Author Archive: Retro

In Horne’s film debut, she plays a woman who gets her big break but must choose between love and fame. A great look at the black entertainment industry in 1938. A young Lena Horne shines in her performance as Ethel, a singer who makes her way to the ‘big time’.

College students create a fictional, “perfect” student, which interests the psychology professor, who wants to meet her. Songs include “I’ve Heard that Song Before”, “You’re So Good to Me”, “If It’s Love” “Man”, “You Got to Study, Buddy”. Dir. Albert S. Rogell

Two circus aerialists have a disagreement, with one fighting to keep her lover out of the hands of a scheming woman. Songs include, “Do You Think That I Could Grow on You?”, “It Must Be Love”, “Shoo the Hoodoo Away”, “There’s Happiness Over the Hill”, “With My Guitar and You”. Dir. Joseph Santley

Paderewski’s talents are showcased as stranded plane crash victims are affected by his art.

Portrays Foster as a shy bookkeeper who writes songs in his spare time, and is in love with a pretentious singer whose sister eventually becomes his muse and inspiration. Includes the Foster staples: “My Old Kentucky Home”, “Swanee River”, “Camptown Races”, “Oh! Susannah”, “The Old Folks at Home”, “A Ribbon in Your Hair”, & “I Still See Her in My Dreams” Dir. Allan Dwan

A singer (Frances Langford) from Kansas City lives in a theatrical boardinghouse near Broadway.

Poor gardener poses as the wealthy financial backer of a new music revue at the Moulin Rouge. Songs include “Can This Be Love?”, “I Love a Circus”, “I’m All Aglow Again” & more. Dir. Leslie Goodwins

A sailor (Tommy Wonder) falls for a beautiful dancer (Doris Dowling) after going AWOL.

An argument between a serviceman and his girlfriend is patched up with the aid of a well-known radio program.