The best Gordon MacRae’s music movies

Gordon MacRae

Gordon MacRae

12/03/1921- 24/01/1986
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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.

Carousel

Carousel
6.6/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 16/02/1956
  • Character: Billy Bigelow
Billy Bigelow has been dead for 15 years. Now outside the pearly gates, he long ago waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. He has heard that there is a problem with his family: namely with his wife Julie Bigelow, née Jordan, and his child he hasn't met. He would now like to head back to Earth to assist in rectifying the problem; but before he may go, he has to get permission from the gatekeeper by telling him his story. Adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein hit Broadway musical.

On Moonlight Bay

On Moonlight Bay
6.9/10
The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time. His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president

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: Gordon MacRae
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.

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

By the Light of the Silvery Moon
7/10
Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.

The Desert Song

The Desert Song
6.2/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 30/05/1953
  • Character: El Khobar / Paul Bonnard
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.

The Best Things in Life Are Free

The Best Things in Life Are Free
5.9/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 28/09/1956
  • Character: B.G. 'Buddy' De Sylva
Director Michael Curtiz' 1956 showbiz musical, about the careers of the early-20th-century songwriting trio DeSylva, Brown and Henderson, stars Dan Dailey, Gordon MacRae, Ernest Borgnine, Sheree North, Tommy Noonan, Larry Keating, Murvyn Vye, Jacques D'Amboise and Phyllis Avery.

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.

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

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

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