The best Richard Tucker’s music movies

Richard Tucker

Richard Tucker

04/06/1884- 05/12/1942
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Richard Tucker’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Richard Tucker.
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The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 06/10/1927
  • Character: Harry Lee
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.

Road to Singapore

Road to Singapore
6.6/10
Bing Crosby an Bob Hope star in the first of the 'Road to' movies as two playboys trying to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...

Shall We Dance

Shall We Dance
7.4/10
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.

Peacock Alley

Peacock Alley
4.5/10
Claire Tree is a singer/dancer who goes after what she wants in a straight-forward, no-nonsense manner, so when she finds herself in the New York City hotel-suite, in fashionable Peacock Alley, of Stoddard Channing, she wastes no time.

Show Folks

Show Folks
5.4/10
Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault of stage managers, agents, musicians...everybody but himself. Eddie likes to tell others how good he is, but seldom shows them. Kitty Mayo, an old-time burlesque queen, who is with the McNary Vaudeville Company, advises Eddie to get himself a partner, as his solo abilities can only be stretched so far. He decides to follow her advice and, while in a theatrical supply shop, he sees Rita Carey rehearsing her dancing act that includes a trained duck. Eddie tells Rita he is a good friend of McNary's, and, with him as her partner, her future in show business will be secured. She agrees to join him and Eddie promptly names the act "Eddie Kehoe and Partner". Despite his conceit, Rita likes Eddie, as do others in the troupe, including Cleo a little gold-digger.

The Great Victor Herbert

The Great Victor Herbert
5.6/10
  • Genre: MusicRomance
  • Release: 29/12/1939
  • Character: Michael Brown
In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of Herbert's life story is incorporated in the screenplay (a closing title actually apologizes for the film's paucity of cold hard facts); instead, the writers allow the famed composer's works to speak for themselves. In the tradition of one of his own operettas, Herbert spends most of his time patching up the shaky marriage between tenor John Ramsey (Allan Jones) and Louise Hall (Mary Martin). Many of Herbert's most famous compositions are well in evidence, including "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life", "March of the Toys" and "Kiss Me Again", the latter performed con brio by teenaged coloratura Susanna Foster. Evidently, the producers were able to secure the film rights for the Herbert songs, but not for the stage productions in which they appeared, which may explain such bizarre interpolations as having a song from Naughty Marietta.

Safety in Numbers

Safety in Numbers
5.3/10
Before handing over a large inheritance, a guardian hires three chorus girls to educate his charge about the "underside" of big-city life.

The Girl Said No

The Girl Said No
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 18/09/1937
  • Character: Charles Dillon
Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He schemes to get her back after she rejects him; and along the way, he revives a failing Gilbert and Sullivan troupe.

Puttin' on the Ritz

Puttin' on the Ritz
5.6/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 01/03/1930
  • Character: Fenway Brooks
A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.

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