Filmography Highlights
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Half a Sixpence
1967- Rated:
- U
This shallow musical was based on an H G Wells story and stars Steele, once touted as Britain's answer to Elvis only to turn family-entertainment man. He plays the witless Arthur Kipps, an orphan wor
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Viva Las Vegas
1964- Rated:
- U
Racing driver Elvis arrives in Las Vegas to participate in the Grand Prix, but finds he has engine trouble, until, predictably, he wins the climactic race
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Bye Bye Birdie
1963- Rated:
- TBC
This Broadway hit makes a successful transition to the big screen, with Van Dyke as the smalltown songwriter whose latest get-rich-quick scheme involves persuading a rock n'roll legend to perform one
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Pepe
1960- Rated:
- TBC
A colourful musical trip around Hollywood which, aside from those wartime efforts, is possibly the most star-studded film ever made. Most appear as themselves in this slim story that revolves around
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Pal Joey
1957- Rated:
- PG
Gene Kelly was originally mooted as the male lead in this film version of the Broadway show, but MGM refused to loan him out, so it's Sinatra and Hayworth who do the honours in this trite musical. It
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Young Bess
1953- Rated:
- TBC
Lavish historical drama set in Tudor times, with Jean Simmons starring as the eponymous future queen of England. Stewart Granger plays the man rumoured to be having an affair with her while Deborah K
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Kiss Me Kate
1953- Rated:
- TBC
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew has gone through many different cinematic guises (most recently in teencom 10 Things I Hate About You), but Cole Porter's musical gives it the most memorable spi
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Scaramouche
1952- Rated:
- U
Not only is this a top-notch swashbuckler, but it has at its centre one of the most exhilarating swordfights ever to go before a camera. Granger stars as the 18th-century nobleman who, challenged to
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Show Boat
1951- Rated:
- U
Exuberant MGM rehash of James Whale's original (made for Universal) that is brightly colouredand highly evocative of the era of the Mississippi showboats. Kern and Hammerstein are responsible for the
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Annie Get Your Gun
1950- Rated:
- TBC
A spirited, hugely enjoyable movie version of the hit stage musical, with Hutton (replacing Judy Garland who dropped out at the last minute through ill health) as sharp-shooting Annie Oakley, and Kee
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Three Musketeers, The
1948- Rated:
- U
The first colour version of the many screen adaptations of the Alexandre Dumas classic adventure had one good idea - the casting of dancer Kelly in the role of D'Artagnan. His muscular dancing skills
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Ziegfeld Follies
1946- Rated:
- TBC
An excuse for MGM to get as many of its stars as possible on screen. What plot there is hangs on Powell as Flo Ziegfeld dreaming up an ideal Broadway review. This ranges from the godawful comedy sket
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Holiday in Mexico
1946- Rated:
- TBC
Jane Powell, the daughter of Walter Pidgeon, asks pianist Jose Iturbi to play at a party and becomes infatuated with him.
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Harvey Girls, The
1946- Rated:
- TBC
Classic MGM musical starring Judy Garland as the leader of a group of beautiful Harvey House waitresses bringing refinement, good food and romance to a Wild Western town.
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Anchors Aweigh
1945- Rated:
- TBC
On shore-leave after eight months at sea, sailors Sinatra and Kelly hit Hollywood. Kelly, the sailor with a gal in every port, tries to procure a girl for shy Sinatra, but Grayson (looking a little u
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Manhattan Melodrama
1934- Rated:
- TBC
Known to some as the film John Dillinger saw prior to being gunned down outside the cinema. Gable and Powell star as lifelong friends who grow up on opposite sides of the law; one, Wade (Powell), bec
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