includes mainstream movies with scenes easily cut for jim crow

1940s Jazz, R&B, Gospel and Black music and dance performances in Film or TV

Jess Lee Brooks, Monte Hawley, CeePee Johnson, Tommie Moore, and Marguerite Whitten in Mystery in Swing (1940)

This is a list of films produced or distributed by Universal Pictures in 1940–1949, founded in 1912 as the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. It is the main motion picture production and distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of the NBCUniversal division of Comcast.

Year titles: 1940 (64) 1941 (61) 1942 (66) 1943 (59) 1944 (58) 1945 (54) 1946 (51) 1947 (28) 1948 (26) 1949 (23)

<AND MORE INFORMATION> Universal Pictures (1930s): https://www.imdb.com/list/ls595681217/ Universal Pictures (1920s): https://www.imdb.com/list/ls595631251/ Warner Bros. (1940s): https://www.imdb.com/list/ls540813009/ Paramount Pictures (1940s): https://www.imdb.com/list/ls540816078/

Gordon Jones and Keye Luke in The Green Hornet (1940)

>watchlist: pages 1-5 >watched and rated movies: pages 5-6

>further sauces and info:

https://letterboxd.com/theriverjordan/list/where-to-begin-screwball-comedies/

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000021896/ ("What Is Screwball?") https://www.imdb.com/list/ls013183546/ (434 titles) https://www.imdb.com/list/ls064597659/ (282 titles)

screwball comedies > ~watchlisted~ & ~rated~

Margaret Sullavan in The Good Fairy (1935)

Randolph Scott, Noah Beery Jr., Alan Curtis, Sam Levene, and J. Carrol Naish in 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders (1943)

From the days when romantic comedies were actually funny ( and even romantic on occasion ). See also - all the Marx Brothers films , Million Dollar Legs , Never Give A Sucker An Even Break , Hellzapoppin' - literally screwball

Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby (1938)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Universal_Pictures_films_(1940%E2%80%931949)

List of Universal Pictures films (1940–1949)

Includes Music films, but not singing Westerns. Starting with 1998, added requirement for 500+ votes and 4+ rating. Expanded to include TV movies and specials.

The search (excludes what's already on my lists):  [https://www.imdb.com/search/title?release_date=1927,&genres=musical&title_type=feature&runtime=45,&countries=us&sort=release_date,asc&count=100&view=simple&user_rating=4.0,&num_votes=500,&lists=!ls021062047,!ls021564702] and again for genre Music, and for title_types Video, tv_movie, tv_special (8 searches total).

Companion list: American omitted Musical Feature Films (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls021564702/) 

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls021062047/?release_date=1974&mode=simple&sort=release_date,asc

Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, and Teresa Wright in Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Movies seen at Camp Barkeley Texas in 1943

James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

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