Music

A reformer’s daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.

A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi ...

An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights ...

World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer’s unrequited love for a ...

A rich American businessman in London makes believe he’s lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.

Johann Strauss Jr. is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery, where he falls in love with Resi, the baker’s daughter. ...

Aspiring singer Susanne takes over one night for her sick friend, a small-time female impersonator, and finds unexpected fame when everyone ...

When she can’t support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. ...

The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother, building the brick house. But when the wolf comes around and blows their ...

A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of ...

A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor’s amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.

The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, ...

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for ...

Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a ...

Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps ...

Showgirl Tony Landers, supported by her friend Flip Daly, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.

Duke Ellington and his orchestra play two jazz compositions plus ‘Stormy Weather’ (sung by Ivy Anderson).

Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.

A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he’s King of Jazzmania, a land of ...

Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl’s dormitory when he was drunk. Per ...

New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he ...

In this classic French satire, Louis, a convict, escapes from prison and takes on legitimate work, making his way up in the business world. ...

Four sailors enter a Singapore dive, meet a Chinese girl from Brooklyn, and find there’s more to her than meets the eye. Two songs.

Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: “Glorifying the American Doughnut”) where Eddie Cantor, the overworked assistant ...

John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One ...

A short musical comedic romance starring Bing Crosby as … Bing Crosby. This 2 reel short was directed by Mack Sennett.

An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry Chicago nightclub owner and a Scottish South Dakotan farmgirl.

In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally ...

Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding ...

Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and gold-diggers get in the way.

Kitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts and romantic conquests as she visits a resort ...

Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.

El Malo, notorious Mexican bandit, forces the Mayor of Sierra Blanca, Seth Landport, to open the safe and turn over to him 2,000 pesos, which the ...

Based on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh, Sailor Behave! is a movie Musical with a split ...

A wild-partying flapper marries a cowboy and tries to adjust to life on a western ranch.

Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in cities and towns across the U.S. Jolson falls in love with an ...

A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.

When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.

Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious ...

Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment, ...

A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man’s stepmother objects to ...

Gus, the trusty family retainer, has hopes of riding his boss’ horse, Big Boy, to victory at the Kentucky Derby.

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate ...

In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin’ with a pretty, younger woman; he ...

Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, ...

With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and ...

A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.

A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store’s sheet music department, where she ...