Movie Musicals (Created originally for the Big Screen)

Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is "discovered" by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications abound.

A dancer gets his partner's role by mistake, but the one who deserves it gets to dance it. Songs by Cole Porter.

Kentucky teen Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and becomes country singer Loretta Lynn. Best actress Oscar for Spacek.

Leroy, Coco, Bruno and others of mixed talents and means attend New York's High School of Performing Arts.

A Pittsburgh welder dances nights in a bar, dates her boss and dreams of going to ballet school.

A hip Chicago teen moves to a Midwestern town where, thanks to a pastor, dancing is outlawed.

A Broadway musical director has troubles during rehearsal, promotes the understudy and has a successful opening night. Chiefly memorable for the incredible musical numbers.

A scruffy tomboy is transformed into a radiant high society beauty in this glorious musical from MGM. Scored by the talented team of Lerner and Lowe, the movie features splendid musical numbers like "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and "I Remember It Well."

The Turnblads' plus-size daughter rocks a segregated TV dance show in 1960s Baltimore. Directed by John Waters.

A singer and a dancer flirt with women at the singer's New England inn, open only on holidays.

It wasn't really the first talkie, but its release marked the death knell for silent pictures when Jolson, as the rabbi's son who wants to be a Broadway star, told the audience You ain't heard nothin' yet.

Diana Ross stars in this musical drama charting the life of Billie Holiday, a life tormented by racism and drug abuse.

A St. Louis lawyer's family stays in town for the 1904 World's Fair. Directed by Vincente Minnelli.

An idealistic and poor young writer who is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec which leads him into a love triangle involving the unobtainable Satine, queen courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, and the foppish Duke of Roxbury, his villainous rival for her affections.

The film that started our national love affair with Muppets. We see how Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and all their friends meet on the way to Hollywood to become movie stars.

The story of Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king, who decides to bring the magic of Christmas back to Halloween Town.

Dennis Potter's masterpiece mini-series follows the adventures, mishaps, and yearnings of a traveling song sheet peddler on a tight commission as he tries to make dreams fit the promises of the lyrics he carries.

Washed-up Broadway producer Max Bialystock and accountant Leo Bloom plan to raise a ton of money for a play that's sure to be a flop and then keep the extra dough. They pick "Springtime for Hitler," written by a Nazi, and hire an offbeat star and a freakish director.

A brother and sister take their act to 1947 London. Includes Astaire's famous dance on the ceiling.

When the new bride of a roughneck Oregon pioneer finds she has to keep house for her husband's six rowdy brothers, she decides to groom them so that they can find brides of their own

Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor combine their talents in one of the best musicals ever made. When Hollywood attempts the transition from silent movies to talkies, matinee idol Kelly hopes to make the cut.

One rock star is on her way to the top while a fellow star is on the decline. Remake of the 1954 classic.

A would-be flapper in 1920s New York saves her friend from white slavers in a Chinatown firecracker factory.

Dorothy, her dog Toto, and three friends set off for the mysterious Emerald City in search of the Wizard. Although pursued by the Wicked Witch of the West, they finally reach the Emerald City and receive an audience with the Wizard