Soundtrack: George Stoll

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Judy Garland · Margaret O'Brien · Mary Astor · Lucille Bremer

Synopsis St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has just moved in, John. He however, barely notices her at...

Direction Charles Reisner

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis Groucho, Harpo and Chico turn a big department store upside down as New York detectives trying to foil the hostile takeover the store and prevent a murder. Pretty late in the day for the Marxes - but still lost of...

Direction George Sidney

Cast Gene Kelly · Frank Sinatra · Kathryn Grayson · José Iturbi

Synopsis Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra teamed up for their first of three musical comedies in this frothy confection of sailors on leave in Hollywood, with gawky, shy young Sinatra tagging along with his worldly buddy Kelly, who promises to show...

Direction Don Weis

Cast Donald O´Connor · Debbie Reynolds · Una Merkel · Richard Anderson

Synopsis Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and Melvin soon offers to do a photo spread of her. His boss, however, has no...

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Doris Day · James Cagney · Cameron Mitchell · Robert Keith

Synopsis Jazz Age singing sensation Ruth Etting had looks, ambition and a haunting, smoketinged voice. It took more than that to make her a star. It took Marty 'The Gimp' Snyder, the limping, evil-tempered Chicago hood who propelled Ruth from dingy...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Glenn Ford · Shirley Jones · Stella Stevens · Dina Merrill

Synopsis Six-years-old Eddie Corbett (Ron Howard) tries his best to be a matchmaker for his widowed father, Tom Corbett (Glenn Ford). At first, sexy Dollye Daly (Stella Stevens) seems promising, but she ends up falling in love with and marrying Tom's...

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Judy Garland · George Murphy · Gene Kelly · Mártha Eggerth

Synopsis Set during WW I, Palmer and Hayden team up as vaudeville artists. Harry Palmer deliberately injures his hand to avoid being drafted to the army. Later, he makes up for this. WW I patriotism for a WW II audience, very...

Direction Robert Z. Leonard · Buster Keaton

Cast Judy Garland · Van Johnson · S.Z. Sakall · Spring Byington

Synopsis It's turn of the century America when Andrew and Veronica first meet - by crashing into each other. They develop an instant and mutual dislike which intensifies when, later on, Andrew is forced to hire Veronica as a saleslady at...

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Mickey Rooney · Judy Garland · Fay Bainter · Virginia Weidler

Synopsis After four months of floundering attempts to get into a Broadway show, Tommy Williams grasps the opportunity to produce a charity show to take city orphans on a trip to the country. With his new girlfriend, Penny, he and his...

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney · Charles Winninger · June Preisser

Synopsis The struggle of two talented young artists, to make their own way in the show business. In this musical, with autobiographical elements of Mickey Rooney's life, he plays Mickey Moran, a talented singer and musician, son of a veteran from...

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Mickey Rooney · Judy Garland · June Preisser · William Tracy

Synopsis Jimmy Connors and his girl-friend want to take part in Paul Whiteman's highschool's band contest, but they cannot afford the fare. But per chance the meet Paul Whiteman in person and are able to convince him, that their band is...

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Hedy Lamarr · Robert Walker · June Allyson · Carl Esmond

Synopsis A hotel bellboy is the unlikely choice to escort a visiting princess, over the protests of his invalid girlfriend.

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Dan Dailey · Cyd Charisse · Agnes Moorehead · Lili Darvas

Synopsis Chuck Redwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't like to hold hands with him, at least not in the beginning...

Direction Norman Taurog · Busby Berkeley

Cast Mickey Rooney · Judy Garland · Gil Stratton · Robert E. Strickland

Synopsis Rich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But...

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Esther Williams · Van Johnson · John Lund · Paula Raymond

Synopsis Ellen Hallit is in love with her playboy boss, Douglas Morrison, but is too timid to do anything about it. To help her, her roommate Chris decides to step in, and devises a plan. Chris follows Morrison on his trip...

Direction Hal Roach

Cast Adolphe Menjou · Carole Landis · John Hubbard · Charles Butterworth

Synopsis A playboy on the run hooks up with a sideshow''s beautiful owner.

Direction Edward Buzzell

Cast Esther Williams · Red Skelton · Ricardo Montalban · Betty Garrett

Synopsis Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister...

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Esther Williams · Tony Martin · Van Johnson · Carroll Baker

Synopsis Set against the background of Florida's Cypress Gardens, and featuring many stretches of water carnival-ballet numbers, the slight story line finds swimming star Julie Hallerton (Esther Williams) in love with Ray Lloyd (Van Johnson), her boss and the creator and...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

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

Synopsis 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", she meets outlaw trapper James Duval, who also falls in...

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Mae West · Warren William · Randolph Scott · Alice Brady