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"Footlight Parade" starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell. Cageny is Chester Kent, the movie house prologue impresario challenged to create three masterpieces to win a major account. The only thing standing in his way is romance, embezzlement, and espionage. This is an amazing precode musical complete with numbers staged by the prolific Busby Berkeley.
Director: Lloyd Bacon & Busby Berkeley
Costumes: Milo Anderson
Studio: Warner Bros.
Year: 1933

"Calamity Jane" starring Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn McLerie and Philip Carey. Day plays the bigger than life character, Calamity Jane, known for being both Rootin and Tootin. Calamity, in order to save the town's theater owner, boasts about bringing the biggest star to the Deadwood, Dakota Territory stage. Mistaken identity leads to friendship, which gives way to rivalry, ultimately leading to love. Winner of the Oscar for best original song for "Secret Love." A 'western' with unexpected glamour!
Director: David Butler
Costumes: Howard Shoup
Studio: Warner Bros.
Year: 1953

"There's No Business Like Show Business" starring Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Johnnie Ray and Marilyn Monroe. Merman and Dailey are the parents of a vaudeville team, The Five Donahues, in this Irving Berlin musical. As time passes the family grows in different directions intersecting with Monroe's rising career.
Director: Walter Lang
Costumes: Travilla & Miles White
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Year: 1954

"Seven Brides For Seven Brothers" starring Howard Keel, Jane Powell, Russ Tamblyn and Julie Newmar. Keel and his six brothers are looking for love in 1850s Oregon. Things get awkward when the guys take marriage into their own hands.
Director: Stanley Donen
Costumes: Walter Plunkett
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Released: 1954

Part 1 of a documentary series about "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers" on YouTube.

"White Christmas" starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen. Crosby and Kaye, a song and dance duo, team up and fall for a pair of singing sisters to help the flailing business of the General that led them in WWII.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Costumes: Edith Head
Studio: Paramount
Year: 1954

"Neptune's Daughter" starring Esther Williams, Ricardo Moltalban, Betty Garrett and Red Skelton. Williams plays a swimsuit designer who's working hard to keep her lovesick sister out of trouble. A case of mistaken makes her work difficult and hilarious.
Director: Edward Buzzell
Costumes: Irene
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Released:1949

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