The Best Years of Our Lives

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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Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire

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...

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The Glenn Miller Story

The 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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Hollywood Hotel

Hollywood Hotel

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...

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The Benny Goodman Story

The 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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George White's Scandals

George White's Scandals

Two couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.

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Some Like It Hot

Some 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...

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Allen in Movieland

Allen 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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Beat the Band

Beat the Band

Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.

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Syncopation

Syncopation

A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

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The Shining Future

The 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...

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Follow That Music

Follow That Music

Two reel comedy starring Gene Krupa as an Orchestra leader trying to make it in New York.

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The Big Broadcast of 1937

The 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.

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Make Believe Ballroom

Make 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...

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Boy! What a Girl!

Boy! 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...

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Jazz Ball

Jazz Ball

A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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Smart Politics

Smart Politics

The growth of juvenile crime in a small town starts a movement for the building of a youth center.

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Let Me Off Uptown

Let Me Off Uptown

Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra perform "Let Me Off Uptown".

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Glamour Girl

Glamour Girl

A talent scout and her colleague form their own company when their agency ignores their latest discovery.

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Born to Swing

Born 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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