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
Direction Sidney Lanfield
Cast Ray Milland · Teresa Wright · Brian Donlevy · Rose Hobart
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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
Direction Hal Walker
Cast Betty Hutton · Barry Fitzgerald · Don DeFore · Robert Benchley
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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
Direction Nunnally Johnson
Cast Leslie Caron · Henry Fonda · Cesare Danova · Myron McCormick
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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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