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Rental > Classics > Musical: 197 Films to Rent on DVD
- On the Town (1949)
- Dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly
- Exuberant musical about three sailors enjoying a day's leave in New York is about as good as this stuff gets. The cast almost bounce off the screen.
- Take Me Out To The Ball Game (Everybody's Cheering) (1949)
- Dir. Busby Berkeley
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly
- An excellent warm–up for ON THE TOWN with Sinatra and Kelly playing vaudeville buddies in the early–1900s who yuck it up in variety…
- Young Man With a Horn (Young Man of Music) (1949)
- Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, Lauren Bacall…
- Sharp biopic based on legendary jazz trumpeteer Bix Beiderbecke (played here by Kirk Douglas), who rose from obscurity to possess one of the most…
- Easter Parade (1948)
- Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Fred Astaire, Amy Miller, Judy Garland
- Big–scale musical treat by Irving Berlin, has Fred Astaire swapping dance–partner Amy Miller for celebrity plus Judy Garland, in a role…
- Pirate, The (1948)
- Dir. Vincente Minnelli
Feat. Judy Garland, Vincente Minnelli, Gene Kelly
- Real–life partnership Judy Garland and Vincente Minelli reteam for a fine musical that also boasts Gene Kelly's footwork and Cole Porter's…
- Red Shoes, The (1948)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, Marius Goring…
- Beloved dance classic is a strikingly realised story of a young ballerina who, in an echo of the Hans Christian Andersen story, becomes torn between…
- Down To Earth (1947)
- Dir. Alexander Hall
Feat. Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks, James Gleason…
- Musical comedy sequel to HERE COMES MR. JORDAN starring Rita Hayworth as Greek Goddess Terpsichore who comes down to Earth to join a Broadway…
- Good News (1947)
- Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall…
- Toe–tapping MGM musical based on the 1927 stage production of the same name.
Set on a collage campus, where a football star falls in love…
- Perils of Pauline, The (1947)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy DeWolfe…
- Showbiz melodrama in which Hutton plays true–life actress Pearl White, who graduated from being a lowly–paid seamstress to queen of the…
- Jolson Story, The / Jolson Sings Again (1946)
- Dir. Alfred E. Green, Henry Levin
Feat. Larry Parks
- An American success story in song, accomplished biography traces the career of mammy–singing Al Jolson. Larry Parks offers a flawless…