The first "talkie" to win the Oscar for Best Picture was 1929's The Broadway Melody — marking a huge step forward in the industry and for movie musicals. As MGM's first musical, its success ...
Many of us survived the Covid days by rediscovering old MGM musicals, humming tunes from Singing In the Rain or doing a Fred Astaire tap from Top Hat. So if they represented islands of good cheer ...
Most of the major musicals of this era came as a product of MGM and its Freed Unit, run by producer Arthur Freed, who helped contribute to the success of "The Wizard of Oz," "Meet Me in St. Louis ...
Here are eight movies that changed movie musicals and gave us all something to sing about. Asked to define the MGM musicals of the 1940s and 50s, which launched the genre into the stratosphere ...
One of the most beloved film musicals of all time ... Yet there is much more to the story than meets the eye, and the MGM movie is just one of many ways in which it has been represented.