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DOWNLOAD PDFCast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
Directors: Gene Kelly|57646||Stanley Donen|141911
Producer: Arthur Freed|15901
Writer: Adolph Green|7584||Betty Comden|20352
Editor: Adrienne Fazan|7719
Cinematographer: Harold Rosson|66106
Genre: Musical comedy
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Composer: Lennie Hayton
Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn
Directors: Robert Wise|132871||Jerome Robbins|81687
Producer: Robert Wise|132871
Writer: Ernest Lehman|48610
Editor: Thomas Stanford|146614
Cinematographer: Daniel L. Fapp|35525
Genre: Drama, Musical
Production Company: Beta Productions, The Mirisch Company, Inc., Seven Arts Productions, Inc., B & P Enterprises, Inc.
Composer: Leonard Bernstein
Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
Directors: Victor Fleming|150912||King Vidor|94180
Producer: Mervyn LeRoy|111088
Writer: Noel Langley|118020||Florence Ryerson|51700||Edgar Allan Woolf|43800||Noel Langley|118020
Editor: Blanche Sewell|22291
Cinematographer: Harold Rosson|66106
Genre: Fantasy, Musical
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker
Directors: Robert Wise|132871
Producer: Robert Wise|132871
Writer: Ernest Lehman|48610
Editor: William Reynolds|156300||Larry Allen|95449
Cinematographer: Ted McCord|144800
Genre: Drama, Musical
Production Company: Argyle Enterprises, Inc., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
Directors: Bob Fosse|22625
Producer: Martin Baum|214355||Cy Feuer|34518
Writer: Jay Allen|218210
Editor: David Bretherton|36200
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth|58045
Genre: Drama, Musical
Production Company: ABC Pictures Corp.
Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson
Directors: Robert Stevenson|108426
Writer: Bill Walsh|921385||Don Da Gradi|879993
Editor: Cotton Warburton|180198
Cinematographer: Edward Colman|282975
Genre: Children's works, Musical comedy
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions
Cast: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson
Directors: George Cukor|123059
Producer: Sidney Luft|421935
Writer: Moss Hart|933016
Editor: Folmer Blangsted|173326
Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt|300412||Winton Hoch|301748||Harry Stradling|301759
Genre: Melodrama, Musical
Production Company: Transcona Enterprises
Composer: Ray Heindorf
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway
Directors: George Cukor|58446
Producer: Jack L. Warner|76481
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner|8980
Editor: William Ziegler|156662
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling|67250
Genre: Musical comedy
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
Directors: Vincente Minnelli|151450
Producer: Arthur Freed|15901
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner|8980
Editor: Adrienne Fazan|7719||William LeVanway|155964
Cinematographer: Alfred Gilks|10466
Genre: Musical, Romance
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Composer: Johnny Green
Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor
Directors: Vincente Minnelli|151450
Producer: Arthur Freed|15901
Writer: Irving Brecher|73259||Fred F. Finklehoffe|55547
Editor: Albert Akst|9030
Cinematographer: George Folsey|58601
Genre: Musical
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Composer: George Stoll
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno
Directors: Walter Lang|153485
Producer: Charles Brackett|29073
Writer: Ernest Lehman|48610
Editor: Robert Simpson|132623
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy|97555
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
Cast: Taye Diggs, Cliff Saunders, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Directors: Rob Marshall|183389
Producer: Martin Richards|184378||Craig Zadan|184379||Neil Meron|184380||Sam Crothers|184381||Bob Weinstein|174487||Dan Gallagher|185450||Michael Milton|186579
Writer: Bill Condon|184377
Editor: Martin Walsh|184387
Cinematographer: Dion Beebe|184385||Peter Benison|123729||Michael Kohnhorst|186179||James Chressanthis|186309||Jens Sturup|186319
Genre: Musical comedy
Production Company: Producer Circle Co.
Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent
Directors: Lloyd Bacon|99867
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck|35873
Writer: Rian James|129416||James Seymour|78196
Editor: Frank Ware|54171||Thomas Pratt|146586
Cinematographer: Sol Polito|141255
Genre: Musical
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Cast: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking
Directors: Bob Fosse|22625
Producer: Robert Alan Aurthur|132937||Daniel Melnick|226284
Writer: Robert Alan Aurthur|132937||Bob Fosse|22625
Editor: Alan Heim|8793
Cinematographer: Giuseppe Rotunno|62040||Dick DiBona|317445
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical comedy
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox , Columbia Pictures
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
Directors: Mark Sandrich|107481
Writer: Dwight Taylor|41879||Allan Scott|11280||Dwight Taylor|41879||Karl Noti|92127
Editor: William Hamilton|155729
Cinematographer: David Abel|36118
Genre: Musical, Romantic comedy
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Composer: Max Steiner
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford
Directors: William Wyler|156648
Producer: Ray Stark|128003
Writer: Isobel Lennart|73656
Editor: Maury Winetrobe|110007||William Sands|156350
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling|67250
Genre: Biography, Musical
Production Company: Rastar Productions, Inc.
Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant
Directors: Vincente Minnelli|151450
Producer: Arthur Freed|15901
Writer: Betty Comden|20352||Adolph Green|7584
Editor: Albert Akst|9030||George White|59633
Cinematographer: Harry Jackson|66842||George Folsey|58601
Genre: Musical comedy
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Composer: Adolph Deutsch
Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
Directors: Michael Curtiz|117442
Producer: Jack L. Warner|419457||Hal B. Wallis|419458
Writer: Robert Buckner|929995||Edmund Joseph|929996
Editor: George Amy|184605
Cinematographer: James Wong Howe|278087||Sol Polito|268721
Genre: Biography, Musical
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Composer: Leo F. Forbstein
Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett
Directors: Gene Kelly|57646||Stanley Donen|141911
Producer: Arthur Freed|15901
Writer: Adolph Green|7584||Betty Comden|20352
Editor: Ralph E. Winters|127275
Cinematographer: Harold Rosson|66106||Harry Stradling|67250
Genre: Musical comedy, Romance
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Composer: Lennie Hayton
Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing
Directors: Randal Kleiser|130866
Producer: Robert Stigwood|428332||Allan Carr|428333
Writer: Bronté Woodard|938298||Allan Carr|938299
Editor: John F. Burnett|190936
Cinematographer: Bill Butler|309623
Genre: Musical comedy
Production Company: Allan Carr Enterprises, Inc., Stigwood Group, Ltd.
Composer: Charles Fox
Cast: Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn
Directors: Stanley Donen|141911
Producer: Jack Cummings|75340
Writer: Albert Hackett|9163||Frances Goodrich|52307||Dorothy Kingsley|40995
Editor: Ralph E. Winters|127275
Cinematographer: George Folsey|58601
Genre: Musical comedy, Romance
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Composer: Gene de Paul
Cast: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White
Directors: Gary Trousdale|234419||Kirk Wise|234420
Producer: Don Hahn|229828||Howard Ashman|223756
Editor: John Carnochan|237985
Genre: Musical
Production Company: Walt Disney Pictures , Silver Screen Partners IV
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra
Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz|89920
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn|138284
Writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz|89920
Editor: Daniel Mandell|35426
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling|67250
Genre: Musical, Romantic comedy
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp., Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc.
Cast: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger
Directors: James Whale|78327
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.|26765
Writer: Billie Burke|21743
Editor: Ted J. Kent|144939||Bernard W. Burton|19557||Maurice Pivar|109846
Cinematographer: John Mescall|86460
Genre: Comedy-drama
Production Company: Universal Productions, Inc.
Composer: Victor Baravalle
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo
Directors: Baz Luhrmann|173616
Producer: Martin Brown|107922||Baz Luhrmann|173616||Fred Baron|173986
Writer: Baz Luhrmann|173616||Craig Pearce|173994
Editor: Jill Bilcock|173991
Cinematographer: Donald M. McAlpine|173993||Steve Dobson|176903
Genre: Musical, Romance
Production Company: Bazmark Films
1. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)
Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
Directors: Gene Kelly|57646||Stanley Donen|141911
Producer: Arthur Freed|15901
Writer: Adolph Green|7584||Betty Comden|20352
Editor: Adrienne Fazan|7719
Cinematographer: Harold Rosson|66106
Composer: Lennie Hayton
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
2. WEST SIDE STORY (1961)
Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn
Directors: Robert Wise|132871||Jerome Robbins|81687
Producer: Robert Wise|132871
Writer: Ernest Lehman|48610
Editor: Thomas Stanford|146614
Cinematographer: Daniel L. Fapp|35525
Composer: Leonard Bernstein
Production Company: Beta Productions, The Mirisch Company, Inc., Seven Arts Productions, Inc., B & P Enterprises, Inc.
3. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
Directors: Victor Fleming|150912||King Vidor|94180
Producer: Mervyn LeRoy|111088
Writer: Noel Langley|118020||Florence Ryerson|51700||Edgar Allan Woolf|43800||Noel Langley|118020
Editor: Blanche Sewell|22291
Cinematographer: Harold Rosson|66106
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
4. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)
Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker
Directors: Robert Wise|132871
Producer: Robert Wise|132871
Writer: Ernest Lehman|48610
Editor: William Reynolds|156300||Larry Allen|95449
Cinematographer: Ted McCord|144800
Production Company: Argyle Enterprises, Inc., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
5. CABARET (1972)
Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
Directors: Bob Fosse|22625
Producer: Martin Baum|214355||Cy Feuer|34518
Writer: Jay Allen|218210
Editor: David Bretherton|36200
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth|58045
Production Company: ABC Pictures Corp.
6. MARY POPPINS (1964)
Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson
Directors: Robert Stevenson|108426
Writer: Bill Walsh|921385||Don Da Gradi|879993
Editor: Cotton Warburton|180198
Cinematographer: Edward Colman|282975
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions
7. A STAR IS BORN (1954)
Cast: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson
Directors: George Cukor|123059
Producer: Sidney Luft|421935
Writer: Moss Hart|933016
Editor: Folmer Blangsted|173326
Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt|300412||Winton Hoch|301748||Harry Stradling|301759
Composer: Ray Heindorf
Production Company: Transcona Enterprises
8. MY FAIR LADY (1964)
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway
Directors: George Cukor|58446
Producer: Jack L. Warner|76481
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner|8980
Editor: William Ziegler|156662
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling|67250
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
9. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)
Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
Directors: Vincente Minnelli|151450
Producer: Arthur Freed|15901
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner|8980
Editor: Adrienne Fazan|7719||William LeVanway|155964
Cinematographer: Alfred Gilks|10466
Composer: Johnny Green
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
10. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1945)
Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor
Directors: Vincente Minnelli|151450
Producer: Arthur Freed|15901
Writer: Irving Brecher|73259||Fred F. Finklehoffe|55547
Editor: Albert Akst|9030
Cinematographer: George Folsey|58601
Composer: George Stoll
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
11. THE KING AND I (1956)
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno
Directors: Walter Lang|153485
Producer: Charles Brackett|29073
Writer: Ernest Lehman|48610
Editor: Robert Simpson|132623
Cinematographer: Leon Shamroy|97555
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
12. CHICAGO (2002)
Cast: Taye Diggs, Cliff Saunders, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Directors: Rob Marshall|183389
Producer: Martin Richards|184378||Craig Zadan|184379||Neil Meron|184380||Sam Crothers|184381||Bob Weinstein|174487||Dan Gallagher|185450||Michael Milton|186579
Writer: Bill Condon|184377
Editor: Martin Walsh|184387
Cinematographer: Dion Beebe|184385||Peter Benison|123729||Michael Kohnhorst|186179||James Chressanthis|186309||Jens Sturup|186319
Production Company: Producer Circle Co.
13. 42ND STREET (1933)
Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent
Directors: Lloyd Bacon|99867
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck|35873
Writer: Rian James|129416||James Seymour|78196
Editor: Frank Ware|54171||Thomas Pratt|146586
Cinematographer: Sol Polito|141255
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
14. ALL THAT JAZZ (1979)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking
Directors: Bob Fosse|22625
Producer: Robert Alan Aurthur|132937||Daniel Melnick|226284
Writer: Robert Alan Aurthur|132937||Bob Fosse|22625
Editor: Alan Heim|8793
Cinematographer: Giuseppe Rotunno|62040||Dick DiBona|317445
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox , Columbia Pictures
15. TOP HAT (1935)
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
Directors: Mark Sandrich|107481
Writer: Dwight Taylor|41879||Allan Scott|11280||Dwight Taylor|41879||Karl Noti|92127
Editor: William Hamilton|155729
Cinematographer: David Abel|36118
Composer: Max Steiner
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
16. FUNNY GIRL (1968)
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford
Directors: William Wyler|156648
Producer: Ray Stark|128003
Writer: Isobel Lennart|73656
Editor: Maury Winetrobe|110007||William Sands|156350
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling|67250
Production Company: Rastar Productions, Inc.
17. THE BAND WAGON (1953)
Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant
Directors: Vincente Minnelli|151450
Producer: Arthur Freed|15901
Writer: Betty Comden|20352||Adolph Green|7584
Editor: Albert Akst|9030||George White|59633
Cinematographer: Harry Jackson|66842||George Folsey|58601
Composer: Adolph Deutsch
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
18. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)
Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
Directors: Michael Curtiz|117442
Producer: Jack L. Warner|419457||Hal B. Wallis|419458
Writer: Robert Buckner|929995||Edmund Joseph|929996
Editor: George Amy|184605
Cinematographer: James Wong Howe|278087||Sol Polito|268721
Composer: Leo F. Forbstein
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
19. ON THE TOWN (1949)
Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett
Directors: Gene Kelly|57646||Stanley Donen|141911
Producer: Arthur Freed|15901
Writer: Adolph Green|7584||Betty Comden|20352
Editor: Ralph E. Winters|127275
Cinematographer: Harold Rosson|66106||Harry Stradling|67250
Composer: Lennie Hayton
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
20. GREASE (1978)
Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing
Directors: Randal Kleiser|130866
Producer: Robert Stigwood|428332||Allan Carr|428333
Writer: Bronté Woodard|938298||Allan Carr|938299
Editor: John F. Burnett|190936
Cinematographer: Bill Butler|309623
Composer: Charles Fox
Production Company: Allan Carr Enterprises, Inc., Stigwood Group, Ltd.
21. SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (1954)
Cast: Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn
Directors: Stanley Donen|141911
Producer: Jack Cummings|75340
Writer: Albert Hackett|9163||Frances Goodrich|52307||Dorothy Kingsley|40995
Editor: Ralph E. Winters|127275
Cinematographer: George Folsey|58601
Composer: Gene de Paul
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
22. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1991)
Cast: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White
Directors: Gary Trousdale|234419||Kirk Wise|234420
Producer: Don Hahn|229828||Howard Ashman|223756
Editor: John Carnochan|237985
Production Company: Walt Disney Pictures , Silver Screen Partners IV
23. GUYS AND DOLLS (1955)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra
Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz|89920
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn|138284
Writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz|89920
Editor: Daniel Mandell|35426
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling|67250
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp., Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc.
24. SHOW BOAT (1936)
Cast: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger
Directors: James Whale|78327
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.|26765
Writer: Billie Burke|21743
Editor: Ted J. Kent|144939||Bernard W. Burton|19557||Maurice Pivar|109846
Cinematographer: John Mescall|86460
Composer: Victor Baravalle
Production Company: Universal Productions, Inc.
25. MOULIN ROUGE! (2001)
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo
Directors: Baz Luhrmann|173616
Producer: Martin Brown|107922||Baz Luhrmann|173616||Fred Baron|173986
Writer: Baz Luhrmann|173616||Craig Pearce|173994
Editor: Jill Bilcock|173991
Cinematographer: Donald M. McAlpine|173993||Steve Dobson|176903
Production Company: Bazmark Films
