Selected film musicals and their songs 1929-1947 + A Star is Born (1954)

full features — include most or all of the songs in the film

• The Broadway Melody (1929)
  
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929
• King of Jazz (1930)
• The Big Broadcast (1932)
• 42nd Street (1933)
• Footlight Parade (1933)
• Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935) short
• Swing Time (1936)
• A Star is Born (1954)

smaller features —  selected songs, or available clips

• Clips from Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) existent film is incomplete
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) –  The Gold Diggers’ Song (We’re in the Money) and Shadow Waltz + gallery
• Anything Goes (1936)- adapted from the 1934 musical:Includes I Get a Kick Out of You, Anything Goes, You’re the Top
• Benny Goodman in Hollywood Hotel (1937)
• To Have and Have Not (1944) – 3 songs, Hoagy Carmichael, Lauren Bacall
• New Orleans (1947): Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday

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selected individual songs from film musicals:

Roberta (1933): Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Top Hat (1935): Cheek to Cheek

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Selected Film Songwriters:

• Harry Warren
• George and Ira Gershwin
• Cole Porter

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Harry Warren: selected hits and standards 1928-1946

• Click on the film title links below to see the features on the songs listed.
  
• Where there are no links on the film or the song title, the selected songs will, with one or two exceptions, be found in our Harry Warren feature page; just click on the above feature title, or here.
  

Music by Harry Warren, words by Al Dubin

1933

42nd Street (film)

• You’re Getting to be a Habit with Me
• Shuffle Off to Buffalo
• Young and Healthy
• 42nd Street

Gold Diggers of 1933

• The Gold Diggers’ Song (We’re in the Money)
• Shadow Waltz

Footlight Parade

• Honeymoon Hotel
• Shanghai Lil

Moulin Rouge (1934) – songs published and recorded in 1933 (See the Harry Warren feature page, here.)

• The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
• Coffee in the Morning and Kisses in the Night
• Song of Surrender

1934

Dames

• I Only Have Eyes for You

Twenty Million Sweethearts  (See the Harry Warren feature page, here.)

• Out For No Good
• Oh, I Heard, Yes I Heard

1937

Melody for Two

• September in the Rain

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Music by Warren, Words by Johnny Mercer

(see also: Johnny Mercer, part 1: selected hits and standards 1930-39)

1938

Going Places

• Say It With a Kiss
• Jeepers Creepers

Hard to Get — You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby

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Words by Johnny Mercer and Al Dubin

1938

Garden of the Moon — Love is Where You Find It

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Music by Harry Warren, Words by Mack Gordon

1941

Sun Valley Serenade — Chattanooga Choo Choo

1942

Iceland — There Will Never Be Another You

Orchestra Wives

• Serenade in Blue
• At Last

1945

Diamond Horseshoe

• The More I See You
  
• I Wish I Knew

Other Warren compositions with lyrics by Mack Gordon

• I Had the Craziest Dream (1942) (external link) – film: Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
• My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?) (1943) – film: My Heart Tells Me (1944)
• You’ll Never Know (1943) -film: Hello Frisco, Hello (1943)
• This Is Always (1946) (external link) – film: Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

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Selected film songs of George and Ira Gerswhin: six standards, composed 1936-37

Shall We Dance (1937)

• They Can’t Take That Away from Me

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Cole Porter: selected film songs, 1936 and 1940

Born to Dance (1936): I’ve Got You Under My Skin, Easy to Love

Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) : Begin the Beguine, originally in the Cole Porter musical Jubilee (1935), with book by Moss Hart and music and lyrics by Cole Porter, a show which also introduced Just One of Those Things.

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The site has many other clips from musicals and revues from 1929 on, as well as from television variety shows and specials within my year pages (i.e. “hits and/or standards of the year…”) and in other features.

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