Category Archives: Musical

Funny Face

IMDB Rating: 7.00
3088 votes

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Fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire), in search for an intellectual backdrop for an air-headed model, expropriates a Greenwich Village bookstore. When the photo session is over the store is left in a shambles, much to salesgirl Jo Stockton's (Audrey Hepburn) dismay. Avery stays behind to help her clean up. Later, he examines the photos taken there and sees Jo in the background of one shot. He is intrigued by her unique appearance, as is Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson), the editor of a leading fashion magazine. They offer Jo a modeling contract, which she reluctantly accepts only because it includes a trip to Paris. Eventually, her snobbish attitude toward the job softens, and Jo begins to enjoy the work and the company of her handsome photographer.
Actors
Jo StocktonAudrey Hepburn
Dick AveryFred Astaire
Maggie PrescottKay Thompson
Also posted in 1957, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Cinderella

IMDB Rating: 7.30
9844 votes

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In a far away, long ago kingdom, Cinderella is living happily with her mother and father until her mother dies. Cinderella's father remarries a cold, cruel woman who has two daughters, Drizella and Anastasia. When the father dies, Cinderella's wicked stepmother turns her into a virtual servant in her own house. Meanwhile, across town in the castle, the King determines that his son the Prince should find a suitable bride and provide him with a required number of grandchildren. So the King invites every eligible maiden in the kingdom to a fancy dress ball, where his son will be able to choose his bride. Cinderella has no suitable party dress for a ball, but her friends the mice, lead by Jaques and Gus, and the birds lend a hand in making her one, a dress the evil stepsisters immediately tear apart on the evening of the ball. At this point, enter the Fairy Godmother, the pumpkin carriage, the royal ball, the stroke of midnight, the glass slipper, and the rest, as they say, is fairy tale history.
Actors
CinderellaIlene Woods
Lady TremaineEleanor Audley
Fairy GodmotherVerna Felton
Also posted in 1950, Animation, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Singin’ in the Rain

IMDB Rating: 8.40
23872 votes

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Glorious classic film musical. 1927: Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are the darlings of the silent silver screen. Offscreen, Don, aided by his happy-go-lucky friend and piano accompanist, Cosmo Brown, has to dodge Lina's romantic overtures, especially when he falls for chorus girl Kathy Selden. With the advent of sound in motion pictures, it is decided to turn Don and Lina's new film into a "talkie" and a musical at that. The only problem is Lina's voice, which mere words cannot describe. Thus, Kathy is brought on to dub her speaking and singing voice in secret, and Don's on top of the world. But then Lina finds out...
Actors
Don LockwoodGene Kelly
Cosmo BrownDonald O'Connor
Kathy SeldenDebbie Reynolds
Also posted in 1952, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

IMDB Rating: 7.10
4103 votes

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Lorelei and Dorothy are just "Two Little Girls from Little Rock", lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris, and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the way, even though "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend." Based on the Broadway musical based on the novel.
Actors
Dorothy ShawJane Russell
Lorelei LeeMarilyn Monroe
Sir Francis 'Piggy' BeekmanCharles Coburn
Also posted in 1953, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)