Busby Berkeley Movies

Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.

Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for...

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast...

An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an...

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

A short history of movie music is presented, from silent films accompanied by a single piano, to the elaborate song scores for musicals (with scenes...

A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of...

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.

The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for...

Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") where Eddie Cantor, the overworked assistant to a phony...

A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.

Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time...

After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her...

Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.

A failed actor finds success as a radio singer.

Students at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury's Beauty Soap, in the hope of being chosen...

Profile of famed dance director Busby Berkeley's career, in particular "The Gang's All Here"

The process by which girls are chosen for chorus line members in movie musical is shown. Numbers from popular 1930s musicals are then presented....