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AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals

Index AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals is a list of the top musicals in American cinema. [1]

64 relations: A Star Is Born (1954 film), AFI 100 Years... series, All That Jazz (film), American Film Institute, An American in Paris (film), Beauty and the Beast (1991 film), Cabaret (1972 film), Chicago (2002 film), Cinema of the United States, Columbia Pictures, Funny Girl (film), Grease (film), Guys and Dolls (film), Hollywood Bowl, Mary Poppins (film), Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Miramax, Monogram Pictures, Moulin Rouge!, Musical film, My Fair Lady (film), On the Town (film), Paramount Pictures, RKO Pictures, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Show Boat (1936 film), Singin' in the Rain, The Band Wagon, The King and I (1956 film), The Sound of Music (film), The Wizard of Oz (1939 film), Top Hat, United Artists, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures, Warner Bros., West Side Story (film), Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1933 in film, 1935 in film, 1936 in film, 1939 in film, 1942 in film, 1944 in film, 1949 in film, 1951 in film, 1952 in film, 1953 in film, 1954 in film, ..., 1955 in film, 1956 in film, 1961 in film, 1964 in film, 1965 in film, 1968 in film, 1972 in film, 1978 in film, 1979 in film, 1991 in film, 2001 in film, 2002 in film, 20th Century Fox, 42nd Street (film). Expand index (14 more) »

A Star Is Born (1954 film)

A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical film written by Moss Hart, starring Judy Garland and James Mason, and directed by George Cukor.

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AFI 100 Years... series

The AFI's 100 Years… series is a series of lists and accompanying CBS television specials from 1998 through 2008 in which the American Film Institute celebrated 100 years of the greatest films in American cinema.

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All That Jazz (film)

All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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An American in Paris (film)

An American in Paris is a 1951 American musical film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition An American in Paris by George Gershwin.

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Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)

Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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Cabaret (1972 film)

Cabaret is a 1972 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York, and Joel Grey.

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Chicago (2002 film)

Chicago is a 2002 American musical crime comedy-drama film based on the stage-musical of the same name, exploring the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age.

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Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, often metonymously referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on the film industry in general since the early 20th century.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Funny Girl (film)

Funny Girl is a 1968 American biographical romantic musical comedy-drama film directed by William Wyler.

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Grease (film)

Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film based on the musical of the same name.

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Guys and Dolls (film)

Guys and Dolls is a 1955 musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine.

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Hollywood Bowl

The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheater in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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Mary Poppins (film)

Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical-fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers.

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Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Miramax

Miramax (also known as Miramax Films) is an American entertainment company known for producing and distributing films and television shows.

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Monogram Pictures

Monogram Pictures Corporation is a Hollywood studio that produced and released films, mostly on low budgets, between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.

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Moulin Rouge!

Moulin Rouge! (from) is a 2001 Australian-American jukebox musical romantic comedy film directed, co-produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann.

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Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

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My Fair Lady (film)

My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical film adapted from the Lerner and Loewe eponymous stage musical based on the 1913 stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.

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On the Town (film)

On the Town is a 1949 Technicolor musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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RKO Pictures

RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company.

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a 1954 musical film, photographed in Ansco Color in the CinemaScope format.

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Show Boat (1936 film)

Show Boat is a 1936 romantic musical film directed by James Whale, based on the musical of the same name by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, which in turn was adapted from the novel of the same name by Edna Ferber.

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Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical-romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds.

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The Band Wagon

The Band Wagon is a 1953 American musical-comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse.

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The King and I (1956 film)

The King and I is a 1956 American musical film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck.

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The Sound of Music (film)

The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn and Eleanor Parker.

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The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Top Hat

Top Hat is a 1935 American screwball musical comedy film in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton).

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures, Inc. is an American film studio and a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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West Side Story (film)

West Side Story is a 1961 American romantic musical tragedy film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.

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Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 American biographical musical film about George M. Cohan, known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway".

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1933 in film

The following is an overview of 1933 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1935 in film

The cinema releases of 1935 were highly representative of the early Golden Age period of Hollywood.

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1936 in film

The following is an overview of 1936 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1939 in film

The year 1939 in film is widely considered the most outstanding one ever, when it comes to the high quality and high attendance at the large set of the best films that premiered in the year (considered as a percentage of the population in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom at that time).

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1942 in film

The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Casablanca.

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1944 in film

The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning Going My Way plus popular murder mysteries such as Double Indemnity, Gaslight and Laura.

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1949 in film

The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.

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1951 in film

The year 1951 in film involved some significant events.

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1952 in film

The year 1952 in film involved some significant events.

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1953 in film

The year 1953 in film involved some significant events.

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1954 in film

The year 1954 in film involved some significant events and memorable ones.

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1955 in film

The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.

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1956 in film

The following is an overview of 1956 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1961 in film

The year 1961 in film involved some significant events, with West Side Story winning 10 Academy Awards.

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1964 in film

The year 1964 in film involved some significant events, including two highly successful musical films, My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins.

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1965 in film

The year 1965 in film involved some significant events, with The Sound of Music topping the U.S. box office.

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1968 in film

The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.

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1972 in film

The year 1972 in film involved several significant cinematic events including the release of Francis Ford Coppola's Academy Award-winning film, The Godfather.

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1978 in film

The year 1978 in film involved some significant events.

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1979 in film

The year 1979 in film involved many significant events.

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1991 in film

The year 1991 in film involved some significant events.

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2001 in film

The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series, the first of The Fast and the Furious franchise, the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the first of the Ocean's Trilogy, and the first of the Shrek franchise.

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2002 in film

The year 2002 in film saw the release of significant sequels take place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Stuart Little 2 and Blade II.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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42nd Street (film)

42nd Street is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film, directed by Lloyd Bacon.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI's_Greatest_Movie_Musicals

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