Make Mine Music is a collection of animated musical segments, each with its own unique story and style. From a hillbilly feud to a love-struck couple, the film takes viewers on a journey through various musical genres and settings.
Melody Time is an animated anthology film released in 1948. It includes various music and comedy segments, featuring characters such as Jose Carioca, Donald Duck, and pioneers. The film combines hand-drawn animation with songs, poems, and stories set to music. It takes the viewers on a journey through different time periods and locations, from a samba dance in Brazil to the Wild West. Melody Time is a classic example of traditional animation and showcases the talent of Disney's animated canon.
Abbott and Costello mistakenly enlist in the navy and become involved in a series of comedic mishaps. Along the way, they encounter hula dancers, a gambler, and navigate the challenges of military life.
See America's funniest comedy team in rare movie trailers, hilarious highlights, belly-busting bloopers, and scenes from their starring feature films, all the way from first (Buck privates) to last (Dance With Me Henry). After early success in burlesque and radio, they made their movie debut with supporting roles in One Night in the Tropics and got top billing in their very next film, becoming the nation's #1 boxoffice draw of the '40s. The Andrews Sisters, Dick Powell, Shemp Howard, Martha Raye, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Dorsey, Lucille Ball and Marjorie Main co-star in films like In the Navy, Rio Rita, In Society, Little Giant, and Mexican Hayride. They also go to Hollywood and Venus (not Mars), and meet Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, the Wolf Man, Boris Karloff, the Invisible Man, Captain Kidd, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Keystone Kops, and the Mummy.
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
During World War II, the Hollywood Canteen provides entertainment for soldiers on leave, with musical performances, dancing, and famous stars. A soldier falls for a pretty girl and tries to win her over with the help of his friends. They face various obstacles but end up finding love in the end.
Private Buckaroo is a comedy musical film set during World War II. It follows the story of a group of draftees who join the army and find themselves facing various challenges, including a strict drill sergeant. The film also features musical numbers and showcases the talents of a dance team. Throughout the movie, the characters navigate through the turmoil of army life while dealing with personal relationships and the impact of the war.
A love affair blossoms between two pairs of shoes after a couple purchases the shoes.
The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a few students from a financially foundering dance school for their newest production. One of the dancers, a rich young socialite, desperately wants to be in it too, but her prurient maiden aunts refuse to allow her to disgrace their family by becoming a common chorine. She and the club owner (who must have the aunt's permission because the girl is underage) try to convince them, but it's not easy.
Buck Privates is a comedy film released in 1941, starring the famous comedy duo Abbott and Costello. The story revolves around two vaudevillians, Bud and Lou, who accidentally enlist in the U.S. Army and find themselves causing havoc in basic training. Their antics include boxing matches, dance contests, and romantic rivalries. The film is set in the pre-World War II era and showcases the transformation of the two main characters as they navigate military life.
Walt Disney animation animated cartoon musical compilation ("The BIG Parade of MIRTH and MELODY"; "Offering hits re-released from 'Make Mine Music' and 'Melody Time'"; featuring cartoons from the 1946 musical, "Make Mine Music," and the 1948 musical "Melody Time") featuring Donald Duck, Joe Carioca, and other Disney cartoon characters, and also songs by Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Frances Langford, Roy Rogers and Trigger, The Andrews Sisters (Laverne, Maxene, and Patty Andrews), Freddy Martin and his orchestra, Sons of the Pioneers, Jerry Colonna, and Ethel Smith
The Andrews Sisters harmonize their way through yet another 60-minute Universal musical quickie. The plot this time concerns a Lonely Hearts club which is used as a front by con artist Colonel Winchester (Charles Butterworth). Trying to promote a phony formula for synthetic rubber, Winchester gets mixed up with diligent young DA Tony Warren (Patric Knowles) and lady detective Linda Marlowe (Grace McDonald).
In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.
The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era ranchers. That they are so good at running it proves terrible surprise for a ranch hand who has just returned home after serving in the Navy.
Former Disney child star Hayley Mills returns to the Walt Disney Studio for a look at the techniques of animated film production, with various veteran Disney animators illustrating said techniques.
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings. Ken Murray, assisted by the Brewer Twins, is the MC, while the Andrews Sisters sing "In Apple Blossom Time" and the pre-"Uncle Miltie" Milton Berle plays his clarinet. The rest of the players, with contract-player faces belonging to 20th-Century Fox, RKO Radio, Universal and Columbia, just pass through. Production Number 3851.
American Movie Classics produced this original salute to those celebrities who worked to improve the morale of the soldiers in World War II. Hosted by Tony Randall the one hour presentation included many clips from the news, USO shows, Armed Forces Radio, US Savings Bonds and more.
A song publisher gets sued for stealing lyrics.
Little Toot is a baby tugboat who would rather play than help his father in New York harbor. When he does finally decide to help, he accidentally causes a major crash and is banished beyond the 12 mile limit. But when a storm comes up and strands an ocean liner, he's the only one that can get there, and he redeems himself.