkeley productions and moved toward a closer integration of musical and narrative elements. Astaire's dance numbers come not as interruptions but as extensions of the plot. Special features: Vintage comedy short: Beer and pretzels with Ted Healy and his Stooges; Classic cartoon: I like mountain music 89 min. DVD 6713 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Holland, Norman S. "Feigning Marriage/Befriending Nations: The Case of Flying Down to Rio." In: Moving pictures, migrating identities / Eva Rueschmann. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003. (Main Stack PN1995.9.E44.R84 2003; Compar Ethn PN1995.9.E44.R84 2003) Vanneman, Alan. "Fred and Ginger Take Off in Flying Down to Rio." Bright Lights Film Journal, vol. 26, pp. (no pagination), November 1999 Follow the Fleet (1936) Directed by Mark Sandrich. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Astrid Allwyn. Music by Irving Berlin. Two navy men have just docked in San Francisco after extended sea duty. They decide to spend their shore leave at a local dancehall where one man is surprised to find his ex-vaudeville partner. The other man steals the heart of the partner's sister. Includes small roles by Betty Grable and Lucille Ball. Based on the play Shore leave by Hubert Osborne. Special features: Featurette "Follow the fleet: the origins of those dancing feet"' music short "Melody master: Jimmie Lunceford and his dance orchestra; classic cartoon "Let it be me"; theatrical trailer. 104 min. DVD 4253; vhs 999:3364 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Vanneman, Alan. "Fred & Ginger Get Their Feet Wet in Follow the Fleet" Bright Lights Film Journal, vol. 32, pp. (no pagination), Spring 2001 Footlight Parade (1933) Directed by Lloyd Bacon. Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Frank McHugh, Ruth Donnelly, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert. A determined producer of cine-variety numbers gets the show going despite great difficulty. Complete with showstopping Busby Berkeley production numbers, choreographed with the colossal imagination and scope that have become Berkeley's legendary trademark, including the classic "human waterfall" number that displays chorus girls costumed in ropes of pearls and showered in a colored mist from 300 tiny water sprays. Special DVD features: New featurette: Footlight parade: Music for the decades ; 2 vintage featurettes: Ramblin' round radio row #8, Vaudeville reel #1 ; 2 vintage cartoons: Honeymoon Hotel, Young and healthy ; Theatrical trailer. 108 min. DVD 5318; vhs 999:713 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Birchard, Robert S. "A Song-and-Dance Spectacular." American Cinematographer v. 86 no. 11 (November 2005) p. 66-73 UC users only For Me and My Gal (1942) Director, Busby Berkeley. Cast: Judy Garland, George Murphy, Gene Kelly, Ben Blue, Stephen McNally. A tale of a vaudeville song-and-dance duo who buck tough times and World War I on the way to show biz success. Special features: Commentary by biographer John Fricke: 2 musical shorts "La fiesta de Santa Barbara," and "Every Sunday for me and my gal," deleted finale: three cheers for the Yanks outtake: audio only: March 22, 1943 Screen Guild Players Radio production starring Garland, Kelly and Dick Powell: Leo is on the Air radio promo: theatrical trailer. 104 min. DVD 2437; VHS 99:3355 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Forty-second Street (1933) Directed by Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Una Merkel, Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks. The movie musical that introduced the choreography of Busby Berkeley, 42nd Street also contains the classic plot involving a tyrannical director, egotistical leading lady and wide-eyed ingenue, all set to a standout musical score. Special DVD features: Three vintage documentary shorts: Harry Warren: America's foremost composer; Hollywood Newsreel; and A trip through a Hollywood studio ; interactive menus, notes on Busby Berkeley. 90 min. DVD 321; VHS 999:436 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database French Can Can (1955) Directed by Jean Renoir. Cast: Jean Gabin, Francoise Arnoul, Maria Felix. A musical comedy about an aging theater impressario with a talent for transforming common working girls into dance hall sensations. Complications arise when he is captivated by Nini, a beautiful laundress, and decides to make her the star of his new show. Despite a jealous mistress and romantic intrigue, the show must go on. The film concludes with an exuberant, high-kicking cancan finale at the grand opening of the Moulin Rouge. 105 min. DVD 2913; vhs 999:3233 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Funny Face (1957) Directed by Stanley Donen. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michael Auclair, Robert Flemyng. Music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin. A Cinderella story about an inconspicuous salesgirl who is whisked off to Paris by a group of fashion magazine sophisticates and transformed into a dazzling model with whom the magazine's photographer falls in love. 103 min. DVD 6223; vhs 999:1297 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Casper, Joseph Andrew. Stanley Donen Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1983. (MAIN: PN1998.A3 D592 1983; MOFF: PN1998.A3 D592 1983) Silverman, Stephen M. Dancing on the ceiling : Stanley Donen and his movies. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996. (MAIN: PN1998.3.D65 S55 1996; MOFF: PN1998.3.D65 S55 1996) Funny Girl (1968) Directed by William Wyler. Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walte Pidgeon. Follows the early career of stage comedienne, Fanny Brice, her rise to stardom with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her stormy romance with Nicky Arnstein. music, Jules Styne ; lyrics, Bob Merrill. 165 min. DVD 8942; vhs 999:830 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) Directed by Richard Lester. Cast: Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford, Buster Keaton, Michael Crawford. A bawdy comedy set in early Rome concerning a slave who can win his freedom if he can hook up his innocent young master with the virgin courtesan next door. 98 min. DVD 623; vhs 999:232 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Gay Desperado (1936) Director, Rouben Mamoulian. Cast: Ida Lupino, Nino Martini, Leo Carrillo, James Blakeley, Harold Huber, Mischa Auer. In this musical spoof lampooning gangster films a genial Mexican bandit gets nowhere until he and his amigos begin studying gangster techniques in Hollywood movies. Selecting kidnapping as his crime of choice, he snatches Chivo, an opera star and Jane, a troublesome heiress. He hopes to extract a huge ransom for the heiress's return, but Jane is more trouble than she's worth. All ends happily when the bandit engineers a romance between Chivo and Jane. 85 min. 999:2634 Credits and other information from Internet Movie Database Gay Divorcee (1934) Directed by Mark Sandrich. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, Lillian Miles, Charles Coleman, William Austin, Betty Grable. Musical comedy of bedroom confusions and misunderstandings that result when an American dancer begins pursuing an English woman who, in turn, is trying to invent technical grounds for divorce from her husband. Special DVD features: 2 vintage musical shorts: "Show kids" and "Star night at the Cocoanut Grove"; Classic cartoon "Shake your powder puff"; Audio-only bonus: "Hollywood on the air" radio promo; Theatrical trailer. 105 min. DVD 6715; vhs 999:1026 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Vanneman, Alan. "The Gay Divorcee." Bright LightsApril 2000 Issue 28 Gigi (1958) Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor, Jacques Bergerac, Isabel Jeans. The musical story of a French girl groomed to be a courtesan, but who blossoms into a lady. Screenplay and lyrics, Alan Jay Lerner: music, Frederick Loewe. 117 min. DVD 618; VHS 999:746 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Girl Crazy Director, Norman Taurog. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton, Robert E. Strickland, "Rags" Ragland, June Allyson, Nancy Walker, Guy Kibbee, Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra. Danny Churchill is a rich kid with a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. His father ships him to an all-male college out West, where he meets the dean's granddaughter who is trying to help her grandfather keep his college from folding. Special DVD features: All-new introduction by Mickey Rooney; commentary by historian John Fricke; vintage short "Hollywood daredevils"; classic cartoon "The early bird dood it"; "I got rhythm" stereo remix version; theatrical trailer ; Audio bonus: "Bronco busters" outtake. 99 min. DVD 8479; vhs 999:3356 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Going My Way (1944) Directed by Leo McCarey. Cast: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, James Brown, Jean Heather, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall. When young Father O'Malley arrives to join the congregation at St. Dominic's crusty old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of O'Malley or his ideas. But when O'Malley's fresh methods succeed in reaching the neighborthood's toughest kids the community starts to change. 130 min. DVD 679 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks, Ginger Rogers. Songs, Harry Warren & Al Dubin. Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler play two young hopefuls struggling to make it on Broadway. Even falling in love has its hardships, as Powell's high-brow Eastern family is determined to break them (and the show) up. More complications set in when his brother falls for Keeler's wise-cracking roommate. Special DVD features: New featurettes: 42nd Street from book to stage to screen, Gold diggers: FDR's New Deal... Broadway bound. 3 vintage featurettes: The 42nd Street special, Rambling round radio row #2, Seasoned greetings. 3 vintage cartoons: I've got to sing a torch song, Pettin' in the park, We're in the money and Busby Berkeley musicals trailer gallery. 99 min. DVD 5317; vhs 999:434 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) Directed by Busby Berkeley. Cast: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady, Hugh Herbert. Music and lyrics by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. Dick Powell stars as a young medical student working his way through school in a ritzy New England summer resort. When Mrs. Prentiss, a wealthy society matron, asks Dick to be a summer escort for her beautiful overprotected daughter, they soon fall in love--and star together in Mrs. Prentiss's charity show. This fast-paced comedy provides a showcase for Berkeley's lavish production numbers including the renowned song and dance sequence "Lullaby of Broadway." 96 min. DVD 5319; vhs 999:2037 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Great Gabbo (1929) Directed by James Cruze.Cast: Erich von Stroheim, Betty Compson, Donald Douglas, Marjorie Kane. Tells the story of Gabbo, a ventriloquist and a supreme egotist, Mary, his assistant, and Little Otto, Gabbo's dummy. Gabbo drives Mary away and then realizes too late how much he loves her. Special features: Score adapted by Donald Sosin from the 1919 cue sheet; excerpts from the original "Blind Husbands" pressbook; audio clips of Valerie von Stroheim and Paul Kohner; dossier on the ill-fated 1929 remake of "Blind Husbands"; "The High Command", a 1944 radio broadcast; a note on "The Great Gabbo" by Erich von Stroheim; photo gallery; published works: a brief survey; portrait gallery; and more. 96 min. DVD 2248 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Grease (1978) Directed by Randal Kleiser. Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Edd Byrnes, Sid Caesar, Alice Ghostley, Dody Goodman, Sha-Na-Na. Based on the original musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. An exuberant musical celebrating the 50's era of rock 'n roll centering around the romance between a teen-age gang leader, his naive girlfriend and other "hip" seniors at Ridel High School. 130 min. DVD 5693; vhs 999:1896 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Green Pastures (1936) Directed by M. Connelly and W. Keighley. Cast: Rex Ingram, Eddie Anderson, Oscar Polk, Frank Wilson, Hall Johnson Choir. All-back cast in Marc Connelly fable portrays the story of God in His heaven and his people on earth as told to a group of Sunday school children. Special features: Commentary by actor LeVar Burton and Black Cultural scholars Herb Boyd and Ed Guerrera; 2 vingage musical shorts: "Rufus Jones for president", Cast: Ethel Waters and 7-year-old Sammy Davis Jr.; "An all-colored vaudeville show", Cast: Adelaide Hall and the Nicholas Brothers; theatrical trailer. 90 min. DVD 5066; vhs 999:725 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Winokur, Mark. "The Green Pastures as an allegory of Accommodation: Christ, Race, and the All-Black Musical." Film & History 1995 25(1-2): 6-16. Guys and Dolls (1955) Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith, Stubby Kaye. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser: choreography, Michael Kidd. Musical comedy about the romancing of a beautiful Salvation Army missionary on a bet by a New York gentleman gambler and a floating crap-game operator who avoids marriage to his long-time fiancee. Based on the play: Guys and dolls / book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, from a Damon Runyon story. Includes original theatrical trailer. 150 min. DVD 569; VHS 999:894 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Gypsy (1962) Directed by Jerome Robbins. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Paul Wallace, Betty Bruce, Ann Jillian. The story of burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee, her rise to stardom from vaudeville and her volatile relationship with her ambitious mother. Based upon the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee. 143 min. DVD 565; VHS 999:789 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top La Habanera (1979) Directed by Douglas Sirk (Detlef Sierck). Cast: Zarah Leander, Karl Martell, Ferdinand Marian. Working at Germany's famed UFA Studios under the very noses of the Nazi authorities that would later force him into Hollywood exile and eminence, Sirk transformed a glossy musical vehicle for UFA's "new Garbo" into a dark and intimate anti-colonial melodrama. Desperate to escape the "cold Swedish minds" of her homeland, beautiful Astree falls under the enchanting spell of the Caribbean love serenade La habanera and into the arms of Puerto Rican land baron Don Pedro de Avila. But ten years later, when Astree's old flame arrives in Puerto Rico, all is far from heavenly. 93 min. DVD 2456 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Nadar, Thomas R. "The Director and the Diva: The Film Musicals of Detlef Sierck and Zarah Leander: Zu neuen Ufern and La Habanera." In: Cultural history through a National Socialist lens : essays on the cinema of the Third Reich / edited by Robert C. Reimer. Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2000. (Main Stack PN1995.9.N36.C85 2000) Hair (1979) Directed by Milos Forman. Cast: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Annie Golden. Young Oklahoman and Vietnam draftee Claude Bukowski walks into a "happening" in New York Central Park - an undulating mass of hippies singing, dancing and cavorting to the music of the age of Aquarius. Enter the beautiful debutante Sheila and instantly Claude and Sheila are smitten. Based on the musical play by Gerome Ragni and James Rado. 122 min. DVD 567; VHS 999:1014 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Hairspray (2007) Directed by Adam Shankman. Cast: Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Queen Latifah, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, Allison Janney. Musical version of the John Water's hit. In 1962 Baltimore there are changes in the air. Plus-sized teen Tracy Turnblad, with big hair and even bigger heart, has only one passion, to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corny Collins Show" and is transformed overnight from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. The trendsetting Tracy aims to win the heart of teen-dream Link Larkin and stand up for what she believes in. Special features: Disc one: Jump to a song with optional sing along lyric track; "Step-by-step: the dances of Hairspray" featurette; audio commentary with director Adam Shankman and Nikki Blonsky; audio commentary with producers Craig Zadan and Neil Moran; "Hairspray extensions:" multi-view experience of dance scenes: "Nicest kids in town;" "(The legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs;" "Ladies choice;" "Welcome to the 60s;" "Run & tell that;" "You can't stop the beat;" The golden compass" preview. Disc two: 5 deleted scenes: 'Tracy's never-before seen musical number, "I can wait;" 'Edna gets arrested;' 'Welcome to the 60s alternate street segment', 'You can't stop the beat: alternate version;' 'Big, blonde, and beautiful' (reprise - Velma only version); deleted scenes commentary with director Adam Shankman and Nikki Blonsky; "You can't stop the beat: The long journey of Hairspray'" theatrical trailer. Based on the 1988 screenplay by John Waters and the 2002 musical play by Mark O'Donnell. 117 min. DVD 8672 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Hallelujah (1929) Directed by King. Vidor. Cast: Daniels L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine, Harry Gray, Fanny Belle DeKnight, Everett McGarrity, Victoria Spivey, Dixie Jubilee Singers. Music, Irving Berlin. An all-Black cast film which depicts the life of a rural southern Black family written according to racist stereotypes prevalent in 1929. Themes show illiterate Black plantation life, singing, dancing and gambling, religious beliefs and practices, including a special baptism sequence, and the relationships between men and women in a "sinful environment". "Made when screen musicals were mainly backstage stories or all-star revues, "Hallelujah!" broke the mold. Director King Vidor, given the go-ahead only after pledging his salary to offset production costs, combines melodrama with work songs and spirituals...a sincere and sympathetic treatment of rural black life." 90 min. DVD 4965; vhs 999:1432 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Howard, Jessica H. "Hallelujah!: Transformation in Film." African American Review, vol. 30 no. 3. 1996 Fall. pp: 441-51. Maurice, Alice. "Cinema at Its Source': Synchronizing Race and Sound in the Early Talkies." Camera Obscura49: 31-72. 2002 Jan. UC users only Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933) Directed by Lewis Milestone. Cast: Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan. Songs and musical dialogue by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. For Bumper, life is just a bowl of cherries. Living in New York City's Central Park, the happy-go-lucky hobo king spends his time singing and enjoying himself without a care in the world. But when he rescues a beautiful amnesiac from a park lake, his cares suddenly increase. Not only has he fallen in love with the pretty blonde, but he has also discovered she's the missing sweetheart of Bumper's good buddy, the Mayor of New York. Can a whimsical tramp compete with his playboy pal for the heart of their lady fair? 83 min. DVD 1766; vhs 999:2050 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Hard Day's Night (1964) Directed by Richard Lester. Cast: The Beatles, Wilfrid Brambell. This lively, good-natured classic captures all the fun, excitement and unforgettable music of John, Paul, George and Ringo at the height of "Beatlemania." Portraying a frantic 36 hours in the lives of the rock group and packed with all-time Beatle favorites, they perform their songs and look for adventure ... all while avoiding hordes of screaming fans! The Beatles perform I'll cry instead, A hard day's night, I should've known better, If I fell, And I love her, I'm happy just to dance with you, Ringo's theme (this boy), Tell me why, Don't bother me, I wanna be your man, All my lovin', and She loves you. Disc one: "Things they said today" (Disc two): "Supplemental material": "Their production will be second to none" (interviews with the filmmakers); "With the Beatles" (cast); "Working like a dog" (the production crew); "Busy working overtime" (post production crew); "Listen to the music playing in your head" (George Martin); "Such a clean old man!" (memories of Wilfrid Brambell); "I've lost my little girl" (Isla Blair interview); "Taking testimonial pictures" (Robert Freeman interview); "Dressed to the hilt" (Gordon Millings interview); "Dealing with 'The men from the press'" (Tony Barrow interview); "They and I have memories" (Klaus Voorman interview); "Hitting the big time in the USA" (Sid Bernstein interview). 90 min. DVD 1348; vhs 999:147 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Harlem Hot Shots: With Broadway's Brightest Stars (Black Artists of the Silver Screen, 1953) Directed by Joseph Kohn. Performers: Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Ruth Etting, Joe Turner, Bill Bailey, Ruth Brown. A televised performance before a live audience presented in 1953 by Afro-American entertainers in music, dance and comedy. 47 min. Video/C 7005 Harlem Hot Shots. Volume 2. (Basin Street Review) (Black Artists of the Silver Screen, 1950's) Directed by Joseph Kohn. Performers: Sarah Vaughan, Lionel Hampton, Cab Calloway, Nipsey Russell, Mantan Moreland, Martha Davis, Amos Milburn, The Clovers, Jimmy Brown, Faye Adams, Coles and Atkins, Herb Jeffries. Fantastically entertaining show produced in the 1950's consisting of some of the greatest Afro-American show people in music, dance and comedy. 40 min. Video/C 7006 Harlem Swings, Vol. 3 (1940-1950; Black musical shorts) Various directors. Musical comedy short subjects with an all black cast, including: Dusty Fletcher, Stepin Fetchit, Ethel Waters, Louis Jordan, Sammy Davis, Jr. 70 min. 999:423 Harlem Swings, Vol. 4 (1940-1950; Black musical shorts) Various directors. Musical short subjects with an all black cast, including: Leon Gross, Cora Harris, The Red Lily Chorus, "Stringbean" Jackson, Cab Calloway and his orchestra, The Ebony trio, Lena Horne, Lionel Hampton, Joe Turner, Bill Bailey, Ruth Brown, Sarah Vaughn, The Harlem hot shots, Louis Armstrong. 70 min. 999:424 The Harvey Girls (1956) Directed by George Sidney. Cast: Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Angela Lansbury, Preston Foster, Virginia O'Brien, Kenny Baker, Marjorie Main, Chill Wills. Words and music by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren. Susan Bradley, a mail order bride, is disappointed in the man whom she was to marry, so she takes a job as a waitress in a Harvey restaurant that served old West rail passengers. Based on the book by Samuel Hopkins Adams and the original story by Eleanore Griffin and William Rankin. Special features: 3 deleted musical numbers: feature length commentary by director George Sidney: singsong express audio track: "On the Atchison, Topeda and the Santa Fe" in stereo: theatrical trailer: interactive menus. 101 min. DVD 5716; vhs 999:846 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952) Directed by Douglas Sirk. Cast: Rock Hudson, Piper Laurie, Charles Coburn, Gigi Perreau. In this musical comedy Rock Hudson plays a faithful soda jerk who finds his attentions to the lovely Millicent turned down after her family gains a large sum of money. 88 min. DVD 8144 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Hi De Ho (Cab Calloway) (1947) Directed by Josh Binney. Big band sensation Cab Calloway (portraying himself) becomes the interest of two womens' desires - his steady girlfriend Minnie (Jeni Le Gon) and his manager Nettie (Ida James). Jealous of Nettie's maneuvers, Minnie hires a rival clubowner to do away with Cab. Minnie later feels guilty and tries to prevent the killing. Instead she gets dusted by the thugs, leaving the door open for Cab to marry Nettie. This musical review features an all black cast. 63 min. 999:426 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults Features a dazzling array of "lost" cinematic treasures from the vaults of 20th Century Fox ... singing, dancing and comedy routines cut from classic Hollywood films. Rescued from the cutting room floor, these sequences have been restored to their original, pristine condition and are now presented in their entirety -- for the first time ever. Highlights include: "Hop, Skip and Jump", performed by Shirley Temple and Jimmy Durante deleted from Little Miss Broadway: Delightful Betty Grable musical numbers deleted from Tin Pan Alley, Hot Spot and Pin Up Girl: Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in two spectacular dance sequences cut from Cafe Metropole (1937): Al Jolson performing a medley of his greatest hits from Rose of Washington Square: Ethel Merman and Dan Dailey singing "Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better" deleted from Irving Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business: "Some Sunny Day," performed by Don Ameche: Joan Collins and Robert Wagner in makeup and wardrobe test for Lord Vanity: "The Woof song" performed by Bert Lahr: Katherine Hepburn's first appearance on film in an early screen test (1932) ... and more." Bill "Bojangles" Robinson -- Alice Faye -- Irving Berlin's Alexander's ragtime band -- Rose of Washington Square -- Bert Lahr -- Betty Grable -- Pin up girl -- The Gang's all here --Irving Berlin's There's no business like show business -- We're not married! -- Joan Collins in Lord Vanity -- That's showbiz! DVD 6852 High Society (1956) Directed by Charles Walters. Cast: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, John Lund, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Louis Armstrong and his Band. Music & lyrics by Cole Porter. Tracy Lord is trying to be remarried quietly but she is persuaded to allow two reporters to cover the nuptials. By the time the wedding march begins, she has accumulated several potential grooms. Based on the play, The Philadelphia story by Philip Barry. 107 min. DVD 5716; vhs 999:846 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Holiday Inn (1944) Directed by Mark Sandrich. Cast: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale, Walter Abel. A song-and-dance man leaves show business and opens up a Connecticut inn with his former partner and is saved from financial disaster by the showmanship of old friends. 100 min. DVD 679 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Hollywood Canteen (1944) Directed by Delmer Daves. In this musical extravaganza a GI on leave in Hollywood drops in at the Hollywood canteen, hoping to meet his dream girl. He is assisted in his search by real-life canteen founders Bette Davis and John Garfield and over thirty other Hollywood luminaries. Andrews Sisters, Jack Benny, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Cantor, Kitty Carlisle, Jack Carson, Dane Clark, Joan Crawford, Helmut Dantine, Bette Davis, Faye Emerson, Victor Francen, John Garfield, Sydney Greenstreet, Alan Hale, Paul Henreid, Robert Hutton, Joan Leslie, Peter Lorre, Ida Lupino, Irene Manning, Joan McCracken, Dolores Moran, Dennis Morgan, Eleanor Parker, Joyce Reynolds, Roy Rogers, S.Z. Sakall, Zachary Scott, Alexis Smith, Barbara Stanwyck, Joseph Szigeti, Donald Woods, Jane Wyman, Jimmy Doresy, Carmen Cavallaro, the Golden Gate Quartet and the Sons of the Pioneers. 124 min. 999:1606 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) Directed by William Asher. Cast: Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Brian Donlevy, Buster Keaton, Harvey Lembeck, Beverly Adams, John Ashley, Jody McCrea, Patti Chandler, Bobbi Shaw, Mary Hughes, Mickey Rooney. Frankie is away on naval-reserve duty in Tahiti and doesn't trust Dee Dee to stay faithful, so he hires Bwana, a witch doctor, to help. Bwana conjures up a floating bikini and "stuffs" it with Cassandra, and sends her to distract advertising executive Ricky from Dee Dee. 93 min. DVD 8374 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967) Directed by David Swift. Cast: Robert Morse, Michele Lee, Rudy Vallee, Anthony Teague, Maureen Arthur. A musical comedy that follows J. Pierpont Finch as he makes a meteoric rise from mailroom to junior executive, captures the heart of a pretty office worker and the admiring eye of the president -- all in the morning of his second day at work. It's only a matter of hours 'til his sights are set on the company boardroom. Based on a novel by Shepherd Mead. 121 min. DVD 568 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Into the Woods (TV, 1990) Directed by James Lapine. Cast: Original Broadway cast: Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason, Chip Zien, Tom Aldredge, Robert Westenberg, Kim Crosby, Danielle Ferland, Ben Wright, Barbara Bryne. In this television production of the 1987 Broadway musical the fairy tale characters of Little Red Ridinghood, Cinderella, and Jack (and the Beanstalk) are linked together with the characters of a baker and his wife. Their stories intertwine as they all search for something different in the woods. After they have all found happiness, they must band together to fight a giant. 102 min. DVD 5691 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database It's Always Fair Weather (1955) Directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Cast: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray, Michael Kidd. Music, Andre Previn: lyrics, Betty Comden, Adolph Green: choreography, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen. A musical revolving around the ten-year reunion by three war buddies in New York who discover that while friendship changes over time, having fun definitely does not! 102 min. DVD 5691 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Casper, Joseph Andrew. Stanley Donen Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1983. (MAIN: PN1998.A3 D592 1983; MOFF: PN1998.A3 D592 1983) Silverman, Stephen M. Dancing on the ceiling : Stanley Donen and his movies. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996. (MAIN: PN1998.3.D65 S55 1996; MOFF: PN1998.3.D65 S55 1996) Telotte, J. P. "Ideology and the Kelly-Donen Musicals." Film Criticism, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 36-46, Spring 1984 To the top Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris Director, Denis Heroux Cast: Elly Stone (lady with shopping bag), Mort Shuman (taxi driver), Joe Masiell (Marine), Jacques Brel (himself), Judy Lander, Annette Perrone. A plotless four-person musical revue based on the songs of Belgian balladeer Jacques Brel, the show opens on a dark and rainy Parisian night. Three strangers -- a cab driver, a soldier, and a meek woman -- find themselves in a theater. After watching a puppet show, they venture backstage and then onto a beach, where they sing songs during increasingly surreal events. Features such songs as "Marathon," "Timid Frieda," "Marieke," "Ne Me Quitte Pas," "The Middle Class," "Jackie," "Au Suivant," "Chanson des Vieux Amours" and "Carousel (La Valse a Mille Temps)." 97 min. DVD 2114 Jazz Cocktails (1929-1941; Hollywood Rhythm: Paramount Musical Shorts; 2) Contents: Office blues (1930) - Ginger Rogers; Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934) - Cab Calloway; Artie Shaw's Class in Swing (1939) - Artie Shaw; Dream House (1932) - Bing Crosby: directed by Mack Sennett; Black and Tan Fantasy (1929) - Duke Ellington, Fredi Washington, Arthur Whetsol; Makers of Melody (1929) - Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart; Ain't Misbehavin' (1941) / Fats Waller. In this collection of musical shorts some of the greatest names in jazz are presented in some of their earliest filmed performances. Cast: Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, and Bing Crosby who bends the definition of jazz to croon three ballads. Perhaps the gem of this film however is Office Blues in which a pre-stardom, pre-Astaire Ginger Rogers cavorts in an Art Deco extravaganza. 90 min. 999:1695 Jumbo (1962) Directed by Charles Walters. Cast: Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, Martha Raye, Dean Jagger. The greatest show on earth comes to the screen in this sensational, razzle-dazzle circus epic. Set at the turn of the century, the story centers on Pop Wonder (Jimmy Durante), his daughter Kitty (Doris Day), his long-suffering fiancee of fourteen years, Lulu and Sam Rawlins, the spy who comes to steal Pop's circus and falls in love with Kitty. All four stars shine in the lavish and colorful musical numbers featuring the sublime songs of Rodgers and Hart. The breathtaking circus footage was actually directed by the legendary Busby Berkeley. 127 min. DVD 8878 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) Directed by Norman Jewison. Cast: Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen. A rock opera depicting in song, dance, and music, the story of the last week of Christ's life, his betrayal and crucifixion as seen from the point of view of Judas. Based on the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, book and lyrics by Tim Rice, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. 108 min. DVD 570; VHS 999:1960 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Just Around the Corner (1938) Directed by Irving Cummings. Cast: Shirley Temple, Charles Farrell, Joan Davis, Amanda Duff, Bill Robinson, Bert Lahr, Cora Witherspoon. Plucky Penny Hale is excited to return from boarding school to live with her widower dad, but when she learns that he's lost his real estate project, and they now live in a basement, she sets out to win over a crotchety real estate developer. 70 min. DVD 6029 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Killer Diller (1948) Directed by Josh Binney. Cast: Dusty Fletcher, George Wiltshire, Butterfly McQueen, Nellie Hill, Freddie Robinson, William Campbell, Edgar Martin, Sid Easton, Gus Smith, Jackie Mabley, Ken Renard. The story of a magician who does disappearing acts between stage performances of a variety program. This musical includes performances by Dusty Fletcher, the King Cole Trio, Jackie "Moms" Mabley, Andy Kirk and his orchestra. Considered one of the best early comedies starring an all-black cast. 70 min. 999:1220 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The King and I (1956) Directed by Walter Lang. Cast: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson, Terry Saunders, Rex Thompson. Music, Richard Rodgers; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. An English schoolteacher finds herself at odds with the King when she is the teacher at the royal court in Siam in the 1860s. 133 min. DVD 606; VHS 999:696 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Ma, Sheng-mei. "Rodger's and Hammerstein's "Chopsticks" musicals.(Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein; "The King and I," "Flower Drum Song" and "South Pacific")(Critical Essay)." Literature-Film Quarterly 31.1 (Jan 2003): 17-26. UC users only Kiss Me Kate (1953) Directed by George Sidney. Cast: Kathryn Grayson: Howard Keel: Ann Miller: Keenan Wynn: Bobby Van: Tommy Rall: James Whitmore: Kurt Kasznar: Bob Fosse: Ron Randell: Willard Parker. In this musical drama a battling, once-married couple, are reunited to star in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash. But backstage and downstage, viewers get to see lavish numbers and hear wonderful Cole Porter tunes. Based on the play by Samuel and Bella Spewack. Special DVD features: Cole Porter in Hollywood : Too darn hot / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents: written, produced and directed by Peter Fitzgerald (ca. 10 min.) -- Mighty Manhattan, New York's wonder city / directed by James H. Smith: produced and narrated by James A. FitzPatrick (ca. 20 min): music only track: behind-the-scenes notes: theatrical trailer. 110 min. DVD 5709; vhs 999:1016 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Les Girls (1957) Directed by George Cukor. Cast: Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg, Jacques Bergerac, Leslie Phillips, Henry Daniell, Patrick Macnee, Stephen Vercoe, Philip Tonge. Music and lyrics by Cole Porter: music adapted and conducted by Adolph Deutsch;: choreography, Jack Cole. After the break up of the musical act of Barry Nichols and Les Girls the members of the act have a reunion under inauspicious circumstances. Sybil has published her memoirs of the years with Les Girls, including how Angele attempted suicide when Barry spurned her. Angele sues for libel and her testimony in court recounts how it was Sybil who attempted suicide. 114 min. DVD 5717; vhs 999:1036 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Lili (1953) Directed by Charles Walters. A musical drama in which a shy, young orphan girl is befriended by a crippled puppeteer and his group of carnival puppets. 81 min. 999:1666 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Little Colonel (1935) Directed by David Butler. Cast: Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, John Lodge, Bill Robinson, Hattie McDaniel. An old-fashioned Southern colonel has disowned his daughter for marrying a Yankee and resists all entreaties for a reconciliation until he succumbs to the charms of his little granddaughter. 81 min. DVD 6039; vhs 999:3021 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Little Shop of Horrors (1986) Directed by Frank Oz. Cast: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, James Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Guest, Bill Murray. Lyrics, Howard Ashman; music, Alan Menken. In this musical-comedy set in the Mushnik's Flower Shop basement a timid employee discovers a ferocious, talking, rapidly-growing plant, which forces him to lure victims to satisfy its taste for human flesh. 96 min. DVD 9113; vhs 999:1674 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Lost in the Stars (1974) Directed by Daniel Mann. Cast: Brock Peters, Melba Moore, Raymond St. Jacques, Clifton Davis, Paul Rogers, Paula Kelly, Alan Weeks, Paulene Myers. Music by Kurt Weill: book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson. Stephen Kumalo, a black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shanty towns of Johannesburg for his son, Absalom. But Kumalo's unwavering faith is put to the test when he finds Absalom in jail facing a capital murder charge. Courage, dignity and sacrifice fall prey to the whirlwind of racist hypocrisy and hollow justice in Absalom's trial. Absalom's reunion and reconciliation with this father, his jailhouse marriage to his pregnant sweetheart, and his heroic determination to tell the truth set the stage for a tragic climax. Based on the novel "Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton. Special features: Theatrical trailer; "Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson, and Lost in the stars," an essay by Michael Feingold; the AFT Cinebill; an interview with Edie Landau; "Ely Landau: in front of the camera," AFT promotional reel from 1974; the American Film Theatre trailer gallery; the American Film Theatre scrapbook. Features the songs The hills of Ixopo: Thousands of miles: Train to Johannesburg: Search: The little gray house: Who'll buy?: Trouble man: Murder in Parkwold: Fear: Lost in the stars: Wild justice: O Tixo, Tixo, help me: Stay well: Cry, the beloved country: Big mole: Chapel scene: A bird of passage: Four o'clock. 96 min. 999:1674 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Love Me Tender (1956) Directed by Robert D. Webb. Cast: Elvis Presley, Richard Egan, Debra Paget, Robert Middleton, William Campbell. After hearing his older brother has been killed in combat, a young Texas farmer marries the man's sweetheart. But his brother returns, sparking a bitter sibling rivalry and tragic confrontation with Union soldiers. 89 min. DVD 5556 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Love Me Tonight (1932) Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Myrna Loy, Charlie Ruggles, Charles Butterworth, C. Aubrey Smith. Based on the play by Paul Armont and Leopold Marchand; music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart. In this madcap musical tour de force of infectious melody, a carefree tailor leaves Paris to collect on a past due bill at an aristocratic client's chateau. Mistaken for royalty, he attempts to woo a lovely princess without revealing his true identity. Special DVD features: Maurice Chevalier sings "Louise," Jeanette MacDonald sings "Love me tonight" (from the Paramount newsreel series Hollywood on Parade), audio commentary by Miles Kreuger, original theatrical trailer, screenplay excerpts of deleted scenes, production documents, censorship records, gallery of photos., promototional material. 89 min. DVD 4030 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database The Love Parade (1929) Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald. Ernst Lubitsch's first "talking picture" was also Hollywood's first movie musical to integrate songs with narrative. The story revolves around Count Renard, singing diplomat from the mythical country Sylvania, who is recalled from Paris because of his philandering. Meanwhile, singing Queen Louise of Sylvania is being badgered by her cabinet to marry. Expecting disgrace, Renard finds instead that he's just what the Queen had in mind for a consort. But he finds the subordinate status of a prince consort increasingly hard to take. 107 min. DVD 9410 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Lullaby of Broadway (1950) Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Cast: Doris Day, Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall, Billy De Wolfe, Gladys George, Florence Bates, Anne Triola, Hanley Syafford, Page Cavanaugh Trio, Carlo and Constance de Matiazzi. A singer arrives in New York to visit her mother, unaware that she is a burnt-out cabaret singer with a love for whiskey. When she arrives at her house, which actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell, a kind-hearted Broadway producer he takes a shine to Melinda and agrees to star her in his next show. Melinda also finds romance with a handsome hoofer who's in the show. All is going well for Melinda except that she wants to see her mother who keeps putting off their reunion. 92 min. DVD 8884 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) Directed by Gus Meins and Charley Rogers. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Virginia Karns, Charlotte Henry, Felix Knight, Florence Roberts, Henry Kleinbach. Based on the operetta Babes in Toyland, by Victor Herbert: book and lyrics by Glen MacDonough. Musical comedy with Laurel and Hardy in a story that takes them to Toyland where they try to pay off the mortgage on Widow Peep's shoe. Originally released as a motion picture under the title "Babes in Toyland" in 1934. 77 min. DVD 6015 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Marjorie Main. The story about an affectionate family in turn of the century St. Louis. DVD Special features: Introduction by Liza Minnelli; music-only audio track; 2 behind-the-scenes documentaries, "The making of an American classic" and "Hollywood : the dream factory"; Turner classic movies special "Becoming attractions : Judy Garland"; audio commentary by Garland biographer John Fricke with Margaret O'Brien, composer Hugh Martin, screenwriter Irving Brecher and Barbara Freed-Saltzman; vintage musical shorts; photo recreation of deleted song "Boys and girls like you and me"; tv series pilot episode; radio show; Vincente Minnelli trailer gallery. 114 min. DVD 2438; VHS 999:407 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland Collection. Bonus Disc Private screenings with Mickey Rooney, hosted by TCM's Robert Osborne ; The Judy Garland songbook: Introduction and "Born in a trunk" from "A star is born" (1954); "Americana" from "Every Sunday"; "Everybody sing" from "Broadway melody of 1938"; "Got a new pair of shoes" from "Thoroughbreds don't cry"; "Swing, Mr. Mendelssohn" from "Everybody sing"; "Down on Melody Farm" from "Everybody sing"; "It never rains but it pours" from "Love finds Andy Hardy; "Zing! Went the strings of my heart" from "Listen, darling"; "A pretty girl milking her cow" from "Little Nellie Kelly"; "Singin' in the rain" from "Little Nellie Kelly"; "After you've gone" from "For me and my gal"; "The joint is really jumpin' down at Carnegie Hall" from "Thousands cheer"; "Where there's music" finale from "Presenting Lily Mars"; "The boy next door" from "Meet me in St. Louis"; "The trolley song" from "Meet me in St. Louis"; "The interview" from "Ziegfeld follies"; "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" from "The Harvey girls"; "Put your arms around me, honey" from "In the good old summertime"; "I don't care" from "In the good old summertime"; "Friendly star" from "Summer stock"; "Get happy" from "Summer stock"; "Born in a trunk" from "A star is born" (1954) ; Mickey and Judy trailer gallery: "Thoroughbreds don't cry"; "Love finds Andy Hardy"; "Babes in arms"; "Andy Hardy meets debutante"; "Strike up the band"; "Life begins for Andy Hardy"; "Babes on Broadway"; "Girl crazy"; "Thousands cheer"; "Words and music." Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland. 157 min. DVD 8480 Monte Carlo (1930) Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, Claude Allister, ZaSu Pitts, Tyler Brooke, John Roche. An independent-minded countess leaves her foppish prince fiance at the altar and whisks away to the Riviera. There at a casino, Count Rudolph Falliere is taken by Countess Vera's beauty. Rudolph, in love with Vera, calls her every night and sings to her. Vera also in love with Rudolph must marry the Duke -for financial reasons. Based on "The Blue Coast," by Hans Mueller and an episode from "Monsieur Beaucaire," by Booth Tarkington and Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland. 90 min. DVD 9411 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Moulin Rouge! (2001) Director, Baz Luhrmann. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, Garry McDonald, Jacek Koman, Matthew Whittet, Kerry Walker. Christian, an idealistic and impoverished young writer newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec. A comedy of mistaken identities ensues, quickly enmeshing the young poet in a love triangle involving the unobtainable and consumptive Satine, queen courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, and the foppish Duke of Roxbury, his villainous rival for her affections. Special features (Disc 1): theatrical trailers: production commentary by Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, and Don McAlpine: writing commentary by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce: 8 behind-the-scenes branches. (Disc 2): The making of Moulin Rouge HBO Special: 5 "Star" featurettes: earlier drafts of screenplay: 6 extended scenes & 4 re-cut dance sequences: interview with John "Cha Cha" O'Connell and Caroline O'Connor: dance pre-shoots: 3 multi-angle dance sequences: 2 music videos: live MTV performance: design and marketing gallery. 128 min. DVD 976 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Jones, Kent. "Moulin Rouge!" Film Comment, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 22-25, May 2001 Kinder, Marsha. "Moulin Rouge!" Film Quarterly, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 52-59, Spring 2002 UC users only Muscle Beach Party (1964) Directed by William Asher. Cast: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Luciana Paluzzi, John Ashley, Don Rickles, Jody McCrea, Dick Dale and The Del Tones, Candy Johnson, Morey Amsterdam, Little Stevie Wonder, Rock Stevens, Buddy Hackett. Summer is back and so are Frankie and the gang, returning to the sunny shore in search of that perfect wave. But there's choppy water ahead: a beautiful Italian countess has her romantic eyes on Frankie, and a band of bronzed bodybuilders is ready to rumble with the surfers. 95 min. DVD 8377 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Music Man (1962) Directed by Morton Da Costa. Silver-tongued con artist Harold Hill hoodwinks the stubborn townsfolk of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boy's band, but his game ultimately--and romantically--backfires. 115 min. DVD 473; VHS 999:826 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Musicals Great Musicals: The Arthur Freed Unit at MGM Discusses the life and career of Arthur Freed, who produced many MGM musicals. Includes film clips from musicals and information on how certain scenes were filmed. 1996. 87 min. DVD 7266 My Fair Lady (1964) Directed by George Cukor. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde- White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel. Audrey Hepburn stars as the flowergirl turned Cinderella. Rex Harrison is the irascible professor of phonetics who bets he can teach her to speak like a duchess. Special DVD features: Feature-length audio commentary that includes art director Gene Allen, singer Marni Nixon and restorers Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz; behind-the-scenes documentary 'The fairest fair lady'; alternate Audrey Hepburn vocal versions of 'Show me' and 'Wouldn't it be loverly'; interactive menus; production notes; 4 theatrical trailers; scene access. 170 min. DVD 464; VHS 999:872:1&2 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top New Deal Rhythm (1930-1937) (1977) Contents: New Deal rhythm / with Charles "Buddy" Rogers (8 min.) -- Roseland / with Ruth Etting (12 min.) -- Three of radios favorite conductors / with "Red" Nichols, Emery Deutsch, Ferde Grofe (10 min.) -- Rhythm saves the day / with the Cabin Kids, Buddy Page and his Orchestra (11 min.) -- Star reporter / with Ina Ray Hutton, Donald Novis, Ted Husing, Ed Paul, Betty Jane Cooper (10 min.). A compilation of panorama soundies which are short musical films, the music videos of their time, made between 1930 and 1937. 999:2836 New York, New York (1977) Directed by Martin Scorsese. Cast: Liza Minnelli, Robert DeNiro, Lionel Standler, Barry Primus, Mary Kay Place. Jimmy Doyle is a jazz saxophone player on the make, while Francine Evans is a singer on the rise. Their budding romance flourishes into marriage and a professional working relationship, but the ambitions that brought them together eventually sweep them tragically apart. Special features: Introduction by Martin Scorsese; audio commentary by director Martin Scorsese and film critic Carrie Rickey; alternate takes; deleted scenes; photo gallery; theatrical trailer & teaser. 169 min. DVD 3534; also VHS 999:2713 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Oh! Calcutta! (1972) Directed by Jacques Levy.. Cast: Raina Barrett, Mark Dempsey, Samantha Harper, Patricia Hawkins, Bill Macy, Mitchell McGuire, Gary Rethmeier, Margo Sappington, Nancy Tribush, George Welbes. Devised by Kenneth Tynan: written by Robert Benton, Jules Feiffer, Dan Greenburg , John Lennon, Jacques Levy, Leonard Melfi, David Newman, Margo Sappington, Sam Shepard, Clovis Trouille. Based on the controversial off-Broadway musical comedy revue, "Oh! Calcutta!" is a series of musical numbers about sex and sexual mores. Most of the skits feature one or more performers in the state of undress, simulating sex, or both. 100 min. DVD 5655 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) Directed by Attenborough, Richard. Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Phyllis Calvert, Jean Pierre Cassel, John Gielgud, Jack Hawkins, Kenneth More, Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Maggie Smith, Susannah York, John Mills, Ian Holm. A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land, and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived at the front, after successfully capturing a ridge that had been contested for some time. Special features: Commentary by director Lord Richard Attenborough; 3-part documentary: Welcome to World War I, The Smith family album, Keep the home fires burning. Based on Joan Littlewood's theatre workshop production by Charles Chilton and the members of the original cast after a stage treatment by Ted Allan. 144 min. DVD 6676 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Oklahoma! (1955) Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Shirley Jones, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood, Eddie Albert, James Whitmore, Rod Steiger. The classic musical in which a handsome young cowboy falls in love. The young couple is menaced by the hired man. Adapted from Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play based Green grow the lilacs by Lynn Riggs. 146 min. DVD 812; VHS 999:544 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Akin, Roger Cushing. "Was Jud Jewish? Property, Ethnicity, and Gender in "Oklahoma!" Quarterly Review of Film and Video v. 22 no. 3 (July/September 2005) p. 277-83 Recchia, Edward. "There's no place like home: the Midwest in American film musicals." Midwest Quarterly v39, n2 (Wntr, 1998):202 (13 pages). Oliver! (1968) Directed by Carol Reed. Cast: Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Shani Wallis, Mark Lester. A musical version of the novel by Charles Dickens in which a young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But, Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and that true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned. Based on the book by Lionel Bart, which in turn was based on the book Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. 145 min. DVD 5721; vhs 999:1287 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970) Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart, Larry Blyden, Simon Oakland, Jack Nicholson, Pamela Brown, Irene Handl, Roy Kinnear, John Richardson. Chain-smoking kooky Daisy consults psychiatrist Chabot to help her stop smoking. Chabot is astonished to learn she has amazing ESP powers and that under hypnosis she reveals her former life as Melinda, an 1840 English coquette. Based on the musical play by the same title by Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane. 129 min. DVD 3587 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database On the Town (1954) Directed by Stanley Donen & Gene Kelley. Three sailors and their girl friends go on a spree in New York. 98 min. DVD 238; VHS 999:169 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database Casper, Joseph Andrew. Stanley Donen Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1983. (MAIN: PN1998.A3 D592 1983; MOFF: PN1998.A3 D592 1983) Silverman, Stephen M. Dancing on the ceiling : Stanley Donen and his movies. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996. (MAIN: PN1998.3.D65 S55 1996; MOFF: PN1998.3.D65 S55 1996) Telotte, J. P. "Ideology and the Kelly-Donen Musicals." Film Criticism, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 36-46, Spring 1984 One Hour with You (1932) Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald Genevieve Tobin, Charlie Ruggles. "Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other." [IMDB] 80 min. DVD 9413 Credits and other information from the Internet Movie Database To the top Paint Your Wag