Tap! Filmography - The Feature Films
from Appendix B of Tap! The greatest tap dance stars and their stories, 1900-1955 by Rusty Frank, published 1990
"From the 1920s-1950s, there were very few musical films made that did not have tap dancing in some form. This appendix concentrates on "featured" tap dancers - solo, and groups. There are some entries listed here that have not been viewed since their original release. In these cases it is assumed that the tap dancer did perlorm a tap number in the film."
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"From the 1920s-1950s, there were very few musical films made that did not have tap dancing in some form. This appendix concentrates on "featured" tap dancers - solo, and groups. There are some entries listed here that have not been viewed since their original release. In these cases it is assumed that the tap dancer did perlorm a tap number in the film."
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- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsBessie LoveAnita PageCharles KingA pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.MGM/ Bessie Love, Anita Page
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsArthur LakeBetty CompsonJoe E. BrownA 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.Warner/ Four Covans
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsGeorge BancroftFay WrayRichard ArlenA criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.Paramount/ Nina Mae McKinney
- DirectorCharles ReisnerChristy CabanneNorman HoustonStarsConrad NagelJack BennyJohn GilbertAn all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.MGM/ Joan Crawford
- DirectorJohn CromwellA. Edward SutherlandStarsHal SkellyNancy CarrollDorothy RevierWhen a vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer have little luck in their separate careers, they decide to combine their acts; to save money on the road, they get married.Paramount/ Nancy Carroll, Hal Skelly
- DirectorKing VidorStarsDaniel L. HaynesNina Mae McKinneyWilliam FountaineA sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.MGM/ Esvan Mosby
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsNancy WelfordConway TearleWinnie LightnerThree Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.Warner/ Ann Pennington
- DirectorJames CruzeErich von StroheimStarsErich von StroheimDonald DouglasBetty CompsonAn insanely, egocentric ventriloquist, even though he is possessed by his wooden dummy, is in love with a dancer who is in love with another. The dummy gives advice to the ventriloquist.SonoArt/ Marjorie "Babe" Kane
- DirectorBenjamin StoloffStarsCharles E. EvansMarjorie WhiteRichard KeeneMargie, a singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York although she's in love with the owner's grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she summons all of the boat's former stars to unite and put on a big show to rescue it.Fox/ Dixie Lee, Richard Keene, Tom Patricola, Ann Pennington, Slate Brothers, Martha Lee Sparks
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsTed LewisAlice DayAnn PenningtonThis is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist.Warner/ Ann Pennington
- DirectorSam WoodStarsElliott NugentRobert MontgomeryCliff EdwardsBiff and Eddie are the best of friends. They are college seniors, roommates at the fraternity, and star teammates on the USC football team. Then a flapper named Babs enters the picture. Biff considers Babs his girl, and she does like him more than Eddie, but Eddie is persistent. Everywhere they go, Eddie and Biff are competing for Babs. When Eddie backs off for the sake of the friendship, Babs decides that she wants him, and this causes the friendship to end. Their rivalry even threatens the team's play in the big Stanford football game.Fox/ Ann Pennington, Slate Brothers
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsAileen PringleHugh TrevorDorothy GulliverBobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, on the eve of his biggest fight, he becomes entangled in the snare of a dishonest woman and ends up framed.RKO/ Ann Pennington
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsNancy CarrollHelen KaneStanley SmithA chorus girl inherits a men's college where her boyfriend is a star football player.Paramount/ Helen Kane, Jack Oakie
- DirectorJohn G. AdolfiStarsFrank FayWilliam CourtenayH.B. WarnerIn 1929, the studio gave the cinema its voice and offered audiences a chance to hear their favorite actors and actresses from the silent-screen era. For the first time, they can be heard in a gaudy, grandiose musical-comedy revue. But also appearing are actors and actresses from the first 'talkies', stars from Broadway, and, of course, German shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay is the host of the more than 70 well-known stars who show various acts.Warner/ Dancers, two choruses - one black one white
- DirectorMillard WebbStarsMary EatonEddie CantorHelen MorganThe rise of a showgirl, Gloria Hughes, culminating in a Ziegfeld extravaganza "Glorifying the American Girl".Paramount/ Mary Eaton, Dan Healy
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsMarilyn MillerAlexander GrayJoe E. BrownSally was an orphan who got her name from the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing and has been practicing since. Working as a waitress, she goes from job to job until she finds a job that also allows her to dance. At the restaurant, she meets Blair, and they both fall for each other, but Blair is engaged to Marcia. Sally is hired to impersonate a famous Russian dancer named Noskerova, but at that engagement, she is found to be a phony and that Blair is engaged. Undaunted, she proceeds with her life and has her show on Broadway, but she still thinks of Blair.First National/ Marilyn Miller
- DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsBessie LoveCharles KingJack BennyThe road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.MGM/ Bessie Love, Anita Page
- DirectorJack ConwaySam WoodStarsGus VanJoe SchenckBessie LoveWhen Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary, but a gold digger named Daisy has worked her way into his confidence. When Mary sees Jack and Daisy together, she leaves Jack and Jack marries Daisy the next day. When Daisy decides that she wants into the Vaudeville act, she has Jack dump both Jerry and his baseball contract. But Jack soon finds that - no act - means no money - means no Daisy.MGM/ Nina Mae McKinney
- DirectorEdward SlomanStarsHarry RichmanJoan BennettJames GleasonA vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.UA/ Harry Richman, white and black choruses
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsAl JolsonLois MoranLowell ShermanA love triangle develops in a traveling minstrel troupe.Warner/ Corbet Brothers
- DirectorJohn Murray AndersonWalter LantzStarsPaul WhitemanJohn BolesLaura La PlanteAmerican Pre-Code color film starring Paul Whiteman and his Jazz orchestra.Universal/ Chorus tap
- DirectorDorothy ArznerOtto BrowerEdmund GouldingStarsJean ArthurClara BowMaurice ChevalierA musical revue that basically has Paramount stars and contract-players doing things some had never done on screen, and wouldn't again; such as Ruth Chatteron , in a French-café setting singing "My Marine" (written by Richard A. Whiting and Raymond B. Eagan) to a group of U. S. Marines, including Stuart Eriwn, Stanley Smith and Frederic March; Buddy Rogers doing a song-duet with Lillian Roth called "Any Time's the Time to Fall in Love" (written by Elise Jans and Jack King), on a cuckoo-clock set; and Clara Bow singing and dancing in the "True To The Navy Now" number to a group of sailors.Paramount/ Nancy Canoll, Mitzie Mayfair, Jack Oakie
- DirectorLuther ReedStarsBebe DanielsEverett MarshallBert WheelerIn antebellum New Orleans, two men vie for the affections of a beautiful young girl during Mardi Gras.RKO/ Bill Robinson
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsJack OakieJeanette MacDonaldRichard 'Skeets' GallagherDress designer Joan Wood, who's heavily in debt, has created costumes for a Broadway show that is exported to Argentina. With the money she wants to pay her debts, but there was a mistake: she is receiving the money in Buenos Aires, not in New York. Her friend Wally Wendell, whose grandfather does not approve of his relationship with her, wants him to marry a girl he hasn't seen for some years named Constance Cook, whose grandfather is the owner of a ship traveling to Buenos Aires and Constance is one of the passengers. Wally's friend Basil has caused a freak accident with Voltair McGuines' cab, who wants his money for the damage. Basil asks Wally, but he has been disinherited and lost all credit by his grandfather, because he still wants Joan.Paramount/ Jack Oakie
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsJoe E. BrownBernice ClaireJack WhitingAn order clerk poses as a millionaire.Warner/ Joe E. Brown, lnez Courlney
- DirectorThornton FreelandStarsEddie CantorEthel ShuttaPaul GregoryWestern sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.UA/ Eddie Cantor
- DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsAlbertina Rasch DancersBetty BrownWilliam Collier Jr.A musical revue scheduled for release in September 1930 but shelved midway through production when musicals fell out of favor at the box office. In the years since, film aficionados have attempted to compile footage of the film's completed musical numbers, most of which MGM recycled into short subjects or feature films of the early 1930s.MGM/ Barney Fagan (never released as a whole)
- DirectorMelville W. BrownStarsFreeman F. GosdenCharles J. CorrellSue CarolTypical Amos 'n Andy storyline has the boys trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party. All the regular characters are here (or mentioned), including the famous Mystic Knights of the Sea. The only film appearance of radio's long-running characters.RKO/ Four Step Brothers
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsMarilyn MillerLawrence GrayJoe DonahueTo be near the fella she loves, an English bareback rider dons dungarees and cap to pass as a boy, stows away to America, gets caught, marries someone else...and finally ends up in the warm embrace of her beloved. Such fluffy foolishness is the plot of "Sunny," the Broadway smash brought to screen life by the irresistible Marilyn Miller, recreating her stage success in the title role. The sparkling Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein lotto hardback score includes "Who?" and the title tune. And the lovely Miller socks'em over with her winning voice, exhilarating dancing skills, and infectious good cheer. If this is your first encounter with Marilyn Miller, prepare to be a fan.First National/ Marilyn Miller
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsEl BrendelMaureen O'SullivanJohn GarrickNew York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.Fox/ Frank Albertson, Margorie White
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsJoan CrawfordClark GableNeil HamiltonCabaret performer Ivy Stevens in an affair with a low-rent traveling salesman is dumped in a 'Dear Jane' letter and finds solace in joining the Salvation Army.MGM/ Joan Crawford (tap charleston)
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsBert WheelerRobert WoolseyDorothy LeeWheeler and Woolsey play two unemployed vaudevillians who get involved in helping an old lady save her moribund drug store. Problems and laughs begin when the villain spikes the Lemon Sodas they are selling.Radio Pictures/ Bert Wheeler
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsBert WheelerRobert WoolseyDorothy LeeAfter a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back together. Joe and Aggie, accidentally, are becoming clients at the same law firm, Wattles and Swift, which is the biggest and most successful in town. But being on the opposite sides in the same case is not the only problem for Wattles and Swift, the concurring law firm Jackson, Jackson, Jackson and Jackson, has started a price war and one of its member has just been appointed judge, furthermore, there's Ace Crosby, whose ex-wife got her divorce with the help of Wattles and Swift, who vowed to shoot Wattles for this. Wattles disguises as widow Hanover, Joe's co-respondent. Crosby, waiting at the office-turned-casino, wins too much at the poker table, so Wattles tries to lure him away, after he and Joe have been seen by Aggie. Aggie, who has met Judge Jackson, who told her that she and her husband are clients at the same law firm, switches to Jackson, Jackson, Jackson and Jackson, after Wattles disguise fails. So does Crosby's attempt to murder him. The Bruno daughters meanwhile have fallen in love with the lawyers, and now they are trying to prevent the divorce. In a crazy court session they try all their tricks.RKO/ Dorothy Lee, Bert Wheeler
- DirectorDavid BurtonStarsMiriam HopkinsJack OakieWilliam Collier Jr.A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.Paramount/ Lyda Roberti
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsLawrence ChenaultA.B. DeComathiereLaura BowmanA movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she'll soon get another note, and that she will be killed ten minutes after that.Micheaux/ Chorus line tap
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsBert WheelerRobert WoolseyDorothy LeeNew York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.RKO/ Mitzi Green, Dorothy Lee, Bert Wheeler
- DirectorHobart HenleyStarsLew AyresMae ClarkeBoris KarloffStory of the goings-on at a Prohibition-era nightclub.Universal/ Mae Clark
- DirectorIrwin FranklynStarsBill RobinsonEubie BlakeJohn 'Spider Bruce' MasonThe director and star of a Harlem theater troupe puts his feelings aside to help unite two lovers.Lincoln/ Bill Robinson, and chorus
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsGeorge M. CohanClaudette ColbertJimmy DuranteA presidential candidate is deemed to have a dull personality, thus a charismatic look-alike is hired as a front.Paramount/ George M. Cohan ++
- DirectorDudley MurphyStarsJoel McCreaMarian MarshWilliam GarganSpoiled sports hero learns hard lessons.RKO/ Uncredited black tap dancers and chorus line tap
- DirectorAlbert de CourvilleStarsJessie MatthewsA.W. BaskcombBasil SydneySir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along, and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.Gaumont-British/ Jessie Matthews
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsKate SmithRandolph ScottSally BlaneKate and Lily Smith live on a farm with assorted relatives, and everyone at home--and in the whole town--depends on Kate to hold everything together. The power company wants to build a dam which will require flooding many of the farms. Kate is holding out: if Kate sells, everyone else will sell; if Kate refuses, the rest of the town will refuse. Hunt Blake meets Kate's beautiful sister Lily at a dance. Hunt is an agent for the power company. Kate thinks he's just using Lily; Lily believes that he truly likes her. Hunt comes to the farm and appears to woo Kate. Kate remains unconvinced about selling out, but falls for Hunt.Paramount/ Kate Smith
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsWarner BaxterBebe DanielsGeorge BrentWhen the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.Warner/ Ruby Keeler, Eddie Nugent, Clarence Nordstrom
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsJessie MatthewsEdmund GwennJohn GielgudMusical taken from J. B. Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.Fox GB/ Jessie Matthews, Uncredited Dancer
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsWarren WilliamJoan BlondellAline MacMahonA wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.Warner/ Ruby Keeler
- DirectorWillard MackJules WhiteStarsAlice BradyFrank MorganJackie CooperA vaudeville couple quit to raise a son, then come back with their grandson in the act.MGM/ Mickey Rooney
- DirectorJohnnie WalkerEdgar G. UlmerStarsEd SullivanJack DempseyRuth EttingEd Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.Broadway-Hollywood Productions/ Hal Leroy, Joe Frisco
- DirectorDudley MurphyWilliam C. de MilleStarsPaul RobesonDudley DiggesFrank H. WilsonUnscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.UA/ Harold Nicholas
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyJoan BlondellRuby KeelerChester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.Warner/ Ruby Keeler, James Cagney
- DirectorLowell ShermanStarsConstance CummingsRuss ColumboPaul KellyRacketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?UA Fox/ Barto and Mann, Frances Williams
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsJoan CrawfordClark GableFranchot ToneAn attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.MGM/ Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford
- DirectorAl BoasbergStarsMyrtle VailDonna DamerelRay HedgeMyrt has a show chock-full of talented performers who deserve to be on Broadway, but can't raise the necessary money. Jackson, a lecherous "producer", provides the money in order to get his hands on the show's pretty young star, Marge. Myrt teams up with Marge's boyfriend to try to thwart the randy producer and get the show to Broadway.Universal/ Donna Damerel, Eddie Foy, Jr
- DirectorThornton FreelandStarsDolores Del RíoGene RaymondRaul RoulienA bandleader woos a Latin flame who is already engaged to his employer.RKO/ Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsMarion DaviesBing CrosbyFifi D'OrsayA love-struck teacher pursues a radio singer to Hollywood.RKO/ Marion Davies
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsBert WheelerRobert WoolseyRuth EttingTwo salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick.RKO/ Bert Wheeler
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsAl JolsonKay FrancisDolores Del RíoHarry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out, that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane she kills him.Warner/ Hal Leroy
- DirectorThornton FreelandHarry LachmanGeorge WhiteStarsRudy ValleeJimmy DuranteAlice FayeOpening with a credit line that reads "Entire production conceived, created and directed by George White," a film evolves where the only plot line is a thin backstage romance between Jimmy Martin and Kitty Donnelly in and around a dozen or more sketches, revues, black-outs and singing and dancing turns. Made before the birth of the production code, reviewers of the day found much to object about in the implications of Alice Faye's "Nasty Man" song with the Meglin Kiddies, and the dog action in the "Your Dog Loves My Dog" number by Vallee, Faye, Jimmy Durante and Dixie Dunbar. The geometric dance arrangements used in the Vallee, Durante and Cliff Edwards "Every Day Is Father's Day" was not cause for Busby Berkeley to lose any sleep.Fox/ Dixie Dunbar
- DirectorMurray RothStarsHal Le RoyRochelle HudsonPatricia EllisHarold seems to flop at everything he tries: his schoolwork, his newspaper job--even his car is repossessed. It even looks like his girlfriend is losing interest in him, until a school musical is put on, and he shows himself to be an incredible dancer.Warner/ Hal Leroy
- DirectorHamilton MacFaddenStarsWarner BaxterMadge EvansJames DunnA little girl's (Shirley Temple) toe-tapping musical numbers uplift the nation during the Depression in this charming classic that includes Temple's rendition of "Baby Take a Bow.Fox/ James Dunn, Shirley Temple
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsJessie MatthewsSonnie HaleBetty BalfourHarriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, has a guilty secret: She has a baby daughter, born out of wedlock. Harriet leaves her public and flees to South Africa to raise her daughter quietly. The years pass, and now her daughter, Harriet Hawkes, returns to London as a young show-biz hopeful. Tommy, a wily publicity man, knowing that young Harriet is a dead ringer for her famous mother, convinces a theater producer to star her in a new revue as none other than the original Harriet Green, miraculously untouched by old age. The ruse works too well: Now the public believes Harriet is a well-preserved 60-year-old and Tommy is her son. The deception is more than merely inconvenient, because now Harriet and Tommy have secretly fallen in love.Gaumont-British/ Jessie Matthews, Barry McKay
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsCarl BrissonVictor McLaglenJack OakieA homicide detective with an eye for the ladies, investigating a murder in Earl Carroll's Vanities, allows the music revue to continue during the investigation.Paramount/ Chorus line
- DirectorHarry LachmanStarsShirley TempleJames DunnClaire TrevorEddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little daughter named Shirley. However, Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in "once a criminal, always a criminal." When Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing, it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison, and they're fired. Welch suspects that Eddie and Larry have something to do with the theft of the pearls. Will Welch prove that Eddie and Larry had something to do with the theft, or will the truth prevail?Fox/ James Dunn, Shirley Temple
- DirectorRay EnrightBusby BerkeleyStarsJoan BlondellDick PowellRuby KeelerA multimillionaire decides to boycott "filthy" forms of entertainment such as Broadway shows.Warner/ Ruby Keeler
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsDick PowellJosephine HutchinsonJohn HallidaySociety heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.Warner/ Paul Wing and Dorothy Toy and the Mahjongs
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersAlice BradyA woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce.RKO/ Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
- DirectorRoy Del RuthWilly PoganyStarsEddie CantorAnn SothernEthel MermanA musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy (Eddie Cantor) who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but must go to Egypt to claim it.UA/ Nicholas Brothers
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsDick PowellRuby KeelerPat O'BrienMusical-romance with Powell as private in Hawaii involved with general's daughter Keeler. Break up to avoid scandal but reunite years later when he produces play at West Point starring her.Warner/ Ruby Keeler
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsLawrence Chenault'Slick' ChesterA.B. DeComathiereGangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping.Micheaux/ Ralph Brown, uncredited tap and chorus line
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsRudy ValleeAnn DvorakNed SparksCollege band-leader "Skip" Houston keeps his band together after graduation, they turn professional, and they are a big hit on the radio and in nightclubs. He falls in love with Bonnie Haydon, a dancer who hates him because he is constantly taunting her about her act and offering suggestions for improvements. She slowly learns that any engagements or work she has is because of Houston.Warner/ Ann Dvorak and chorus
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsShirley TempleLionel BarrymoreEvelyn VenableIn the post-Civil war south, a darling little girl attempts to restore the peace between her parents and her plantation owner grandfather.Fox/ Bill Robinson, Shirley Temple
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsIrene DunneFred AstaireGinger RogersAn American jazzman and his buddy woo a Russian princess and a fake countess in Paris.RKO/ Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsDick PowellAdolphe MenjouGloria StuartRomantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.Warner/ Chorus (uncredited male trio)
- DirectorGeorge WhiteHarry LachmanJames TinlingStarsAlice FayeJames DunnNed SparksVacationing Broadway producer George White stops off in a small Georgia town to send a telegram and, seeing his name in lights on a local theater, is scandalized over the unauthorized use. He goes to the theater to object and, while there, discovers some unusual and great song-and-dance talent buried in a tank-town. He takes them to New York City, puts them in a new version of his Scandals, and they are big hits. Their sudden fame causes a pair of lovers to forget their vows made in less-palmy days.Fox/ Eleanor Powell
- DirectorArchie MayoMichael CurtizRobert FloreyStarsAl JolsonRuby KeelerGlenda FarrellAl Howard may be a star on Broadway, but he is no longer welcomed by any producer. It seems that he just trots off to Mexico any time he wants causing shows to close and producers to lose money. When his sister Molly can no longer find Al work, she teams him up with talented Dorothy for a club date in Chicago. Flush with another success, Al wants to open his own club on Broadway, so he borrows money from a gangster to open the show. Al has Dorothy, who he ignores, the gangsters dough and the gangster's sweetie Luana. All he has to do is keep them all happy, but Luana wants Al.Warner/ Ruby Keeler
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsBert WheelerRobert WoolseyBetty GrableA would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.Radio Pictures/ Betty Grable, Bert Wheeler
- DirectorWalter LangStarsAnn SothernGene RaymondBill RobinsonA young man with money falls for singer Pat Thatcher, and her con man father makes the most of it.RKO/ Bill Robinson, Jeni LeGon
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsDick PowellRuby KeelerLewis StoneA successful crooner who doesn't want to join the Navy decides to prove to his father, a Navy admiral, that he has what it takes to make it in the fleet.Warner/ Ruby Keeler, Meglin Kiddies
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsShirley TempleJohn BolesRochelle HudsonWealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones." As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary.Fox/ Shirley Temple
- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsCharles 'Buddy' RogersGeorge BarbierBarbara KentA businessman enrolls as a college freshman in order to break up his son's relationship with a gold-digger.RKO/ Betty Grable, Sonny Lamont
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersEdward Everett HortonAn American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.RKO/ Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
- DirectorRoy Del RuthW.S. Van DykeStarsJack BennyEleanor PowellRobert TaylorA Broadway producer is reluctant to hire his high school sweetheart for the leading role in a new show, so she decides to take advantage of a rumor started by a gossip columnist.MGM/ Eleanor Powell, Buddy and Vilma Ebsen, Nick Long, Jr
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsJohn BolesDixie LeeJack HaleyA film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him withdrawing his support. But all ends well.Fox/ Dixie Lee
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsSybil JasonGlenda FarrellRobert ArmstrongA young girl endears herself to her caretakers after her father is murdered by mobsters.Warner/ Sybil Jason
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJack OakieGeorge BurnsGracie AllenSpud Miller hopes to save his struggling radio station by winning a broadcast competition, with the help of the Radio Eye, an invention that can display live events from anywhere in the world.Paramount/ Bill Robinson, Nicholas Brothers
- DirectorMarshall NeilanStarsJane WithersJohn McGuireSally BlaneAfter obtaining her from an orphanage a couple exploit entertainer Withers till she runs away and later becomes a professional.Fox/ Jane Withers
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsAlice FayeRay WalkerBebe DanielsAging star (Daniels) finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus (Faye).Fox/ Two white, fwo black men
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsJessie MatthewsSonnie HaleAnna LeeElizabeth dreams of being a music-hall singer. She gets to know Victor, that quite unexpectedly gets a female part in a music-hall number. He unfortunately finds himself voiceless, so, why wouldn't Elizabeth replace him in it?Gaumont British/ Jessie Matthews
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsDick PowellAnn DvorakFred AllenEntertainers enter a political rally to get out of the rain and become part of the show. One of them (Powell) gives a speech in place of the besotted candidate (Walburn) and is chosen to be the candidate by backers he later exposes as crooks.Fox/ Ann Dvorak, Patsy Kelly
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsGinger RogersGeorge BrentAlan MowbrayCarol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status.RKO/ Ginger Rogers
- DirectorBenjamin StoloffStarsHugh HerbertHelen BroderickRoger PryorAn eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.RKO/ Nick Condos; found from What the Eye Hears. +++
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsWill RogersDorothy WilsonRussell HardieHorse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather Ezra, and the feud is to be resolved by a horse race between the favorites of each family. Unfortunately, the Martingale's horse, Greyboy, only runs well in mud. And it hasn't rained in a long time.Fox/ Bill Robinson
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsJohnny DownsBetty BurgessJack HaleySouthern California's Hotel Coronado caters to, and is frequented by, members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego tracks, in a tent-city with her father Otto and ditzy sister Violet, June Wray is a singer with the Eddy Duchin Orchestra who play at the hotel. Johnny Marvin, an aspiring songwriter and the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, is staying at the hotel, and the moment June and Johnny meet, they fall instantly in love. Trouble arises when Johnny's father objects to the romance, and complications and help arrive in the form of two Marine-hating sailors, Chuck Hornbostel and "Pinky" Falls, when Chuck marries June's sister Violet.Paramount/ Betty Burgess, Johnny Downs, Nicholas Brothers
- DirectorRay McCareyStarsJohn HowardWendy BarrieWillie HowardThe daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it, so she enters an amateur contest on his radio program under an assumed name.Paramount/ Eleanore Whitney
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsShirley TempleJohn BolesJack HoltShirley Temple's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his family and is arrested. A Yankee takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Shirley and "Bojangles" Robinson beg President Lincoln to intercede.Fox/ Bill Robinson, Shirley Temple
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsWarner BaxterAlice FayeJack OakieFormer burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite. After his divorce his former top singer returns from London to help out.Fox/ Dixie Dunbar, Nick Long, Jr.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsEddie CantorEthel MermanSally EilersMeek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.Goldwyn/ Unidentified girl
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsJane WithersPinky TomlinRita HayworthPaddy O'Day is an Irish immigrant who learns on arrival in the U.S. that her mother is dead. Friends help her survive as an entertainer, and success is a good argument against the immigration officials.Fox/ Jane Withers
- DirectorJoseph SantleyStarsBen LyonJoan MarshEdward J. NugentPeyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails. The dance school of the air proves to be a flop because of Silas Jones, who threatens to withdraw his large advertising account unless the dance school is taken off.Republic/ Nick Condos, Joan Marsh, Eddie Nugent
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsFred AstaireGinger RogersRandolph ScottA Navy sailor tries to rekindle a romance with the woman he loves while on liberty in San Francisco.RKO/ Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsHarry RichmanRochelle HudsonWalter ConnollyOn a leave of absence from Broadway, Harry Wallace (Harry Richman), the star of a musical comedy, encounters a troupe of untalented showboat players and takes them to New York City. Without letting them in on the joke, he then features them in a new revue, hoping that an unintentionally-funny act will bring down the house.Columbia/ Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and Johnny Taylor, Ananias Berry