Dance & Musical Movies of the 1940s (75)
75 films from the 1940s, with directors, choreographers and plot summaries.
Academia El Tango Argentino
1942 film by Julio Irigoyen
Anchors Aweigh
1945 film by George Sidney
Belle of the Yukon
1944 film
Blue Skies
1946 American musical comedy film
Broadway Melody of 1940
1940 film by Norman Taurog
Buenos Aires canta
1947 film
By the Light of a Star
1941 film by Enrique Santos Discépolo
Canto de amor
1940 film by Julio Irigoyen
Chandralekha
1948 Tamil film directed by S. S. Vasan
Cinderella
1947 Soviet musical film by Lenfilm studios
Coney Island
1943 film by Walter Lang
Cover Girl
1944 American musical film directed by Charles Vidor
Cuban Pete
1946 film by Jean Yarbrough
Dance Hall
1941 film by Irving Pichel
Dance, Girl, Dance
1940 film by Dorothy Arzner
Dancing in Manhattan
1944 film by Henry Levin
Dancing in the Dark
1949 film by Irving Reis
Dancing on a Dime
1940 film by Joseph Santley
Dancing Romeo
1944 film by Cy Endfield
Down Argentine Way
1940 film by Irving Cummings
El Alma de un tango
1945 film by Julio Irigoyen
El cantor del pueblo
1948 film by Antonio Ber Ciani
El tango vuelve a París
1948 film by Manuel Romero
Feudin', Fussin', and a Fightin
1948 film by George Sherman
Footlight Serenade
1942 film by Gregory Ratoff
Historia del 900
1949 film by Hugo del Carril
Historia del tango
1949 film by Manuel Romero
Holiday Inn
1942 film by Mark Sandrich
Hollywood Barn Dance
1947 film
It Happened in Harlem
1945 film by Bud Pollard
Killer Diller
1948 film directed by Josh Binney
Krishna Bakthi
1949 Tamil film directed by S. Panju
La Canción de Buenos Aires
1945 film by Julio Irigoyen
Lady Be Good
1941 film by Norman Z. McLeod
Lady, Let's Dance
1944 film by Frank Woodruff
Make Mine Laughs
1949 film by Richard Fleischer
Mexicana
1945 American musical film
Moon Over Miami
1941 film by Walter Lang
Moonlight in Havana
1942 film by Anthony Mann
My Gal Sal
1942 film by Irving Cummings
On the Town
1949 film directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
Pin Up Girl
1944 film by H. Bruce Humberstone
Private Buckaroo
1942 film by Edward F. Cline
Rhythm in a Riff
1947 film
Romance on the High Seas
1948 film by Michael Curtiz
Roxie Hart
1942 film by William A. Wellman
Second Chorus
1940 film by H. C. Potter
Sensations of 1945
1944 film by Andrew L. Stone
Sing While You Dance
1946 film by D. Ross Lederman
Song of Scheherazade
1947 film by Walter Reisch
Specter of the Rose
1946 film by Ben Hecht
Springtime in the Rockies
1942 American musical comedy film directed by Irving Cummings
State Fair
1945 film by Walter Lang
Stormy Weather
1943 American all-Black musical film directed by Andrew L. Stone
Sun Valley Serenade
1941 film by H. Bruce Humberstone
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
1943 film by Irving Cummings
That Lady in Ermine
1948 film by Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch
That Night in Rio
1941 film by Irving Cummings
The Fleet's In
1942 film by Victor Schertzinger
The Gang's All Here
1943 film by Busby Berkeley
The Great Morgan
1945 film by Nat Perrin
The Guitar of Gardel
1949 film directed by León Klimovsky
The Merry Monahans
1944 film by Charles Lamont
The Red Shoes
1948 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
The Sky's the Limit
1943 film by Edward H. Griffith
The Tango Star
1940 film by Luis Bayón Herrera
The Three Caballeros
1944 live-action/animated film by Walt Disney
The Unfinished Dance
1947 film by Henry Koster
The Woman of My Dreams
1944 film by Georg Jacoby
Too Many Girls
1940 film by George Abbott
Two Guys from Texas
1948 film by David Butler
Week-End in Havana
1941 film by Walter Lang
When My Baby Smiles at Me
1948 film by Walter Lang
Yes Sir That's My Baby
1949 film by George Sherman
You Were Never Lovelier
1942 film by William A. Seiter