Movies: Ruby Keeler

A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her....

A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event....

A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show....

An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters....

A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star....

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression....

Profile of famed dance director Busby Berkeley's career, in particular "The Gang's All Here"...

A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA....

Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees...

Gene Kelly is a legend of the heyday of the Hollywood musical. His name stands for masterpieces such as "Singin' in the Rain" and "An American in Paris". As a singer, dancer, actor, choreographer and director, he was a true all-round artist who revol...

Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races....

Short documentary about the Great Depression's impact on film, specifically Berkeley musicals....

An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it....

A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s....

A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town....

Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment an...

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going....

A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film....

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences....

A rich young boy arranges to be kidnapped so he'll get more attention from his parents....