(archive footage)
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
Skip Edwards
Three sailors finally get some shore leave, and go in search of fun and girls.
Dancer (uncredited)
Основа этого легендарного фильма — дюжина старых песен, написанных для различных бродвейских шоу. Дон Локвуд — популярная звезда немого кино вспоминает о том, как он пришел к славе… но вдруг счастье покидает его — наступила эра звукового кино. Нужно осваивать новые горизонты.
Danny Kroner
A Gay-Nineties musical set in NYC's Bowery and East-Side explores the life of its inhabitants---an Irish policeman and his tap-dancing daughter and music-hall wife; a German professor of music and his singing daughter; and an Italian café-owner, a kindly priest, a struggling young doctor and a saloon-keeper. And a political ward-heeler, Terrence Dowd, who has a deceptive and dishonest plan to sell them all out in order to build a fight arena. But he meets his match in property-owner Claire Adamson.
Bill Crawford
Outside the Wolf Club, wayward high school student Geraldine “Jerry” Briggs waits in the parking lot, while her partner in crime, Al, steals hubcaps from parked cars. When a patron named Steve Miller notices his hubcaps missing, he phones the police, and Jerry is apprehended.
Larry Hadden
A young girl holds a special place in her heart for a place called Shamrock HIll, and she tries to stop it from having a television station built on it.
Bobby Turner
В колледже "Тэйт" появляется новая студентка Пэт Макклэллан, переведшаяся из частного пансиона благородных девиц, смотрящая на всех свысока и сыплющая к месту и не к месту французскими словечками. Цель у неё одна - выйти замуж за студента из богатой семьи. Местный ловелас и капитан футбольной команды Томми Марлоу получает от неё "от ворот поворот", чего с ним никогда прежде не случалось. Желая всё же растопить этот "айсберг", он решает подучить французский, а точнее - составить пламенное обращение к Пэт, для чего отправляется в библиотеку, где знакомится с работающей там студенткой Конни Лэйн.
Dance Specialty / George Budd
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.
Charlie Potter
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
Steve
A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.
Ray Lambert
Томми Уильямс, певец из дешевого ресторанчика, страстно мечтает попасть на бродвейские подмостки. Встреча с певичкой Пенни дарит ему шанс.
Jimmy Frobisher
With his high school graduation behind him, Andy Hardy decides that as an adult, it's time to start living his life. Judge Hardy had hoped that his son would go to college and study law, but Andy isn't sure that's what he wants to do so he heads off to New York City to find a job. Too proud to accept any help from Betsy Booth, Andy finds that living on his own isn't so easy. With perseverance he eventually finds a job and even gets to date the pretty receptionist in his office. He also has to face several of life's lessons leading him to conclude that he may still have a bit of growing up to do.
Hank Parker
A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at work trying to find out military secrets.
