Strike Up the Band

1940

English

6.8

♡ 3

79%

Busby Berkeley Director

Margaret Marquis as 'Antony and Cleopatra' Girl

Virginia Brissac as Mrs. May Holden

Enid Bennett as Mrs. Morgan

Harry Harvey as Shooting Gallery Concessionaire

Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raising money to go to Chicago for the contest.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

1949

English

6.6

♡ 9

95%

employee boss relationship

Busby Berkeley Director

Edna Harris as Baseball Fan

Edward Arnold as Joe Lorgan

Douglas Fowley as Karl

Murray Alper as Zalinka

The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.

Bright Lights

1935

English

6.3

♡ 2

71%

Busby Berkeley Director

Bill Elliott as Backstage Actor

William Demarest as Detective

Joe E. Brown as Joe Wilson

Irving Bacon as Postal Worker

Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.

For Me and My Gal

1942

English

7.0

♡ 5

100%

Busby Berkeley Director

Walter Baldwin as Bill

Keenan Wynn as Eddie Milton

Addison Richards as France Doctor

Nestor Paiva as Nick

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

Ziegfeld Girl

1941

English

6.7

♡ 5

78%

Busby Berkeley Director

Joyce Compton as Miss Sawyer - Auditioning Showgirl

Armand Kaliz as Pierre - Headwaiter

Gayne Whitman as Ted - Box Office Attendant

Amzie Strickland as Ziegfeld Girl

Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.

Hollywood Hotel

1937

English

6.4

♡ 1

40%

Busby Berkeley Director

Frances Langford as Alice

Lester Dorr as Casting Assistant

Ethelreda Leopold as Chorus Girl

Amzie Strickland as Guest at Orchid Room

After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.