Busby Berkeley Movies

Documentary profile of legendary dance choreographer Busby Berkeley.

A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner...

Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up...

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money...

Two men vie for the heart of a Cypress Gardens swimming star.

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 soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.

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

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

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

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

A young Frenchwoman is determined to get into and stay in show business, no matter what. Then she's determined to win a recently divorced man's...

At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.

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

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

Florence Denny is Tommy Nelson's girlfriend and secretary at a clothing manufacturer during the Great Depression. In order to boost sales they have...

A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.

Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find...

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

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...