but wholesale revisionism was typical of Hollywood, especially with shows from the 1930s. Even small changes in the book musicals of the 1940s and 1950s can change their tone: the 1950 version of ...

Old Hollywood movies ... you're missing out. Musicals made between the 1930s and 1960s are more varied than you might expect. They can be sweet and simple, with improbable plot points and even ...

Though on-screen musicals aren't as common as nowadays, they once ruled La La Land and the best Old Hollywood musicals remain certified classics that have inspired many of today's hits.

Musicals have a storied legacy in Hollywood movies, dating back to the 1920s when `The Jazz Singer' helped to bring in the era of talkies. This programme features stars of some of the genre's most ...

On screen, she quickly graduated from teen roles to the lavish musical productions that were a 20th-century Hollywood staple ... well-known child actor in the 1930s and ’40s and gave Shirley ...

LOS ANGELES — Jane Powell, the bright-eyed, operatic-voiced star of Hollywood’s golden age musicals who sang with ... a well-known child actor in the 1930s and ‘40s and gave Shirley Temple ...