Screenplay: Oscar Hammerstein II

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Deborah Kerr · Yul Brynner · Rita Moreno · Martin Benson

Plot Mrs. Anna Leonowens and her son Louis arrive in Bangkok, where she has contracted to teach English to the children of the royal household. She threatens to leave when the...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Dorothy Dandridge · Harry Belafonte · Pearl Bailey · Joe Adams

Plot On leave to see his fiancée, Cindy Lou, trooper Joe falls for Carmen, a worker in a Jacksonville parachute factory who is stringing along prizefighter, Husky Miller.

Direction James Whale

Cast Irene Dunne · Allan Jones · Charles Winninger · Helen Morgan

Plot With SHOW BOAT, horror maven James Whale (FRANKENSTEIN, THE INVISIBLE MAN) returns to the stage-adaptation genre of his first film (JOURNEY’S END). The second film version of the 1926 Edna...

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Gordon MacRae · Shirley Jones · Charlotte Greenwood · Rod Steiger

Plot Set in the times of the early 1900s', the musical is partially about the Indian Territory becoming the state of Oklahoma. Curly is a stubborn cowboy who had trouble admitting...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Jeanne Crain · Dana Andrews · Dick Haymes · Vivian Blaine

Plot Farm family Frake, with discontented daughter Margy, head for the Iowa State Fair. On the first day, both Margy and brother Wayne meet attractive new flames; so does father's prize...

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Dorothy Lamour · Anthony Quinn

Plot In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub...

Direction Joshua Logan

Cast Rossano Brazzi · Mitzi Gaynor · John Kerr · Ray Walston

Plot It is 1943 and the United States Navy has established several bases in the Solomon Islands, in preparation for an invasion towards New Guinea and the Central Pacific. On one...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Ann Blyth · Howard Keel · Fernando Lamas · Bert Lahr

Plot Tomboy Rose Marie Lemaitre, the orphaned ward of Mountie Mike Malone, falls in love with him, and he with her. But when she goes to "learn to be a lady",...

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Glenn Close · Harry Connick Jr. · Rade Serbedzija · Robert Pastorelli

Plot Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic musical about war, love, and racial bigotry is adapted for television in ABC’s entertaining version of SOUTH PACIFIC. Based on the novel TALES OF THE SOUTH...

Direction Robert Iscove

Cast Brandy Norwood · Bernadette Peters · Whitney Houston · Whoopi Goldberg

Plot In this Rogers & Hammerstein musical version of the classical fairy tale, where only the genetic miscasting surpasses the implausibility of most colors and sets, a royal heir is as...

Direction José Ferrer

Cast Pat Boone · Bobby Darin · Pamela Tiffin · Ann-Margret

Plot The film is a remake of the 1933 and 1945 films of the same name. While the stage musical, 1933 and 1945 movie were set at the Iowa State Fair,...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Irene Dunne · Donald Woods · Hugh Herbert · Ned Sparks

Plot In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star.

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Irene Dunne · Randolph Scott · Dorothy Lamour · Elizabeth Patterson

Plot The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they...

Direction Joe May

Cast Gloria Swanson · John Boles · Douglass Montgomery · June Lang

Plot Constantly quarreling couple decide to try the jealousy angle when a naive young couple comes along.

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Marilyn Miller · Lawrence Gray · Joe Donahue · O.P. Heggie

Plot A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family.

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast George Murphy · Ginny Simms · Charles Winninger · Gloria DeHaven

Plot Broadway producer Jonnie Demming courts big-name talent for his upcoming musical show, oblivious to the talent all around him, in his family and friends. When Jonnie finally lands Hollywood star...

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Nelson Eddy · Reginald Owen · Allan Jones

Plot Opera singer (Marie de Flor) seeks out fugitive brother in the Canadian wilderness. During her trek, she meets a Canadian mountie (Sgt. Bruce) who is also searching for her brother....

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Dennis Morgan · Irene Manning · Bruce Cabot · Lynne Overman

Plot Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.

Direction Alan Crosland

Cast Vivienne Segal · Alexander Gray · Jean Hersholt · Walter Pidgeon

Plot In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa instead marries the wealthier officer Franz von Renner, in an attempt at social climbing....

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Walter Woolf King · Vivienne Segal · Noah Beery · Alice Gentle

Plot Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnaped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment, meets and falls in...