Soundtrack: George Gershwin

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Diane Keaton · Mariel Hemingway · Michael Murphy

Plot Isaac’s sentimental life isn’t perfect. His ex-wife is writing a book revealing the couple’s intimacies. Although he’s dating Tracy, a student much younger than himself, he has started to really...

Direction Woody Allen

Cast John Cusack · Dianne Wiest · Chazz Palminteri · Jim Broadbent

Plot The 20s. David Shayne, a down-and-out playwright, has finally obtained funding for one of his plays. On one condition: one of the parts is to be played by Olive, useless...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Gene Kelly · Leslie Caron · Oscar Levant · Georges Guétary

Plot One of the greatest of 1950s screen musicals is a happy collaboration between the grace and athleticism of Gene Kelly and colourful palette of Vincente Minnelli. An American G.I. lingers...

Direction Eric Goldberg

Plot New York City in the 1930s. Through George Gershwin's famous tune, "Rhapsody in Blue," a story is told about a day in the life of four random people who are...

Direction Terence Davies

Cast Freda Dowie · Pete Postlethwaite · Angela Walsh · Dean Williams

Plot This is a bleak portrait (or rather, two portraits) of a British family just after World War II. The two segments are titled, appropriately enough, "Distant Voices" and "Still Lives."...

Direction Eric Goldberg · James Algar · Gaëtan Brizzi · Paul Brizzi

Plot It presents new interpretations of great works of music. It begins with an abstract battle of light and darkness set to the music of Beethoveen's Fifth Symphony. Then we see...

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Edward Everett Horton · Eric Blore

Plot Ballet star Pete "Petrov" Peters arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer he's fallen for but barely knows, musical star Linda Keene. By the time...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Sidney Poitier · Dorothy Dandridge · Sammy Davis Jr. · Pearl Bailey

Plot In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history - tries to break...

Direction George Stevens

Cast Fred Astaire · George Burns · Gracie Allen · Joan Fontaine

Plot Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll choose, with young Albert wagering on "Mr. X." After Alyce goes to...

Direction John Murray Anderson

Cast Paul Whiteman · John Boles · Laura La Plante · Jeannette Loff

Plot King of Jazz is a 1930 motion picture starring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. The film's title was taken from Whiteman's controversial, self-conferred appellation. Although using the word to describe...

Direction George Marshall · H.C. Potter

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Jimmy Ritz · Harry Ritz · Al Ritz

Plot Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person. Hit song: "Love Walked In."

Direction David Butler

Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · El Brendel · Raul Roulien

Plot A varied group of immigrants head for the USA aboard S.S. Mauronia, including Russians Sascha, Mischa, Toscha, and Olga. Sascha has fallen for Scots lassie Heather; Olga is courted by...

Direction Corrado D'Errico

Direction Christopher Wheeldon · Ross MacGibbon

Cast Robert Fairchild · Leanne Cope · Haydn Oakley · Zoe Rainey

Plot An American in Paris premiered in 2014 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris before transferring to the Palace Theatre on Broadway, where it became the most awarded musical of...