Minstrel Man
4.3
1944
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Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian Benny Fields. The star is cast as Dixie Boy Johnson, who rises from the ranks of minstrel shows to become a top Broadway attraction. On the opening night of his greatest stage triumph, Dixie Boys wife dies in childbirth. Profoundly shaken, he walks out of the show, leaving the baby to be raised by his showbiz pals Mae and Lasses White (Gladys George, Roscoe Karns). The kid grows up to be an attractive young woman named Caroline (Judy Clark), who follows in her dads footsteps by billing herself as-thats right-Dixie Girl Johnson. This leads to a tearful reunion between Caroline and the father shed long assumed to be dead. If Minstrel Man seems at times to be a dress rehearsal for Columbias The Jolson Story (1946), it shouldnt surprising: the PRC film was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, who went on to helm Jolson Storys musical highlights.
Higher and Higher
6.8
1943
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With their employer bankrupt, servants scheme to marry maid Millie to a rich husband. But Frank Sinatra lives across the street...
The Gang's All Here
6.6
1943
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A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
The Heat's On
3.3
1943
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When his biggest star joins a rivals show, a Broadway producer bluffs and schemes to get her back.
Girl Crazy
6.8
1943
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A philandering young playboy is sent to college somewhere in the American West, and organizes a show, together with his sweetheart, to save the college from closure due to falling enrollments.
Swing Fever
5
1943
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Lowell Blackford (Kay Kyser) is blessed with a gift of music,but also cursed with a hereditary evil eye which hypnotizes people,and he is virtually a recluse. He goes in search of a Broadway publisher for a symphonietta he has written, and ends up crashing an audition at the Swing Publishing Company, where he meets torch singer Ginger Gray (Marilyn Maxwell) and her fiance and promoter, Waltzy Malone (William Gargan). Ginger accidently walks off with his music and he follows her to a gym where Waltzys fighter, Killer Kennedy (Nat Pendleton), has just been kayoed by his sparring partner. Waltzy learns of Lowells hypnotic power and believes that Kennedy can win the championship if Lowell uses his power against the champ. He arranges for Lowell to lead the band at the club where Ginger sings. The latter objects to the role she is to play in getting Lowell to use his evil eye but Waltzy persuades her to go along by telling Lowell that Kennedy is her brother and it means everything to her if he wins the fight. Lowell, after having Ginger turn down his marriage proposal, joins the Tank Corps. Waltzy is frantic and he has a phoney doctor tell Lowell he needs rest followed by attending a prize fight, and also tells him Ginger has accepted his proposal.
Figaro and Cleo
6.6
1943
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Figaro is a kitten; Cleo is a goldfish (both first seen in Pinocchio (1940).) Figaro gets underfoot, then unravels a ball of yarn while the maid is cleaning. Then the topper: he goes after Cleo. The maid ultimately gets Figaro to promise peace in this household for the duration.
Thank Your Lucky Stars
6.4
1943
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Two producers are putting together a wartime charity show with an all-star cast, but the egotism of radio personality Eddie Cantor disrupts their plans.
Top Man
7.2
1943
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Musical in which a family puts on a show to boost the morale of the local factory workers.
Thousands Cheer
6.4
1943
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Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonels pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddies also plagued by fear of having an accident during his familys trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.
I Dood It
5
1943
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A bumbling pants presser at an upscale hotels valet service nurses an unrequited crush on a Broadway star. He gets more than he bargained for when she agrees to marry him, to spite her womanizing fiance, and encounters Nazi saboteurs.
Du Barry was a Lady
6.8
1943
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A nightclubs coatroom attendant whos in love with the clubs singer accidentally sips a drugged drink that makes him dream hes French King Louis XV, courting the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Let's Face It
6.1
1943
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A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a womens fat farm nearby, want to get married but dont have enough money. Three customers of the fat farm scheme to get back at their philandering husbands by hiring the soldier and two of his buddies as escorts for the weekend. Complications ensue when the husbands show up unexpectedly.
Hi Diddle Diddle
7.7
1943
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When the brides mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the grooms father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
Stormy Weather
7.3
1943
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The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Hers to Hold
6.2
1943
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The third film in the \3 Smart Girls\ trilogy starring Deanna Durbin as Penny Craig, the youngest sister in the Craig Family. Now all grown up, she goes to work in a munitions factory during World War II determined to do her bit for America whilst wanting to be close to a young pilot, Bill Morley (Joseph Cotten). He gets posted overseas leaving Penny to worry for his safety. One of the films songs was nominated for an Academy award.
Stage Door Canteen
6.3
1943
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Dakota Smith (William Terry), a young soldier on a pass in New York City, visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theatre and movies appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. Dakota meets a pretty young hostess, Eileen Burke (Cheryl Walker), and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance.
Dixie
6.2
1943
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A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: Dixie. The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song Dixie.
Coney Island
6.6
1943
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Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Roccos Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the clubs star attraction (and Joes love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
Jitterbugs
6.4
1943
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The boys team up with a likable con man to help a pretty singers mother whos been taken in by swindlers.
Presenting Lily Mars
6
1943
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Small-town Indiana girl Lily Mars dreams to be a stage actress. She begs visiting Broadway producer John Thornway for a role but he dismisses her as an amateur. She follows him to New York and worms her way into his show, and his heart.
Cabin in the Sky
7.4
1943
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A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but hell receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife.
Something to Shout About
5.8
1943
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Following three flops in a row, Broadway stage producer Willard Samson is told by wealthy divorcée Donna Davis that she will finance a show but only if she is the star. The fact she can neither sing, act nor dance does not deter Samson. His press agent, Ken Douglas, lives in a theatrical boarding house run by his friend from vaudeville, Larry Martin, where he meets Jeanie Maxwell, singing teacher and aspiring songwriter from, of course, Altoona, Pa., who has come to New York to sell her songs. Samson is not interested in her songs as much as he is her stage abilities, but he cant get rid of Donna. Ken is also plugging for Samson to use the vaudeville acts, living at the boarding house, who cant get work because there is no more vaudeville, despite the fact that some of the acts are examples of what killed vaudeville in the first place. The show appears to have potential, with the exception of Donna, when Ken convinces her she is the perfect outdoorable girl for a publicity campaign and takes her to the countryside. Samson frames them as being dangerous counterfeiters and they are arrested by the country sheriff, and Samson rushes Jeanie into the star role for the final dress rehearsal. But Donna is released from jail, returns to the show for opening night and it is a miserable flop. Jeanie returns to Altoona, Samson goes on a drunken binge and Ken tries to save the show by convincing Donna into quitting.
Pigs in a Polka
7.1
1943
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The story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf, this time performed as pantomime to the Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms.