Search results for "Fred Astaire"
Roberta

Roberta

Roberta
IMDb: 7
106

Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt,…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
That’s Entertainment!

That’s Entertainment!

That’s Entertainment!
IMDb: 7.8
135

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio’s 50 year history.

That’s Entertainment, Part II

That’s Entertainment, Part II

That’s Entertainment, Part II
IMDb: 7.3
126

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

Flying Down to Rio

Flying Down to Rio

Flying Down to Rio
IMDb: 6.6
89

A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Blue Skies

Blue Skies

Blue Skies
IMDb: 6.4
104

Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves compulsive nightclub-opener Johnny, who can’t…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
IMDb: 7
107

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Genre: Documentary
Let’s Dance

Let’s Dance

Let’s Dance
IMDb: 6.2
112

After the war, Donald Elwood meets his former USO partner, Kitty McNeil. Kitty, now the widow of Richard Everett, has a little boy named Richie; and she is trying to…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Dancing Lady

Dancing Lady

Dancing Lady
IMDb: 6.7
92

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Ghost Story

Ghost Story

Ghost Story
IMDb: 6.3
110

Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley’s twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins…

The Towering Inferno

The Towering Inferno

The Towering Inferno
IMDb: 7
165

At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—office building, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

The Notorious Landlady

The Notorious Landlady

The Notorious Landlady
IMDb: 6.8
123

An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.

On the Beach

On the Beach

On the Beach
IMDb: 7.2
134

In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss…

The Band Wagon

The Band Wagon

The Band Wagon
IMDb: 7.5
112

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star’s comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Daddy Long Legs

Daddy Long Legs

Daddy Long Legs
IMDb: 6.7
126

Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old residen, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Second Chorus

Second Chorus

Second Chorus
IMDb: 5.8
84

Danny O’Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row….

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Swing Time

Swing Time

Swing Time
IMDb: 7.6
103

Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding again and has to make $25,000 so her father allows him to marry Margaret. He and business partner Pop go to New…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Gay Divorcee

The Gay Divorcee

The Gay Divorcee
IMDb: 7.5
107

Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Follow the Fleet

Follow the Fleet

Follow the Fleet
IMDb: 7.2
110

When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake’s buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry’s…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
IMDb: 6.9
93

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they’re…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Shall We Dance

Shall We Dance

Shall We Dance
IMDb: 7.5
109

Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he’s fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Sid & Judy

Sid & Judy

Sid & Judy
IMDb: 7.5
100

Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage, never-heard-before voice recordings and personal photos.

Genre: Documentary
Broadway Melody of 1940

Broadway Melody of 1940

Broadway Melody of 1940
IMDb: 7.3
102

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is…

Genre: Music, Romance
Funny Face

Funny Face

Funny Face
IMDb: 7
103

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town

Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town

Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
IMDb: 7.7
50

A postman, S.D. Kluger, decides to answer some of the most common questions about Santa Claus, and tells us about a small baby named Kris who is raised by a…

Carefree

Carefree

Carefree
IMDb: 7
83

Dr. Tony Flagg’s friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Three Little Words

Three Little Words

Three Little Words
IMDb: 7
102

Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can’t continue his stage career after an injury for while, so he has to earn his money as a lyricst. Per chance he meets composer Harry…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Finian’s Rainbow

Finian’s Rainbow

Finian’s Rainbow
IMDb: 6.2
144

Having left Ireland, Finian McLonergan and his daughter Sharon arrive in the American state of Missitucky with a magical golden crock that has been stolen from Og, a leprechaun. Finian…

The Barkleys of Broadway

The Barkleys of Broadway

The Barkleys of Broadway
IMDb: 7
109

Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Top Hat

Top Hat

Top Hat
IMDb: 7.8
101

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace’s hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Belle of New York

The Belle of New York

The Belle of New York
IMDb: 6.2
82

In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. The object of his affections is…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
You Were Never Lovelier

You Were Never Lovelier

You Were Never Lovelier
IMDb: 7.2
97

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Yolanda and the Thief

Yolanda and the Thief

Yolanda and the Thief
IMDb: 5.9
108

Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help…

Silk Stockings

Silk Stockings

Silk Stockings
IMDb: 6.9
117

After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
You’ll Never Get Rich

You’ll Never Get Rich

You’ll Never Get Rich
IMDb: 6.8
88

A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn
IMDb: 7.4
101

Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the…

A Damsel in Distress

A Damsel in Distress

A Damsel in Distress
IMDb: 6.8
101

Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she’ll choose, with young Albert wagering on ‘Mr. X’. After Alyce goes to…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Royal Wedding

Royal Wedding

Royal Wedding
IMDb: 6.7
93

Tom and Ellen are asked to perform as a dance team in England at the time of Princess Elizabeth’s wedding. As brother and sister, each develops a British love interest,…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Easter Parade

Easter Parade

Easter Parade
IMDb: 7.4
107

On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To…

Genre: Music, Romance
The Sky’s the Limit

The Sky’s the Limit

The Sky’s the Limit
IMDb: 6.4
89

Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron’s personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Ziegfeld Follies

Ziegfeld Follies

Ziegfeld Follies
IMDb: 6.5
110

The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

Genre: Comedy, Music