Soundtrack: Robert Emmett Dolan

The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Robert Emmett Dolan. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.


True to the Army

1942 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Judy Canova · Allan Jones · Ann Miller · Jerry Colonna

Plot She's a high wire walker whose witness to a murder and seeks refuge at her boyfriend's army camp as the most unconvincing man imaginable.

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Birth of the Blues

1941 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Victor Schertzinger

Cast Bing Crosby · Mary Martin · Brian Donlevy · Carolyn Lee

Plot Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player,...

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Let's Face It

1943 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Bob Hope · Betty Hutton · ZaSu Pitts · Phyllis Povah

Plot A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three customers of the...

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The Trouble with Women

1947 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

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Standing Room Only

1944 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Paulette Goddard · Fred MacMurray · Edward Arnold · Hillary Brooke

Plot During World War II, Lee Stevens travels to Washington D.C. with his secretary Jane Rogers in order to secure a government contract. Not thinking it through, Jane cancels their hotel...

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Dixie

1943 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Bing Crosby · Dorothy Lamour · Billy De Wolfe · Marjorie Reynolds

Plot A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music...

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Happy Go Lucky

1943 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Mary Martin · Dick Powell · Betty Hutton · Eddie Bracken

Plot To land a rich husband, golddigger Marjory Stuart goes to Trinidad posing as a debutante. Beach boy Pete promptly unmasks her, but offers to help her catch his enemy, yachtsman...

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Sorrowful Jones

1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Bob Hope · Lucille Ball · William Demarest · Bruce Cabot

Plot A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child...

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Are Husbands Necessary?

1942 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Ray Milland · Betty Field · Patricia Morison · Eugene Pallette

Plot It follows the misadventures of a wacky wife and her sometimes exasperated, but loving, banker husband.

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Here Come the Waves

1944 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Bing Crosby · Betty Hutton · Sonny Tufts · Ann Doran

Plot Twin sisters Rosemary and Susie Allison are successful nightclub performers. Their act is about to come to a close when serious-minded Rosemary announces she's joining the Waves. Fun-loving Susie decides...

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The Stork Club

1945 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

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Murder, He Says

1945 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Fred MacMurray · Helen Walker · Marjorie Main · Jean Heather

Plot Trotter pollster Pete Marshall is trying to find a missing coworker. In a rural town he stumbles onto the roughian Fleagle family. Bert and Mert would just as soon "splatter"...

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Let's Dance

1950 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Betty Hutton · Fred Astaire · Roland Young · Ruth Warrick

Plot Donald Elwood meets after the war his former USO partner, Kitty McNeil, who is now a rich widow with a little child. She tries to evade her paternal grandmother, who...

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Star Spangled Rhythm

1942 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Bing Crosby · Bob Hope · Fred MacMurray · Franchot Tone

Plot Pop Webster (Victor Moore) is a former silent movie star once known as "Bronco Billy" who now works as the guard on the main gate at Paramount Pictures. However, he's...

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The Man Who Understood Women

1959 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

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I Love a Soldier

1944 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Paulette Goddard · Sonny Tufts · Beulah Bondi · Walter Sande

Plot During World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days welding ships and their nights dancing with soldiers and sailors shipping out that night....

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Louisiana Purchase

1941 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Irving Cummings

Cast Bob Hope · Vera Zorina · Victor Moore · Irène Bordoni

Plot Graft is rampant in the government of a "mythical" Louisiana, and the arrival of U.S. Senate investigator Loganberry brings panic. The chief miscreants shift the blame on to their innocent...

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Welcome Stranger

1947 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Bing Crosby · Barry Fitzgerald · Joan Caulfield · Wanda Hendrix

Plot Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine hires a replacement for his vacation sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; but Pearson is delighted...

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Cross My Heart

1946 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction John Berry

Cast Betty Hutton · Sonny Tufts · Ruth Donnelly · Rhys Williams

Plot A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.

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Dear Ruth

1947 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction William D. Russell

Cast Joan Caulfield · William Holden · Mona Freeman · Edward Arnold

Plot A normal day in the Wilkins family: reticent beauty Ruth, crusty judge father, petition-happy political activist teen Miriam. Who should show up but Ruth's soldier pen pal Bill Seacroft...whom she...

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