Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics > Musical: 220 Films to Rent
- On The Riviera (1951)
- Dir. Walter Lang
Feat. Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney, Corinne Calvet…
- Talented Broadway veteran Danny Kaye stars in this musical comedy, playing an American entertainer who develops a skit impersonating a wealthy…
- Show Boat (1951)
- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel…
- Lavish technicolor adaptation of the 1920 Hammerstein stage musical in which an aspiring actor goes from working a Mississippi river–boat to…
- Tales of Hoffmann, The (1951)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Moira Shearer, Pamela Brown, Sir Robert Helpmann…
- Boldly visual imagining of Offenbach's 1880 opera which takes three tales of magic and deception by E.T. Hoffmann and weaves them into a disquieting…
- Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
- Dir. George Sidney
Feat. Betty Hutton, Howard Keel
- The much–filmed story of Annie Oakley, star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, is the subject of this Irving Berlin musical, with Betty Hutton…
- My Blue Heaven (1950)
- Dir. Henry Koster
Feat. Dan Dailey, Betty Grable, David Wayne…
- Treacly musical concerns a variety show couple enduring all manner of misfortune as they try to create a family of their own.
Unusually bright…
- Petty Girl, The (1950)
- Dir. Nat Perrin
Feat. Constance Cummings
- Robert Cummings stars in this comedy–musical as an artist who causes a scandal through his choice of model.
- Summer Stock (1950)
- Dir. Charles Walters
Feat. Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken…
- This technicolor musical was Judy Garland's final film for MGM as she struggled with many personal problems during filming. Garland plays a farm…
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
- Dir. Tay Garnett
Feat. Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, William Bendix…
- Mark Twain's comedy given a light musical spin with Bing Crosby.
- In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
- Dir. Robert Z. Leonard
Feat. Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall
- Judy Garland and Van Johnson star in this musical adaptation of the 1940 film, The Shop Around the Corner, with the locale changed from 1930s…
- Ladies of the Chorus (1949)
- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Marilyn Monroe
- Modest musical burlesque has the distinction of giving Marilyn Monroe her first sizeable role.