Movies and TvShows featuring "hit-parade-song" theme.
A Marine Sergeant wounded in overseas combat service requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends that 'Sarge' be given a few weeks' rest before hospitalization. Through the Dean of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis. Meanwhile, the Teen-Agers are rehearsing a show and Freddie is worried because they have no band. Through a series of romantic entanglements, will they be able to put on the big show?
In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.
Ride 'Em Cowboy is a hilarious comedy about a singing cowboy who gets caught up in a series of adventures in the wild west. There's singing, chasing, rodeos, and plenty of confusion along the way. This movie will have you laughing from start to finish.
Arriving in Arizona, the band members discover that the hotel is haunted and that it properly belongs to young Jimmy Benson (Curtis), the nephew of the previous owner. The "ghosts," however, turns out to be a trio of confidence men, Zeke Winslow (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams), Noah Jones (Raymond Hatton) and Slim Jensen Victor Potel, who are hoping to buy the place themselves.
During World War II, a courageous soldier finds himself stranded in the desert of Libya after a devastating battle. With limited supplies and dire straits, he must fight to stay alive and make his way back to safety.
Till the End of Time is a drama/romance film set in post-World War II America. It follows the story of a war veteran who battles with PTSD and tries to adjust to civilian life while dealing with a domineering mother. The film explores themes of reprisal, retribution, and the challenges faced by veterans returning from war.
Posing as unemployed musicians, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys, are being helped by Ted Gibson owner of the Harmony Inn in San Antonio, Texas. Gibson is impoverished because he keeps buying his kleptomaniac Uncle Zeke out of trouble, supports his Ma, and Grandpa. He wants to marry Jean Wallace, and doesn't know that Acuff and his musicians are traveling incognito for the radio show "Who Am I Helping?" If he guesses their identity, he wins $100,000.
The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks and have taken up truck-farming.
A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down.
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
Caroline Bird, the crotchety and stingy owner of Bird Milk Products, is not amused when her employees at the Dairyville factory, the oldest plant in the company, broadcast a special radio program in honor of her birthday. Employees Lulubelle, Scotty and Vera Vague, fed up with the terrible working conditions at Dairyville, cut into the broadcast, and Lulubelle asserts that Caroline is a "big hunk of cheese." Lane, the factory manager, cannot find the culprit, and so Caroline goes with her secretary, Dale Evans, to Dairyville.
In Juke Girl, a young woman named Lola struggles to survive in a world of deception and violence. She finds herself caught in a web of deceit and must navigate through the ruthlessness of those around her. Set in the 1940s, the film explores themes of desperation, greed, and the struggle for vindication. As Lola fights to overcome false accusations and wrongful arrest, she faces immense trauma and turmoil. Along the way, she encounters various obstacles and engages in gambling and singing as a means of survival. Juke Girl is a gripping tale of survival and determination.
Soldier Johnny Grey is engaged to marry singer Mapy Cortes, but his plans go awry when he learns that he is the heir to $100,000 from his great-grandfather -- a bequest that comes with a catch: before claiming the money, Johnny must marry a descendant of his great-grandfather's Civil War enemy, General Havelock-Allen. Not wanting to disrupt his planned marriage to Mapy, Johnny must figure out how to concoct a temporary marriage-of-convenience with the descendant -- who turns out to be the beautiful Terry Havelock-Allen.
Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes a friend's advice, removes her glasses, and puts on a designer gown. Naturally, she becomes gorgeous. Soon, both Barry and crooner Jimmy Hale are after her, and she finds herself in the midst of triangles and misunderstandings.
A Hollywood talent agency tries to avoid finacial ruin by getting its best clients on the air.
100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.
National DJs help a promoter make an unknown girl a star, to prove the power of radio over TV.
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.
Liza Lee, fast-talking press agent for Al Jarvis, persuades Jarvis to stage a Musical Mystery Contest, with a $5000 prize to the person who can first name the most musical numbers and their performers. Lots of musicians perform.
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.