Direction: Busby Berkeley
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Busby Berkeley. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
They Made Me a Criminal
1939 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast John Garfield · Claude Rains · Ann Sheridan · May Robson
Plot Johnnie is a boxer. The same evening he won the world championship, he is charged for the murder of a reporter and is taken for dead. Running away from New...
6.5
348 votes
6.5
348 votes
Dames
1934 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Ray Enright · Busby Berkeley
Cast Joan Blondell · Dick Powell · Ruby Keeler · ZaSu Pitts
Plot Multi-millionaire Ezra Ounce wants to start a campaign against 'filthy' forms of entertainment, like Broadway-Shows. He comes to his relatives families and makes them members of his morale-boosting campaign. But...
6.5
56 votes
6.5
56 votes
The Gang's All Here
1943 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Alice Faye · Carmen Miranda · Phil Baker · Benny Goodman
Plot Playboy Andy Mason, on leave from the army, romances showgirl Eadie Allen overnight to such effect that she's starry-eyed when he leaves next morning for active duty in the Pacific....
6.3
95 votes
6.3
95 votes
For Me and My Gal
1942 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Judy Garland · George Murphy · Gene Kelly · Mártha Eggerth
Plot Set during WW I, Palmer and Hayden team up as vaudeville artists. Harry Palmer deliberately injures his hand to avoid being drafted to the army. Later, he makes up for...
6.3
122 votes
6.3
122 votes
Take Me out to the Ball Game
1949 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Frank Sinatra · Esther Williams · Gene Kelly · Jules Munshin
Plot The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team....
6.2
166 votes
6.2
166 votes
Babes on Broadway
1941 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Mickey Rooney · Judy Garland · Fay Bainter · Virginia Weidler
Plot After four months of floundering attempts to get into a Broadway show, Tommy Williams grasps the opportunity to produce a charity show to take city orphans on a trip to...
6.1
74 votes
6.1
74 votes
Babes in Arms
1939 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney · Charles Winninger · June Preisser
Plot The struggle of two talented young artists, to make their own way in the show business. In this musical, with autobiographical elements of Mickey Rooney's life, he plays Mickey Moran,...
6.1
287 votes
6.1
287 votes
Cabin in the Sky
1943 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Vincente Minnelli · Busby Berkeley
Cast Ethel Waters · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Lena Horne · Louis Armstrong
Plot In this musical, Little Joe, an inveterate gambler, promises his wife Petunia he'll reform and confess his sins at church, but he slips out the side door to play craps...
6.1
130 votes
6.1
130 votes
Gold Diggers of 1935
1935 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Dick Powell · Adolphe Menjou · Gloria Stuart · Alice Brady
Plot In a luxury hotel stage director Nicoleff stages a show to get the money to pay his bills. Mrs. Prentiss, who is backing the show wants her daughter Ann to...
6.1
62 votes
6.1
62 votes
Strike Up the Band
1940 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Mickey Rooney · Judy Garland · June Preisser · William Tracy
Plot Jimmy Connors and his girl-friend want to take part in Paul Whiteman's highschool's band contest, but they cannot afford the fare. But per chance the meet Paul Whiteman in person...
5.9
65 votes
5.9
65 votes
Gold Diggers of 1937
1936 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Lloyd Bacon · Busby Berkeley
Cast Dick Powell · Joan Blondell · Glenda Farrell · Victor Moore
Plot Stage-producer J.J. Horbart, is going to put on a new show, but he doesn't know that his two partners lost the money at the stock market. Insurance salesman Rosmer Peck...
5.8
24 votes
5.8
24 votes
Girl Crazy
1943 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog · Busby Berkeley
Cast Mickey Rooney · Judy Garland · Gil Stratton · Robert E. Strickland
Plot Rich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where...
5.6
28 votes
5.6
28 votes
Men Are Such Fools
1938 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Wayne Morris · Priscilla Lane · Humphrey Bogart · Hugh Herbert
Plot Linda Lawrence rises from secretary to account executive in an advertising agency. She falls in love with ex-football star Jimmy Hall and marries him. Radio man Harry Galleon will push...
5.0
21 votes
5.0
21 votes
Garden of the Moon
1938 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Pat O'Brien · Margaret Lindsay · John Payne · Johnnie Davis
Plot John Quinn is the ruthless manager of the night club Garden of the Moon. He has booked Rudy Vallee & his Connecticut Yankees for a season as his band, but...
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She Had to Say Yes
1933 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction George Amy · Busby Berkeley
Cast Loretta Young · Winnie Lightner · Lyle Talbot · Regis Toomey
Plot It is the bottom of the depression and Sol Glass has the idea that the girls in the stenographic department should be used to entertain the clients. Seems the clients...
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Hollywood Hotel
1937 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Dick Powell · Rosemary Lane · Lola Lane · Hugh Herbert
Plot Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band has won a talent contest an got a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed...
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Comet Over Broadway
1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley · John Farrow
Cast Kay Francis · Ian Hunter · John Litel · Donald Crisp
Plot Eve Appleton, wife of small-town garage owner Bill Appleton, has theatrical ambitions. Bill gets into an argument with a visiting actor over her, kills him accidentally and is sent to...
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Stage Struck
1936 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Dick Powell · Joan Blondell · Warren William · Frank McHugh
Plot Broadway dance director George Randall (Dick Powell) is stuck with staging a Broadway show starring Peggy Revere (Joan Blondell), a wealthy but untalented performer who is starring only because she...
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Fast and Furious
1939 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Franchot Tone · Ann Sothern · Ruth Hussey · Lee Bowman
Plot Joel and Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens...
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Forty Little Mothers
1940 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Eddie Cantor · Judith Anderson · Ralph Morgan · Rita Johnson
Plot An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he...
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