Soundtrack: Cole Porter

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Judy Garland · Gene Kelly · Walter Slezak · Gladys Cooper

Plot When Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne appeared in S. N. Behrmann's The Pirate on Broadway, there were no musical numbers whatsoever. But with Gene Kelly and Judy Garland in the...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Gene Kelly · Mitzi Gaynor · Kay Kendall · Taina Elg

Plot After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren (Kay Kendall) is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele (Taina...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Fred Astaire · Cyd Charisse · Janis Paige · Peter Lorre

Plot Fred Astaire took one of his final musical turns in this delightful 1957 comedy, a cold war update of the classic Ninotchka. Cyd Charisse, having previously wrapped her endless legs...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast William Holden · June Allyson · Barbara Stanwyck · Fredric March

Plot When the president of a major furniture-manufacturing company suddenly dies, the members of the Board scramble to replace him quickly and quietly. Each man is driven by his own motives,...

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Fred Astaire · Eleanor Powell · George Murphy · Frank Morgan

Plot Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is...

Direction Guy Hamilton

Cast Peter Ustinov · Jane Birkin · Colin Blakely · Nicholas Clay

Plot Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate a case for an insurance company regarding firstly a dead woman's body found on a moor and then a important diamond sent to...

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Bing Crosby · Grace Kelly · Frank Sinatra · Celeste Holm

Plot C.K. Dexter-Haven, a successful popular jazz musician, lives in a mansion near his ex-wife's Tracy Lord's family estate. She is on the verge of marrying a man blander and safer...

Direction George Sidney

Cast Kathryn Grayson · Howard Keel · Ann Miller · Keenan Wynn

Plot Fred and Lilly are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course,...

Direction Sidney Lanfield

Cast Fred Astaire · Rita Hayworth · John Hubbard · Robert Benchley

Plot After his wife discovers a telltale diamond bracelet, impresario Martin Cortland tries to show he's not chasing after showgirl Sheila Winthrop. Choreographer Robert Curtis gets caught in the middle of...

Direction Irwin Winkler

Cast Kevin Kline · Ashley Judd · Jonathan Pryce · Angie Hill

Plot De-Lovely is an original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter, filled with his unforgettable songs. In the film, Porter is looking back on his life as if it was...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Eleanor Powell · James Stewart · Virginia Bruce · Una Merkel

Plot Sailor Ted meets at the Lonely Hearts Club of his friend Gunny's wife, Jenny, a girl, Nora Paige, and falls in love. Nora wants to become a dancer on Broadway....

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Frank Sinatra · Shirley MacLaine · Maurice Chevalier · Louis Jourdan

Plot 1896, Montmartre: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless Simone has it performed every day in her night club. Her employees use their...

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Burt Reynolds · Cybill Shepherd · Madeline Kahn · Duilio Del Prete

Plot A millionaire named Michael Oliver Pritchard III and a singer named Kitty O'Kelly meet and fall in love. Meanwhile, an indigent woman named Brooke Carter and an Italian gambler named...

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Nelson Eddy · Eleanor Powell · Frank Morgan · Edna May Oliver

Plot West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

Direction Kevin Lima

Plot A bird chases and teases a worm to Cole Porter's "Let's Misbehave" as sung by Irving Aaronson.