The best Leo White’s music movies

Leo White

Leo White

10/11/1873- 20/09/1948
Today we present the best Leo White’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 Leo White’s movies.

City for Conquest

City for Conquest
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaMusic
  • Release: 21/09/1940
  • Character: Dance Contest Observer (uncredited)
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?

Gold Diggers of 1935

Gold Diggers of 1935
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 15/03/1935
  • Character: Clerk Selling Perfume (uncredited)
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.

Kid Nightingale

Kid Nightingale
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 03/11/1939
  • Character: Creditor with Mustache / Fight Crowd Extra (uncredited)
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.

Talent Scout

Talent Scout
5.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMusicRomance
  • Release: 24/07/1937
  • Character: Extra in Studio Lunchroom (uncredited)
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

Naughty But Nice

Naughty But Nice
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 23/06/1939
  • Character: Extra in Courtroom (uncredited)
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.

Gentlemen Are Born

Gentlemen Are Born
6.3/10
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.

The Hard Way

The Hard Way
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaMusicRomance
  • Release: 13/01/1943
  • Character: Graduation Photographer (Uncredited)
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

Gold Diggers in Paris

Gold Diggers in Paris
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusicRomance
  • Release: 11/06/1938
  • Character: Padrinsky's Pianist (uncredited)
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.

The Singing Kid

The Singing Kid
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 10/04/1936
  • Character: Man Wearing Top Hat (uncredited)
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.

Hollywood Wonderland

Hollywood Wonderland
5.4/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 09/08/1947
  • Character: Sketch Artist Taking Tour / Gypsy (the latter a clip from "Gypsy Sweetheart", 1935) (uncredited)
Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.

The Big Show-Off

The Big Show-Off
5.6/10
A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order to impress a pretty nightclub singer (Dale Evans).

Vaudeville Days

Vaudeville Days
5.4/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryMusic
  • Release: 19/12/1942
  • Character: Stage Manager (uncredited)
A narrator provides very brief info on the beginnings and history of Vaudeville while Vaudeville acts are staged by impersonators and contemporary performers.

The Captain's Kid

The Captain's Kid
6.2/10
In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.

Broadway to Hollywood

Broadway to Hollywood
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 15/09/1933
  • Character: Joe Weber
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.

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 11/08/1937
  • Character: Violinist (uncredited)
A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.

Call of the Flesh

Call of the Flesh
5.5/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 16/08/1930
  • Character: Impressario's Assistant (uncredited)
A student nun falls in love with a Mexican singer starring in a cafe next door to her convent.

Quiet, Please

Quiet, Please
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 01/07/1939
  • Character: Make-Up Man (uncredited)
A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production.

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