Strike Up the Band

Busby Berkeley

Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney star as a pair of talented teenagers who stage an orchestra show intending to enter a competition in Chicago. Jimmy Connors (Rooney) and Mary Holden (Garland) stage a musical spectacular worthy of Broadway, manage to scrimp, save and borrow to raise the money for a trip to Chicago ... and overcome the life crises that can only affect adolescents. But on the eve of their trip, with everything ready, one of their orchestra members becomes ill, and the underaged impresarios spend their $200 stake to fly him to a hospital. Yet somehow, with a lot of singing, dancing and luck, everything is going to turn out all right when they Strike Up The Band!


Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Busby Berkeley

Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Esther Williams find romance, gangsters and lots of song and dance on the baseball diamond in the fast-paced, fun-filled musical romp Take Me Out to the Ball Game.1906. The champion ball club The Wolves' success depends on the powerhouse double play combination of O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg. Trouble is O'Brien (Kelly--An American in Paris, Brigadoon) and Ryan (Academy Award winner Sinatra--From Here to Eternity, Pal Joey) would rather be pursuing their vaudeville career than playing baseball . . . that is until the team gets a new owner, beautiful K.C. Higgins (Williams--Dangerous When Wet). And when a professional gambler who has bet heavily against The Wolves tries every dirty trick he knows to influence the outcome of the big game, it's the baseball players against the gangsters for a wild, hysterical, musical nine innings.


Hollywood Hotel (1937)

Busby Berkeley

If you love music, check into Hollywood Hotel. The story's about a filmland newbie (Dick Powell) caught between a spoiled star (Lola Lane) and her likeable look-alike (Lola's look-alike sister Rosemary Lane). But the movie's about Busby Berkeley's ace direction – and music, music, music. The film opens with the jubilant debut of Tinseltown's unofficial anthem Hooray for Hollywood. The jaunty Let That Be a Lesson to You shows off Berkeley's snazzy-jazzy mastery of editing and camera angles. And Benny Goodman and His Orchestra – including Harry James on trumpet and Gene Krupa on drums – swing, swing, swing into Sing, Sing, Sing. Hooray for Hollywood Hotel!


That's Dancing!

Jack Haley, Jr.

From Emmy-winner Jack Haley Jr. comes this star-packed anthology of films greatest dance numbers from ballet to the dance-craze of the 80s, break-dancing. Hosted by Academy Award-nominee, Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Gene Kelly (Singin' in the Rain), Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Liza Minnelli (Arthur), Emmy and Golden Globe-nominee Sammy Davis Jr. (Ocean's Eleven), Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominee and Emmy-winner Mikhail Baryshnikov (TV's Sex and the City), Emmy-nominee Ray Bolger (The Wizard of Oz) and tap dance legend, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (Stormy Weather).


The Gang's All Here

Busby Berkeley

Eadie Allen (Alice Faye) is a chorus girl who dreams of becoming a star. While working at a New York nightclub, she meets Sergeant Andy Mason (James Ellison); they fall in love but he is shipped off to war. As Eadie becomes the headliner at the nightclub, Andy comes home a war hero. But complications arise when Eadie finds out Andy is unofficially engaged to another woman. It's up to Eadie's friend and nightclub co-star Dorita (Carmen Miranda) to set things straight. The Gang's All Here is filled with leggy chorus dancers and lavish musical production numbers including Faye's flashy neon finale "The Polka Dot Polka."


Gold Diggers of 1935

Busby Berkeley

A socialite is bamboozled into producing a stage show in her home in this amusing musical starring Oscar-winner Alice Brady ("My Man Godfrey") and Oscar-nominee Adolphe Menjou ("Paths of Glory," "A Star Is Born"). Co-starring the talented Dick Powell ("42nd Street," "Murder My Sweet"). A very entertaining film, with a great cast.


For Me and My Gal

Busby Berkeley

Academy Award-winner Gene Kelly makes his film debut as a song and dance man who lures singer Judy Garland away from her vaudeville partner. When WWI breaks out, he intentionally injures his hand to avoid combat only to reform and become a gallant hero. Kelly ("Singin' in the Rain," "An American in Paris") and Oscar-winner Garland ("The Wizard of Oz," "Meet Me in St. Louis") make a fabulous duo in this Oscar-nominated musical. With Academy Award-honoree George Murphy ("Battleground") and Keenan Wynn ("Mary Poppins," "Dr. Strangelove"). Directed by Oscar-nominated Broadway and screen director/choreographer Busby Berkeley ("Babes in Arms"). Produced by Oscar-winner Arthur Freed ("An American in Paris," "Gigi").


Babes On Broadway

Busby Berkeley

Show-biz hopefuls stage a benefit for an orphanage.


Babes In Arms

Busby Berkeley

Mickey Moran, son of an old vaudeville-team puts on his own show to avoid being sent with other vaudevillians' children to a work farm, but that isn't that easy.