The best Harry James’s movies

Harry James

Harry James

15/03/1916- 05/07/1983
Today we present the best Harry James’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 Harry James’s movies.
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Bathing Beauty

Bathing Beauty
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 27/06/1944
  • Character: Harry James
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.

How to Marry a Millionaire

How to Marry a Millionaire
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 29/10/1953
  • Character: Radio Trumpeter (uncredited)
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

That's Entertainment, Part II

That's Entertainment, Part II
7.3/10
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

The Opposite Sex

The Opposite Sex
6.1/10
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back.

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.

The Ladies Man

The Ladies Man
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/06/1961
  • Character: Harry James
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?

Syncopation

Syncopation
6.3/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 22/05/1942
  • Character: Harry James
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

The Sting II

The Sting II
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 18/02/1983
  • Character: Band Leader
Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of taking dives for Gondorf. There is a ringer. Lonigan, their victim from the first movie, is setting them up to take the fall.

Two Girls and a Sailor

Two Girls and a Sailor
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/06/1944
  • Character: Harry James
A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him.

Private Buckaroo

Private Buckaroo
5.9/10
The film tells the story of army recruits following basic training, with the Andrew Sisters attending USO dances. The film is a mixture of comedy and songs.

This Is Bob Hope...

This Is Bob Hope...
7.9/10
During his career, Bob Hope was the only performer to achieve top-rated success in every form of mass entertainment. American Masters explores the entertainer’s life through his personal archives and clips from his classic films.

Swing Fever

Swing Fever
5.9/10
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

Too Many Girls

Too Many Girls
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 08/10/1940
  • Character: Orchestra Leader
Mr Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.

Hollywood Hotel

Hollywood Hotel
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicRomance
  • Release: 20/12/1937
  • Character: Benny Goodman Trumpeter (uncredited)
Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band has won a talent contest an got a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But this lady doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use for Mona a double, Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as singing waiter in a drive in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for an leading actor in a musical.

On Our Merry Way

On Our Merry Way
5.7/10
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?

The Benny Goodman Story

The Benny Goodman Story
6.7/10
Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band.

Best Foot Forward

Best Foot Forward
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 08/10/1943
  • Character: Himself
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.

Outlaw Queen

Outlaw Queen
5.9/10
Christina, the daughter of a Greek-immigrant family who does not share their belief that a woman's place is with her husband at the fireside, is a trick-shot artist. With her Uncle Jim, a strolling troubadour, and his sidekick Andy, a mandolin player, heads west to make her fortune.

The Shining Future

The Shining Future
6.3/10
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.

Do You Love Me

Do You Love Me
6.3/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 17/05/1946
  • Character: Barry Clayton
Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes a friend's advice, removes her glasses, and puts on a designer gown. Naturally, she becomes gorgeous. Soon, both Barry and crooner Jimmy Hale are after her, and she finds herself in the midst of triangles and misunderstandings.

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