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Legendary producer Pandro S. Berman acquired this sell out Broadway success and turned it into a hit motion picture starring Fred Astaire and not one but two of the greatest stage and screen dancers Irene Dunne and Ginger Rogers.

The magic of 1920's Paris is the backdrop as the City of Lights illuminates this film and also brings us the first great rendition of "Smoke Get's In Your Eyes". A template for future great Hollywood musicals. This is the third screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

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Flo Zeigfeld's midway attraction isn't drawing flies. "How's business, Ziggy?" a rival taunts. This winner of 3 Academy Awards including Best Picture provides the career-chronicling answer. Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

's business was good (with Broadway's legendary Follies and more), bad (including times the showman could scarcely rub two nickels together) and rarely lacking optimistic excess.

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Legendary crooner Bing Crosby sings and dances his way through this charming and delightful story of a wanderer who drifts into the lives and hearts of the residents of the small town of Middletown, New Jersey.

Featuring music and lyrics by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston, including the classics "So Do I", "Pennies from Heaven" (Academy Award nominee for Best Music/Song), "Skeleton in the Closet" and "Let's Call a Heart a Heart". With incredible supporting performances by the amazing Louis Armstrong, the beautiful Madge Evans and the talented Edith Fellows, 'Pennies from Heaven' is one of the crown jewels from the golden age of Hollywood when real stars weren't only found in the heavens... and a fistful of pennies still went a long way.

Fred Astaire stars with Paulette Goddard in this 1940 musical romantic comedy. The plot features rival trumpet players vying for the attentions of the same girl. The classic jazz soundtrack is provided by Artie Shaw and his band who play themselves in the film.

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At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission.

In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers - Blake's own brother among them.

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Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour star in the musical classic set around the time of the Civil War. Dan finds himself caught between his love for two women as he tries to turn his talent for song writing into a livelihood. In New Orleans he teams up with the accordion-playing huckster Mr Bones.

Together they try to persuade the theatres to take them on without much luck. Eventually, a card game leads to a compromise and the local Opera House grudgingly allows them onstage. The rousing Dixie is performed to an appreciative audience, while backstage a fire burns, and love rages.

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The rich are generally different. But in matters of the heart, they’re just as scatterbrained as the rest of us.

Heiress Tracy Lord (Grace Kelly) is engaged to one man (John Lund) attracted to another (Frank Sinatra) and, just maybe, in love again with her ex-husband (Bing Crosby) in this effervescent musical reinvention of Philip Barry’s play The Philadelphia Story featuring an endlessly delightful Cole Porter score. Among High Society’s high points: Sinatra and Celeste Holm ask Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Crosby and Kelly share True Love, Der Bingle and Ol’ Blue Eyes swing-swing-swingle Well, Did You Evah? And Crosby and Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong jive with Now You Has Jazz.

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In his film debut, singing idol Elvis Presley stars in this action-filled romance set in the aftermath of the Civil War. After hearing his older brother (Richard Egan) has been killed in combat, a young Texas farmer (Presley) marries the man's sweetheart (Debra Paget).

But his brother returns, sparking a bitter sibling rivalry and tragic confrontations with Union soldiers.

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Adapted from the classic novel by Charles Dickens, 'The Personal History of David Copperfield' brings to life one of the author's most cherished characters.

From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield (Dev Patel) is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all.

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In the Academy Award-nominated classic, Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire join forces, lending their song and dance talents to the timeless musical.

When a fashion magazine mogul (Kay Thompson) and her head photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) scout out a bookstore for their next photo shoot, Dick discovers the unique face of bookseller and amateur philosopher Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn). Whisked off to Paris, Jo is soon transformed into a global supermodel...and finds herself falling for the photographer who first noticed her sunny, funny face.

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The Bachelor is Dick Nugent (Cary Grant), a sophisticated and debonair artist - no wonder Bobby-Soxer Susan Turner (Shirley Temple) develops such a crush on him. It doesn't matter to her that she's just seventeen and he's in his forties...

When Susan is found in Dick studio after hours, he's hauled before the judge - who just happens to be Susan's older sister Margaret (Myrna Loy). Although convinced that Dick is blameless, Margaret devises an inventive punishment - he has to take Susan out on 'dates' until her infatuation fades. But how long will that take...?

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You'd think chilled borscht pulses in her veins. She's Nina Yoshenka (Cyd Charisse), a lovely yet severe Soviet envoy sent to Paris to rescue wayward comrades from the perils of champagne and capitalism. But there may be a thaw in Nina's Cold War.

She meets Steve Canfield (Fred Astaire), a smoothly brash American who won't take 'nyet' for an answer.

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"Expresso Bongo" takes the lid off the seedier side of showbiz! Cliff Richard plays Bongo Herbert, a young singer, playing for peanuts in Soho's sleazy clubs with its striptease snows, clip joints and teenage dens.

He becomes an overnight success when taken up by wide boy showbiz agent Johnny (a brilliant performance from Laurence Harvey) but at what price? Cliff's first role is packed with punch and the great soundtrack includes the hit single Voice in the Wilderness and I've Never had It So Good. His co-stars include Yolande Donlan, as man-crazy American singer Dixie Collins and Sylvia Syms cast against type as a dancer in a strip show.

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Fred and Ginger bring all their magic and artistry to this delightful romantic comedy. A lawyer sends his girlfriend, who cannot decide whether to marry him, to a psychiatrist to help her increase her confidence.

However, she falls hopelessly in love with the charming psychiatrist who is uncertain of his best course of action. Ginger is nothing short of stunning in this beautifully engaging musical.

While in the care of her gruff, overly protective aunt, an adorable tyke with singing and dancing abilities (Shirley Temple) catches the eye of a talent scout. Soon, the gifted youngster is sought after for the big-rime, but can she convince her aunt to let her star shine?