The Best Years of Our Lives
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has...
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A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang...
See moreThe Glenn Miller Story
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the...
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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...
See moreThe Benny Goodman Story
Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living...
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Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.
See moreSome Like It Hot
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend...
See moreAllen in Movieland
TV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming title role in "The Benny Goodman Story."
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Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.
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A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
See moreThe Shining Future
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the...
See moreFollow That Music
Two reel comedy starring Gene Krupa as an Orchestra leader trying to make it in New York.
See moreThe Big Broadcast of 1937
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
See moreMake Believe Ballroom
Liza Lee, fast-talking press agent for Al Jarvis, persuades Jarvis to stage a Musical Mystery Contest, with a $5000 prize to the person who can...
See moreBoy! What a Girl!
Two silky-smooth producers line up a potential backer (who'll put up half the cash) for a musical review. The catch is that they must find someone...
See moreJazz Ball
A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.
See moreSmart Politics
The growth of juvenile crime in a small town starts a movement for the building of a youth center.
See moreLet Me Off Uptown
Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra perform "Let Me Off Uptown".
See moreGlamour Girl
A talent scout and her colleague form their own company when their agency ignores their latest discovery.
See moreBorn to Swing
“A tribute to the Swing Era evoked by skillful intercutting of rare material examining the varying fortunes of five ex-Basie sidemen. It looks at...
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