The best Billie Burke’s music movies

Billie Burke

Billie Burke

07/08/1884- 15/05/1970
We present our ranking of the best Billie Burke’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Billie Burke.
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Pepe

Pepe
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 21/12/1960
  • Character: Billie Burke
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.

Small Town Girl

Small Town Girl
6.3/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 10/04/1953
  • Character: Mrs. Livingston
Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's daughter Cindy to let him leave for one night, so that he can visit Lisa on her birthday. After that he goes on the town with Cindy and she falls in love with him. But Dr. Schemmer wants his son to become her husband.

The Barkleys of Broadway

The Barkleys of Broadway
7/10
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.

That's Entertainment! III

That's Entertainment! III
7.5/10
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.

Everybody Sing

Everybody Sing
6.2/10
The story is about a bunch of eccentrics in a family that are intent on putting on a show and bursting into song numbers at the drop of a hat.

Hi Diddle Diddle

Hi Diddle Diddle
6.6/10
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.

So's Your Uncle

So's Your Uncle
6.1/10
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship.

Glorifying the American Girl

Glorifying the American Girl
5.7/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 07/12/1929
  • Character: Herself
The plot involves a young woman (Mary Eaton) who wants to be in the Follies, but in the meantime is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the latest hits. She is accompanied on piano by her childhood boyfriend (Edward Crandall), who is in love with her, despite her single-minded interest in her career. When a vaudeville performer (Dan Healy) asks her to join him as his new partner, she sees it as an opportunity to make her dream come true. Upon arriving in New York City, our heroine finds out that her new partner is only interested in sleeping with her and makes this a condition of making her a star. Soon, however, she is discovered by a representative of Ziegfeld.

Bridal Suite

Bridal Suite
5.6/10
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.

What's Cookin'?

What's Cookin'?
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 20/02/1942
  • Character: Agatha Courtney
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.

You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith

You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith
6/10
A young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to divorce him, she realizes that she actually loves him, and determines to find a way to keep him.

Breakfast in Hollywood

Breakfast in Hollywood
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 26/02/1946
  • Character: Mrs. Frances Cartwright
The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940's. This film features Tom Breneman, the radio show's host, as well as Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts, Billie Burke and Hedda Hopper. Musical performances are provided by Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, along with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.

Ziegfeld on Film

Ziegfeld on Film
5.7/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryMusic
  • Release: 07/11/2004
  • Character: Herself (archive footage)
A short documentary which features on the UK DVD release (2004) of the film The Great Ziegfeld (1936), which includes interviews with Ziegfeld's daughter Patricia, and one of the film's stars, Luise Rainer. They discuss Ziegfeld's life and the making of the movie respectively.

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