The best Raymond Walburn’s music movies
Today we present the best Raymond Walburn’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 Raymond Walburn’s movies.
Born to Dance
6.7/10
Ted meets and falls in love with Nora Paige, an aspiring Broadway dancer who tries out for a show starring Lucy James. After Ted rescues Lucy's pet dog during a public relations campaign on his submarine, Lucy falls for him. Ted is ordered to meet Lucy for a date at a night club, who later sees their picture in the newspaper and no longer wants anything to do with him.
The Great Ziegfeld
6.6/10
Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.
Broadway Melody of 1938
6.7/10
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purchases a horse, she used to train when her parents had a farm before the depression and with to ex-vaudevillians, Sonny Ledford and Peter Trott she trains it to win a race, providing the money Steve needs for his show.
Sweethearts
6.2/10
Bickering husband-and-wife stage stars are manipulated into a break-up for publicity purposes.
Start Cheering
6/10
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Thin Ice
6.3/10
Swiss hotel ski instructor (Henie) falls in love with a man (Power) who goes skiing every morning.
Red, Hot and Blue
6/10
A Broadway director (Victor Mature) rescues a starlet (Betty Hutton) from mobsters who blame her for a shooting.
Let Freedom Ring
6.3/10
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
Louisiana Purchase
6.1/10
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
High, Wide and Handsome
6.4/10
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they find themselves stranded. They're taken in by Mrs. Cortlandt and her grandson, Peter, who is trying to set up a pipeline that will supply oil throughout the state. Sally and Peter soon fall in love and marry. Neither their marriage nor Peter's pipe dreams flow too smoothly.
Music in Manhattan
5.9/10
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional gigs, something is missing from their act and they are not popular. Believing a little cash will boost their career, Frankie heads for Washington, D.C. to see if her wealthy father will help them. En route Frankie is mistaken for the wife of the well-known pilot Johnny Pearson and ends up in his suite having to pretend she is his spouse. When the pilot meets her, romantic sparks fly.
Dixie
6/10
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song "Dixie."
Thanks a Million
6.3/10
A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be replaced in doing his campaign speech by the troupe crooner, Eric Land, his political backers decide that they want him to run for Governor in the Judge's place. Romance, music, political corruption and the election results follow.
And the Angels Sing
6.2/10
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall is playing.
Affairs of Geraldine
6.2/10
When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine.
Let's Face It
6/10
A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three customers of the "fat farm" scheme to get back at their philandering husbands by hiring the soldier and two of his buddies as "escorts" for the weekend. Complications ensue when the husbands show up unexpectedly.
The King Steps Out
6.2/10
Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.
Breakfast in Hollywood
5.7/10
The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940's. This film features Tom Breneman, the radio show's host, as well as Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts, Billie Burke and Hedda Hopper. Musical performances are provided by Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, along with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
Redheads on Parade
7.2/10
A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him from withdrawing his support.
