That Midnight Kiss (1949)

Actors: Arthur Treacher (actor), Dewey Robinson (actor), Lee Phelps (actor), Al Thompson (actor), J. Carrol Naish (actor), Edward Gargan (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Thomas Gomez (actor), Charles Smith (actor), Dore Schary (actor), Richard Lane (actor), Gregg Barton (actor), Edward Earle (actor), George Meader (actor), Wilson Wood (actor),

Plot: In Philadelphia, the soprano Prudence Budell returns from Europe after a period of five years training in the best Europeans music schools. Her millionaire grandmother Abigail Trent Budell sponsors an opera company under the command of the famous maestro Jose Iturbi to give a chance to Prudence to lead an opera. They hire the also famous tenor Guido Russino Betelli, but Prudence does not feel comfortable with him on the stage. When Prudence accidentally sees the American-Italian truck driver Johnny Donnetti singing opera, she convinces Jose Iturbi to give a chance to Johnny. They fall in love for each other, but when Prudence visits his work to tell that he will be hired, she meets Mary and she believes Johnny is in love of his colleague.

Keywords: opera-singer, tenor, truck-driver
Genres: Musical, Romance,
Taglines: The biggest kiss in movie history!

Quotes:

Abigail Trent Budell: Every opera singer should fall in love with her tenor, or composer, or baritone, or conductor. I'm glad it's a tenor. We could use one.

Three Daring Daughters (1948)

Actors: Brick Sullivan (actor), Virginia Brissac (actress), Dick Simmons (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), Ian Wolfe (actor), Harold Miller (actor), Leon Belasco (actor), Harry Davenport (actor), William Forrest (actor), Thurston Hall (actor), Wheaton Chambers (actor), Edward Peil Sr. (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Jack 'Tiny' Lipson (actor), Elinor Donahue (actress),

Plot: It's Tess' graduation day from "Miss Drakes School for Girls". During the choir's performance at the ceremony, Tess notices that her beautiful, divorcee mother, Louise Rayton Morgan isn't there. Louise, an editor for Modern Design Publication, is lying in Dr. Cannon's office from fainting due to being over-worked and stressed-out. At home after the graduation ceremony, Dr. Cannon has a talk with Louise's three daughters, Tess, Ilka and Alix. He tells them that their mother needs a vacation badly, but, the only way she can relax is if she goes without the girls. The girls agree, but, Louise is reluctant, but goes. The girls see their mother off on her one month Cuban cruise. When the girls get home they discuss their mother, and believe if they bring their father back home it will make their mom happy and healthy again. In reality, Louise has kept the truth about their father from them. Their father was actually a very uncaring man, who left them and left Louise to raise the girls on her own. The girls go to see their father's boss, Robert Nelson to locate their father and bring him home. Meanwhile on Louise's Cuban cruise, she meets famed pianist and conductor, Jose Iturbi. Jose is immediately taken by Louise, but she plays hard to get, but has the time of her life. When Louise finally returns home, she has a secret to tell the girls, but, the girls have a secret too..

Keywords: family-relationships, remake
Genres: Musical, Romance,
Taglines: A star-packed array of music and mirth!

Holiday in Mexico (1946)

Actors: Xavier Cugat (actor), Olaf Hytten (actor), William Hall (actor), King Baggot (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Joe Dominguez (actor), Hugo Haas (actor), Lew Davis (actor), Fidel Castro (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Paul Bradley (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Leon Belasco (actor), Roddy McDowall (actor), Chris-Pin Martin (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Musical,

Anchors Aweigh (1945)

Actors: Lester Dorr (actor), Joe Dominguez (actor), Leon Ames (actor), Joseph E. Bernard (actor), Steve Brodie (actor), Frank Darien (actor), Harry Barris (actor), Henry Armetta (actor), James Carlisle (actor), Wally Cassell (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), James Burke (actor), Bobby Barber (actor), Ralph Dunn (actor),

Plot: Two sailors, one naive, the other experienced in the ways of the world, on liberty in Los Angeles, is the setting for this movie musical.

Keywords: 1940s, admiral, animated-sequence, audition, aunt-nephew-relationship, brooklyn-new-york-city, buddy, cafe, california, cartoon-reality-crossover
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: On waves of song . . . laughter and romance ! Two love-lost sailors on a four-day leave of fun and frivolity ! On waves of song, laughter and romance! It's a 21-Gun Musical Salute in Technicolor!

Quotes:

Clarence Doolittle: What makes the sunset? What makes the moon rise? Is it my love for you?

Joseph Brady: 1, 2, 3, 4.::Jerry Mouse: 1, 2, 3, 4.::Joseph Brady: 1, 2, 3.::Jerry Mouse: 1, 2, 3.::Joseph Brady: La-la-la-la-la-la.::Jerry Mouse: La-la-la-la-la-la.::Joseph Brady: You see.::Jerry Mouse: It's easy.

Jerry Mouse: Look at me, I'm dancing.

Clarence Doolittle: She begged me, true?::Joseph Brady: True, true!::Clarence Doolittle: She pleaded.::Joseph Brady: Got down on her bended knees.

Clarence Doolittle: I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast.

Joseph Brady: Lola, baby... Forgotten you? Aw, honey, with the picture of you I've got in my mind, why even across the phone I can see every...

Susan Abbott: From the heart of a lonely poet, came a song for the girl he adored. 'Tho she tried very hard not to show it, she was terribly, terribly bored.

[at Donald's school]::Donald Martin: [to Joe] Tell us how you got your medal.::Joseph Brady: Alright, I'll tell you how I got my medal. Now close your eyes... and try to think of the most beautiful place you've ever with greenest grass and the singingest birds and the shiningest sun.::[Cut to Donald's thoughts]::Joseph Brady: Can you see it?::Kids: Yeah!::Joseph Brady: Good! Now imagine me walking along, happy as a lark. Can you see me?::Kids: Yeah!::Joseph Brady: Good! Of course, back then in the navy we wore white suits with blue stripes and little white hat with a little red ball on top. Oh, I was so happy I ran and leaped and played, just for the fun of it! My, it felt good! Oh, it was such a wonderful, wonderful day! When all of a sudden I stepped into a big hole and fell, right to the bottom of it! I seemed to be in a long tunnel. 'Way ahead I could see light, so I started towards. At the end I found myself in a strange land! It looked... well, it looked just like page out of story books. And everything was hushed and still, like your room at night after you've gone to sleep.

Clarence Doolittle: You saved my life, so you owe me something.::Joseph Brady: Oh, it was I who saved your life, so now I owe *you* something! Hey look, have you gone crazy?::Clarence Doolittle: Look, I didn't ask you to save my life, but you did. So now I feel you are responsible for me.::Joseph Brady: Well I don't!::Clarence Doolittle: Well, what's the good of having a life saved when you can't have any fun with it?

Susan Abbott: [sings] Jealousy, you constantly torture me / I sometimes wonder that this spell I'm under / Can only be a melody for I know no one but me has won your heart.

Music for Millions (1944)

Actors: Sam Finn (actor), Jimmy Durante (actor), Al Ferguson (actor), Harry Burns (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), George M. Carleton (actor), Wally Cassell (actor), Willie Best (actor), Dick Crockett (actor), Frank Darien (actor), Harry Davenport (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), Robert Dudley (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Byron Foulger (actor),

Plot: "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the draft. As the orchestra travels around the country, Babs' fellow orchestra members intercept and hide her War Office telegram, to protect the baby.

Keywords: all-girl-orchestra, baby-born, birth, childbirth, deception, discovering-one-is-pregnant, female-bonding, friendship-between-women, giving-birth, home-front
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music,
Taglines: Warm, Tender Romance! Deep, Lasting Faith!

Thousands Cheer (1943)

Actors: Edmund Mortimer (actor), James Millican (actor), Gene Kelly (actor), Frank Morgan (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Wally Cassell (actor), Sig Arno (actor), Frank Jenks (actor), John Boles (actor), Myron Healey (actor), Ben Blue (actor), Sayre Dearing (actor), Jack Gargan (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Henry O'Neill (actor),

Plot: Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.

Keywords: acrobat, army-base, barber, circus, clown, concert, court-martial, dance, dancer, doctor
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance,

Quotes:

Private Eddie Marsh: From now on I only kiss women I know.

Hyllary Jones: Trapeze? Are Eddie's parents acrobats?::Kathryn Jones: Aerialists! And I love him!

Frank Morgan: Just checking your pulse. Hmmm... very irregular. Rapid, too!::Lucille Ball: You have your fingers on my wristwatch.

Private Eddie Marsh: There's so much to say.::Kathryn Jones: Don't say anything. Just come back.

Private Eddie Marsh: They call me "The King of the High Trapeze"

Hyllary Jones: Hello, Bill.::Colonel Bill Jones: How are you, Hyllary?