Hollywood Musicals

Daddy Long Legs

2009-09-13T23:09:00.000+02:00

20th Century-Fox, 1955, Color, 126 minutes

Produced by: Samuel G. Engel
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
Assistant Director: Eli Dunn
Screen Play by: Phoebe and Henry Ephron
Words and Music by: Johnny Mercer
Ballets by: Roland Petit
Music Supervised and Conducted by: Alfred Newman
Dances Staged by: Fred Astaire and David Robel
Wardrobe Designed by: Kay Nelson
Ballet Costumes Designed by: Tom Keogh

Filmed in CinemaScope, Color by De Luxe

Cast:
Fred Astaire (Jervis Pendleton),
Leslie Caron (Julie Andre),
Terry Moore (Linda Pendleton),
Thelma Ritter (Miss Pritchard),
Fred Clark (Griggs)

1 History Of The Beat
2 C-A-T Spells Cat
3 Welcome Egghead
4 Texas Millionaire, International Playboy, Guardian Angel
5 Sluefoot
6 Something's Gotta Give
7 Opéra de Paris
8 Hong Kong Café
9 Rio
10 Dream - Finale

Damn Yankees

2009-07-17T17:47:00.001+02:00

Warner Bros., 1958, Color, 110 minutes

Produced and Directed by: George Abbott and Stanley Donen
Screenplay by: George Abbott
Music and Lyrics by: Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Song Score: Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Choreography: Bob Fosse and Pat Ferrier
Set Decoration: John P. Austin
Costume Design: Jean Eckart, William Eckart

Cast:
Tab Hunter (Joe Hardy),
Gwen Verdon (Lola),
Ray Walston (Applegate),
Bob Fosse (Mambo Dancer)

1 Overture
2 Six Months Out of Every Year
3 Goodbye, Old Girl
4 Heart Damn Yankees
5 Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo
6 There's Something About an Empty Chair
7 A Little Brains, a Little Talent
8 Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)
9 Those Were the Good Old Days
10 Who's Got the Pain
11 Heart
12 Two Lost Souls

Rose Of Washington Square

2009-06-22T16:59:00.002+02:00

20th Century-Fox, 1939, Black and White, 86 minutes

Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Associate Producer: Nunnally Johnson
Directed by: Gregory Ratoff
Music Direction: Louis Silvers
Dances Staged by: Seymour Felix
Costumes: Royer

Cast:
Tyrone Power (Bart Clinton),
Alice Faye (Rose Sargent),
Al Jolson (Ted Cotter),
William Frawley (Harry Long)

1 Main Title
2 Pretty Baby
3 I'm Sorry I Made You Cry
4 Ja-da
5 The Vamp
6 Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody
7 Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye
8 Shine On, Harvest Moon
9 I'm Just Wild About Harry
10 California, Here I Come
11 I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak
12 Rose of Washington Square
13 My Mammy
14 My Man

Pennies From Heaven

2009-04-03T17:20:00.001+02:00

MGM, 1981, Color, 108 minutes

Produced by: Nora Kaye & Herbert Ross
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Music Arranged and Conducted by: Marvin Hamlisch and Billy May
Choreography by: Danny Daniels
Costumes Designed by: Bob Mackie

Cast:
Steve Martin (Arthur Parker),
Bernadette Peters (Eileen "Lulu"),
Christopher Walken (Tom),
Jessica Harper (Joan Parker)

1 The Clouds Will Soon Roll By
2 I'll Never Have to Dream Again
3 Yes, Yes
4 Did You Ever See a Dream Walking ?
5 Pennies from Heaven
6 It's the Girl
7 Love Is Good for Anything That Ails You
8 It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
9 I Want to Be Bad
10 Let's Misbehave
11 Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
12 Let's Face the Music and Dance
13 Pennies from Heaven
14 The Glory of Love
15 Love Is Good for Anything That Ails You

For Me And My Gal

2009-01-13T14:18:00.001+01:00

MGM, 1942, Black and White, 104 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Directed by: Busby Berkeley
Screen Play by: Richard Sherman, Fred Finklehoffe, and Sid Silvers
Musical Adaptation: Roger Edens
Music Direction: Georgie Stoll
Vocals and Orchestrations: Conrad Salinger, George Bassman, Leo Arnaud
Dance Direction: Bobby Connolly
Gowns by: Kalloch

Cast:
Judy Garland (Jo Hayden),
George Murphy (Jimmy K. Metcalfe),
Gene Kelly (Harry Palmer),
Marta Eggerth (Eve Minard)

1 Main Title
2 Vaudeville Routine (Harry Palmer's Act)
3 The Doll Shop, Part 1
4 Oh, You Beautiful Doll
5 The Doll Shop, Part 1 Continued (Extended Version)
6 Don't Leave Me, Daddy
7 Oh, You Beautiful Doll (Reprise)
8 The Doll Shop, Part 2
9 By The Beautiful Sea
10 Darktown Strutters Ball (Extended Version)
11 For Me And My Gal
12 The Confession
13 When You Wore A Tulip
14 Don't Bite The Hand That's Feeding You (Outtake)
15 Do I Love You
16 It Started With Eve
17 A Women's Prerogative
18 After You've Gone
19 The Spell Of The Waltz (Outtake)
20 Love Song (Extended Version)
21 A Dream Crashes
22 I'm Sorry I Made You Cry (Outtake)
23 Tell Me (Outtake)
24 Tell Me (Reprise)
25 Till We Meet Again
26 We Don't Want The Bacon, What We Want Is A Piece Of The Rhine
27 Ballin' The Jack
28 The Small Time (Extended Version)
29 What Are You Going To Do About The Boys (Extended Version)
30 How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm
31 There's A Long, Long Trail
32 Where Do We Go From Here
33 Part 1 - Over There - It's A long Way To Tipperary
34 Part 2 - Y.M.C.A. Montage Continued - Goodbye Broadway, Hello France
35 Part 3 - Yankee Doodle - Smiles
36 Part 4 - Hincky Dinky Parlay Voo - Oh, Frenchy
37 Part 5 - Y.M.C.A. Montage Continued - Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag And
Smile, Smile, Smile
38 When Johnny Comes Marching Home (Extended Version)
39 Finale (For Me And My Gal Reprise)
40 Main Title (Alternate Version)
41 Dear Old Pal Of Mine (Outtake)
42 Smiles (Extended Version-Outtake)
43 Three Cheers For The Yanks (Outtake)
44 For Me And My Gal (Original Finale-Outtake)

White Christmas

2008-12-16T19:40:00.002+01:00

Paramount, 1954, Color, 72 min

Produced by: Robert Emmett Dolan
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Lyrics and Music by: Irving Berlin
Music Direction and Vocal Arrangements by: Joseph J. Lilley
Dances and Musical Numbers Staged by: Robert Alton
Costumes: Edith Head

Filmed in VistaVision, Color by Technicolor

Cast:
Bing Crosby (Bob Wallace),
Danny Kaye (Phil Davis),
Rosemary Clooney (Betty Haynes),
Vera-Ellen (Judy Haynes),
Dean Jagger (General Waverly)

1 Overture
2 White Christmas
3 Medley : The Old Man / Heat Wave / Let Me Sing and I'm Happy / Blue Skies
4 Sisters
5 The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing
6 Snow
7 Minstrel Number / Mandy
8 Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
9 Choreography
10 Abraham Number
11 Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me
12 What Can You Do with a General
13 The Old Man
14 Gee, I Wish I Was Back in the Army
15 Finale: White Christmas

The Dolly Sisters

2008-11-14T14:30:00.002+01:00

20th Century-Fox, 1945, Color, 114 minutes

Produced by: George Jessel
Directed by: Irving Cummings
Screen Play by: John Larkin and Marian Spitzer
Lyrics by Mack Gordon
Music by James Monaco
Musical Direction: Alfred Newman, Charles Henderson
Orchestral Arrangements: Gene Rose
Dances Staged by: Seymour Felix
Set Decorations: Thomas Little
Costumes: Orry Kelly

Filmed in Technicolor

Cast:
Betty Grable (Jenny),
John Payne (Harry Fox),
June Haver (Rosie),
S. Z. Sakall (Uncle Latsie)

1 Overture / I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
2 The Vamp
3 I Can't Begin To Tell You
4 Give Me The Moonlight, Give Me The Girl
5 We Have Been Around / Carolina In The Morning
6 Don't Be Too Old Fashioned (Old fashioned Girl) / Powder, Lipstick and Rouge
7 I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
8 Darktown Strutters Ball
9 We Have Been Around / I'm Always Chasing Rainbows / Arrah Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back To Oregon / I Can't Begin To Tell You
10 We Have Been Around / The Sidewalks Of New-York (East Side, West Side)
11 I Can't Begin To Tell You

Cover Girl

2008-11-14T14:28:00.002+01:00

Columbia, 1944, Color, 105 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Schwartz
Assistant to the Producer: Norman Deming
Directed by: Charles Vidor
Assistant Director: Oscar Boetticher, Jr.
Screen Play by: Virginia Van Upp
Adaptation by: Marion Parsonnet, Paul Gangelin
Story by: Erwin Gelsey
Musical Director: M. W. Stoloff
Musical Score: Carmen Dragon
Music by: Jerome Kern
Lyrics by: Ira Gershwin
Orchestrations by: Carmen Dragon
Dance Numbers Staged by: Val Raset, Seymour Felix
Set Decorations: Fay Babcock
Gowns by: Travis Banton, Gwen Wakeling, Muriel King
Filmed in Technicolor

Cast:
Rita Hayworth (Rusty Parker),
Gene Kelly (Danny McGuire),
Lee Bowman (Noel Wheaton),
Phil Silvers (Genius)

1 Overture
2 The Show Must Go On
3 Who's Complaining ?
4 Sure Thing
5 Make Way for Tomorrow
6 Put Me to the Test
7 Long Ago (And Far Away)
8 Poor John
9 Alter-Ego Dance
10 Cover Girl
11 Put Me to the Test
12 Long Ago (And Far Away) / Make Way for Tomorrow

2008-10-29T16:05:00.002+01:00

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Can-Can

2008-10-13T22:50:00.007+02:00

20th Century-Fox, 1960, Color, 131 minutes

Producer: Jack Cummings
Associate Producer: Saul Chaplin
Directed by: Walter Lang
Assistant Director: Joseph E. Rickards
Screenplay by: Dorothy Kingsley and Charles Lederer
Songs by: Cole Porter
Music Arranged and Conducted by: Nelson Riddle
Dances Staged by: Hermes Pan
Set Decorations: Walter M. Scott, Paul S. Fox
Costumes Designed by: Irene Sharaff

Produced in TODD-AO, Color by Deluxe

Cast:
Frank Sinatra (Francois Durnais),
Shirley MacLaine (Simone Pistache),
Maurice Chevalier (Paul Barrière),
Louis Jourdan (Philipe Forrestier),
Juliet Prowse (Claudine)

1 Overture
2 Titles / Montmartre
3 Maidens Typical of France
4 C'est Magnifique
5 The Show
6 C'est Magnifique
7 Live and Let Live
8 You Do Something to Me
9 Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
10 It's All Right with Me
11 Entracte
12 Live and Let Live
13 Come Along with Me
14 Just One of Those Things
15 Adam and Eve
16 It's All Right with Me
17 Can Can
18 I Love Paris / Exit Music

Pin Up Girl

2008-09-18T15:09:00.005+02:00

20th Century-Fox, 1944, Color, 83 minutes

Producer: William LeBaron
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Screenplay: Earl Baldwin, Robert Ellis and Helen Logan
Music Director: Charles Henderson and Emil Newman
Song Score: Mack Gordon and James Monaco
Choreography: Hermes Pan
Roller Skating Choreography Gae Foster
Military Number Choreography: Alice Sullivan
Set Decoration: Thomas Little
Costume Design: Rene Hubert

Cast:
Betty Grable (Lorry Jones),
John Harvey (Tommy Dooley),
Martha Raye (Marian),
Joe E. Brown (Eddie),
Eugene Pallette (Barney Briggs),
Dorothea Kent (Kay),
Dave Willock (Dud Miller)

1 Overture / You're My Little Pin Up Girl
2 You're My Little Pin Up Girl
3 Time Alone Will Tell
4 Red Robins, Bob Whites and Blue Birds
5 Don't Carry Tales out of School
6 Yankee Doodle Hayride
7 Once Too Often
8 Don't Carry Tales out of School
9 The Story of the Very Merry Widow / WAVE

What A Way To Go !

2008-09-08T16:50:00.004+02:00

20th Century Fox, 1964, 111 minutes

Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Produced by:Arthur P. Jacobs
Written by: Gwen Davis, Betty Comden
Music by: Nelson Riddle

Cast:
Shirley MacLaine (Louisa May Foster),
Paul Newman (Larry Flint),
Robert Mitchum (Rod Anderson, Jr.),
Dean Martin (Leonard 'Lennie' Crawley),
Gene Kelly (Pinky Benson),
Robert Cummings (Dr. Victor Stephanson),
Dick Van Dyke (Edgar Hopper)

1 Overture
2 Old Silent Movie
3 Louisa In Paris
4 First Painting Session
5 Fatal Painting Session
6 Lush Buchett Production
7 Pinky Disaster
8 On Our Little Houseboat
9 Last Dance Of Pinky

Down Argentine Way

2008-09-08T16:42:00.003+02:00

20th Century-Fox, 1940, Color, 92 minute

Produced by: Darryl F. Zanuck
Associate Producer: Harry Joe Brown
Directed by: Irving Cummings
Screen Play by: Darrell Ware and Karl Tunberg and
Story by: Rian James and Ralph Spence
Music and Lyrics by: Mack Gordon and Harry Warren
Dances Staged by: Nicholas Castle and Geneva Sawyer
Musical Director: Emil Newman
Set Decorations: Thomas Little
Costumes: Travis Banton

Filmed in Technicolor

Awards:
Academy Award nominations for Best Color Cinematography, Best Song ("Down Argentina Way") and Best Interior Decoration

Cast:
Don Ameche (Ricardo Quintana),
Betty Grable (Glenda Crawford),
Carmen Miranda (Herself),
Charlotte Greenwood (Binnie Crawford),
J. Carrol Naish (Casiano),
The Nicholas Brothers

1 Overture / South American Way
2 Down Argentina Way
3 Down Argentina Way
4 Nenita
5 Mama Eu Quero
6 Bambu Bambu
7 Sing to Your Señorita
8 Dos Sueños / Two Dreams Met
9 Mama Eu Quiero / Finale: Down Argentina Way / Two Dreams Met

Moon Over Miami

2008-09-07T17:55:00.006+02:00

20th Century-Fox, 1941, Color, 91 minutes

Produced by: Harry Joe Brown
Directed by: Walter Lang
Screen Play by: Vincent Lawrence and Brown Holmes
Lyrics and Music by: Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger
Dances Staged by: Hermes Pan
Musical Direction: Alfred Newman
Costumes: Travis Banton

Cast:
Don Ameche (Phil O'Neil),
Betty Grable (Kay Latimer),
Robert Cummings (Jeffrey Bolton),
Carole Landis (Barbara Latimer),
Jack Haley (Jack O'Hara),
Charlotte Greenwood (Susan Latimer)

1 Moon over Miami
2 What Can I Do for You ?
3 Oh Me, Oh Mi-Ami
4 You Started Something
5 You Started Something
6 I've Got You All to Myself
7 Is That Good ?
8 Loveliness and Love
9 The Kindergarten Conga
10 Seminole Legend (Solitary Seminole)
11 You Started Something / Oh Me, Oh Mi-Ami

Artists and Models

2008-07-21T16:04:00.002+02:00

Paramount, 1955, Color, 108 minutes

Produced by: Hal B. Wallis
Associate Producer: Paul Nathan
Directed by: Frank Tashlin
Assistant Director: C. C. Coleman, Jr.
Screenplay by: Frank Tashlin, Hal Kanter, Herbert Baker
Musical Numbers Created and Staged by: Charles O'Curran
Music Arranged and Conducted by: Walter Scharf
Set Decoration: Sam Comer, Arthur Krams
Costumes: Edith Head

Filmed in VistaVision, Color by Technicolor

Cast:
Dean Martin (Rick Todd),
Jerry Lewis (Eugene Fullstack),
Shirley MacLaine (Bessie Sparrowbush),
Dorothy Malone (Abigail Parker),
Eddie Mayehoff (Mr. Murdock),
Eva Gabor (Sonia),
Anita Ekberg (Anita)

01 Artists and Models
02 When You Pretend
03 You Look So Familiar
04 The Lucky Song
05 Innamorata
06 Artists and Models
07 When You Pretend

Pal Joey

2008-06-20T19:23:00.004+02:00

Columbia, 1957, Color, 111 minutes

Produced by: Fred Kohlmar
Directed by: George Sidney
Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Music Supervised and Conducted by: Morris Stoloff
Musical Arrangements: Nelson Riddle
Orchestrations: Arthur Morton
Choreography: Hermes Pan
Gowns by: Jean Louis
Color by Technicolor

Cast:
Rita Hayworth (Vera Simpson),
Frank Sinatra (Joey Evans),
Kim Novak (Linda English),
Barbara Nichols (Gladys)

1. Main Title
2. That Terrific Rainbow
3. I Didn't Know What Time it Was
4. Do it the Hard Way
5. Great Big Town
6. There's a Small Hotel
7. Zip
8. I Could Write a Book
9. Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered
10. The Lady is a Tramp
11. Plant You Now Dig You later
12. My Funny Valentine
13. You Mustn't Kick it Around
14. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (reprise)
15. Strip Number
16. Dream Sequence & Finale

Tribute to Cyd Charisse

2008-06-18T10:00:00.006+02:00

These wonderful, magic, beautiful dances are the best way to no forget her.

Xanadu

2008-06-01T18:02:00.010+02:00

Universal, 1980, Color, 96 minutes

Produced by: Lawrence Gordon
Directed by: Robert Greenwald
Written by: Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel
Musical Scoring by: Barry DeVorzon
Choreograpers: Kenny Ortega, Jerry Trent
Costume Designer: Bobbie Mannix

Filmed in Panavision, color by Technicolor

Cast:
Olivia Newton-John (Kira),
Gene Kelly (Danny McGuire),
Michael Beck (Sonny Malone),
James Sloyan (Simpson)

xanadu

1 - I'm Alive
2 - The Fall
3 - Don't Walk Away
4 - All Over The World
5 - Xanadu
6 - Magic
7 - Sunddenly
8 - Dancin'
9 - Suspended In Time
10 - Whenever You're Away From Me

A Chorus Line

2008-06-01T16:15:00.007+02:00

Polygram/Columbia/Embassy, 1985, Color, 118 minutes

Producer: Cy Feuer and Ernest H. Martin
Associate Producer: Joseph Caracciolo
Executive Producer: Gordon Stulberg
Director: Richard Attenborough
Music Director: Ralph Burns
Choreography: Jeffrey Hornaday
Costume Design: Faye Poliakin

Cast:
Michael Douglas (Zach),
Michael Blevins (Mark),
Yamil Borges (Morales),
Sharon Brown (Kim),
Gregg Burge (Richie),
Cameron English (Paul),
Tony Fields (Al),
Nicole Fosse (Kristine),
Vicki Frederick (Sheila),
Jan Gan Boyd (Connie),
Michelle Johnston (Bebe),
Janet Jones (Judy),
Pam Klinger (Maggie)

01 - I Hope I Get It
02 - Who Am I Anyway
03 - I Can Do That
04 - At The Ballet
05 - Surprise, Surprise
06 - Nothing
07 - Let Me Dance For You
08 - Dance: Ten; Looks: Three
09 - One (Rehearsal)
10 - What I Did For Love
11 - One (Finale)

Annie Get Your Gun

2008-06-01T12:04:00.019+02:00

MGM, 1950, Color, 107 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Directed by: George Sidney
Screen Play by: Sidney Sheldon
Music and Lyrics by: Irving Berlin
Musical Numbers Staged by: Robert Alton
Musical Direction: Adolph Deutsch
Women's Costumes by: Helen Rose
Men's Costumes by: Walter Plunkett

Color by Technicolor

Cast:
Betty Hutton (Annie Oakley),
Howard Keel (Frank Butler),
Louis Calhern (Buffalo Bill),
J. Carrol Naish (Chief Sitting Bull),
Edward Arnold (Pawnee Bill),
Keenan Wynn (Charlie Davenport),
Chief Yowlachie (Little Horse)

1. Main Title
2. Colonel Buffalo Bill
3. Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
4. The Girl That I Marry
5. You Can't Get A Man With A Gun
6. There's No Business Like Show Business
7. They Say It's Wonderful
8. They Say It's Wonderful (Reprise)
9. There's No Business Like Show Business (Reprise)
10. My Defenses Are Down
11. I'm An Indian, Too
12. European Montage
13. Let's Go West Again (Outtake)
14. The Girl That I Marry (Reprise)
15. I've Got The Sun In The Morning
16. Together Again
17. Anything You Can Do
18. Finale/End Title
19. Colonel Buffalo Bill
20. Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
21. The Girl That I Marry (Unused)
22. You Can't Get A Man With A Gun
23. There's No Business Like Show Business
24. They Say It's Wonderful
25. They Say It's Wonderful (Reprise)
26. I'm An Indian, Too
27. Let's Go West Again (Outtake)
28. The Girl That I Marry (Reprise)
29. I've Got The Sun In The Morning
30. Anything You Can Do
31. There's No Business Like Show Business (Reprise)

Two Weeks With Love

2008-06-01T12:04:00.017+02:00

MGM, 1950, 93 minutes

Produced by: Jack Cummings
Directed by: Roy Rowland
Screen Play by: John Larkin and Dorothy Kingsley
Musical Direction: Georgie Stoll
Musical Numbers Staged by: Busby Berkeley
Orchestrations: Leo Arnaud
Vocal Arrangements: Saul Chaplin
Women's Costumes by: Helen Rose
Men's Costumes by: Walter Plunkett

Color by Technicolor

Cast:
Jane Powell (Patti Robinson),
Ricardo Montalban (Demetrio "Demi" Armendez),
Louis Calhern (Horatio Robinson),
Ann Harding (Katherine Robinson),
Debbie Reynolds (Melba Robinson),
Carleton Carpenter (Billy Finley),
Phyllis Kirk (Valerie Stresemann)

Born To Dance

2008-06-01T12:03:00.012+02:00

MGM, 1936, B/W, 105 minutes

Produced by: Jack Cummings
Directed by: Roy Del Ruth
Screen Play by: Jack McGowan and Sid Silvers
Words and Music by: Cole Porter
Musical Director: Alfred Newman
Musical Arrangements: Roger Edens
Orchestrations: Edward Powell
Choral Arrangements: Leo Arnaud
Dance Ensembles: Dave Gould
Gowns by: Adrian

Awards:
Academy Award nominations for Best Song ("I've Got You Under My Skin") and Best Dance Direction (Dave Gould)

Cast:
Eleanor Powell (Nora Paige),
James Stewart (Ted Barker),
Virginia Bruce (Lucy James),
Una Merkel (Jenny Saks),
Sid Silvers ("Gunny" Saks),
Frances Langford ("Peppy" Turner)

The Broadway Melody Of 1938

2008-06-01T12:02:00.014+02:00

MGM, 1937, B/W, 111 minutes

Produced by: Jack Cummings
Directed by: Roy Del Ruth
Screen Play by: Jack McGowan
Music and Lyrics by: Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed
Music Direction: Georgie Stoll
Musical Arrangements: Roger Edens
Gowns by: Adrian

Cast:
Robert Taylor (Steve Raleigh),
Eleanor Powell (Sally Lee),
George Murphy (Sonny Ledford),
Binnie Barnes (Caroline Whipple),
Buddy Ebsen (Peter Trot),
Sophie Tucker (Alice Clayton),
Judy Garland (Betty Clayton),
Charles Igor Gorin (Nicki Papaloapas)

Lady Be Good

2008-06-01T12:02:00.013+02:00

MGM, 1941, B/W, 110 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Directed by: Norman Z. McLeod
Screen Play by: Jack McGowan, Kay Van Riper and John McLain
Music by: George Gershwin
Lyrics by: Ira Gershwin
"The Last Time I Saw Paris" (by) Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein, II
Additional Songs by: Roger Edens and Arthur Freed
Musical Direction: Georgie Stoll
Vocals and Orchestrations: Leo Arnaud, George Bassman, Conrad Salinger
Musical Numbers Directed by: Busby Berkeley
Gowns by: Adrian

Awards: Won Best Song Academy Award for The Last Time I Saw Paris

Cast:
Eleanor Powell (Marilyn Marsh),
Ann Sothern (Dixie Donegan),
Robert Young (Eddie Crane),
Lionel Barrymore (Judge Murdock),
Red Skelton (Joe "Red" Willet),
Virginia O'Brien (Lull),
Dan Dailey, Jr. (Bill Pattison),
Berry Brothers (James Berry, Warren Berry, Nyas Berry, Specialty Dancers),
Doris Day (Debutante)

The Broadway Melody Of 1936

2008-06-01T12:01:00.032+02:00

MGM, 1935, Black and White, 101 minutes

Produced by: John W. Considine, Jr.
Directed by: Roy Del Ruth
Screen Play by: Jack McGowan and Sid Silvers
Music and Lyrics by: Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed
Musical Direction by: Alfred Newman
Dance Numbers Created and Staged by: Dave Gould
Orchestrations by: Edward B. Powell
Arrangements by: Roger Edens
Gowns by: Adrian

Cast:
Jack Benny [Bert Keeler],
Eleanor Powell [Irene Foster],
Robert Taylor [Bob Gordon],
Una Merkel [Kitty Corbett],
Sid Silvers [Snoop],
Buddy Ebsen [Ted],
June Knight [Lillian Brent],
Frances Langford

1 Broadway Melody of 1936 Overture: You Are My Lucky Star
2 Broadway Rhythm
3 I've Got a Feeling You're Foolin'
4 On a Sunday Afternoon
5 Sing Before Breakfast
6 You Are My Lucky Star
7 You Are My Lucky Star

I'm very grateful to Quinlan and all the people from Franklynot. Thanks a lot for sharing all this beautiful music.

Hit The Deck

2008-06-01T12:01:00.031+02:00

MGM, 1955, Color, 112 minutes

Produced by: Joe Pasternak
Directed by: Roy Rowland
Written by: Sonya Levien and William Ludwig
Music by: Vincent Youmans
Lyrics by: Leo Robin, Clifford Grey and Irving Caesar
Music Supervised and Conducted by: George Stoll
Orchestral Arrangements: Robert Van Eps and Will Beitel
Musical Numbers Staged by: Hermes Pan
Costumes by: Helen Rose

Filmed in CinemaScope and Eastman Color

Cast:
Jane Powell (Susan Smith),
Tony Martin (Chief Boatswain's Mate William F. Clark),
Debbie Reynolds (Carol Pace),
Walter Pidgeon (Rear Adm. Daniel Xavier Smith),
Vic Damone (Rico Ferrari),
Gene Raymond (Wendell Craig),
Ann Miller (Ginger),
Russ Tamblyn (Danny Xavier Smith)

1 A Kiss Or Two
2 Chiribiribee (Ciribiribin)
3 Hallelujah !
4 I Know That You Know
5 Join The Navy And Loo-Loo
6 Keepin' Myself For You
7 Lady From The Bayou
8 Lucky Bird
9 More Than You Know
10 Sometimes I'm Happy
11 Sometimes I'm Happy 2
12 Why, Oh, Why ?

I'm very grateful to Quinlan and all the people from Franklynot. Thanks a lot for sharing all this beautiful music.

Deep In My Heart

2008-06-01T12:01:00.030+02:00

MGM, 1954, Color, 132 minutes

Produced by: Roger Edens
Directed by: Stanley Donen
Screen Play by: Leonard Spigelgass
Music Supervised and Conducted by: Adolph Deutsch
Orchestrations by: Hugo Friedhofer and Alexander Courage
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Choreography by: Eugene Loring
Women's Costumes by: Helen Rose
Men's Costumes by: Walter Plunkett

Cast:
Jose Ferrer (Sigmund Romberg),
Merle Oberon (Dorothy Donnelly),
Helen Traubel (Anna Mueller),
Walter Pidgeon (J. J. Shubert),
Paul Henreid (Florenz Ziegfeld),
Tamara Toumanova (Gaby Deslys),
Rosemary Clooney,
Gene Kelly,
Fred Kelly,
Jane Powell,
Vic Damone,
Ann Miller,
Cyd Charisse,
James Mitchell,
Howard Keel,
Tony Martin,
Russ Tamblyn

Kismet

2008-06-01T12:00:00.008+02:00

MGM, 1955, Color, 113 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Screen Play by: Charles Lederer and Luther Davis
Music and Lyrics by: Robert Wright and George Forrest
Music Supervised and Conducted by: André Previn and Jeff Alexander
Orchestral Arrangements by: Conrad Salinger, Alexander Courage and Arthur Morton
Musical Numbers and Dances Staged by: Jack Cole
Costumes by: Tony Duquette

Filmed in CinemaScope and Eastman Color

Cast:
Howard Keel (Haaj, the Poet),
Ann Blyth (Marsinah),
Dolores Gray (Lalume),
Vic Damone (Caliph),
Monty Woolley (Omar),
Sebastian Cabot (Wazir),
Jay C. Flippen (Jawan),
Mike Mazurki (Chief Policeman)

01 - Main Title (Not Since Nineveh, Stranger In Paradise)
02 - Rhymes Have I (Outttake)
03 - Fate
04 - Bazaar Of The Caravans
05 - Not Since Nineveh
06 - Dabba (Stranger In Paradise)
07 - Baubles, Bangles And Beads
08 - I Am A Gardener
09 - Stranger In Paradise
10 - Gesticulate
11 - Bored
12 - Fate (Reprise)
13 - Night Of My Nights
14 - The Olive Tree
15 - Rahadlakum (Complete Version)
16 - Marsinah Arrives At Castle / I'm In Love / Certain Young Women (Baubles, Bangles And Beads; Stranger In Paradise)
17 - And This Is My Beloved
18 - Innocent Amusement (Medley: And This Is My Beloved / Rahadlakum)
19 - Diwan Dances, Part One (Rahadlakum)
20 - Diwan Dances, Part Two (Night Of My Nights)
21 - Drowning Scene / Sentence (Fate)
22 - Sands Of Time / End Title

Oklahoma !

2008-06-01T10:57:00.009+02:00

Magna / 20th Century-Fox, 1955, Color, 145 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
Music by: Richard Rodgers
Book and Lyrics by: Oscar Hammerstein II
Screen Play by: Sonya Levien and William Ludwig
Music Conducted and Supervised by: Jay Blackton
Musical Arrangements by: Robert Russell Bennett
Background Music Adapted and Conducted by: Adolph Deutsch
Dances Staged by: Agnes De Mille
Production Designed by: Oliver Smith
Costumes by: Orry Kelly and Motley
Wardrobe: Frank Beetson and Ann Peck

Awards:
Academy Awards for Best Score (Musical) and Best Sound Recording; Academy Award nominations for Best Color Cinematography and Best Film Editing

Cast:
Gordon MacRae (Curly),
Gloria Grahame (Ado Annie),
Gene Nelson (Will Parker),
Charlotte Greenwood (Aunt Eller),
Eddie Albert (Ali Hakim),
Shirley Jones (Laurey)

1. Overture
2. Main Title
3. Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'
4. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
5. Kansas City
6. Kansas City Ballet
7. I Cain't Say No
8. Many A New Day
9. Many A New Day Ballet
10. People Will Say We're In Love
11. Pore Jud Is Daid
12. Out Of My Dreams
13. Out Of My Dreams Ballet
14. Entr' Acte
15. The Farmer And The Cowman
16. The Farmer And The Cowman Ballet
17. All Er Nuthin'
18. All Er Nuthin' Ballet
19. People Will Say We're In Love
20. Oklahoma
21. Finale: Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'
22. Overture (LP Version)

Ziegfeld Follies

2008-05-17T20:04:00.009+02:00

MGM, 1946, Color, 115 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Screenplay: Robert Alton, Ralph Blane, Eddie Cantor, Roger Edens, Kay Thompson, Charles Walters, Edgar Allan Woolf and many others...
Music Director: Lennie Hayton
Songs by: Harry Warren and Arthur Freed; George and Ira Gershwin; Kay Thompson and Roger Edens
Musical Adaptation: Roger Edens
Orchestration: Conrad Salinger, Wally Heglin
Dance Direction: Robert Alton
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis
Costume Supervision: Irene
Costumes Designed by: Helen Rose

Cast:
William Powell,
Fred Astaire,
Lucille Ball,
Cyd Charisse,
Esther Williams,
Lucille Bremer,
Fanny Brice,
Lena Horne,
Red Skelton,
Judy Garland,
Gene Kelly,
Kathryn Grayson,
The Ziegfeld Girls,
and many others...

01 - Main Title
02 - Here's To The Girls
03 - Bring On Those Wonderful Men
04 - We Will Meet Again In Honolulu
05 - Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away)
06 - Libiamo From "La Traviata"
07 - This Heart Of Mine
08 - Love
09 - If Swing Goes, I Go Too
10 - Limehouse Blues
11 - The Interview
12 - The Babbitt And The Bromide
13 - There's Beauty Everywhere
14 - There's Beauty Everywhere

It's Always Fair Weather

2008-05-17T20:04:00.008+02:00

MGM, 1955, Color, 102 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Directed by: Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
Assistant Director: Al Jennings
Story and Screen Play by: Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Music Arranged and Conducted by: André Previn
Songs: Music by André Previn, Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Dances and Musical Numbers by: Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
Costumes Designed by: Helen Rose

Filmed in CinemaScope and Eastman Color

Cast:
Gene Kelly (Ted Riley),
Dan Dailey (Doug Hallerton),
Cyd Charisse (Jackie Leighton),
Dolores Gray (Madeline Bradville),
Michael Kidd (Angie Valentine),
David Burns (Tim)

1 Overture
2 March, March
3 The Binge
4 The Time For Parting
5 10-Year Montage
6 The Blue Danube (Why Are We Here)
7 Music Is Better Than Words
8 Stillman's Gym
9 Baby You Knock Me Out
10 The Ad Men
11 Once Upon A Time
12 Situation-Wise
13 The Chase
14 I Like Myself
15 Klenzrite
16 Thanks a Lot, But No Thanks
17 The Time For Parting

I'm very grateful to Quinlan and all the people from Franklynot. Thanks a lot for sharing all this beautiful music.

Till The Clouds Roll By

2008-05-17T19:17:00.007+02:00

MGM, 1946, Color, 137 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Directed by: Richard Whorf
Screen Play by: Myles Connolly and Jean Holloway
Story by: Guy Bolton
Based on the Life and Music of Jerome Kern
Musical Direction: Lennie Hayton
Musical Score: Conrad Salinger, Roger Edens and Lennie Hayton
Song Score: Jerome Kern
Orchestration: Conrad Salinger
Vocal Arrangements: Kay Thompson
Judy Garland's Numbers Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Musical Numbers Staged and Directed by: Robert Alton
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis
Costume Supervision: Irene
Costumes Designed by:Helen Rose
Men's Costumes: Valles

Color by Technicolor

Cast:
Robert Walker (Jerome Kern),
Judy Garland (Marilyn Miller),
Lucille Bremer (Sally Hessler),
Dorothy Patrick (Mrs. Jerome Kern),
Esther Williams (Cameo),
June Allyson,
Kathryn Grayson,
Lena Horne,
Van Johnson,
Tony Martin,
Dinah Shore,
Frank Sinatra,
Gower Champion,
Cyd Charisse,
Angela Lansbury,
Ray McDonald,
Virginia O'Brien

1 Main Title
2 Cotton Blossom
3 Where's The Mate For Me
4 Make Believe
5 Life Upon The Wicked Stage
6 Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
7 Ol' Man River
8 How'd Ya Like To Spoon With Me
9 They Didn't Believe Me
10 Till The Clouds Roll By
11 Leave It To Jane
12 Cleopatterer
13 Look For The Silver Lining
14 Who
15 One More Dance
16 I Won't Dance
17 She Didn't Say Yes (She Didn't Say No)
18 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
19 The Last Time I Saw Paris
20 The Land Where Good Songs Go
21 Yesterdays
22 Long Ago And Far Away
23 A Fine Romance
24 All The Things You Are
25 Why Was I Born
26 Ol' Man River

I'm very grateful to Quinlan and all the people from Franklynot. Thanks a lot for sharing all this beautiful music.

The Wizard Of Oz

2008-05-17T19:00:00.005+02:00

MGM, 1939, BW / Color, 100 minutes

Producer: Mervyn LeRoy
Director: Victor Fleming
Screenplay: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf
Musical Score: Herbert Stothart
Song Score: Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg
Choreography: Bobby Connolly
Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis
Costume Design: Adrian

Awards:
Won Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Song ("Over the Rainbow"); Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Color Cinematography, Best Interior Decoration and Best Special Effects

Cast:
Judy Garland (Dorothy Gale),
Frank Morgan (Professor Marvel, Doorman, Cabby, Guard, The Wizard of Oz),
Ray Bolger (Hunk, Scarecrow),
Bert Lahr (Zeke, Cowardly Lion),
Jack Haley (Hickory, Tin Man),
Margaret Hamilton (Miss Almira Gulch, Wicked Witch of the West),
Billie Burke (Glinda, the Good Witch of the North),
Terry (Toto)

Disc: 1
1. Main Title - The MGM Studio Orchestra And Chorus
2. Trouble In School (Extended Version)
3. Farmyard (Outtake)
4. Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland
5. Miss Gulch (Extended Version)
6. Leaving Home
7. Crystal Gazing (Extended Version)
8. Cyclone (Extended Version)
9. Munchkinland - The MGM Studio Orchestra And Chorus
10. I’m Not A Witch
11. Come Out, Come Out… - Billie Burke/The Munchkins
12. It Really Was No Miracle - Judy Garland/Billy Bletcher/The Munchkins
13. We Thank You Very Sweetly - Joseph Koziel/Frank Cucksey
14. Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead - The Munchkins
15. As Mayor Of The Munchkinland City - Billy Bletcher/Pinto Colveg/J.D. Jewkes
16. As Coroner, I Must Aver - Harry Stanton
17. Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead (Reprise) - The Munchkins
18. The Lullaby League - Lorraine Bridges/Betty Rome/Carol Tevis
19. The Lollipop Guild - Billy Bletcher/Pinto Colveg/Harry Stanton
20. We Welcome You To Munchkinland - The Munchkins
21. Threatening Witch (Extended Version)
22. Leaving Munchkinland
23. Good Fairy Vanishes
24. Follow The Yellow Brick Road/You’re Off To See The Wizard - Judy Garland/The Munchkins
25. The Cornfield
26. If I Only Had A Brain (Extended Version) - Ray Bolger/Judy Garland
27. We’re Off To See The Wizard (Duo) - Judy Garland/Ray Bolger
28. The Apple Orchard (Extended Version)
29. If I Only Had A Heart (Extended Version) - Jack Haley
30. Witch On Roof (Extended Version)
31. Bees And Tin Woodman Lament (Partial Outtake)
32. We’re Off To See The Wizard (Trio) - Judy Garland/Ray Bolger/Buddy Ebsen
33. Into The Forest Of Wild Beasts
34. The Lion’s Confession (Outtake)
35. If I Only Had The Nerve - Bert Lahr/Ray Bolger/Jack Haley/ Judy Garland
36. We’re Off To See The Wizard (Quartet) - Bert Lahr/Ray Bolger/Buddy Ebsen/Judy Garland
37. Poppies
38. The Spell (Extended Version)
39. Optimistic Voices
40. Sign On The Gate/The City Gates Open (Extended Version)
41. The Merry Old Land Of Oz - Frank Morgan/Judy Garland/Ray Bolger/Jack Haley
42. Change Of The Guard (Outtake)/Wizard’s Exit
43. If I Were King Of The Forest (Extended Version) - Bert Lahr/Judy Garland/Ray Bolger/Jack Haley
44. At The Gates Of Emerald City (Extended Version)
45. Magic Smoke Cords
46. Terrified Lion

Disc: 2
1. The Haunted Forest (Extended Version)
2. The Jitterbug (Outtake) - Judy Garland/Ray Bolger/Jack Haley/Buddy Ebsen
3. The Jitterbug’s Attack (Extended Version)
4. The Witch’s Castle (Extended Version)
5. Toto Brings News (Extended Version)/Over The Rainbow (Reprise)(Outtake) - Judy Garland/The MGM Studio Orchestra
6. March of The Winkies (Extended Version)
7. Dorothy’s Rescue (Extended Version)
8. On The Castle Wall (Extended Version)
9. Ding-Dong! Emerald City (Outtake) - The MGM Studio Chorus/Ken Darby
10. The Wizard’s Expose (Extended Verison)/Emerald City Graduation Exercises
11. Fill-In Awards/I Was Floating Through Space/Balloon Ascension/Second Cheer
12. I Hereby Decree
13. Delirious Escape (Extended Version)/Delirious Escape Continued/End Title
14. Main Title (Alternate Take With Unused Tag)
15. Over The Rainbow (Partial Take) - Judy Garland
16. Over The Rainbow (Alternate Take) - Judy Garland
17. Cyclone (Final Film Version)
18. Munchkinland Insert (Alternate Tag)
19. I’m Not A Witch (Alternate Version)
20. Munchkinland Musical Sequence (Rehearsal Demo) - Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg
21. Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead (Alternate/A Capella Choir Version) - The MGM Studio Chorus
22. The Lollipop Guild (Orginal Munchkin Actors’ Voices) - Three Unidentified Midgets
23. Follow The Yellow Brick Road/You’re Off To See The Wizard (Orchestral Angles)
24. If I Only Had A Brain (Unused Dance Music)
25. If I Only Had A Heart (Unused Version) - Buddy Ebsen
26. The Lion’s Confession (Outtake/Alternate Arrang.)
27. Poppies (Alternate Version With Heavenly Choir)
28. Optimistic Voices (Rehearsal Demo) - Harold Arlen, E.P. Harburg
29. Optimistic Voices (Alternate Vocal Arrangement) - The Debutantes And The Rhythmettes
30. The Merry Old Land Of Oz (Orchestral Angles)
31. If I Were King Of The Forest (Partial Take/Alternate Vocal Tag) - Bert Lahr, Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Buddy Ebson
32. If I Were King Of The Forest (Alternate Vocal Tag) - Bert Lahr, Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Buddy Ebson
33. The Jitterbug (Choreography Rehearsal) - Dona Massin, Ray Bolger, Buddy Ebsen, Bert Lahr
34. Over The Rainbow (Reprise)(Outtake/Alternate Version) - Judy Garland
35. Ding-Dong! Emerald City (Alternate Version)
36. End Title (Alternate Version)

Singin' In The Rain

2008-05-17T14:20:00.005+02:00

MGM, 1952, Color, 103 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Directed by: Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
Story and Screen Play by: Adolph Green and Betty Comden
Musical Direction: Lennie Hayton
Musical Numbers Staged and Directed by: Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
Musical Score: Lennie Hayton and Nacio Herb Brown
Songs: Lyrics by Arthur Freed, Music by Nacio Herb Brown
Orchestrations by: Conrad Salinger, Wally Heglin and Skip Martin
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis, Jacque Mapes
Costumes Designed by: Walter Plunkett

Color by Technicolor

Cast:
Gene Kelly (Don Lockwood),
Donald O'Connor (Cosmo Brown),
Debbie Reynolds (Kathy Selden),
Jean Hagen (Lina Lamont),
Millard Mitchell (R. F. Simpson),
Rita Moreno (Zelda Zanders),
Douglas Fowley (Roscoe Dexter),
Cyd Charisse (Dancer),
Jimmy Thompson (Male Lead in "Beautiful Girls" Number)

1 Main title
2 Dignity
3 Fit as a fiddle
4 Stunt montage
5 First silence picture
6 Tango (temptation)
7 All I do is dream of you
8 Gene dreams of Kathy
9 All I do is dream of you
10 Make'em laugh
11 Beautiful girl montage
12 Have lunch with me
13 The stage is set
14 You were meant for me
15 You are my lucky star
16 Moses
17 Good morning
18 Good night, Kathy
19 Singin' in the rain
20 From dueling to dancing
21 Would you ?
22 Broadway melody ballet
23 Would you ? end title
24 Singin' in the rain (in A-Flat)
25 Finale
26 Main title
27 Beautiful girl
28 Would you ?
29 Singin' in the rain

The Pirate

2008-05-16T19:58:00.002+02:00

MGM, 1948, Color, 102 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Screen Play by: Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich
Musical Direction: Lennie Hayton
Instrumental Arrangements: Conrad Salinger
Songs by: Cole Porter
Dance Direction by: Robert Alton and Gene Kelly
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis
Costume Supervision: Irene
Costumes Designed by: Tom Keogh

Color by Technicolor

Awards:
Academy Award nomination for Best Score, Musical (Lennie Hayton)

Cast:
Judy Garland (Manuela Alva),
Gene Kelly (Serafin),
Walter Slezak (Don Pedro Vargas),
Gladys Cooper (Aunt Inez),
The Nicholas Brothers

1 Be A Clown
2 Mack The Black
3 Pirate Ballet - Instrumental
4 You Can Do No Wrong
5 Love Of My Life
6 Nina

I'm very grateful to Quinlan and all the people from Franklynot. Thanks a lot for sharing all this beautiful music.

An American In Paris

2008-05-16T18:24:00.005+02:00

MGM, 1951, Color, 115 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Assiciate Producer: Roger Edens
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Story and Screen Play by: Alan Jay Lerner
Lyrics by: Ira Gershwin
Music by: George Gershwin
Musical Direction: Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin
Orchestrations: Conrad Salinger
Choreography by: Gene Kelly
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis
Costumes Designed by: Orry-Kelly
Ballet Costumes Designed by: Walter Plunkett

Color by Technicolor

Awards:
Academy Awards for Best Picture; Best Story and Screenplay (Alan Jay Lerner); Best Color Cinematography; Best Score - Musical (Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin); Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Color; Best Costume Design -Color. Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Film Editing

Cast:
Gene Kelly (Jerry Mulligan),
Leslie Caron (Lise Bourvier),
Oscar Levant (Adam Cook),
Georges Guetary (Henri Baurel)

CD1
01 - Main Title (An American In Paris, 'S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm)
02 - Paris Narration / Left Bank (Themes From An American In Paris)
03 - Nice Work If You Can Get It (Outtake)
04 - Embraceable You
05 - By Strauss
06 - Street Exhibit
07 - I Got Rhythm
08 - But Not For Me
09 - Medley: Do, Do, Do / Bidin' My Time / I've Got A Crush On You / Love Is Here To Stay
10 - Someone To Watch Over Me (Outtake)
11 - Medley: My Cousin In Milwaukee / A Foggy Day / The Half-Of-It Dearie Blues / But Not For Me (Outtake)
12 - Tra-La-La
13 - I'm No Enemy (Love Is Here To Stay) (Outtake)
14 - Love Is Here To Stay
15 - Medley: What Time Is It? / Love Is Here To Stay (Reprise) (Outtake)
16 - (I'll Build A) Stairway To Paradise
17 - I've Got A Crush On You (Outtake)
18 - Love Walked In (Outtake)
19 - Medley: We Would Get Married (Love Walked In) (Outtake) / I Don't Think I'll Fall In Love Today (Extended Version)
20 - Concerto In F (3rd Movement)

CD2
01 - Painting Montage (Tra-La-La / Love Is Here To Stay)
02 - Kiss Me (Outtake)
03 - 'S Wonderful
04 - Lise, I Love You ('S Wonderful / Love Is Here To Stay)
05 - Strike Up The Band (Extended Version)
06 - Liza (Complete Version)
07 - Medley: Oh, Lady Be Good / 'S Wonderful
08 - Medley: That Certain Feeling / Clap Yo' Hands
09 - I've Got A Crush On You (Outtake)
10 - I Got Rhythm (Extended Version)
11 - Tra-La-La (Outtake)
12 - But Not For Me (Outtake)
13 - Utrillo Did It (Love Is Here To Stay / An American In Paris / Nice Work If You Can Get It)
14 - An American In Paris Ballet
15 - Finale (An American In Paris)
16 - Painting Montage (An American In Paris) (Deleted Version)
17 - Main Title: An American In Paris (Alternate Version) (Outtake)
18 - Adam Cook Monologue (How Long Has This Been Going On?) (Extended Version)
19 - Nice Work If You Can Get It (Partial As Used In Film)
20 - Third Prelude (Outtake)
21 - My Cousin In Milwaukee (Outtake)
22 - A Foggy Day (Outtake)
23 - The Half-Of-It Dearie Blues (Outtake)
24 - But Not For Me (Outtake)
25 - Bidin' My Time (Outtake)
26 - 'S Wonderful (Reprise) (Outtake)
27 - Finale (Alternate Version) (Outtake)

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Follow The Fleet

2008-05-14T20:06:00.001+02:00

RKO, 1936, B/W, 110 minutes

Produced by: Pandro S. Berman
Directed by: Mark Sandrich
Screen Play by: Dwight Taylor and Allan Scott
As Produced by David Belasco
Musical Director: Max Steiner
Lyrics and Music by: Irving Berlin
Ensembles Staged by: Hermes Pan
Set Dressing by: Darrell Silvera
Gowns by: Bernard Newman

Cast:
Fred Astaire (Bake Baker),
Ginger Rogers (Sherry Martin),
Randolph Scott (Bilge Smith),
Harriet Hilliard (Connie Martin),
Astrid Allwyn (Iris Manning),
Lucille Ball [Kitty Collins],
Betty Grable

Broadway Melody of 1940

2008-05-14T19:22:00.004+02:00

MGM, 1940, Black ans White, 104 minutes

Producer: Jack Cummings
Director: Norman Taurog
Screenplay: Leon Gordon and George Oppenheimer
Lyrics and Music: Cole Porter
Musical Direction: Alfred Newman
Musical Arrangements: Roger Edens
Dances: Bobby Connolly
Recording Director: Douglas Shearer
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis
Musical Presentation: Merrill Pye
Gowns by: Adrian
Men's Costumes by: Valles

Cast:
Fred Astaire (Johnny Brett),
Eleanor Powell (Clare Bennett),
George Murphy (King Shaw),
Frank Morgan (Bob Casey),
Ian Hunter (Bert C. Matthews)

1 Broadway Melody of 1940 Overture
2 Please Don't Monkey With Broadway
3 All Ashore
4 I Am the Captain (Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep)
5 Between You and Me
6 I've Got My Eyes on You
7 Juke Box Dance
8 I Concentrate on You
9 Begin the Beguine
10 Finale and End Titles

I'm very grateful to Quinlan and all the people from Franklynot. Thanks a lot for sharing all this beautiful music.

Roberta

2008-05-14T18:26:00.002+02:00

RKO, 1935, B/W, 105 minutes

Produced by: Pandro S. Berman
Directed by: William A. Seiter
Music by: Jerome Kern
Screen Play by: Jane Murfin, Sam Mintz and Allan Scott
Musical Director: Max Steiner
Dances Arranged by: Fred Astaire
Assistant Dance Director: Hermes Pan
Set Dressing by: Thomas K. Little
Gowns by: Bernard Newman

Awards:
Nominated for Best Song Academy Award ("Lovely To Look At")

Cast:
Irene Dunne (Stephanie),
Fred Astaire (Huck Haines),
Ginger Rogers (Countess Scharwenka, Lizzie Gatz),
Randolph Scott (John Kent),
Helen Westley (Roberta, Aunt Minnie),
Victor Varconi (Ladislaw)

Top Hat

2008-05-14T18:21:00.005+02:00

RKO, 1935, B/W, 97 minutes

Produced by: Pandro S. Berman
Directed by: Mark Sandrich
Screen Play by: Dwight Taylor and Allan Scott
Story by: Dwight Taylor
Musical Director: Max Steiner
Lyrics and Music: Irving Berlin
Ensembles Staged by: Hermes Pan
Gowns by: Bernard Newman

Awards:
Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Interior Decoration, Best Song ("Cheek To Cheek") and Best Dance Direction (Hermes Pan)

Cast:
Fred Astaire (Jerry Travers),
Ginger Rogers (Dale Tremont),
Edward Everett Horton (Horace Hardwick),
Helen Broderick (Madge Hardwick),
Erik Rhodes (Alberto Beddini),
Eric Blore (Bates),
Lucille Ball (Flower Shop Clerk)

1 Overture - Top Hat
2 No Strings
3 Isn't It A Lovely Day To Be Caught In The Rain
4 Top Hat, White Tie And Tails
5 Cheek To Cheek
6 The Piccolino

A Damsel In Distress

2008-05-14T18:00:00.001+02:00

RKO, 1937, B/W, 98 minutes

Produced by: Pandro S. Berman
Directed by: George Stevens
Assistant Director: Argyle Nelson
Music by: George Gershwin
Lyrics by: Ira Gershwin
Screen Play by: P.G. Wodehouse, Ernest Pagano, S. K. Lauren
Musical Director: Victor Baravalle
Orchestral Arrangements by: Russell Bennett
Choreography: Hermes Pan and Fred Astaire
Set Dressing by: Darrell Silvera

Cast:
Fred Astaire (Jerry Halliday),
George Burns (George Burns),
Gracie Allen (Gracie Allen),
Joan Fontaine (Lady Alyce Marshmorton),
Reginald Gardiner (Keggs),
Ray Noble (Reggie)

Royal Wedding

2008-05-14T17:17:00.002+02:00

MGM, 1951, Color, 93 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Directed by: Stanley Donen
Story and Screen Play by: Alan Jay Lerner
Music by: Burton Lane
Lyrics by: Alan Jay Lerner
Musical Direction: Johnny Green
Orchestrations: Conrad Salinger and Skip Martin
Dances by: Nick Castle
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis

Color by Technicolor

Cast:
Fred Astaire [Tom Bowen],
Jane Powell [Ellen Bowen],
Peter Lawford [Lord John Brindale],
Sarah Churchill [Anne Ashmond],
Keenan Wynn [Irving Klinger / Edgar Klinger],
Albert Sharpe [James Ashmond]

Swing Time

2008-05-14T15:03:00.004+02:00

RKO, 1936, B/W, 103 minutes

Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Directed by: George Stevens
Screen Play by: Howard Lindsay and Allan Scott
Musical Director: Nathaniel Shilkret
Music by: Jerome Kern
Lyrics by: Dorothy Fields
Dance Director: Hermes Pan
"Silver Sandal" Set and "Bojangles" Costumes by John Harkrider
Set Dressing by: Darrell Silvera
Gowns by: Bernard Newman

Awards:
Won Best Song Academy Award ("The Way You Look Tonight"); Academy Award nomination for Best Dance Direction (Hermes Pan)

Cast:
Fred Astaire (John "Lucky" Garnett),
Ginger Rogers (Penelope "Penny" Carrol),
Victor Moore (Dr. Cardetti),
Helen Broderick (Mabel Anderson),
Eric Blore (Mr. Gordon)

1 Overture - Swing Time
2 Pick Yourself Up
3 The Way You Look Tonight
4 The Waltz In Swing Time
5 A Fine Romance
6 Bojangles Of Harlem
7 Never Gonna Dance
8 Finale

Shall We Dance

2008-05-14T14:58:00.005+02:00

RKO, 1937, B/W, 108 minutes

Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Directed by: Mark Sandrich
Screen Play by: Allan Scott and Ernest Pagano
Musical Director: Nathaniel Shilkret
Music by: George Gershwin
Lyrics by: Ira Gershwin
Ballet Staged by: Hermes Pan and Harry Losee
Set Dressing: Darrell Silvera
Miss Rogers' Gowns by: Irene

Awards:
Nominated for Best Song Academy Award ("They Can't Take That Away from Me")

Cast:
Fred Astaire ("Petrov" / Peter P. Peters),
Ginger Rogers (Linda Keene),
Edward Everett Horton (Jeffrey Baird),
Eric Blore (Cecil Flintridge)

1 Overture - Shall We Dance
2 Beginner's Luck
3 They All Laughed
4 Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
5 They Can't Take That Away From
6 Shall We Dance - Finale

Bathing Beauty

2008-05-12T19:09:00.006+02:00

MGM, 1944, Color, 101 minutes

Producer: Jack Cummings
Director: George Sidney
Screenplay: Dorothy Kingsley, Allen Boretz and Frank Waldman
Musical Supervision and Direction: Johnny Green
Orchestrations: Ted Duncan, Calvin Jackson, Johnny Thompson
Dance Direction: Jack Donohue, Robert Alton
Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis, McLean Nisbet
Costume Supervision: Irene, Kay Dean
Water Ballet Costumes Designed by: Sharaff

Cast:
Red Skelton (Steve Elliott),
Esther Williams (Caroline Brooks),
Basil Rathbone (George Adams),
Bill Goodwin (Willis Evans)

1 Overture / Bim Bam Bum
2 Te Quiero Juste
3 Trumpet Blues And Cantabile
4 By The Waters Of Minnetoka
5 Tico Tico
6 Loch Lomond/I´ll Take The High Note
7 Alma Llanera
8 Cascanueces/Vals
9 Hora Staccato
10 I Cried For You
11 Potpourri/Finale

Easter Parade

2008-05-07T14:34:00.005+02:00

MGM, 1948, Color, 104 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Directed by: Charles Walters
Screen Play by: Sidney Sheldon, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Lyrics and Music by: Irving Berlin
Musical Numbers Staged and Directed by: Robert Alton
Music Direction: Johnny Green
Orchestration: Conrad Salinger, Van Cleave, Leo Arnaud
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis
Women's Costumes by: Irene
Men's Costumes by: Valles

Color by Technicolor

Cast:
Judy Garland (Hannah Brown),
Fred Astaire (Don Hewes),
Peter Lawford (Jonathan Harrow III),
Ann Miller (Nadine Gale),
Jules Munshin (Francois, the Head Waiter)

01 - Main Title (Medley)
02 - Happy Easter
03 - Drum Crazy
04 - It Only Happens When I Dance With You
05 - Happy Easter (Reprise #1) (Outtake)
06 - Everybody's Doin' It Now
07 - I Want To Go Back To Michigan (Down On The Farm)
08 - Happy Easter (Reprise #2)
09 - Making Faces (Medley)
10 - Beautiful Faces Need Beautiful Clothes
11 - This Is The Life (Dog Act)
12 - Along Came Ruth
13 - Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon
14 - A Fella With An Umbrella
15 - I Love A Piano
16 - Snookey Ookums
17 - The Ragtime Violin
18 - When The Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam'
19 - Mixed Greens
20 - That International Rag (Fanfare And Montage-Ziegfeld Follies)
21 - Shakin' The Blues Away
22 - It Only Happens When I Dance With You (Reprise)
23 - Fanfare And Montage-Globe Theatre
24 - Steppin' Out With My Baby
25 - Mr. Monotony (Outtake)
26 - A Couple Of Swells
27 - Roof Garden (Drum Crazy) (Reprise)
28 - The Girl On The Magazine Cover
29 - New Amsterdam Roof (It Only Happens When I Dance With You) (Reprise)
30 - Better Luck Next Time (Premiere Extended Version)
31 - Easter Parade (End Title)

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Brigadoon

2008-05-01T11:41:00.004+02:00

MGM, 1954, Color, 108 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Assistant Director: Frank Baur
Screen Play by: Alan Jay Lerner
Music by: Frederick Loewe
Lyrics by: Alan Jay Lerner
Musical Direction: Johnny Green
Orchestrations by: Conrad Salinger
Choreography by: Gene Kelly
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason
Costumes Designed by: Irene Sharaff

Filmed in CinemaScope, color by Ansco

Awards:
Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Color), Best Costume Design (Color), Best Sound Recording

Cast:
Gene Kelly (Tommy Albright),
Van Johnson (Jeff Douglas),
Cyd Charisse (Fiona Campbell),
Elaine Stewart (Jane Ashton)

01 - Main Title (Extended Version)
02 - Once In The Highlands
03 - Brigadoon
04 - Down On MacConnachy Square
05 - Waitin' For My Dearie
06 - I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean
07 - Come To Me, Bend To Me (Outtake)
08 - Heather On The Hill
09 - Almost Like Being In Love
10 - Talk To The Dominie
11 - Till The End Of Our Days
12 - There But For You Go I (Outtake)
13 - Two Hundred Years Later
14 - The Wedding Dance
15 - The Chase
16 - Fiona's Search
17 - From This Day On (Outtake)
18 - Heather On The Hill (New York - Reprise)
19 - Even Miracles
20 - Finale / End Credits
21 - Dinna Ye Know, Tommy (Outtake)
22 - Come To Me, Bend To Me (Outtake)
23 - Heather On The Hill (Instrumental Reprise)

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Summer Stock

2008-04-17T18:45:00.004+02:00

MGM, 1950, Color, 110 minutes

Produced by: Joe Pasternak
Directed by: Charles Walters
Screen Play by: George Wells and Sy Gomberg
Songs by: Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, Saul Chaplin, Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler
Musical Direction: Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin
Orchestration: Conrad Salinger and Skip Martin
Dances Staged by: Nick Castle
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis
Costumes by: Walter Plunkett
Gloria DeHaven's Costumes by: Helen Rose

Color by Technicolor

Cast:
Judy Garland (Jane Falbury),
Gene Kelly (Joe D. Ross),
Eddie Bracken (Orville Wingait),
Gloria DeHaven (Abigail Falbury),
Marjorie Main (Esmé),
Carleton Carpenter (Artie),
Carol Haney, Arthur Loew, Jr., Jimmy Thompson (Members of Stock Company)

01 Main Title
02 If You Feel Like Singing, Sing
03 (Howdy, Neighbor) Happy Harvest
04 Dig-Dig-Dig Dig For Your Dinner
05 Pork Feeding/Cow Milking (Hoe Down)
06 Mem'ry Island
07 The Portland Fancy
08 Tractor Busted/New Machine
09 You, Wonderful You
10 Friendly Star
11 Fall In Love
12 You, Wonderful You (Newspaper Dance Reprise)
13 Wet Feet
14 All For You
15 You, Wonderful You (Reprise)
16 Heavenly Music
17 Get Happy
18 All For You (Backstage)
19 Happy Harvest (Finale)
20 End Cast

A Star Is Born

2008-04-17T18:42:00.003+02:00

Warner Bros, 1954, Color, 175 minutes

Produced by: Sidney Luft
Associate Producer: Vern Alves
Directed by: George Cukor
Assistant Directors: Earl Bellamy, Edward Graham, Russell Llewellyn
Screen Play by: Moss Hart
Musical Direction by: Ray Heindorf
New Songs: Music by Harold Arlen, Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Orchestrations by: Skip Martin
Song: "Born in a Trunk" Music and lyrics by Leonard Gershe
Dances Created and Staged by: Richard Barstow
Additional Choreography: Eugene Loring
Art Direction and Costumes for "Born in a Trunk" by: Irene Sharaff
Set Decorator: George James Hopkins
Costumes Designed by: Jean Louis, Mary Ann Nyberg

Filmed in CinemaScope, Color by Technicolor

Awards:
Academy Award Nominations for Best Actor (James Mason), Best Actress (Judy Garland), Best Score - Musical (Ray Heindorf), Best Song ("The Man That Got Away"), Best Art Direction/Set Decoration - Color, Best Costume Design - Color

Cast:
Judy Garland (Vicki Lester),
James Mason (Norman Maine),
Jack Carson (Matt Libby),
Charles Bickford (Oliver Niles),
Tom Noonan (Danny McGuire)

1 A Star Is Born
2 Born In A Trunk

Three Little Words

2008-04-17T11:41:00.005+02:00

MGM, 1950, Color, 103 minutes

Produced by: Jack Cummings
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Screen Play by: George Wells
Based on the Lives and Songs of Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby
Technical Advisor: Harry Ruby
Music Director: André Previn
Musical Direction: André Previn
Orchestrations: Leo Arnaud
Dances Created and Directed by: Hermes Pan
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis
Costumes by: Helen Rose

Color by Technicolor

Cast:
Fred Astaire (Bert Kalmar),
Red Skelton (Harry Ruby),
Vera-Ellen (Jessie Brown Kalmar),
Arlene Dahl (Eileen Percy),
Gloria DeHaven (Mrs. Carter DeHaven),
Debbie Reynolds (Helen Kane),
Carleton Carpenter (Dan Healy),
The Great Mendoza

1 Main Title
2 Where Did You Get That Girl?
3 She's Min, All Mine
4 Mr. & Mrs. Hoofer At Home (Dances At Home)
5 My Sunny Tennessee
6 So-Long, Oo-Long
7 Who's Sorry Now
8 Come On, Papa
9 Nevertheless I'm In Love With You
10 All Alone Monday
11 Who's Sorry Now (Instrumental)
12 You Smiled At Me
13 All Alone Monday (reprise)
14 I Wanna Be Loved By You (previously unissued)
15 I Wanna Be Loved By You
16 Thinking of You
17 I Love You So Much
18 Thinking of You (reprise)
19 You Are My Lucky Star
20 Three Little Words
21 Medley- My Sunny Tennessee-Who's Sorry Now...

I'm very grateful to Quinlan and all the people from Franklynot. Thanks a lot for sharing all this beautiful music.

42nd Street

2008-04-16T16:42:00.003+02:00

Warner Bros. / Vitaphone, 1933, B/W, 89 minutes

Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Associate Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
Dances and Ensembles Created and Staged by: Busby Berkeley
Screen Play by: Rian James and James Seymour
Vitaphone Orchestra Conducted by: Leo F. Forbstein
Words and Music by: Al Dubin and Harry Warren
Art Director: Jack Okey
Gowns by: Orry-Kelly

Awards: Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Sound Recording

Cast:
Warner Baxter (Julian Marsh),
Bebe Daniels (Dorothy Brock),
George Brent (Pat Denning),
Ruby Keeler (Peggy Sawyer),
Ginger Rogers (Ann Lowell),
Ned Sparks (Thomas Barry),
Dick Powell (Billy Lawler)

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1 Young and Healthy
2 Shuffle off to Buffalo
3 42nd Street
4 We're in the Money (The Gold Diggers Song)
5 I've Got to Sing a Torch Song [Outtake]
6 Shadow Waltz
7 Remember My Forgotten Man
8 Honeymoon Hotel
9 By a Waterfall
10 Shanghai Lil
11 Don't Say Goodnight
12 Spin a Little Web of Dreams
13 The Girl at the Ironing Board
14 I Only Have Eyes for You
15 Dames
16 The Words Are in My Heart
17 Lullaby of Broadway
18 The Lady in Red
19 All's Fair in Love and War
20 Hooray for Hollywood [Extended Version]

I'm very grateful to Quinlan and all the people from Franklynot. Thanks a lot for sharing all this beautiful music.

Footlight Parade

2008-04-16T15:14:00.004+02:00

Warner Bros. / Vitaphone, 1933, B/W, 105 minutes

Produced by: Robert Lord
Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
Numbers Created and Directed by: Busby Berkeley
Screen Play by: Manuel Seff and James Seymour
Vitaphone Orchestra Conducted by: Leo F. Forbstein
Music and Lyrics by: Harry Warren and Al Dubin, Sammy Fain and Irvin Kahal
Choreography: Busby Berkeley
Gowns by: Milo Anderson

Cast:
James Cagney (Chester Kent),
Joan Blondell (Nan Prescott),
Ruby Keeler (Bea Thorn),
Dick Powell (Scotty Blair)

Dames

2008-04-16T15:12:00.004+02:00

Warner Bros. / Vitaphone, 1934, B/W, 90 minutes

Producer: Robert Lord
Directed by: Ray Enright
Numbers Created and Directed by: Busby Berkeley
Screen Play by: Delmer Daves
Story by: Robert Lord & Delmer Daves
Music and Lyrics by: Warren & Dubin, Fain & Kahal, Dixon & Wrubel
Vitaphone Orchestra Conducted by: Leo F. Forbstein
Gowns by: Orry-Kelly

Cast:
Joan Blondell [Mabel Anderson],
Dick Powell [Jimmy Higgens],
Ruby Keeler [Barbara Hemingway],
ZaSu Pitts [Mathilda Hemingway],
Guy Kibbee [Horace]

Gold Diggers Of 1933

2008-04-16T15:09:00.004+02:00

Warner Bros. / Vitaphone, 1933, B/W, 94 minutes

Producer: Robert Lord
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Screen Play by: Erwin Gelsey and James Seymour
Dialogue by: David Boehm and Ben Markson
Based on a Play by Avery Hopwood ("Gold Diggers of Broadway")
Music and Lyrics by: Harry Warren and Al Dubin
Numbers Created and Directed by: Busby Berkeley
Vitaphone Orchestra Conducted by: Leo F. Forbstein
Gowns by: Orry-Kelly

Awards: Academy Award Nomination for Best Sound Recording (Nathan Levinson)

Cast:
Warren William (Lawrence),
Joan Blondell (Carol),
Aline MacMahon (Trixie),
Ruby Keeler (Polly),
Dick Powell (Brad),
Guy Kibbee (Peabody),
Ned Sparks (Barney),
Ginger Rogers (Fay)

Gold Diggers Of 1935

2008-04-16T15:07:00.003+02:00

Warner Bros. / First National, 1935, B/W, 95 minutes

Producer: Robert Lord
Director: Busby Berkeley
Screenplay: Peter Milne and Manuel Seff
Song Score: Al Dubin and Harry Warren
Gowns: Orry-Kelly

Awards:
Won Best Song Academy Award ("Lullaby of Broadway"); Academy Award nomination for Best Dance Direction (Busby Berkeley)

Cast:
Dick Powell (Dick Curtis),
Gloria Stuart (Amy Prentiss),
Adolphe Menjou (Nicoleff),
Glenda Farrell (Betty Hawes),
Grant Mitchell (Louis Lamson),
Dorothy Dare (Arline Davis),
Alice Brady (Mrs. Mathilda Prentiss),
Frank McHugh (Humboldt Prentiss)

Roxie Hart

2008-04-15T18:33:00.001+02:00

Twentieth Century-Fox, B/W, 1942, 75 minutes

Directed by: William Wellman
Produced by: Nunnally Johnson
Written by: Maurine Dallas Watkins, Nunnally Johnson

Cast:
Ginger Rogers (Roxie Hart),
Adolphe Menjou (Billy Flynn),
George Montgomery (Homer Howard),
Lynne Overman (Jake Callahan),
Nigel Bruce (E. Clay Benham)

Mame

2008-04-15T11:44:00.010+02:00

Warner Bros., 1974, Color, 132 minutes

Producers: James Creeson and Robert Fryer
Director: Gene Saks
Screenplay: Paul Zindel
Music Directors: Ralph Burns and Billy Byers
Song Score: Jerry Herman
Choreography: Martin Allen and Onna White
Set Decoration: Marvin March
Costume Design: Theadora Van Runkle

Cast:
Lucille Ball (Mame Dennis),
Bea Arthur (Vera Charles),
Kirby Furlong (Young Patrick),
Bruce Davidson (Old Patrick),
Robert Preston (Beauregard),
Jane Connell (Agnes Gooch)

1 Main Title / St. Bridget
2 It's Today
3 Open a New Window
4 Man in the Moon
5 My Best Girl
6 We Need a Little Christmas
7 Mame
8 Loving You
9 Letter
10 Bosom Buddies
11 Gooch's Song
12 If He Walked into My Life
13 Finale

Dance, Girl, Dance

2008-04-15T11:44:00.008+02:00

RKO, B/W, 1940, 90 minutes

Directed by: Dorothy Arzner
Screeplay by: Tess Slesinger, Frank Davis
Choreography: Ernst Matray

Cast:
Maureen O'Hara (Judy O'Brien),
Louis Hayward (Jaes 'Jimmy' Harris Jr.),
Lucille Ball (Bubbles / Tiger Lily White),
Virginia Field (Elinor Harris),
Ralph Bellamy (Steve Adams)

Bells Are Ringing

2008-04-15T11:40:00.003+02:00

MGM, 1960, Color, 126 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Assistant Director: William McGarry
Screen Play and Lyrics by: Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Music by: Jule Styne
Music Adapted and Conducted by: André Previn
Orchestrations by: Alexander Courage and Pete King
Choreography: Charles O'Curran
Set Decorations: Henry Grace, Keogh Gleason
Costumes Designed by: Walter Plunkett

Filmed in CinemaScope and Metrocolor

Cast:
Judy Holliday (Ella Peterson),
Dean Martin (Jeffrey Moss),
Fred Clark (Larry Hastings)

Anchors Aweigh

2008-04-15T07:42:00.003+02:00

MGM, 1945, Color, 141 minutes

Produced by: Joe Pasternak
Directed by: George Sidney
Screen Play by: Isobel Lennart
Musical Direction: Georgie Stoll
Frank Sinatra Songs by: Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn
Orchestrations by: Axel Stordahl
Dance Sequences Created by: Gene Kelly
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis
Costume Supervision: Irene
Set Decoration: Edwin B. Willis
"Tom & Jerry" Cartoon by M-G-M Cartoon Studio

Awards:
Academy Award for Best Score - Musical (Georgie Stoll). Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor (Gene Kelly), Best Color Cinematography and Best Song ("I Fall in Love Too Easily") by Jule Styne (Music), Sammy Cahn (Lyrics)

Cast:
Frank Sinatra (Clarence Doolittle),
Kathryn Grayson (Susan Abbott),
Gene Kelly (Joseph Brady),
Jose Iturbi (Himself),
Dean Stockwell (Donald Martin)

1 Anchors Aweigh Title
2 We Hate To Leave
3 Lullaby
4 I Begged Her
5 If You Knew Susie
6 Jealousie
7 What Makes The Sunset?
8 All Of A Sudden My Heart Sings
9 Donkey Serenade
10 The Worry Song
11 The Charm Of You
12 I Fall In Love Too Easily
13 Anchors Aweigh Finale

The Barkleys Of Broadway

2008-04-14T18:32:00.003+02:00

MGM, 1949, Color, 109 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Associate Producer: Roger Edens
Directed by: Charles Walters
Original Screen Play by: Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Music by: Harry Warren
Lyrics by: Ira Gershwin
Musical Direction: Lennie Hayton
Orchestration: Conrad Salinger
Musical Numbers Stagged and Directed by: Robert Alton, Hermes Pan
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis
Miss Rogers' Costumes by: Irene
Men's Costumes by: Valles
Color by Technicolor

Awards:
Academy Award nomination for Best Color Cinematography (Harry Stradling)

Cast:
Fred Astaire (Josh Barkley),
Ginger Rogers (Dinah Barkley),
Oscar Levant (Ezra Miller),
Billie Burke (Mrs. Livingston Belney),
Gale Robbins (Shirlene May)

Second Chorus

2008-04-14T14:29:00.002+02:00

Paramount, 1940, B/W, 84 minutes

Produced by: Boris Morros
Associate Producer: Robert Stillman
Production Manager: Joe Nadel
Directed by: H. C. Potter
Assistant Director: Edward Montagne
Associate Director: Frank Cavett
Screen Play by: Elaine Ryan and Ian McLellan Hunter
Music by: Artie Shaw
Lyrics: Johnny Mercer
Associate Musical Director: Eddie Paul
Dance Director: Hermes Pan
Set Dresser: Howard Bristol
Wardrobe: Helen Taylor

Awards:
Academy Award nominations for Best Score (Artie Shaw) and Best Song ("Love of My Life", Johnny Mercer and Artie Shaw)

Cast:
Fred Astaire (Danny O'Neill),
Paulette Goddard (Ellen Miller),
Artie Shaw (Artie Shaw),
Charles Butterworth (Mr. Chisholm),
Burgess Meredith (Hank Taylor)

Viva Las Vegas

2008-04-13T18:19:00.004+02:00

MGM, 1964, Color, 86 minutes

Produced by: Jack Cummings and George Sidney
Directed by: George Sidney
Assistant Director: Milton Feldman
Written by: Sally Benson
Editor: John McSweeney Jr.
Music: George Stoll
Choreographer: David Winters
Set Decoration: Henry Grace, George R. Nelson
Costumes Designed by: Don Feld

In Panavision and Metrocolor

Cast:
Elvis Presley (Lucky Jackson),
Ann-Margret (Rusty Martin),
Cesare Danova (Count Elmo Mancini),
William Demarest (Mr. Martin)

1 Radio Spot No 1
2 Viva Las Vegas
3 Yellow Rose Of Texas
4 The Lady Loves Me
5 C'Mon Everybody
6 Today Tomorrow and Forever
7 Cheek To Cheek
8 What'd I say
9 Santa Lucia
10 IF You Think I Don't Need You
11 Radio Spot No 2
12 Viva Las Vegas
13 I need Somebody TO Lean On
14 My Rival
15 Viva Las Vegas
16 If You Think I Don't Need You
17 If You Think I Don't Need You
18 If You Think I Don't Need You
19 Apreciation

Guys And Dolls

2008-03-25T21:12:00.010+01:00

Goldwyn / MGM, 1955, Color, 150 minutes

Produced by: Samuel Goldwyn
Written for the Screen and Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Assistant Director: Arthur S. Black, Jr.
Music and Lyrics by: Frank Loesser
Music Supervised and Conducted by: Jay Blackton
Orchestrations: Skip Martin, Nelson Riddle, Alexander Courage, Al Sendrey
Dances and Musical Numbers Staged by: Michael Kidd
Set Decoration by: Howard Bristol
Costumes Designed by: Irene Sharaff

Filmed in CinemaScope

Awards:
Academy Award nominations for Best Color Cinematography, Best Score (Musical), Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (Color), Best Costume Design

Cast:
Marlon Brando (Sky Masterson),
Jean Simmons (Sarah Brown),
Frank Sinatra (Nathan Detroit),
Vivian Blaine (Miss Adelaide),
Robert Keith (Lt. Brannigan)

1 Titles and Opening Sequence
2 Follow The Fold (1)
3 The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game In New York
4 I'll Know
5 Pet Me, Poppa
6 Adelaide's Lament
7 Follow The Fold (2)
8 Guys And Dolls
9 Adelaide
10 If I Were A Bell
11 A Woman In Love
12 Take Back Your Mink
13 Luck Be A Lady - Dance Sequence
14 Luck Be A Lady
15 Sue Me
16 Sit Down, You're Rocking The Boat
17 Guys And Dolls - Sequence
18 Finale and End Titles

I'm very grateful to Quinlan and all the people from Franklynot. Thanks a lot for sharing all this beautiful music.

Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

2008-03-17T19:50:00.003+01:00

MGM, 1954, Color, 102 minutes

Produced by: Jack Cummings
Directed by: Stanley Donen
Assistant Director: Ridgeway Callow
Screen Play by: Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich and Dorothy Kingsley
Musical Direction: Adolph Deutsch
Musical Supervision: Saul Chaplin
Lyrics by: Johnny Mercer
Music by: Gene DePaul
Orchestrations: Alexander Courage, Conrad Salinger and Leo Arnaud
Dances and Musical Numbers Staged by: Michael Kidd
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
Costumes Designed by: Walter Plunkett

Filmed in CinemaScope, Color by Ansco

Awards:
Academy Award for Best Score, Musical
Academy Award Nominations for Best Picture, Best Screenplay , Best Color Cinematography and Best Film Editing

Cast:
Howard Keel (Adam Pontipee),
Jane Powell (Milly),
Jeff Richards (Benjamin Pontipee),
Russ Tamblyn (Gideon Pontipee),
Nancy Kilgas (Alice),
Tommy Rall (Frank Pontipee),
Betty Carr (Sarah),
Marc Platt (Daniel Pontipee),
Virginia Gibson (Liza),
Matt Mattox (Caleb Pontipee),
Jacques d'Amboise (Ephraim Pontipee)

1 Main Title
2 Bless Yore Beautiful Hide
3 Do Unto Udders
4 Bless Yore Beautiful Hide (Reprise)
5 Wonderful, Wonderful Day
6 Adam In Treetop
7 When You're In Love
8 Goin' Co'tin'
9 Barn Dance
10 Barn Raising
11 When You're In Love (Reprise)
12 Brotherly Advice / Lonesome Winter
13 Lament (Lonesome Polecat)
14 Lovesick
15 Sobbin' Women
16 Kidnapped And Chase
17 June Bride
18 June Bride (Reprise)
19 Spring, Spring, Spring
20 When You're In Love (Reprise, Outtake)
21 End Title
22 Bless Yore Beautiful Hide (Rehearsal recording)
23 Goin' Co'tin' (Demo recording)
24 Queen Of The May (Outtake, Demo recording)
25 When You're In Love (Demo recording)
26 Spring, Spring, Spring (Demo recording)
27 Sobbin' Women (Demo recording)

Kiss Me Kate

2008-03-17T18:48:00.004+01:00

MGM, 1953, Color, 110 minutes

Produced by: Jack Cummings
Directed by: George Sidney
Assistant Director: George Rhein
Screen Play by: Dorothy Kingsley
Music and Lyrics by: Cole Porter
Musical Direction: André Previn and Saul Chaplin
Orchestrations: Conrad Salinger and Skip Martin
Choreography by: Hermes Pan
Costumes Designed by: Walter Plunkett

Cast:
Kathryn Grayson (Lilli Vanessi / Katherine),
Howard Keel (Fred Graham / Petruchio),
Ann Miller (Lois Lane / Bianca),
Tommy Rall (Bill Calhoun / Lucentio),
Bobby Van (Gremio),
Keenan Wynn (Lippy),
James Whitmore (Slug),
Kurt Kasznar (Baptista),
Bob Fosse (Hortensio)

01 - Overture Medley: Always True To You In My Fashion / Why Can't You Behave? / Another Openin', Another Show / So In Love (Includes Alternate Main Title) (Outtake)
02 - Main Title (So In Love / Wunderbar)
03 - So In Love
04 - Too Darn Hot
05 - Why Can't You Behave?
06 - Electric Sign (Another Openin', Another Show)
07 - Lilli's Cork
08 - Wunderbar
09 - So In Love (Reprise)
10 - We Open In Venice (Extended Version)
11 - Tom, Dick Or Harry
12 - I've Come To Wive It Wealthily In Padua
13 - I Hate Men
14 - Were Thine That Special Face
15 - Finale Act One (Kiss Me Kate)
16 - And So To Wed (We Open In Venice / I Hate Men)
17 - I've Come To Wive It Wealthily In Padua (Reprise)
18 - Where Is The Life That Late I Led?
19 - Bianca
20 - Why Can't You Behave?
21 - Were Thine That Special Face
22 - Always True To You In My Fashion
23 - Brush Up Your Shakespeare
24 - Bianca's Wedding (We Open In Venice)
25 - From This Moment On
26 - Down On Kate (Includes So In Love)
27 - Kiss Me Kate (Finale, Act 2)

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Gypsy

2008-03-17T17:11:00.007+01:00

Warner Bros., 1962, Color, 149 minutes

Produced and Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Assistant Director: Gil Kissel
Screenplay: Leonard Spielgass
Music by: Jule Styne
Lyrics by: Stephen Sondheim
Music Supervised and Conducted by: Frank Perkins
Orchestrations: Frank Perkins, Carl Brandt
Choreography by: Robert Tucker
Costumes Designed by: Orry-Kelly

Filmed in Technirama and Technicolor

Cast:
Rosalind Russell (Rose),
Natalie Wood (Louise "Gypsy"),
Karl Malden (Herbie Sommers),
Suzanne Cupito ("Baby" June),
Ann Jillian ("Dainty" June),
Diane Pace ("Baby" Louise)

1 Overture
2 Small World
3 Some People
4 Baby June and Her Newsboys
5 Mr. Goldstone, I Love You
6 Little Lamb
7 You'll Never Get Away From Me
8 Dainty June
9 If Mama Was Married
10 All I Need Is the Girl
11 Everything's Coming Up Roses
12 Together Wherever We Go
13 You Gotta Have a Gimmick
14 Let Me Entertain You
15 Rose's Turn
16 Finale
17 Some People (Rosalind Russell Outtake)
18 Small World (Rosalind Russell Outtake)
19 You'll Never Get Away From Me (Rosalind Russell Outtake)
20 Everything's Coming Up Roses (Rosalind Russell Outtake)
21 You'll Never Get Away From Me (Extended Version)
22 Together Wherever We Go (Extended, Alternate Version)

Funny Face

2008-03-13T23:14:00.004+01:00

Paramount, 1957, Color, 103 minutes

Produced by: Roger Edens
Directed by: Stanley Donen
Music and Lyrics by: George and Ira Gershwin
Music Adapted and Conducted by: Adolph Deutsch
Orchestral Arrangements by: Conrad Salinger, Van Cleave, Alexander Courage, Skip Martin
Additional Music and Lyrics by: Roger Edens and Leonard Gershe
Choreography by: Eugene Loring and Fred Astaire
Songs Staged by: Stanley Donen
Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Ray Moyer
Costumes: Edith Head
Miss Hepburn's Paris Wardrobe: Hubert de Givenchy

Filmed in VistaVision, Color by Technicolor

Cast:
Audrey Hepburn (Jo Stockton),
Fred Astaire (Dick Avery),
Kay Thompson (Maggie Prescott),
Michel Auclair (Prof. Emile Flostre),
Robert Flemyng (Paul Duval)

1 Overture - Funny Face - 'S Wonderful - Think Pink
2 How Long Has This Been Going On
3 How Long Has This Been Going On (Instrumental Reprise)
4 Funny Face
5 Bonjour, Paris
6 Clap Yo Hands
7 He Loves And She Loves
8 Bonjour, Paris (Instrumental Reprise)
9 On How To Be Lovely
10 Basal Metabolism
11 Let's Kiss And Make Up
12 'S Wonderful

Mary Poppins

2008-03-13T23:05:00.002+01:00

Disney, 1964, Color, 139 minutes

Producer: Walt Disney
Co-Producer: Bill Walsh
Directed by: Robert Stevenson
Assistant Directors: Joseph L. McEveety, Paul Feiner
Screenplay by: Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi
Music and Lyrics by: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Music Supervised, Arranged and Conducted by: Irwin Kostal
Choreography by : Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood
Set Decorators: Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman
Costumes and Design Consultant: Tony Walton
Costumes Executed by: Bill Thomas

Filmed in Technicolor

Awards:
Winner of 5 Academy Awards: Best Actress (Julie Andrews), Best Song ("Chim Chim Cheree"), Best Original Score (Sherman Bros.), Best Film Editing (Cotton Warburton) and Best Visual Effects (Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett, Hamilton Luske)

Cast:
Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins),
Dick Van Dyke (Bert),
David Tomlinson (Mr. Banks),
Glynis Johns (Mrs. Banks),
Hermione Baddeley, Reta Shaw (The Domestics),
Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber (The Children)

Jailhouse Rock

2008-03-13T18:20:00.003+01:00

MGM, 1957, Black and White, 96 minutes

Produced by: Pandro S. Berman
Associate Producer: Kathryn Hereford
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Assistant Director: Robert E. Relyea
Screen Play by: Guy Trosper
Technical Advisor: Colonel Tom Parker
Music Supervised by: Jeff Alexander
Songs Mostly by:: Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber
Choreography: Alex Romero, Elvis Presley
Set Decorations: Henry Grace, Keogh Gleason

Filmed in CinemaScope

Cast:
Elvis Presley (Vince Everett),
Judy Tyler (Peggy Van Alden),
Mickey Shaughnessy (Hunk Houghton),
Vaughn Taylor (Mr. Shores)

You Were Never Lovelier

2008-03-12T17:30:00.004+01:00

Columbia, 1942, Black and White, 97 minutes

Produced by: Louis F. Edelman
Directed by: William A. Seiter
Assistant Director: Norman Deming
Screen Play by: Michael Fessier & Ernest Pagano and Delmer Daves
Music by: Jerome Kern
Lyrics by: Johnny Mercer
Musical Director: Leigh Harline
Musical Arrangements by: Conrad Salinger
Dance Director: Val Raset
Interior Decorator: Frank Tuttle
Gowns by: Irene

Awards:
Academy Award nominations for Best Score - Musical (Leigh Harline), Best Song ("Dearly Beloved") and Best Sound Recording

Cast:
Fred Astaire (Robert Davis),
Rita Hayworth (Maria Acuna),
Adolphe Menjou (Edwardo Acuna),
Leslie Brooks (Cecy Acuna)

You'll Never Get Rich

2008-03-12T11:41:00.001+01:00

Columbia, 1941, B/W, 88 minutes

Produced by: Samuel Bischoff
Directed by: Sidney Lanfield
Assistant Director: Gene Anderson
Original Screen Play by: Michael Fessier, Ernest Pagano
Songs by: Cole Porter
Musical Director: M. W. Stoloff
Assistant: Paul Mertz Dances Staged by: Robert Alton
Costume Design: Robert Kalloch

Awards:
Academy Award nominations for Best Score and Best Song ("Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye")

Cast:
Fred Astaire (Robert Curtis),
Rita Hayworth (Sheila Winthrop),
John Hubbard (Tom Barton),
Robert Benchley (Martin Cortland),
Osa Massen (Sonya)

1 You'll Never Get Rich Titles
2 Boogie Barcarolle
3 Dream Dancing
4 Shootin' the Works for Uncle Sam
5 Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye
6 A-Stairable Rag
7 So Near and Yet So Far
8 The Wedding Cake Walk
9 End

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That Night In Rio

2008-03-11T20:09:00.004+01:00

20th Century-Fox, 1941, Color, 90 minutes

Producer: Fred Kohlmar
Director: Irving Cummings
Screenplay: George Seaton, Bess Meredyth, Hal Long and Samuel Hoffenstein
Music Director: Alfred Newman
Song Score: Mack Gordon and Harry Warren
Choreography: Hermes Pan
Set Decoration: Thomas Little
Costume Design: Travis Banton

Cast:
Alice Faye (Baroness Cecilia Duarte),
Don Ameche (Larry Martin / Baron Duarte),
Carmen Miranda (Carmen),
S. Z. Sakall (Arthur Penna)

1 Overture / Chica Chica Boom Chic
2 The Baron Is in Conference
3 They Met in Rio (A Midnight Serenade)
4 Cae Cae
5 I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)
6 Boa Noite
7 Chica Chica Boom Chic / Boa Noite / I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much) / Boa Noite
8 End Credits

The Gang's All Here

2008-03-11T19:32:00.002+01:00

20th Century-Fox, 1943, Color, 103 minutes

Produced by: William LeBaron
Directed by: Busby Berkeley
Screen Play by: Walter Bullock
Musical Direction: Alfred Newman, Charles Henderson
Lyrics and Music by: Leo Robin and Harry Warren;
Dances Created and Directed by: Busby Berkeley
Set Decorations: Thomas Little
Costumes: Yvonne Wood

Filmed in Technicolor

Awards:
Academy Award nomination for Best Interior Decoration - Color

Cast:
Alice Faye (Eadie Allen),
Carmen Miranda (Dorita),
Phil Baker (Himself),
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

2008-03-10T17:39:00.003+01:00

Fox, 1953, Color, 91 minutes

Producer: Sol C. Siegel
Director: Howard Hawks
Screenplay: Charles Lederer
Music Director: Lionel Newman
Song Score: Leo Robin and Jule Styne
Additional Songs: Harold Adamson and Hoagy Carmichael
Choreography: Jack Cole
Set Decoration: Claude Carpenter
Costume Design: Travilla

Cast:
Jane Russell (Dorothy)),
Marilyn Monroe (Lorelei),
Charles Coburn (Sir Francis Beekman),
Elliott Reid (Malone),
Tommy Noonan (Gus Esmond),
George "Foghorn" Winslow (Henry Spofford III)

There's No Business Like Show Business

2008-03-10T17:36:00.003+01:00

20th Century-Fox, 1954, Color, 117 minutes

Produced by: Sol C. Siegel
Directed by: Walter Lang
Screen Play by: Phoebe and Henry Ephron
Lyrics and Music by: Irving Berlin
Music Supervised and Conducted by: Alfred Newman, Lionel Newman
Dances and Musical Numbers Staged by: Robert Alton
Vocal Supervision: Ken Darby
Orchestration: Bernard Mayers, Herbert Spencer, Edward B. Powell, Earle Hagen
Set Decorations: Walter M. Scott, Stuart Reiss
Wardrobe Direction: Charles Le Maire
Costumes Designed by: Miles White, Travilla

Filmed in CinemaScope, Color by De Luxe

Cast:
Ethel Merman (Molly Donahue),
Donald O'Connor (Tim Donahue),
Marilyn Monroe (Vicky),
Dan Dailey (Terrance Donahue),
Johnnie Ray (Steve Donahue),
Mitzi Gaynor (Katy Donahue)

1 Opening Titles
2 When The Midnight Choo Choo Leaves For Alabam'
3 Play A Simple Melody
4 A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody
5 Alexander's Ragtime Band
6 After You Get What You Want (You Don't Want It)
7 If You Believe
8 Heat Wave
9 A Man Chases A Girl (Until She Catches Him)
10 Lazy
11 A Sailor's Not A Sailor ('Til A Sailor's Been Tattooed)
12 There's No Business Like Show Business
13 Finale Chorus / Company
14 Play A Simple Melody
15 Play A Simple Melody (Original Mono LP Version)

I'm very grateful to Quinlan and all the people from Franklynot. Thanks a lot for sharing all this beautiful music.

Gigi

2008-03-01T11:45:00.002+01:00

MGM, 1958, Color, 117 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Assistant Directors: William McGarry and William Shanks
Screen play and lyrics by: Alan Jay Lerner
Music by: Frederick Loewe
Music supervised and conducted by: André Previn
Orchestrations by: Conrad Salinger
Costumes, Scenery and Production Design by: Cecil Beaton
Set Decorations: Henry Grace, Keogh Gleason

Filmed in CinemaScope and Metrocolor

Awards:
Won nine Academy Awards: Best Picture; Best Director; Best Adapted Screenplay; Best Color Cinematography (Joseph Ruttenberg); Best Film Editing (Adrienne Fazan); Best Score - Musical (Andre Previn); Best Song ("Gigi"); Best Art Direction / Set Decoration (William A. Horning, Preston Ames, Henry Grace and Keogh Gleason); and Best Costume Design (Cecil Beaton)

Cast:
Leslie Caron (Gigi),
Maurice Chevalier (Honoré Lachaille),
Louis Jourdan (Gaston Lachaille),
Hermione Gingold (Mme Alvarez),
Eva Gabor (Liane d'Exelmans)

01 - Main Title
02 - Opening
03 - Interlude / And There Is The Future
04 - Thank Heaven For Little Girls
05 - Meet Gigi (Extended Version)
06 - Gaston's House (Extended Version)
07 - Armenonville / It's A Bore Prelude
08 - It's A Bore
09 - After It's A Bore (Extended Version)
10 - Aunt Alicia
11 - Parisians Introduction
12 - The Parisians
13 - Ice Skating Sequence (Extended Version)
14 - Dissolve Maxim's / Gossip (Extended Version)
15 - Introduction To Maxim's Waltz (Extended Version) /
Waltz At Maxim's (She's Not Thinking Of Me)
16 - It's A Bore (Reprise)
17 - To The Inn (Extended Version)
18 - Goodbye Madame
19 - Bore Montage
20 - The Night They Invented Champagne
21 - Trouville (Extended Version)
22 - I Remember It Well
23 - Panting Grandmama (Outtake)
24 - Lessons (Extended Version)
25 - Upset
26 - Gaston's Soliloquy
27 - Gigi
28 - Gaston With Flowers
29 - You Never Told Me
30 - I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore
31 - I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore (Reprise) (Extended Version)
32 - Aunt Alicia's March (Extended Version)
33 - Bracelet (Extended Version)
34 - Say A Prayer For Me Tonight
35 - Gigi's Big Moment
36 - Second Gossip (Extended Version / Vocal Outtake)
37 - Waltz At Maxim's, Dance Version (Extended Version)
38 - Gaston's Decision
39 - Change Of Heart / End Title
40 - The Parisians (Extended Version / Piano-Vocal Prerecording)
41 - The Night They Invented Champagne (Piano-Vocal Prerecording)
42 - Say A Prayer For Me Tonight (Piano-Vocal Prerecording)

Sweet Charity

2008-02-18T20:06:00.005+01:00

Universal, 1969, Color, 148 minutes

Producer: Robert Arthur
Director: Bob Fosse
Screenplay: Peter Stone
Music Director: Joseph Gershenson
Musical Score: Cy Coleman
Song Score: Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields
Choreography: Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon
Set Decoration: Jack D. Moore
Costume Design: Edith Head

Cast:
Shirley MacLaine (Charity Hope Valentine),
Sammy Davis, Jr. (Big Daddy),
Ricardo Montalban (Vittorio Vitale),
John McMartin (Oscar Lindquist),
Chita Rivera (Nickie),
Paula Kelly (Helene)

1 Overture
2 My Personal Property
3 Big Spender
4 Rich Man's Frug
5 The Pompeii Club
6 If My Friends Could See Me Now
7 There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This
8 It's A Nice Face
9 The Rhythm Of Life
10 Sweet Charity
11 I'm A Brass Band
12 I Love To Cry At Weddings
13 Where Am I Going?
14 Finale

Meet Me In St Louis

2008-02-17T19:08:00.004+01:00

MGM, 1944, Color, 114 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Screen Play by: Irving Brecher and Fred Finklehoffe
Musical Adaptation: Roger Edens
Musical Direction: Georgie Stoll
Orchestrations: Conrad Salinger
Dance Direction: Charles Walters
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis
Costume Supervision: Irene
Costumes Designed by: Sharaff

Cast:
Judy Garland (Esther Smith),
Margaret O'Brien ("Tootie" Smith),
Mary Astor (Mrs. Anna Smith),
Lucille Bremer (Rose Smith),
Leon Ames (Mr. Alonzo Smith),
Tom Drake (John Truett),
Marjorie Main (Katie)

1 Main Title
2 Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis
3 The Boy Next Door
4 Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis
5 Getting Ready For The Party (Instrumental)
6 Skip To My Lou
7 Under The Bamboo Tree
8 Saying Goodnight (Instrumental)
9 Over The Bannister
10 The Trolley Song
11 Boys And Girls Like You And Me
12 All Hallow's Eve (Instrumental)
13 The Most Horrible One (Instrumental)
14 You And I
15 Winter In St. Louis (Instrumental)
16 I Hate Basketball (Instrumental)
17 Under The Anheuser Bush (Instrumental)
18 Esther Accepts (Instrumental)
19 Tootie's Music Box (Instrumental)
20 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
21 Tootie's Grief (Instrumental)
22 Finale (Instrumental)

All That Jazz

2008-02-17T17:14:00.002+01:00

Columbia / Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979, Color, 123 minutes

Directed by: Bob Fosse
Produced by: Robert Alan Aurthur
Screeplay by: Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse
Music by: Ralph Burns

Color by Technicolor

Awards:
Won 4 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 11 nominations more.

Cast:
Roy Scheider (Joe Gideon),
Jessica Lange (Angelique),
Leland Palmer (Audrey Paris),
Ann Reinking (Kate Jagger),
Ben Vereen (O'Connor Flood),
Erzsebet Foldi (Michelle Gideon)

1 Main Title
2 On Broadway
3 Michelle
4 Take Off With Us
5 Concerto in G
6 Ponte Vecchio
7 Everything Old is New Again
8 South of Mt Sinai Parade
9 After You've Gone
10 There'll Be Some Changes Made
11 Who's Sorry Now?
12 Some of These Days
13 Going Home Now
14 Bye Bye Love

Silk Stockings

2008-02-17T17:07:00.004+01:00

MGM, 1957, Color, 117 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian
Assistant Director: Al Jennings
Screen Play by: Leonard Gershe and Leonard Spigelgass
Music and Lyrics by: Cole Porter
Music Supervised and Conducted by: André Previn
Orchestral Arrangements by: Conrad Salinger
Additional Orchestration: Skip Martin and Al Woodbury
All Dances in which Fred Astaire appears Choreographed by: Hermes Pan
All Other Dances Choreographed by: Eugene Loring
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
Costumes by: Helen Rose

Filmed in Cinemascope and Metrocolor

Cast:
Fred Astaire (Steve Canfield),
Cyd Charisse (Ninotchka),
Janis Paige (Peggy Dainton),
Peter Lorre (Brankov),
Jules Munshin (Bibinski),
Joseph Buloff (Ivanov),
George Tobias (Commissar Vassili Markovich),
Wim Sonneveld (Peter Ilyitch Boroff)

1 Main Title
2 Fred's Feet
3 Too Bad (With Alternate Dance Orchestrations)
4 Close
5 Paris Loves Lovers
6 Sterophonic Sound
7 Paris Montage
8 Paris Loves Lovers ( Instrumental)
9 Easy To Love
10 It's A Chemical Reaction, That's All
11 All Of You
12 Love O My Life/You Can Do No Wrong
13 Satin And Silk
14 Silk Stockings
15 Without Love
16 I Feel Better Now
17 Fated To Be Mated (Extended Version)/All Of You
18 Josphine (Extended Version)
19 Siberia
20 Cyd Leaves Paris
21 High-Heeled Shoes
22 The Red Blues
23 Oatmeal/Cyd Returns To Paris
24 All Of You/(Vielli Russio)
25 The Ritz Roll And Rock
26 We Are Getting Married
27 Too Bad (Reprise)/Finale
28 It's A Chemical Reaction (Unused Demo)
29 It's A Chemical Reaction (Unused Alternate Orchestration)
30 In The Still Of The Night (Poodle Cafe Outake)

The Band Wagon

2008-02-17T16:36:00.003+01:00

MGM, 1953, Color, 112 minutes

Produced by: Arthur Freed
Associate Producer: Roger Edens
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Assistant Director: Jerry Thorpe
Story and Screen Play: Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Songs by: Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz
Dances and Musical Numbers Staged by: Michael Kidd
Music Direction: Adolph Deutsch
Orchestrations: Conrad Salinger, Skip Martin and Alexander Courage
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis, Keogh Gleason
Costumes by: Mary Ann Nyberg

Cast:
Fred Astaire (Tony Hunter),
Cyd Charisse (Gaby Berard),
Oscar Levant (Lester Marton),
Nanette Fabray (Lily Marton),
Jack Buchanan (Jeffrey Cordova),
James Mitchell (Paul Byrd),
Ava Gardner (herself),
LeRoy Daniels (Shoe Shine Boy)

1 Main title
2 By myself
3 Penny arcade
4 A shine on your shoes
5 Oedipus bridge
6 That's entertainment
7 Is it all a dream
8 Sweet music
9 You have everything
10 Got a bran' new suit
11 Sweet music
12 Carriage in the park/High and low
13 Dancing in the dark
14 Two-faced woman
15 You and the night and the music
16 The egg
17 Something to remember you by
18 I love Louisa
19 New sun in the sky
20 I guess i'll have to change my plan
21 Louisiana hayride
22 Triplets
23 The girl hunt ballet
24 By myself
25 For he's a jolly good fellow
26 That's entertainment
27 Two-faced woman
28 That's entertainment
29 Main title