American Musical Feature Films
by bderoes-12985 | created - 05 Jan 2018 | updated - 06 Sep 2022 | PublicIncludes Music films, but not singing Westerns. Starting with 1998, added requirement for 500+ votes and 4+ rating. Expanded to include TV movies and specials.
The search (excludes what's already on my lists):
[https://www.imdb.com/search/title?release_date=1927,&genres=musical&title_type=feature&runtime=45,&countries=us&sort=release_date,asc&count=100&view=simple&user_rating=4.0,&num_votes=500,&lists=!ls021062047,!ls021564702]
and again for genre Music, and for title_types Video, tv_movie, tv_special (8 searches total).
Companion list: American omitted Musical Feature Films
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1. The Jazz Singer (1927)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Music, Musical
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 11,083 | Gross: $7.63M
2. The Singing Fool (1928)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Musical
A singing waiter and composer (Al Jolson) loves two women (Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn), conquers Broadway and holds his dying son, singing "Sonny Boy."
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Al Jolson, Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn, Arthur Housman
Votes: 281 | Gross: $10.90M
3. Show Folks (1928)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault of stage managers, agents, musicians...everybody but himself. Eddie likes to tell others ... See full summary »
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Eddie Quillan, Lina Basquette, Carole Lombard, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 44
4. My Man (1928)
Passed | 99 min | Drama
A mailman, lives a normal everyday life, until one day, something unexpected happens, and everything he knew changes.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Fanny Brice, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Edna Murphy, Andrés de Segurola
Votes: 33
5. Lucky Boy (1929)
77 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his father would never approve of. He comes ... See full summary »
Directors: Norman Taurog, Charles C. Wilson | Stars: George Jessel, Gwen Lee, Richard Tucker, Gayne Whitman
Votes: 116
6. The Five O'Clock Girl (1928)
Musical
"The Five O'Clock Girl" was a successful Broadway play starring Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw. Marion Davies' Cosmopolitan Productions bought the rights for the play and filmed it as a feature ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Marion Davies, Charles King, George K. Arthur, William Austin
Votes: 63
7. The Broadway Melody (1929)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King, Eddie Kane
Votes: 8,021 | Gross: $6.12M
8. Syncopation (1929)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
This is RKO's first sound musical. It centers on a pair of vaudevillians who are quite close on and off the stage until a dashing millionaire comes around and begins wooing the female partner.
Director: Bert Glennon | Stars: Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, Morton Downey, Barbara Bennett, Ian Hunter
Votes: 94
9. Hearts in Dixie (1929)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Musical
Nappus, an elderly farmer, resents the fact that his daughter Chloe is married to a lazy layabout named Gummy, who allows Chloe to do all the house and farm work he himself should be doing.... See full summary »
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Stepin Fetchit, Clarence Muse, Eugene Jackson, Dorothy Morrison
Votes: 33
10. Show Boat (1929)
Passed | 147 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A mostly silent version of Edna Ferber's original novel, with some songs from the musical as a last-minute addition
Directors: Harry A. Pollard, Arch Heath | Stars: Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Emily Fitzroy, Otis Harlan
Votes: 316
11. Queen of the Night Clubs (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Drama
Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.
Director: Bryan Foy | Stars: Texas Guinan, John Davidson, Lila Lee, Arthur Housman
Votes: 21
12. The Desert Song (1929)
Passed | 123 min | Action, Musical, Romance
The Desert Song is a 1929 American Pre-Code operetta film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring John Boles, Louise Fazenda, and Myrna Loy.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: John Boles, Carlotta King, Louise Fazenda, Johnny Arthur
Votes: 126
13. Close Harmony (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Directors: John Cromwell, A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Harry Green, Jack Oakie
Votes: 56
14. Mother's Boy (1929)
82 min | Drama, Musical
Young Irish lad Tommy O'Day, who lives in a poor section of New York's Lower East Side, is blessed with a beautiful singing voice. After an argument with his father, who accuses him of ... See full summary »
Director: Bradley Barker | Stars: Morton Downey, Beryl Mercer, John T. Doyle, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 20
15. The Rainbow Man (1929)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Eddie Dowling, Marian Nixon, Frankie Darro, Sam Hardy
Votes: 17
16. The Cocoanuts (1929)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.
Directors: Robert Florey, Joseph Santley | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Votes: 8,201 | Gross: $3.92M
17. Innocents of Paris (1929)
Approved | 78 min | Musical, Romance
Maurice, a humble Parisian junk dealer who sells some of his wares at the Flea market, saves a boy from drowning. The boy's aunt Louise is grateful and wins Maurice's affections, but the ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Sylvia Beecher, Russell Simpson, George Fawcett
Votes: 47
18. Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry. George buys a majority interest in ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: John Breeden, Lola Lane, DeWitt Jennings, Sharon Lynn
Votes: 28
19. Broadway (1929)
Passed | 104 min | Crime, Music, Romance
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
Director: Pál Fejös | Stars: Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy, Thomas E. Jackson
Votes: 461
20. On with the Show! (1929)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A musical advertised as the first 100% natural color, all-singing production. The plot concerns a wide-eyed former hatcheck girl who takes the place of a rebellious star.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Arthur Lake, Betty Compson, Joe E. Brown, Sally O'Neil
Votes: 376
21. Honky Tonk (1929)
Passed | 71 min | Drama
Nightclub hostess Sophie Leonard educates her daughter Beth abroad and keeps her life secret for her. But suddenly the daughter shows up.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Sophie Tucker, Lila Lee, Audrey Ferris, Tom Keene
Votes: 21
22. The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
Passed | 130 min | Comedy, Music
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Directors: Charles Reisner, Christy Cabanne, Norman Houston | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny, John Gilbert, Norma Shearer
Votes: 2,257
23. Fashions in Love (1929)
73 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's husband takes in the pianist's wife, and all four pretend to be happy with the new arrangement.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Fay Compton, Miriam Seegar, John Miljan
Votes: 19
24. Broadway Babies (1929)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Musical
A Chorus girl who is in love with her stage manager is led to believe that he is in love with another young woman, so, she agrees to marry a bootlegger instead.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Alice White, Marion Byron, Sally Eilers, Charles Delaney
Votes: 227
25. The Time, the Place and the Girl (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player, Jim Crane(Grant Withers), whose swollen head is deflated when, after graduating , he takes a job as a ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Grant Withers, Betty Compson, Gertrude Olmstead, James Kirkwood
Votes: 16
26. Melody Lane (1929)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Musical
A songwriter leaves his chorus girl sweetheart to join the US Army in WWI. In France he falls in love with French singer Madelon. He is crippled in action. Back in the States, his girl ... See full summary »
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Eddie Leonard, Josephine Dunn, Huntley Gordon, George E. Stone
27. Street Girl (1929)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Betty Compson, John Harron, Jack Oakie, Ned Sparks
Votes: 478
28. The Cock-Eyed World (1929)
Passed | 118 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Lili Damita, Lelia Karnelly
Votes: 105 | Gross: $0.51M
29. Say It with Songs (1929)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Musical
Joe Lane kills another man in a fistfight after learning that the man has made improper advances towards his wife. Joe goes to prison for the murder. When Joe gets out of prison, he visits ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Al Jolson, Davey Lee, Marian Nixon, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 157
30. The Dance of Life (1929)
Passed | 115 min | Drama, Romance
When a vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer have little luck in their separate careers, they decide to combine their acts; to save money on the road, they get married.
Directors: John Cromwell, A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Hal Skelly, Nancy Carroll, Dorothy Revier, Ralph Theodore
Votes: 354
31. Lucky in Love (1929)
76 min | Comedy, Musical
Director: Kenneth S. Webb | Stars: Morton Downey, Betty Lawford, Colin Keith-Johnston, Halliwell Hobbes
32. Words and Music (1929)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Music
Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Lois Moran, Tom Patricola, David Percy, Helen Twelvetrees
Votes: 91
33. Hallelujah (1929)
Passed | 109 min | Drama, Musical
A sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine, Harry Gray
Votes: 2,000
34. Marianne (I) (1929)
Passed | 111 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
During World War I, a young French woman struggles to choose between two suitors: a blind soldier to whom she is engaged and an American serviceman.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Marion Davies, George Baxter, Lawrence Gray, Cliff Edwards
Votes: 1,275
35. Why Leave Home? (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Music
Director: Raymond Cannon | Stars: Sue Carol, Nick Stuart, Dixie Lee, Ilka Chase
36. Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Musical
Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Nancy Welford, Conway Tearle, Winnie Lightner, Ann Pennington
Votes: 215 | Gross: $5.54M
37. Rio Rita (1929)
Passed | 140 min | Comedy, Musical, Western
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit.
Director: Luther Reed | Stars: Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey
Votes: 764
38. The Great Gabbo (1929)
Passed | 92 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
An insanely, egocentric ventriloquist, even though he is possessed by his wooden dummy, is in love with a dancer who is in love with another. The dummy gives advice to the ventriloquist.
Directors: James Cruze, Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Donald Douglas, Betty Compson, Marjorie Kane
Votes: 1,003
39. Happy Days (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Margie, a singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York although she's in love with the owner's grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Charles E. Evans, Marjorie White, Richard Keene, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 179
40. Married in Hollywood (1929)
110 min | Musical, Romance
Heir to a Balkan throne, Prince Nicholai falls in love with an American vocalist who is touring with an operetta company in Europe, and makes known his intention to renounce his heritage and marry her.
Director: Marcel Silver | Stars: J. Harold Murray, Norma Terris, Walter Catlett, Irene Palasty
41. Why Bring That Up? (1929)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George then teams up with Charlie, a stranded trouper, and Irving becomes their manager. Later, in ... See full summary »
Director: George Abbott | Stars: Charles Mack, George Moran, Evelyn Brent, Harry Green
Votes: 27
42. Applause (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron
Votes: 1,503
43. So Long Letty (1929)
64 min | Comedy, Musical
Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Charlotte Greenwood, Claude Gillingwater, Grant Withers, Patsy Ruth Miller
Votes: 190
44. Howdy Broadway (1929)
70 min | Comedy, Musical
A college band performs in a speakeasy, where a raid results in the expulsion of the bandleader, but later he manages to land a Broadway gig.
Director: Charles J. Hunt | Stars: Tommy Christian, Ellalee Ruby, Johnny Kane, Diana Mullen
Votes: 34
45. So This Is College (1929)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Biff and Eddie are the best of friends. They are college seniors, roommates at the fraternity, and star teammates on the USC football team. Then a flapper named Babs enters the picture. ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Elliott Nugent, Robert Montgomery, Cliff Edwards, Sally Starr
Votes: 284
46. The Girl from Woolworth's (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance
Daisy, a clerk at Woolworth's, loves to sing. She meets Bill, a guard on the subway, at a party and they're both attracted to each other, but each tells the other that they have a different... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Alice White, Charles Delaney, Rita Flynn, Wheeler Oakman
47. Sweetie (1929)
Passed | 95 min | Music, Romance, Sport
A chorus girl inherits a men's college where her boyfriend is a star football player.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Helen Kane, Stanley Smith, Jack Oakie
Votes: 100
48. Paris (1929)
Passed | 97 min | Musical, Romance
Cora Sabbot (Louise Closser Hale) leaves her Newton Center, Massachusetts home and goes to Paris, France with the express purpose of preventing the marriage of her son, Andrew Sabbot (Jason... See full summary »
Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Irène Bordoni, Jack Buchanan, Louise Closser Hale, Jason Robards Sr.
Votes: 15 | Gross: $0.62M
49. Footlights and Fools (1929)
78 min | Drama, Musical
A musical comedy star named Fifi D'Auray is famed for her Gallic charm, though she is really one Betty Murphy. She won't marry her fiance, Jimmy, until he stops gambling and gets honest ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Colleen Moore, Raymond Hackett, Fredric March, Virginia Lee Corbin
Votes: 22
50. Tanned Legs (1929)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love ... See full summary »
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Arthur Lake, June Clyde, Dorothy Revier, Ann Pennington
Votes: 187
51. Broadway Scandals (1929)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
When the road-show that Ted Howard, a singer, and Mary, a chorus-dancer, goes broke and the company is stranded in the sticks, Ted Uses his own savings to get them all back to New York. Ted... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Sally O'Neil, Jack Egan, Carmel Myers, Tom O'Brien
Votes: 22
52. A Song of Kentucky (1929)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, Musical
Jerry, a young song writer, falls in love with Lee Coleman, a wealthy Southern girl. She is being forced into marriage with a fortune hunter who upon learning of her infatuation pays a ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Lois Moran, Joseph Wagstaff, Dorothy Burgess, Douglas Gilmore
53. Song of Love (1929)
Passed | 82 min | Musical
Tom and Anna Gibson, along with their little boy, Buddy, form a successful vaudeville song-and-dance act and a happy family. Anna, however, is worried about her son's future when she finds him playing ball, forgetting a performance.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Belle Baker, Ralph Graves, David Durand, Eve Arden
Votes: 28
54. The Love Parade (1929)
Passed | 107 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Lillian Roth
Votes: 2,620
55. Show of Shows (1929)
Passed | 128 min | Comedy
In 1929, the studio gave the cinema its voice and offered audiences a chance to hear their favorite actors and actresses from the silent-screen era. For the first time, they can be heard in... See full summary »
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Frank Fay, William Courtenay, H.B. Warner, Hobart Bosworth
Votes: 471
56. Red Hot Rhythm (1929)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Alan Hale, Kathryn Crawford, Walter O'Keefe, Josephine Dunn
Votes: 19
57. The Vagabond Lover (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Musical
A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Rudy Vallee, Sally Blane, Marie Dressler, Charles Sellon
Votes: 285
58. Nix on Dames (1929)
67 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Professional acrobats Bert and Johnny are the best of friends. Thay are also confirmed women-hating bachelors. When an injury suddenly sidelines the act, they move to a boarding house that ... See full summary »
Director: Donald Gallaher | Stars: Mae Clarke, Robert Ames, William Harrigan, Maude Fulton
Votes: 37
59. Battle of Paris (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Georgie, a singer and music vendor on the streets of Paris, teams with Zizi, a pickpocket, and in the scurry before a police raid she meets Tony, a young American artist. Returning his ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Gertrude Lawrence, Charles Ruggles, Walter Petrie, Gladys DuBois
Votes: 53
60. The Painted Angel (1929)
Passed | 68 min | Drama, Music, Romance
The story of Mamie Hudler, aka Rodeo West (Billie Dove), from her days as a New Orleans singer to a California Western movie cowgirl star to the queen of the New York City nightclubs and ... See full summary »
Director: Millard Webb | Stars: Billie Dove, Edmund Lowe, George MacFarlane, Cissy Fitzgerald
61. It's a Great Life (1929)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Sisters Casey and Babe work in a department store that puts on a show every year. As expected, things are going wrong with every act until Casey comes out to help Babe with her song. They ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Rosetta Duncan, Vivian Duncan, Lawrence Gray, Jed Prouty
Votes: 315
62. Glorifying the American Girl (1929)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The rise of a showgirl, Gloria Hughes, culminating in a Ziegfeld extravaganza "Glorifying the American Girl".
Director: Millard Webb | Stars: Mary Eaton, Eddie Cantor, Helen Morgan, Rudy Vallee
Votes: 799
63. Dance Hall (1929)
Passed | 59 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A dance-trophy-winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe that he's in love with her.
Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Olive Borden, Arthur Lake, Ralph Emerson, Margaret Seddon
Votes: 115
64. The Broadway Hoofer (1929)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
While taking a vacation in the country Broadway star Adele (Marie Saxon) inadvertently as a prank finds herself auditioning for a chorus job in the midwest Gay GIrlies Burlesque touring ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Marie Saxon, Jack Egan, Louise Fazenda, Howard Hickman
65. Love at First Sight (1929)
65 min | Comedy, Musical
Director: Edgar Lewis | Stars: Norman Foster, Suzanne Keener, Doris Rankin, Lester Cole
66. Pointed Heels (1929)
Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Musical
Big-name musical performers experience everyday problems and disappointments during their offstage hours.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: William Powell, Helen Kane, Fay Wray, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 153
67. Hot for Paris (1929)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Musical
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Fifi D'Orsay, El Brendel, Polly Moran
Votes: 23
68. Devil-May-Care (1929)
Passed | 97 min | Music, Romance, War
A Bonapartist falls for a Royalist.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, Marion Harris, John Miljan
Votes: 164
69. Sally (1929)
Passed | 103 min | Musical
Sally was an orphan who got her name from the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing and has been practicing since. ... See full summary »
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Marilyn Miller, Alexander Gray, Joe E. Brown, T. Roy Barnes
Votes: 415
70. Sunny Side Up (1929)
Passed | 121 min | Comedy, Musical
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Marjorie White, El Brendel
Votes: 458
71. Hit the Deck (1929)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Looloo (Polly Walker), owner of a seaside coffee shop, falls in love with sailor Bilge Smith, who is on shore leave, but her sudden wealth sabotages the romance.
Director: Luther Reed | Stars: Jack Oakie, Polly Walker, Roger Gray, Franker Woods
Votes: 28
72. Blaze o' Glory (1929)
78 min | Crime, Musical, War
On trial for the murder of Carl Hummel, Eddie Williams tells his story, which begins just before the World War: Eddie, a Broadway star, marries Helen and almost immediately goes to the ... See full summary »
Directors: George Crone, Renaud Hoffman | Stars: Eddie Dowling, Betty Compson, Frankie Darro, Henry B. Walthall
73. The Sin Sister (1929)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A story of hardships in Alaska in which the true characters of five people are brought out when they are subjected to one problem or another. Some pass the tests and some don't.
Director: Charles Klein | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Lawrence Gray, Josephine Dunn, Myrtle Stedman
Votes: 24
74. Whispering Winds (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Jim, a Maine Fisherman, marries Dora on the rebound after his sweetheart, Eve, leaves him to pursue a singing career. Years later, Eve proves to be genuinely in love with Jim, but acts indifferent for Dora's sake.
Director: James Flood | Stars: Patsy Ruth Miller, Malcolm McGregor, Eve Southern, Eugenie Besserer
75. Times Square (1929)
Passed | 78 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Director: Joseph Boyle | Stars: Alice Day, Arthur Lubin, Emile Chautard, Ann Brody
76. Is Everybody Happy? (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
This is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Ted Lewis, Alice Day, Ann Pennington, Lawrence Grant
77. Little Johnny Jones (1929)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Cohan comedy about a jockey.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Edward Buzzell, Alice Day, Edna Murphy, Robert Edeson
Votes: 25
78. The Talk of Hollywood (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Schlock-movie producer J. Pierpont Ginsburg, after declaring, in a Yiddish accent, that "talking pictures are in their infantry," decides to put all of his savings into a big-budgeted ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Nat Carr, Fay Marbe, Hope Sutherland, Sherling Oliver
Votes: 127
79. No, No, Nanette (1930)
98 min | Comedy, Musical
A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show.
Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray, Lucien Littlefield, Louise Fazenda
Votes: 41
80. Love Comes Along (1930)
Passed | 77 min | Drama
An American sailor comes to a seedy banana republic, and finds a fellow yank, a stranded girl, as a saloon singer. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding about her feelings toward the local dictator threaten their happiness.
Director: Rupert Julian | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Lloyd Hughes, Montagu Love, Ned Sparks
Votes: 60
81. Chasing Rainbows (1930)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Bessie Love, Charles King, Jack Benny, George K. Arthur
Votes: 271
82. They Learned About Women (1930)
Passed | 95 min | Musical, Drama
When Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary, but a gold digger named Daisy has ... See full summary »
Directors: Jack Conway, Sam Wood | Stars: Gus Van, Joe Schenck, Bessie Love, Mary Doran
Votes: 266
83. Let's Go Places (1930)
70 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Paul Adams, a singer, assumes the name of operatic tenor Paul Du Bonnet and sets out for a career in Hollywood. En route to the coast, he meets Marjorie Lorraine, who falls in love with him... See full summary »
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Joseph Wagstaff, Lola Lane, Sharon Lynn, Frank Richardson
Votes: 16
84. Be Yourself! (1930)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Musical
Ethnic comedy of a nightclub entertainer trying to train a boxer.
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Fanny Brice, Robert Armstrong, Harry Green, G. Pat Collins
Votes: 228
85. The Vagabond King (1930)
104 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His ... See full summary »
Directors: Ludwig Berger, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, O.P. Heggie, Lillian Roth
Votes: 231
86. Puttin' on the Ritz (1930)
Passed | 88 min | Music, Musical, Romance
A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Harry Richman, Joan Bennett, James Gleason, Aileen Pringle
Votes: 189
87. The Big Party (1930)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Kitty Collins and Flo Jenkins, a couple of jazz-age cuties with bobbed-hair and rolled-stockings, go in search of good-times and whoopee-making. The party they find also includes some ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Sue Carol, Dixie Lee, Walter Catlett, Frank Albertson
Votes: 25
88. Lord Byron of Broadway (1930)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A tunesmith, a user and an out-and-out heel, puts the stories of his broken romances into song, turning old love letters into lyrics, and capitalizing on the death of his best friend to ... See full summary »
Directors: Harry Beaumont, William Nigh | Stars: Charles Kaley, Ethelind Terry, Marion Shilling, Cliff Edwards
Votes: 178
89. Song of the West (1930)
Passed | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Musical
As a wagon train treks west, two men, Lt. Singleton and a Stanton, a scout, are rivals for the attentions of the Colonels's daughter, Virginia. Stanton is held for murder after a fight with... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: John Boles, Vivienne Segal, Joe E. Brown, Marie Wells
Votes: 34
90. Her Golden Calf (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Marybelle Cobb, a plain and old-fashioned girl, is secretary to commercial illustrator Philip Homer, with whom she is secretly in love.
Director: Millard Webb | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Sue Carol, El Brendel, Marjorie White
Votes: 30
91. Montana Moon (1930)
Passed | 89 min | Western
A vacuous and flirtatious daughter of a wealthy rancher falls in love and marries a Texas cowboy and rancher, who calls her 'Montana', and eventually clash over their different lifestyles, to the point of almost ending their marriage.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, Ricardo Cortez
Votes: 612
92. Hold Everything (1930)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Winnie Lightner, Georges Carpentier, Sally O'Neil
Votes: 35
93. Free and Easy (1930)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical
A bumbling manager tries to get a small town beauty contest winner into the movies.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Trixie Friganza, Robert Montgomery
Votes: 1,025
94. High Society Blues (1930)
Passed | 102 min | Music, Romance
When the high class Divine family meet the newly rich Grangers from Iowa as neighbors in New York and Eleanor Divine is attracted to Eddie Granger instead of the aristocratic pairing her ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, William Collier Sr., Hedda Hopper
Votes: 31
95. Mammy (1930)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy
A love triangle develops in a traveling minstrel troupe.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Al Jolson, Lois Moran, Lowell Sherman, Louise Dresser
Votes: 240
96. Honey (1930)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Musical
A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Harry Green, Lillian Roth, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 90
97. Captain of the Guard (1930)
Passed | 83 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A captain of the king's guards secretly works for the rebels.
Directors: John S. Robertson, Pál Fejös | Stars: Laura La Plante, John Boles, Sam De Grasse, James A. Marcus
Votes: 44
98. Under a Texas Moon (1930)
Passed | 82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
A cowboy arrives in a small town and winds up trying to help a local rancher stop a gang of cattle thieves while romancing a pretty young girl.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Frank Fay, Raquel Torres, Myrna Loy, Armida
Votes: 109
99. Spring Is Here (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Betty a young woman is going steady with Terry but falls for an exciting new comer to town Steve. Betty's father wants her to marry Terry but she doesn't see that she actually is in love ... See full summary »
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Lawrence Gray, Alexander Gray, Bernice Claire, Louise Fazenda
Votes: 312
100. King of Jazz (1930)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Musical
American Pre-Code color film starring Paul Whiteman and his Jazz orchestra.
Directors: John Murray Anderson, Walter Lantz | Stars: Paul Whiteman, John Boles, Laura La Plante, Jeanette Loff
Votes: 1,617
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