Director: Frank Borzage.
Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, Merle Oberon, Ray Bolger, Harpo Marx, Johnny Weissmuller, Katharine Hepburn, Gracie Fields, Gypsy Rose Lee, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Judith Anderson, and more stars than we can list here.
Description: This all-star exercise in wartime escapism is something of a hodgepodge dramatically, but it has some great tunes performed by the era's top talents. Young soldier on leave in New York visits the "Stage Door Canteen", a real wartime hot spot where popular stars entertain the troops. He falls in love with one of the servers, despite the Canteen's strict no-dating rules. Songs include: "The Girl I Love To Leave Behind", "She's a Bombshell from Brooklyn", and "We Musn't Say Goodbye" and more. Produced by Sol Lesser.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 132 mins.   Item #1966  $14.99
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Director: Hal Walker.
Cast: Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald, Don DeFore, Andy Russell, Bill Goodwin, Iris Adrian, Robert Benchley, Mae Busch.
Description: Night club hat-check girl saves a tramp from drowning, and he turns out to be a millionaire. He sets her up in luxury in return, and her boyfriend begins to suspect that something more is going on. Produced by Buddy G. DeSylva. Songs by Hoagy Carmichael, Ray Evans and Jay Livingston, Harry Revel.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 98 mins.   Item #1017  $14.99
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Director: Herbert Wilcox.
Cast: Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Martha Tilton, Edward Everett Horton.
Description: British actress Anna Neagle followed her surprising triumph in "No, No, Nannette" with this sprightly tunefest. Circus entertainer falls for a rich young man, but decides to hide from his family the fact that she's a lowly circus performer. Produced by Herbert Wilcox. Based on the play by Oscar Hammerstein II.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 96 mins.   Item #2069  $14.99
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Director: Norman Taurog.
Cast: Benny Rubin, Rex Lease, Marjorie "Babe" Kane, Marceline Day.
Description: Minor-league Poverty Row musical is great for the flapper-era atmosphere. College football player gets ousted from the team when he dates a woman with a "reputation." Songs include: "Must Be Love", "You for Me", "Wanna Find a Boy" & more.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 75 mins.   Item #2657  $14.99
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Director: Joseph Santley.
Cast: Helen Twelvetrees, Fred Scott, Dorothy Burgess, Stepin Fetchit, Chester Conklin, Ben Turpin, Nick Stuart.
Description: A fascinating, extremely rare relic of the early sound era, part drama and part musical. Two circus aerialists have a disagreement, with one fighting to keep her lover out of the hands of a scheming woman. Songs include, "Do You Think That I Could Grow on You?", "It Must Be Love", "Shoo the Hoodoo Away", more. Produced by E. B. Derr.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 75 mins.   Item #4347  $14.99
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Director: Sam Newfield.
Cast: Martha Tilton, Charles Collins, Iris Adrian, Betty Brodel, Philip Van Zandt.
Description: Showcase for Benny Goodman's top vocalist, Liltin' Martha Tilton, who plays an out of work singer. Songs include: "I'll Eat My Hat", "Let's Capture This Moment", "Say It with Love", "Music to My Ears", "Highway Polka", and "Got an Invitation". Produced by Sigmund Neufeld.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 76 mins.   Item #3707  $14.99
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Director: Marshall Neilan.
Cast: Pinky Tomlin, Paula Stone, Milburn Stone, Mary Kornman, Bill Elliott (as Gordon Elliott).
Description: Lanky, bespectacled Pinky Tomlin built an entire career out of one song ("The Object of My Affection"), but he made a likable leading man in several low-budget musicals, of which this is absolutely the best. Music professor undergoes career upsets because of his dislike of jazz and big band, but a nightclub singer eventually helps him see the light. Produced by Maurice Conn.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 62 mins.   Item #1684  $14.99
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Director: Phil Karlson
Cast: Gale Storm, Phil Regan, The Three Stooges, Ed Brophy, Will Osborne and His Orchestra, Connee Boswell.
Description: Future TV star Gale Storm (MY LITTLE MARGIE) plays an aspiring singer mistaken for a process server and thrown out of the nightclub owned by dashing Phil Regan, whose stuffy father disapproves of his son’s business venture. Perky Storm is seen to good advantage, as is Regan (a former New York cop who became a minor-league movie star), but the picture’s real stars are The Three Stooges, who steal the show with their slapstick turns as waiters.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 74 mins.   Item #1564 
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Director: Frank McDonald.
Cast: Jack Haley, Harriet Hilliard (Nelson), Ozzie Nelson, Mary Beth Hughes, Arline Judge, Al "Fuzzy" Knight.
Description: Big-band personalities and future TV-series stars Ozzie and Harriet share the spotlight with Jack Haley in this breezy musical comedy. Failed vaudevillian inherits a struggling ranch and must put on a fund-raising musical revue to make it a success. Produced by William H. Pine and William C. Thomas.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 75 mins.   Item #1773  $14.99
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Director: Edward Ludwig
Cast: Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Nancy Carroll.
Description: Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton invites Bullit to the peace and quiet of his own home to write a series of European affair articles. When Fullerton's adolescent daughter Alice develops a crush on Bullit, her suitor, boyscout Ken Warren, doesn't seem to stand a chance.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 95 mins.   Item #9676 
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Director: Basil Dean.
Cast: Gracie Fields, John Stuart, Owen Nares, Horace Hodges, Edward Rigby, Amy Veness.
Description: "Our Gracie"--British music-hall star Gracie Fields, one of the country's best-loved performers, toplines this semi-autobiographical account of a mill girl whisked away from poverty and made into a singing sensation by a composer dying of tuberculosis. Produced and written by Basil Dean.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 93 mins.   Item #1938  $14.99
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Director: Michael Curtiz.
Cast: George Murphy, Joan Leslie, Ronald Reagan, George Tobias, Alan Hale, Dolores Costello, Rosemary DeCamp, Frances Langford, Irving Berlin, Kate Smith, Joe Louis.
Description: Irving Berlin songs (as well as a guest-star appearance by the composer himself) highlight this story of a Broadway star who tries to produce a musical revue made up entirely of army recruits. Great wartime escapism, this picture was a huge hit. Produced by Jack L. Warner and Hal B. Wallis. Based on a play by Irving Berlin. Songs include: "My Sweetie", "Poor Little Me, I'm on KP", "Oh, How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning" (performed by Berlin), "What Does He Look Like."
Color/B&W: Color.  Running Time: 114 mins.   Item #1450  $14.99
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Director: Richard Whorf and Vincente Minnelli.
Cast: Robert Walker, Judy Garland, Dinah Shore, Van Johnson, Dorothy Patrick, June Allyson, Tony Martin, Lena Horne, Frank Sinatra, Cyd Charisse, Angela Lansbury, Lena Horne, Van Heflin.
Description: Nobody made musical biopics better than M-G-M, which could not only afford top production mounting but also had the best musical talent under contract in Hollywood. This Arthur Freed production dramatizes the life of composer Jerome Kern as he makes important friends like Victor Herbert and Oscar Hammerstein, which allows him to write musicals for a New York theatre. Features many popular singers of the era performing classic Kern songs like: "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "The Last Time I Saw Paris", "Long Ago and Far Away", and "Look for the Silver Lining."
Color/B&W: Color.  Running Time: 138 mins.   Item #1844  $14.99
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Director: William Nigh.
Cast: Rosemary Lane, Johnny Downs, Ralph Morgan, Dick Purcell, Sheldon Leonard, Dave Fleischer, Cliff Nazarro.
Description: Two children inherit their foster father's nightclub, which is on the verge of bankrupcy. To make a go of it, they bring in all kinds of acts, from jazz bands to comedy to cartoonists! Songs include: "Shoo-Shoo Baby", "The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round", "Roundabout Way", "Bullfrog Jump", "How Could You Do That to Me", "The King Was Doing the Rhumba", "Trying to Forget" and "Can't Take the Place of You." Produced by Walter Colmes.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 74 mins.   Item #2526  $14.99
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Director: Marshall Neilan.
Cast: Rudy Vallee, Marie Dressler, Sally Blane, Charles Sellon, Nella Walker.
Description: Making his film debut, radio crooner Rudy Vallee plays an out of work saxophone player who impersonates a band leader to avoid going to jail, and ends up accepting an invitation to play at a swanky party. Songs include: "I Love You Believe Me I Love You", "If You Were the Only Girl in the World", "A Little Kiss Each Morning", and more. Produced by William LeBaron.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 66 mins.   Item #3031  $14.99
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Director: Bernard Vorhaus.
Cast: Bobby Breen, Alan Mowbray, Ralph Morgan, Sally Blane, Clarence Muse, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, Willie Best.
Description: Excellent Bobby Breen starrer has a solid supporting cast and terrific musical numbers. Orphan tries to take over his late father's plantation from corrupt lawyer and an evil slave driver. Co-written by Clarence Muse with poet Langston Hughes. Songs include: "Good Ground", "Louisiana", "Peter, Go Ring Dem Bells", and "Send One Angel Down". Produced by Sol Lesser.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 62 mins.   Item #3163  $14.99
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Director: Philip Brandon.
Cast: Vera Lynn, Ronald Ward, Donald Gray, Geraldo, Patricia Roc, Brefni O'Rorke, Betty Jardine, Lesley Osmond.
Description: Quasi-biography of Vera Lynn, the sweetheart of British troops in WWII. Follows Lynn's career from an aspiring singer to her rise as a BBC radio star. Produced by George Formby.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 84 mins.   Item #4267  $14.99
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Director: Alexis Thurn-Taxis.
Cast: Henry King, Mary Healy, Jack Heller, "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, Dorothy Dare, Dave O'Brien.
Description: There's something hypnotically fascinating about this bizarre, bottom-of-the-barrel musical from PRC. Musicians enlist to put on shows for the troops, but they end up fighting instead. Songs include: "Zip Your Lip", "I Must Have Priorities on Your Love", "Don't Fool Around with My Heart", "The Yanks are Coming", and "There Will Be No Blackout of Democracy". Produced by Lester Cutler.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 65 mins.   Item #3708  $14.99
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Director: David Butler
Cast: Kay Kyser and His Orchestra, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre, Ginny Simms, Dennis O’Keefe, Helen Parrish.
Description: Music, mirth, and mayhem combine in this fast-paced romp, which finds wealthy debutante Parrish hiring famed bandleader Kyser and his Kollege of Musical Knowledge to supply the entertainment at her birthday party. Also attending will be crooked judge Karloff, phony medium Lugosi, and sinister scientist Lorre, who are plotting the girl’s murder to keep her from inheriting a large estate. Kyser makes a surprisingly adept comedian, and the horror-movie icons go through their paces with tongues planted firmly in cheek. Vocalist Simms introduces “I’d Know You Anywhere,” which became a hit song.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 97 mins.   Item #1148 
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Director: Albert S. Rogell.
Cast: John Hubbard, Martha O'Driscoll, Ruth Terry, Chick Chandler, Frank Coghlan Jr, Yvonne De Carlo, Paul Fix.
Description: Terrific little Republic musical benefits from the presence of pert Ruth Terry and the pulchritude of Martha O'Driscoll and a young Yvonne De Carlo. College students create a fictional, "perfect" student, which interests the psychology professor who can't wait to meet her. Songs include "I've Heard that Song Before" (a monster hit and probably the most popular song to originate in a Republic musical), "You're So Good to Me", "If It's Love" "Man", "You Got to Study, Buddy". Produced by Albert J. Cohen.
Color/B&W: B&W.  Running Time: 72 mins.   Item #4036  $14.99
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