The best Oscar Levant’s movies

Oscar Levant

Oscar Levant

27/12/1906- 14/08/1972
Today we present the best Oscar Levant’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 Oscar Levant’s movies.
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An American in Paris

An American in Paris
7.2/10
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

The Band Wagon

The Band Wagon
7.4/10
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

Humoresque

Humoresque
7.3/10
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

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.

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 Cobweb

The Cobweb
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/06/1955
  • Character: Mr. Capp
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.

Romance on the High Seas

Romance on the High Seas
7/10
Doris Day, in her film debut, plays Georgia Garrett, a singer sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.

Rhapsody in Blue

Rhapsody in Blue
7/10
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

The Barkleys of Broadway

The Barkleys of Broadway
7/10
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.

O. Henry's Full House

O. Henry's Full House
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/08/1952
  • Character: William Smith (segment "The Ransom of Red Chief")
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critic's acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".

Night Parade

Night Parade
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/10/1929
  • Character: Ann Pennington's Piano Accompanist
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensnare him.

The Fred Astaire Songbook

The Fred Astaire Songbook
8.2/10
A loving tribute to Astaire the singer, hosted by Audrey Hepburn.

Rhythm on the River

Rhythm on the River
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 28/08/1940
  • Character: Billy Starbuck
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.

Jack Paar: Smart Television

Jack Paar: Smart Television
7.4/10
PBS documentary examining the work of Jack Paar.

The I Don't Care Girl

The I Don't Care Girl
6.2/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 14/01/1953
  • Character: Charles Bennett
This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.

You Were Meant for Me

You Were Meant for Me
6.1/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 28/01/1948
  • Character: Oscar Hoffman
A bandleader falls in love and marries a small town girl.

The Dance of Life

The Dance of Life
6.8/10
A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to save money on the road, they get married. Soon their act begins to catch on, and they find themselves booked onto Broadway. They also realize that they actually are in love with each other, but just when things are starting to look up, the comic starts to let success go to his head.

Information Please: Series 1, No. 1

Information Please: Series 1, No. 1
5.4/10
  • Genre: Family
  • Release: 08/09/1939
  • Character: Himself - Panelist
Oscar nominated short from RKO Radio

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