The best Frank Morgan’s music movies

Frank Morgan

Frank Morgan

01/06/1890- 18/09/1949
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That's Entertainment!

That's Entertainment!
7.8/10
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

Balalaika

Balalaika
6.2/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 15/12/1939
  • Character: Ivan Danchenoff
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.

Naughty Marietta

Naughty Marietta
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 29/03/1935
  • Character: Gov. Gaspar d'Annard
A French princess in Colonial America gets involved with a mercenary.

The Great Ziegfeld

The Great Ziegfeld
6.6/10
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.

Broadway Serenade

Broadway Serenade
5.7/10
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.

Summer Holiday

Summer Holiday
5.7/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 15/04/1948
  • Character: Uncle Sid
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the girl next-door, Muriel, but her father isn't too happy with their puppy-love, since Richard always share his revolutionary ideas with her.

Thousands Cheer

Thousands Cheer
6.2/10
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.

Sweethearts

Sweethearts
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 30/12/1938
  • Character: Felix Lehman
Bickering husband-and-wife stage stars are manipulated into a break-up for publicity purposes.

Broadway Melody of 1940

Broadway Melody of 1940
7.3/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 09/02/1940
  • Character: Bob Casey
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.

Queen High

Queen High
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 23/08/1930
  • Character: Mr. Nettleton
The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he proposes that instead the two of them play a single poker hand: the loser to become the winner's personal manservant for a year.

Dancing Pirate

Dancing Pirate
5.1/10
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.

Yolanda and the Thief

Yolanda and the Thief
5.9/10
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to her guardian angel for help in managing her tangled business affairs. Riggs decides to materialize as the girl's "angel", gains her unquestioning confidence, and helps himself to the deluded girl's millions. Just as he and his partner are about to flee Patria with their booty, Riggs realizes he has fallen in love with the girl and returns the money, together with a note that is part confession and part love letter. But the larcenous duo's escape from Patria turns out to be more difficult than they could ever have imagined.

Rosalie

Rosalie
6/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 24/12/1937
  • Character: King Fredrick Romanikov
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

Hallelujah I'm a Bum

Hallelujah I'm a Bum
6.9/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 03/02/1933
  • Character: Mayor John Hastings
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt

Broadway to Hollywood

Broadway to Hollywood
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 15/09/1933
  • Character: Ted Hackett
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.

The Cat and the Fiddle

The Cat and the Fiddle
6.4/10
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.

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