The best Gene Nelson’s movies

Gene Nelson

Gene Nelson

24/03/1920- 16/09/1996
Today we present the best Gene Nelson’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Gene Nelson’s movies.
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Oklahoma!

Oklahoma!
7/10
This joyous celebration of frontier life combines tender romance and violent passion in the Oklahoma Territory of the 1900s with a timeless score filled with unforgettable songs. Rodgers and Hammerstein's hit Broadway musical.

Crime Wave

Crime Wave
7.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 22/10/1953
  • Character: Steve Lacey
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.

This Is the Army

This Is the Army
5.8/10
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

S.O.B.

S.O.B.
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/07/1981
  • Character: Clive Lytell
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.

Thunder Island

Thunder Island
5.2/10
A hit man hijacks a boat — and the married couple aboard — in order to carry out a contract on a dictator in the Caribbean.

Tea for Two

Tea for Two
6.5/10
In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she can invest the money in a Broadway show featuring songs written by her beau, and of course, in which she will star. Trouble is, she doesn't realize her uncle's been wiped out by the Stock Market crash.

Starlift

Starlift
5.8/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 14/12/1951
  • Character: Gene Nelson
To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.

Painting The Clouds With Sunshine

Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
5.9/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 10/10/1951
  • Character: Ted
The story of three gold-digging ladies searching for millionaires. A loose remake of Gold Diggers of 1933.

Timeslip

Timeslip
5.6/10
An atomic scientist is found floating in a river with a bullet in his back and a radioactive halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead of us in time. He teams up with a reporter to stop his evil double from destroying his experiments in artificial tungsten.

Apartment for Peggy

Apartment for Peggy
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/09/1948
  • Character: Jerry (uncredited)
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.

The Walls of Jericho

The Walls of Jericho
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/11/1948
  • Character: Legal Assistant
After County Attorney Dave Connors helps Julian Norman with her shiftless father, Jefferson Norman, she leaves Jericho, Kansas to college to study for a law degree.A few years later, Algeria Wedge, the new bride of Dave's best friend, Tucker Wedge, makes overtures and plays for Dave, much to the displeasure of Dave's hard-drinking wife Belle. Angered by Dave's rebuffs, Algeria induces the state political boss to back Tucker for a Congress race against Dave. Meanwhile, Julia has returned to Jericho, with her law degree, and she and Dave fall in love.

Three Sailors and a Girl

Three Sailors and a Girl
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/11/1953
  • Character: Twitch
A group of sailors invest in a musical revue.

Everything Happens at Night

Everything Happens at Night
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 22/12/1939
  • Character: Skater
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.

The West Point Story

The West Point Story
6.2/10
A Broadway director helps the West Point cadets put on a show, aided by two lovely ladies and assorted complications.

Second Fiddle

Second Fiddle
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/06/1939
  • Character: Minor Role
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

Dial 999

Dial 999
5.8/10
A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for the murder. The wife and her brother hide him and try to find out who the real killer was. The more they investigate, the more holes they begin to find in the husband's story.

Lullaby of Broadway

Lullaby of Broadway
6.7/10
Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. She doesn't know that her mother is actually a burnt-out cabaret singer with a love for whiskey. When she arrives at the mansion, she is taken in by the two servants who are friends of her mother's. The house actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell, a kind-hearted Broadway producer who also gets drawn into the charade. Hubbell takes a shine to Melinda and agrees to star her in his next show. Melinda also finds romance with a handsome hoofer who's also in the show. All is going well for Melinda except that she wants to see her mother who keeps putting off their reunion.

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 30/03/1950
  • Character: Doug Martin
An Irish horsecar driver's daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
6.6/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 31/07/1947
  • Character: Tommy Yale
A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's

She's Working Her Way Through College

She's Working Her Way Through College
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 09/07/1952
  • Character: Don Weston
Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor's wife. Angela helps breath life into the annual school stage show...but someone has discovered her secret past.

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