The Rough Guide to Film Musicals's "The Canon: 50 Essential Film Musicals"

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50 essential film musicals from the book "the Rough Guide to Film Musicals":http://www.allconsuming.net/item/asin/1843536501.

Alphabetical by title, except for the first 10, which are ranked as The Top Ten in the book (p. 76).

  1. 1.
    Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Gene Kelly

  2. 2.
    Top Hat
    by Lloyd French

  3. 3.
    Love Me Tonight
    by Rouben Mamoulian

  4. 4.
    Meet Me In St. Louis (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Roy Mack

  5. 5.
    Cabaret
    by Bob Fosse

  6. 6.
    The Wizard of Oz (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Jack Haley Jr.

  7. 7.
    Gold Diggers of 1933

  8. 9.
    A Star Is Born

  9. 10.
    Nashville
    by Robert Altman

  10. 11.
    An American in Paris

  11. 12.
    Annie Get Your Gun
    by George Sidney

  12. 13.
    The Band Wagon (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Richard Schickel

  13. 14.
    Carousel (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by Henry King

  14. 15.
    Chicago (Widescreen Edition)

  15. 16.
    Easter Parade (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Walters

  16. 17.
    Evita

  17. 18.
    42nd Street (Keep Case Packaging)
    by Lloyd Bacon

  18. 19.
    Footlight Parade

  19. 20.

  20. 21.
    Gigi

  21. 22.
    Grease (Full Screen Edition)

  22. 23.
    Guys and Dolls

  23. 24.
    Hallelujah
    by King Vidor

  24. 25.
    High Society
    by Charles Walters

  25. 26.
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    High, Wide, and Handsome

  26. 28.
    The King and I (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by Walter Lang

  27. 29.
    Kiss Me Kate
    by George Sidney

  28. 30.
    The Lion King (Two-Disc Platinum Edition)
    by Rob Minkoff

  29. 31.
    The Love Parade (1929)
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  30. 32.
    Mary Poppins (40th Anniversary Edition)
    by Dave Bossert

  31. 33.
    The Merry Widow (1934)
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  32. 34.
    Oklahoma! (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by Fred Zinnemann

  33. 35.
    On the Town
    by Gene Kelly

  34. 36.
    The Pajama Game

  35. 37.
    The Pirate (1948)
    by Vincente Minnelli

  36. 38.
    The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Widescreen Edition)
    by Jim Sharman

  37. 39.
    Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Stanley Donen

  38. 40.
    Shall We Dance

  39. 41.
    Show Boat
    by George Sidney

  40. 42.
    Silk Stockings
    by Rouben Mamoulian

  41. 43.

  42. 45.
    South Pacific (Collector's Edition)
    by Joshua Logan

  43. 46.
    Summer Holiday
    by Rouben Mamoulian

  44. 47.
    Swing Time

  45. 48.

  46. 49.
    Yankee Doodle Dandy (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz

  47. 50.
    Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
    by Vincente Minnelli

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Created by Terpsikore on Nov 27, 2007.
 

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Untitled — 1 year ago

Changed Summer Holiday to the correct version.




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