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Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en...

The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical....

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to...

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new...

There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the box office — ahead of Gable and...

A biography of Darryl F. Zanuck, mogul and the power behind 20th Century Fox throughout the Golden Age.

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...

In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.

The first half century of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation from its beginnings under Hungarian immigrant William Fox to it emergence as a major...

A two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s.

A biography of the Portuguese-born Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda, whose most distinctive feature was her tutti-frutti hat. From her arrival in the...

Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who...

Shanghai nightclub singer Jean falls in love to a sailor, but after his ship left Shanghai, he is of the opinion that he cannot support her in the...

Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their...

Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.

Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.

This is a two-hour in-depth exploration into the Hollywood musicals of the 1940s.