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1. Swing Time (1936)

Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Roguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning the bucks.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick

Votes: 14,603

2. Moonrise (1948)

Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Danny is despised by his schoolmates because his father was accused of killing another man and sentenced to death.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn

Votes: 2,978

3. Alice Adams (1935)

Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, Evelyn Venable

Votes: 4,573

4. Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)

Approved | 106 min | Drama, Music, Musical

This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman

Votes: 2,324

5. Broadway Rhythm (1944)

Passed | 115 min | Music, Romance

A reluctantly-retired vaudevillian clashes with his producer son, who thinks his father's entertainment is passe'--audiences need something more sophisticated. Meanwhile, the producer's father and sister secretly produce their own show.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: George Murphy, Ginny Simms, Charles Winninger, Gloria DeHaven

Votes: 341

6. Out of This World (1945)

Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

After struggling to become a success, Betty Miller and her all-girl orchestra finally hit pay dirt when crooner Herbie Fenton comes on board. Problems arise when Betty and her girls try to ... See full summary »

Director: Hal Walker | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake, Diana Lynn, Cass Daley

Votes: 171

7. Hawaiian Nights (1939)

Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to Hawaii to manage the family hotel holdings. This proves to be a wrong move as Hawaiia has more bands than it does pineapples.

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Johnny Downs, Constance Moore, Mary Carlisle, Eddie Quillan

Votes: 21

8. Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (1934)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Music

Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show.

Director: Louis Lewyn | Stars: Leo Carrillo, The Debutantes, Eduardo Durant, Eduardo Durant's Rhumba Band

Votes: 229

9. Skeleton Frolic (1937)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Ub Iwerks dusts off the skeletons from his early-Disney days and puts them to work at Columbia...in a graveyard replete with eerie owls and surrealistic bats, skeletons begin to rise from their graves and form a loosely-jointed band.

Director: Ub Iwerks

Votes: 294

10. Freshman Love (1935)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Musical

Frank McHugh is a college rowing coach, in a desperate attempt to acquire top rowers for his team, he enlists the assistance of pretty blonde Patricia Ellis to woo young hopefuls away from ... See full summary »

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Patricia Ellis, Warren Hull, Frank McHugh, Mary Treen

Votes: 151

11. Off the Record (1936)

Unrated | 11 min | Short, Fantasy, Musical

Bandleader B. A. Rolfe is saluted with a party on his 40th anniversary in show business.

Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: B.A. Rolfe, The Music Hall Boys, The Sinclair Twins

Votes: 35

12. Deviled Hams (1937)

10 min | Short, Comedy, Musical

Down in Hades, Satan and an audience of devils enjoy band music, a singing trio and a pair of dancers.

Director: Milton Schwarzwald | Stars: Gus Van, Erskine Hawkins, Toy, Wing

Votes: 5

13. Cavalcade of Broadway 3653: The Havana-Madrid Club (1951)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Danton Walker, newspaper Broadway columnist, drops in at New York's Havana-Marid Club, where the floor show offers Jose Curbrio's Rhumba Band, the dance team of Horacion & Lana, pantomimist... See full summary »

Director: Harry Foster | Stars: Danton Walker, Jose Curbrio, The Jose Curbrio Rhumba Band, Dorothy Claire

14. I Love Lucy (1951–1957)
Episode: Lucy's Club Dance (1954)

TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy

Lucy asks for Ricky's help with her inept all-girl orchestra.

Director: William Asher | Stars: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley

Votes: 303