Film Musicals

[beanzontoast]

High Society is my all-time favourite. I can't remember how old I was when I first saw it, but the singing, the storyline and the acting just entranced me and my appreciation of it hasn't changed down the years.

Watched it again this afternoon after a morning out walking (first time watching it for a couple of years). Flopped on the settee, big cup of coffee, ration of a couple of rather nice chocolate biscuits still hanging around from Christmas...

Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly.

Magical.

 

[Arch]

Singin' in the Rain.

 

[Ste T.]

Our whole family are big fans of musicals having been brought up on them, mostly big MGM productions, but if I had to pick one it would have to be Singing in the Rain.
For me it has everything, great cast, great songs, great dance routines and a cracking comedy script.
" Oh Zelda!"

 

[accountantpete]

Rocky Horror for me

 

[Ste T.]

Arch! Dam my one finger typing!

 

[Arch]

Arch! Dam my one finger typing!

Favourite song from it?

Title track for me I think, with Make 'em Laugh a close second.

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

Not a huge fan myself, but if I had to choose it would be:

Tim Burton's, The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Wizard Of Oz

Moulin Rouge

 

[Ste T.]

When our youngest was going through colic we would be up through the night with her. Rocking her and pacing the living room I would watch it, sometimes back to back and singing the songs to her and my fave is "You are my lucky star" followed by "singin in the rain."

 

[dellzeqq]

I love them all but....

Oklahoma and South Pacific score highly. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is great. Once More With Feeling, which is a Buffy episode is wonderful. Moulin Rouge is fabulous. This probably doesn't count, but the film version of La Boheme with Villazon and Netrebko is to die for.

 

[Night Train]

Calamity Jane, but that is more due to growing up with a bit of a crush on Doris Day.

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[Ghost Donkey]

My fair lady for me. I'm not really a musicals person but I really like this one.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Muppet Christmas Carol.

 

[Hover Fly]

My fair lady for me. I'm not really a musicals person but I really like this one.

Seconded, if only for the "Come on Dover..." scene.

 

[beanzontoast]

Thinking on this some more and looking at what people are posting, I find most of may favourite film musicals also have a strong comedy element to them. So apart from the aforementioned High Society (where the entire cast has a hand in the comedy), there's White Christmas (yes, I know it's not Holiday Inn of 1942, but Danny Kaye's comedy timing - and dancing - plus Vera-Ellen's dancing too - is just brilliant) and even the much-overlooked Robin and the Seven Hoods - the last of the 'rat pack' films.

Singin' in the Rain is high on my list too - excellent. I was watching the '100 Greatest' thing recently where they talked about Debbie Reynolds dancing until her feet bled in that movie. So many of these musicals have great back-stories.

It's true - they don't make them like that any more.

 

[the snail]

Some great choices there, I'd add West Side Story and On the Town
"New York, New York, a helluva town. The Bronx is up but the Battery's down, the people ride in a hole in the ground"