The best Stuart Holmes’s music movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Stuart Holmes’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 Stuart Holmes.
Singin' in the Rain
8.3/10
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
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.
A Song to Remember
6.6/10
Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
Varsity Show
6.1/10
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
Kid Nightingale
5.7/10
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
Swingtime in the Movies
5.7/10
In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.
Garden of the Moon
5.7/10
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.
Remains to Be Seen
6.2/10
A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
Show Girl in Hollywood
6.1/10
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
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.
Naughty But Nice
6.1/10
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.
Melody For Two
6.2/10
A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
Romance Road
4.7/10
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant must mediate a land rights dispute between an advancing railroad construction gang and French Canadian trappers in the rugged Northwest Territory of Canada.
Vaudeville Days
5.4/10
A narrator provides very brief info on the beginnings and history of Vaudeville while Vaudeville acts are staged by impersonators and contemporary performers.
