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Film Sites
The Films Of Alfred Hitchcock
Those Golden Movie Musicals
Bing & Bob Hit The Road
The Road To Riches: The "Road" Pictures
Andy Hardy Movies
Red Ryder Serials
About MGM Musicals



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Quotes
Here's lookin' at you, kid...
--Bogie! (Casablanca)


Today (today...today...) I consider myself (myself...myself...) to be the luckiest man (man...man...) on the face of the earth.
--Lou Gehrig's famous speech echoes throughout the ballpark, as spoken by Gary Cooper (The Pride Of The Yankees)
Read about it!


A toast....to my big brother George, the richest man in town.
--Harry Bailey's eloquent toast (It's A Wonderful Life)


Let's put on a show!
--Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and friends
----- Movie Moments
*When post office employees bring sacks of mail into the courtroom for Mr. Kringle, we have no choice but to BELIEVE! (Miracle On 34th Street)


*The pat-a-cake bit that helped Bing Crosby and Bob Hope escape almost every tight spot they got into (The "Road" Pictures)



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Cool Sites
Mickey & Judy
W. R. Hearst & "Citizen Kane"
Remembering "It's A Wonderful Life"



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My YouTube Playlist


1940s Movies


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1940s Movies

1940
Fantasia
The Philadelphia Story
His Girl Friday
Rebecca
The Grapes Of Wrath
Kitty Foyle
Road To Singapore
Strike Up The Band
Pinocchio
Broadway Melody Of 1940





1941
Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
Dumbo
How Green Was My Valley
Meet John Doe
Buck Privates
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Babes On Broadway
The Little Foxes


1942
Casablanca
Bambi
The Magnificent Ambersons
Mrs. Miniver
The Pride Of The Yankees
Holiday Inn
Road To Morocco
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Sullivan's Travels
Woman Of The Year





1943
Song Of Bernadette
Phantom Of The Opera
Lassie Come Home
Cabin In The Sky
Girl Crazy
Du Barry Was A Lady
My Friend Flicka
The Ox-Bow Incident


1944
Arsenic & Old Lace
Double Indemnity
Laura
To Have & Have Not
Meet Me In St. Louis
Jane Eyre
The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek
Going My Way
National Velvet
Since You Went Away
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

1945
Spellbound
The Lost Weekend
Mildred Pierce
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
The Bells Of St. Mary's
Anchors Aweigh
State Fair
God Is My Co-Pilot


1946
It's A Wonderful Life
The Big Sleep
The Best Years Of Our Lives
Song Of The South
Great Expectations
Ziegfeld Follies
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Harvey Girls
Road To Utopia


1947
Miracle On 34th Street
Dark Passage
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
The Bachelor & The Bobby-Soxer
The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty
Road To Rio
Life With Father
The Farmer's Daughter





1948
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Rope
Key Largo
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
The Red Shoes
Hamlet
A Date With Judy
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Easter Parade


1949
The Third Man
Adam's Rib
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
On The Town
The Fountainhead
The Heiress
I Was A Male War Bride
Little Women
The Inspector General
Samson & Delilah
Twelve O'Clock High





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Movie & Broadway MIDIs


Look To The Rainbow
Finian's Rainbow

Look To The Rainbow Dance
Finian's Rainbow

When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love
Finian's Rainbow

South Pacific Medley
South Pacific

-----How Are Things In Glocca Morra?
Finian's Rainbow

Something Sort Of Grandish
Finian's Rainbow

Kansas City
Oklahoma!


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On Stage


popular stage productions

musicals & revues
Porgy & Bess
Annie Get Your Gun
Kiss Me Kate
Cabin In The Sky
Brigadoon
Carousel
Finian's Rainbow
Pal Joey
Panama Hattie
Oklahoma!
Lady In The Dark
South Pacific
Allegro
Where's Charley?
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Bloomer Girl
This Is The Army
High Button Shoes
Let's Face It
Hellzapoppin'
Carmen Jones
Beggar's Holiday


drama & comedy
Arsenic & Old Lace
My Sister Eileen
Charley's Aunt
Othello
Born Yesterday
Harvey
The Glass Menagerie



theater links
Stage Musicals Of The 1940s
Tony Award Archives
Internet Broadway Database
Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization



Ethel Merman in
Annie Get Your Gun



my YouTube playlist


1940s Stage Productions



stage tidbits
*This Is The Army was a Broadway musical extravaganza written by Irving Berlin. The cast consisted of actual servicemen who were professional entertainers in their civilian lives. The show was a big hit and raised millions of dollars for army charities. Following the Broadway engagement, it toured the United States and several foreign countries, and was also made into a film.



*Oklahoma! was revolutionary in many ways. Not only did it set the style for a new generation of stage musicals, but it was one of the first shows to truly integrate the plot, songs and dances. Unlike past musicals, the story didn't stop when the lead characters began to sing. The songs and dances actually contributed to and advanced the storyline.

*The Oklahoma! original cast album was the first to record the songs exactly as they were heard on stage.

*The first Tony Awards were given out in 1947.






Og's pot of gold grants an accidental wish, resulting in unusual circumstances for Senator Rawkins in Finian's Rainbow.




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