Call Me Madam (1953), The Godless Girl (1929), Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), The Big Broadcast (1932), I Love Melvin (1953), Slightly French (1949), My Blue Heaven (1950), Step Lively (1944) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Studio Era movies.
Storyline: A Washington hostess (Ethel Merman) falls for a foreign minister (George Sanders) after being named ambassador to a grand duchy.
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, political satire, diplomacy, high society, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: High school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic meetings. When a girl is accidentally killed by a stairway collapse, the Girl and Boy go to reform school where they are treated brutally.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, crime film, moral dilemma, religious conflict, american film, 1920s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Pete's plane crashes in the swamp, he's rescued by young Tammy, an unsophisticated backwoods girl who lives with her lay-preacher-cum-moonshiner grandfather. When Pete's well, he goes back home to his fiancée. But then Grampa gets sent to jail and he sends Tammy to stay with Pete. At Pete's house, Tammy's home cooking, enthusiasm and quaint sunshiny personality bring about changes in Pete's family and in Pete himself.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, drama, musical, 1950s, hollywood, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A radio-singer, Bing Hornsby, is none-too-concerned about his job, and an affair with Mona leads to his dismissal. When it appears Hornsby is getting and paying a lot of attention to his fiancée, Anita Rogers, station manager Leslie McWhinney buys the station, gives Hornsby his job back, and goes on a honeymoon with Anita.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, pre-code hollywood, ensemble cast, 1930s, black-and-white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk and Melvin soon offers to do a photo spread of her. His boss, however, has no intention of using the photos. Melvin wants to marry Judy, but her father would rather she marry dull and dependable Harry Black. As a last resort, Melvin promises to get Judy's photo on the cover of the next issue of Look, a task easier said than done.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, 1950s, hollywood, dance, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Movie director John Gayle is fired by his best friend, a producer. He goes to the beach and wanders into a carnival. There he sees a cleaver Irish girl, Mary O'Leary, and decides to 'discover' her and regain his job. He takers her to his home and does a series of "Pygmalion" experiments with her. She becomes a fine actress and is hired by the movie studio, who believe her to be a FRench heiress. Gayle is hired to direct her but when she gives away the whole hoax, he is fired again.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, hollywood, classic, black and white, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby, finally acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner. Complications follow amid a series of musical numbers.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, 20th century fox, dance, song and dance, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Gordon Miller is rehearsing a musical comedy in the penthouse suite of Gribble's hotel...on credit. The mounting bill is driving Gribble frantic. Chaos increases when playwright Glen Russell, whose dramatic play he thinks Miller is producing, arrives. But it turns out Russell can sing like Sinatra, and Miller has leading lady Christine turn on the charm. Can Miller's crazed machinations save the show?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, black and white, classic hollywood, song and dance, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A musical advertised as the first 100% natural color, all-singing production. The plot concerns a wide-eyed former hatcheck girl who takes the place of a rebellious star.
Plot Keywords: musical, song and dance film, black and white film, broadway, 1920s, warner bros, light comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Unknown writer Jonathan Briggs is tricked into buying in to a struggling western magazine only to find that all Is not as it appears. In the meantime, he falls for the publisher's assistant and complications arise.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, 1940s, hollywood, black-and-white, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Claire (Marlene Dietrich) is a French woman in search of a rich husband in 1841 New Orleans. She decides the best way to lure a wealthy suitor is to masquerade as a countess, and soon she attracts two prosperous possible partners (Roland Young, Bruce Cabot). But her ruse risks unraveling when an old associate (Mischa Auer) appears, dropping hints of her salacious past. To rebuff his sabotage, Claire invents a troubled cousin, then impersonates her, adding a new persona to her subterfuge.
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, historical drama, costume drama, high society, scandal, deception, love triangle ...
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