BFI's 100 Film Musicals
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"From the coming of sound to the 1960s, the musical was central to Hollywood production. Exhibiting – often in spectacular fashion – the remarkable resources of the Hollywood studios, musicals came to epitomise the very idea of 'light entertainment'. Films like Top Hat and 42nd Street, Meet Me in St. Louis and On the Town, Singin' in the Rain and Oklahoma!, West Side Story and The Sound of Music were hugely popular, yet were commonly regarded by cultural commentators as trivial and escapist. It was the 1970s before serious study of the Hollywood musical began to change critical attitudes and foster an interest in musical films produced in other cultures. Hollywood musicals have become less common, but the genre persists and both academic interest in and fond nostalgia for the musical shows no signs of abating.
100 Film Musicals provides a stimulating overview of the genre's development, its major themes and the critical debates it has provoked. While centred on the dominant Hollywood tradition, 100 Film Musicals includes films from countries that often tried to emulate the Hollywood style, like Britain and Germany, as well as from very different cultures like India, Egypt and Japan. Jim Hillier and Douglas Pye also discuss post-1960s films from many different sources which adapt and reflect on the conventions of the genre, including recent examples such as Moulin Rouge! and High School Musical, demonstrating that the genre is still very much alive."
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Original Cast Album: Company
1970, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Littlest Rebel
1935, in 1 top list Check -
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One Hour with You
1932, in 6 top lists Check -
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Stormy Weather
1943, in 4 top lists Check -
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Applause
1929, in 4 top lists Check -
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Sing As We Go!
1934, in 3 top lists Check -
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937, in 25 top lists Check -
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One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937, in 3 top lists Check -
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Der Kongreß tanzt
1931 — a.k.a. Congress Dances, in 5 top lists Check -
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A Hard Day's Night
1964, in 18 top lists Check -
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Come on George!
1939, in 1 top list Check -
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The Jazz Singer
1927, in 6 top lists Check -
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42nd Street
1933, in 12 top lists Check -
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Flying Down to Rio
1933, in 2 top lists Check -
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True Stories
1986, in 3 top lists Check -
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953, in 11 top lists Check -
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Le million
1931 — a.k.a. Le Million, in 8 top lists Check -
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Les parapluies de Cherbourg
1964 — a.k.a. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, in 18 top lists Check -
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Janken musume
1955 — a.k.a. So Young, So Bright, in 1 top list Check -
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Zouzou
1934, in 1 top list Check -
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Summer Holiday
1948, in 1 top list Check -
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Evergreen
1934, in 2 top lists Check -
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Little Shop of Horrors
1986, in 3 top lists Check -
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You and Me
1938, in 3 top lists Check -
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Golden Eighties
1986, in 1 top list Check -
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Jailhouse Rock
1957, in 4 top lists Check -
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Afritah Hanem
1949 — a.k.a. Little Miss Devil, in 1 top list Check -
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Car Wash
1976, in 2 top lists Check -
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Gold Diggers of 1933
1933, in 11 top lists Check -
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Cabin in the Sky
1943, in 3 top lists Check -
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High School Musical
2006, in 1 top list Check -
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On the Town
1949, in 10 top lists Check -
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The Girl Can't Help It
1956, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Merry Widow
1934, in 4 top lists Check -
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Holiday Inn
1942, in 1 top list Check -
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975, in 13 top lists Check -
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Viktor und Viktoria
1933 — a.k.a. Victor and Victoria, in 2 top lists Check -
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Calamity Jane
1953, in 3 top lists Check -
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It's Always Fair Weather
1955, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Pajama Game
1957, in 3 top lists Check -
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Top Hat
1935, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Pirate
1948, in 3 top lists Check -
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Wizard of Oz
1939, in 37 top lists Check -
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Easter Parade
1948, in 1 top list Check -
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Funny Face
1957, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Harder They Come
1972, in 7 top lists Check -
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Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 top lists Check -
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Swing Time
1936, in 13 top lists Check -
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Footlight Parade
1933, in 5 top lists Check
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