8.1

Inherit the Wind

1960, USA

• Actors: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan, Claude Akins, Elliott Reid, Paul Hartman, Philip Coolidge, Jimmy Boyd, Noah Beery Jr., Norman Fell, Gordon Polk, Hope Summers, Ray Teal, Renee Godfrey, Florence Eldridge, Gail Bonney, Jack Daly, Richard Deacon, Lester Dorr, Donald Elson, David Fresco, Sam Harris, Earle Hodgins, Wendell Holmes, Frank Mills, Robert Osterloh, Bob Perry
• Genre: Drama, History, Romance
• Director(s): Stanley Kramer
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Teacher B.T. Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes. This is a very thinly disguised rendition of the 1925 "Scopes monkey trial" with debates between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan taken largely from the transcripts.

  8.4

Singin' in the Rain

1952, USA

• Actors: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse, Douglas Fowley, Rita Moreno, Dawn Addams, John Albright, Betty Allen, Sue Allen, Marie Ardell, Bette Arlen, Jimmy Bates, Marcella Becker, Margaret Bert, David Blair, Madge Blake, Gail Bonney, Gwen Carter, Bill Chatham, Mae Clarke, Lyle Clark, Harry Cody, Chick Collins, Pat Conway, Jeanne Coyne, Donald Crisp, Ruby C. Currie
• Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
• Director(s): Stanley Donen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1927, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a famous on-screen romantic pair. Lina, however, mistakes the on-screen romance for real love. Don has worked hard to get where he is today, with his former partner Cosmo. When Don and Lina's latest film is transformed into a musical, Don has the perfect voice for the songs. But Lina - well, even with the best efforts of a diction coach, they still decide to dub over her voice. Kathy Selden is brought in, an aspiring actress, and while she is working on the movie, Don falls in love with her. Will Kathy continue to "aspire", or will she get the break she deserves ?

  7.2

An American in Paris

1951, USA

• Actors: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch, The American In Paris Ballet, Robert Ames, Joan Anderson, Marie Antoinette Andrews, Martha Bamattre, Charles Bastin, Joan Bayley, Rodney Bieber, Madge Blake, Nan Boardman, Dino Bolognese, Eugene Borden, Ann Brendon, Peter Camlin, David Carlin, Sue Casey, Monique Chantal, Andre Charisse, Jack Chefe, Ann Codee, Louise Colombet, Allan Cook, Adèle Coray, Susan Cummings, Albert D'Arno
• Genre: Musical, Romance
• Director(s): Vincente Minnelli
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is "discovered" by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications abound.

  7.7

On the Town

1949, USA

• Actors: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin, Vera-Ellen, Florence Bates, Alice Pearce, George Meader, Murray Alper, Bette Arlen, Anne Beck, Bea Benaderet, Gladys Blake, Eugene Borden, Leonard Bremen, Don Brodie, Ralph Brooks, Claire Carleton, Peter Chong, Dorinda Clifton, Hans Conried, Jeanne Coyne, Lester Dorr, Tom Dugan, Helen Eby-Rock, James A. FitzPatrick, Wanda Flippen, Frank Hagney, Carol Haney
• Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
• Director(s): Stanley Donen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Three sailors - Gabey, Chip and Ozzie - let loose on a 24-hour pass in New York and the Big Apple will never be the same! Gabey falls head over heels for "Miss Turnstiles of the Month" (he thinks she's a high society deb when she's really a 'cooch dancer at Coney Island); innocent Chip gets highjacked (literally) by a lady cab driver; and Ozzie becomes the object of interest of a gorgeous anthropologist who thinks he's the perfect example of a "prehistoric man". Wonderful music and terrific shots of New York at its best.

  6.6

Ziegfeld Follies

1945, USA

• Actors: Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, James Melton, Victor Moore, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, William Powell, Edward Arnold, Marion Bell, Cyd Charisse, Hume Cronyn, William Frawley, Robert Lewis, Virginia O'Brien, Keenan Wynn, Bunin's Puppets, Van Johnson, Marilyn Maxwell, Rod Alexander, Robert Ames, Karin Booth, Helen Boyce, Marie Bryant, Lucille Casey
• Genre: Comedy, Musical
• Director(s): Lemuel Ayers
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.