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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2006.
Language
English
Description
Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now he only seems to be able to produce flops. Things turn around for Max when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. With this in mind, they decide to produce a musical called 'Springtime...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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Description
"A love affair is fated for tragedy amidst the vicious rivalry of two street gangs- the Jets and the Sharks. When Jets member Tony falls for Maria, the sister of the Sharks leader, it's more than these two warring gangs can handle. And as mounting tensions rise, a battle to the death ensues and innocent blood is shed in a heartbreaking finale."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When films like The Jazz Singer started to integrate synchronized music, in the late 1920s many ambitious songwriting pioneers of the Great White Way - George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart, among many others - were enticed westward by Hollywood studios' promises of national exposure and top dollar success. But what happened when writers native to the business of Broadway ran into the very different business of Hollywood?...
5) Billie
Publisher
Verve Records
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Documentary about the life of Billie Holiday, directed by James Erskine.
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ariel is a beautiful mermaid princess with an even more beautiful voice, who just happens to be enthralled with the human world so much that she disobeys her father to visit the surface. When she rescues a handsome prince from drowning, the sea-witch Ursula recognizes an opportunity to tempt the naive girl and overthrow the kingdom at the same time.
8) Help!
Publisher
Capitol Records
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Ringo possesses a sacrificial ring, which he cannot remove from his finger. As a result, the Beatles are chased from London to the Austrian Alps to the Bahamas by religious cult members, a mad scientists and the London police.
9) On the town
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
Sailors, Gabie, Chip , and Ozzie, have a 24-hour leave in New York. Chip wants to sightsee, but the only sights Gabie and Ozzie are interested in are of the female variety.
10) Mary Poppins
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
A beloved classic shines like never before with an all-new digital restoration. Winner of five Academy Awards, including best actress (Julie Andrews), best song (Chim Chim Cher-ee), and best visual effects. Mary Poppins flies out of the windy London skies and into the home of two mischievous children. With the help of a carefree chimney sweep named Bert (Dick Van Dyke), the spirited nanny turns every chore into a game, and every day into a 'Jolly...
11) Yesterday
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jack Malik was just another struggling songwriter... but that was yesterday. After a mysterious blackout, Jack discovers he is the only person on earth who remembers The Beatles! As he rockets to fame by passing off the Fab Four's songs as his own, Jack risks losing Ellie--the one person who has loved him and believed in him from the start. Before the door to his old life closes forever, Jack must decide if all he needs is love, after all.
12) Brigadoon
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Two Americans stumble upon a Scottish village which comes to life for only one day a century. One of the men falls in love with a townswoman, and has to decide where his heart lies.
13) Show boat
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
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Description
Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
14) The jazz singer
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Jakie Rabinowitz is the son of a Jewish cantor. Turning his back on family tradition, Jakie transforms himself into cabaret-entertainer Jack Robin. When Jack comes home to visit his parents, he is warmly greeted by his mother, but is given the cold-shoulder by his father, who feels that Jack is a traitor to his heritage by singing jazz music. On the eve of his biggest show business triumph, Jack receives word that his father is dying. Out of respect,...
15) Carousel
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Billy Bigelow , a smooth-talking carny man, falls in love with a millworker. Tragedy strikes these star-crossed lovers and their journey is not easy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1164
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York2s 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band's incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy Warhol's...
18) White Christmas
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Two song-and-dance men team up in show business after the war. Joining forces with a sister act, they trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. The real adventure starts when Crosby and Kaye discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble.
19) Pitch perfect
Publisher
Universal Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Arriving at her new college, Beca finds herself not right for any clique but somehow is muscled into one that she never would have picked on her own: alongside mean girls, sweet girls and weird girls whose only thing in common is how good they sound when they sing together. When Beca leads this a cappella singing group out of their traditional arrangements and perfect harmonies into all-new mash-ups, they fight to climb their way to the top of college...
20) Pirate radio
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A rogue band of DJs captivate Britain in the 1960s. The music they play defines a generation and the DJs stand up to a government that, incomprehensibly, preferred jazz. The Count is a big, brash, American god of the airwaves; Quentin is the boss of Radio Rock. Radio rock is a pirate radio station situated in the middle of the North Atlantic that's populated by an eclectic crew of rock and roll DJs that include: Gavin, the greatest DJ in Britain who...
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