The best Gertrude Astor’s music movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Gertrude Astor’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Gertrude Astor.
The Sound of Music
8.1/10
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey becomes a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
San Francisco
7.2/10
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the big earthquake.
Daddy Long Legs
6.7/10
Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old residen, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, while still concealing his identity, and—despite their large age difference—they soon fall in love.
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
6.6/10
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and play the piano, and learns quickly. Soon she marries Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.
Music Man
6.9/10
Bickering brothers unwittingly wind up working together on the same musical production.
The Big Broadcast of 1938
6.1/10
The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.
Swingin' on a Rainbow
5.9/10
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
Be Yourself!
5.6/10
Ethnic comedy of a nightclub entertainer trying to train a boxer.
