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Funny Girl (film)
Funny Girl (1968) is William Wyler's Columbia Pictures musical biopic of Fanny Brice, starring Barbra Streisand in her film debut, who won a tied 1968 Best Actress Oscar; also known by no other titles, with Omar Sharif as Nick Arnstein.
Gigi (1958 film)
Gigi (1958) is Vincente Minnelli's MGM musical, also called The Parisiennes, adapted from Colette's novella, starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, and Louis Jourdan; it won all nine of its Academy Awards and closed the Freed Unit era.
Girl Crazy (1943 film)
Girl Crazy (1943) is an MGM musical comedy, the last co-starring film of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, adapted from the 1930 Gershwin Broadway hit, directed by Norman Taurog with Busby Berkeley's "I Got Rhythm" finale, released November 26, 1943.
Going My Way
Going My Way is a 1944 Paramount musical comedy-drama directed by Leo McCarey, starring Bing Crosby as Father Chuck O'Malley and Barry Fitzgerald as Father Fitzgibbon; it won seven Oscars including Best Picture and was Paramount's top-grossing film of its time.
Gold Diggers of 1933
Gold Diggers of 1933 is a Warner Bros. pre-Code musical comedy directed by Mervyn LeRoy with Busby Berkeley numbers and songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin, released May 27, 1933, following 42nd Street and famous for "We're in the Money" and "Remember My Forgotten Man."
Gran Casino
Gran Casino (En el viejo Tampico), 1947 Mexican musical drama, Luis Buñuel's first Mexican feature, produced by Óscar Dancigers, starring Jorge Negrete and Libertad Lamarque; a Tampico oil-industry story that flopped commercially.
Hans Christian Andersen (1952 film)
Hans Christian Andersen (1952) is a Samuel Goldwyn musical biopic directed by Charles Vidor, starring Danny Kaye as the Danish storyteller, with Frank Loesser songs, six Oscar nominations, and a deliberately fictionalized biography.
Head (film)
Head (1968) is an American musical comedy, the only theatrical feature by the Monkees, directed by Bob Rafelson and written with Jack Nicholson; a plotless, satirical flop on release, now a cult film.
High Society (1956 film)
High Society (1956) is an MGM Cole Porter musical remake of The Philadelphia Story, directed by Charles Walters, starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Louis Armstrong, set in Newport, MGM's top 1956 film, Kelly's last movie, and a 2025 National Film Registry selection.
Hit the Deck
Hit the Deck is MGM's 1955 CinemaScope musical comedy directed by Roy Rowland, starring Jane Powell, Tony Martin, and Debbie Reynolds as sailors and their sweethearts, adapted from Vincent Youmans' 1927 Broadway hit and Hubert Osborne's play Shore Leave.
Holiday Inn (film)
Holiday Inn (1942) is a Paramount musical directed by Mark Sandrich, starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, and Marjorie Reynolds, with 14 Irving Berlin songs. It introduced "White Christmas" (1943 Oscar winner) and contains a criticized blackface "Abraham" Lincoln's Birthday number.
Hollywood Revue of 1929
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 is MGM's plotless all-star early talkie revue, directed by Charles Reisner, produced by Harry Rapf, emceed by Jack Benny and Conrad Nagel, and remembered for introducing "Singin' in the Rain."
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967 film)
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967) is David Swift's United Artists musical comedy, with Robert Morse and Rudy Vallee recreating their Broadway roles as Finch and Biggley, from Frank Loesser's Tony- and Pulitzer-winning 1961 musical based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 satire.
It's Always Fair Weather
It's Always Fair Weather is a 1955 MGM musical comedy co-directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, about three WWII army buddies whose ten-year reunion is televised; it earned two Oscar nominations but failed at the box office.
Jailhouse Rock (film)
Jailhouse Rock (1957) is an MGM musical drama, Elvis Presley's third film, directed by Richard Thorpe, with Leiber and Stoller songs and the iconic title dance number; co-star Judy Tyler died just before release.
King Creole
King Creole (1958) is a Paramount musical drama directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Elvis Presley as New Orleans singer Danny Fisher, adapted from Harold Robbins' novel A Stone for Danny Fisher; widely considered his best film.
Kismet (1955 film)
Kismet (1955 film) is an MGM CinemaScope musical directed by Vincente Minnelli, adapted from the 1953 Broadway Kismet with Borodin-based music by Wright and Forrest, starring Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, and Dolores Gray; a costly 1955 box-office failure.
Kiss Me Kate
Kiss Me, Kate is Cole Porter's 1948 Broadway musical comedy, book by the Spewacks, based on The Taming of the Shrew; it ran 1,077 performances, won the first Tony for Best Musical, and was filmed by MGM in 1953.
Les Girls
Les Girls (Cole Porter's Les Girls) is George Cukor's 1957 MGM musical comedy, 114 minutes, starring Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, and Taina Elg in a Rashomon-style libel-suit plot; it won the Oscar for Orry-Kelly's costumes.
Li'l Abner (1959 film)
Li'l Abner (1959) is a Paramount musical comedy directed by Melvin Frank, adapted from the 1956 Broadway hit based on Al Capp's Dogpatch comic strip, starring Peter Palmer, Leslie Parrish, and Stubby Kaye in VistaVision Technicolor.
Lili
Lili (1953) is an MGM musical romance directed by Charles Walters, starring Leslie Caron as an orphan who joins a French carnival and bonds with puppeteer Paul (Mel Ferrer). Based on Paul Gallico's story, it won the Best Score Oscar for "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" composer Bronislau Kaper and inspired the Broadway musical Carnival.
Living It Up
Living It Up is a 1954 Paramount musical comedy starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, and Janet Leigh, directed by Norman Taurog; a remake of Nothing Sacred via the Broadway musical Hazel Flagg, about a faked radiation-poisoning death and a free trip to New York.
Love Me Tender (1956 film)
Love Me Tender (1956) is a Twentieth Century-Fox Western, originally titled The Reno Brothers, marking Elvis Presley's screen debut as Clint Reno; its title ballad, adapted from "Aura Lee," hit number one and prompted the retitling.
Magical Mystery Tour (film)
Magical Mystery Tour, Beatles 1967 made-for-TV musical film, their third, self-directed coach-trip fantasy broadcast BBC1 Boxing Day 1967 in black and white; critically panned but its soundtrack EP and US album were best-sellers.
My Sister Eileen
My Sister Eileen (1955) is a Columbia Pictures musical comedy directed by Richard Quine, starring Betty Garrett, Janet Leigh, and Jack Lemmon, with songs by Jule Styne and Leo Robin and Bob Fosse's first screen choreography credit.
Oklahoma! (1955 film)
Oklahoma! is a 1955 American musical film directed by Fred Zinnemann, adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical, and the first film shot and shown in Todd-AO 70mm.
On Moonlight Bay
On Moonlight Bay is a 1951 Warner Bros. Technicolor musical comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth, starring Doris Day and Gordon MacRae as 1917 Indiana sweethearts, adapted from Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories and followed by the 1953 sequel By the Light of the Silvery Moon.
Pal Joey
Pal Joey (1957 film): Columbia Pictures musical comedy directed by George Sidney, starring Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak; based on the 1940 Rodgers & Hart Broadway musical by John O'Hara.
Red, Hot and Blue (film)
Red, Hot and Blue (1949) is a Paramount musical comedy directed by John Farrow, starring Betty Hutton and Victor Mature, with four Frank Loesser songs and Loesser's only film acting role; unrelated to the 1936 Cole Porter musical of the same name.
Road to Morocco
Road to Morocco (1942) is Paramount's third Road picture, directed by David Butler, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, with songs by Van Heusen and Burke including Moonlight Becomes You; two Oscar nominations and a 1996 National Film Registry selection.