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1) Selena
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"The nuts and bolts of the irresistibly danceable music called Tejano are pop, rock, polka, R&B, and Latin influences. To millions of fans, there's another vital ingredient: the dynamic singer Selena. [This is] the vibrant story of the Grammy-winning singer whose life ended at its creative peak"--Container.
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"Torch singer Petey Brown is beautiful and smart. The beautiful gets her in trouble. She'll need all of the smart to get out of it in this bluesy, boozy noir salute to tough dames in tough times. On a holiday visit to her family in the waning days of World War II, Petey expects a merry Christmas. Instead she gets a tangled web of mobsters, cheating wives, war-traumatized vets and the kind of love that grabs hold fast and goes wrong faster"--Container....
3) Reckless
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"A Broadway star married for love. The tabloids say she murdered for money. ... [Jean Harlow] plays musical star Mona Leslie, the bride of a champagne-stewed blueblood. When he blows his brains out, Mona is suspected of his murder, igniting a media frenzy"--Container.
4) Rose Marie
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Marie de Flor, a glamorous Canadian prima donna, is renowned for her beauty, exquisite voice and fierce temperament. When news arrives that her brother Jack has been wounded in a prison escape, Marie realizes she must go to him despite the danger. Lured into the wilderness, she encounters Sgt. Bruce, who is hunting the fugitive. Sgt. Bruce is soon hot on Marie's trail as well!
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"Sent into town to retrieve an errant sib, Professor Peter Morgan meets and marries show-stopping chanteuse Francey over the course of a single evening. But the stars start crossing against the newlyweds when they travel to Morgan's moss-backed college town to break the news to Morgan's mater and pater and the two soon find themselves conducting a marriage incognito style. With Francey stuck posing as his brother's girl, a fiancé left behind, a prim...
8) Maytime
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One of the top-grossing films of 1937, Maytime is the poignant, glorious musical that has long been acknowledged as a supreme masterpiece of its genre. See and hear Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy at the height of their vocal powers and popularity.
9) Bitter sweet
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On the eve of her wedding to a priggish Londoner, a Victorian girl and her dashing music teacher elope to Vienna, where he hopes to sell his music.
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"With those gams and that voice, High 'C' Susie packs 'em in at a Bowery honkytonk located several blocks and a world away from where her Beantown family thinks she's singing: the grand opera house. Then her prim and disapproving sister comes to town ... and promptly falls in love with singing, dancing and a handsome young man-about-town"--Container.
14) Serenade
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"A rising opera star's life is as turbulent as the on-stage roles he plays in this emotion-swept musical drama based on a James M. Cain novel and filmed almost entirely in Mexico. As the young vocalist who emerges from the obscurity of the vineyards, Mario Lanza impressively hoists the lead role onto his wide shoulders"--Container.
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A man impersonating a woman on stage? Piece of cake. But a woman whose livelihood depends on pretending to be a man who pretends to be a woman? Now you've got problems! An out-of-work singer conspires to pose as a female impersonator in order to get work on the Paris cabaret circuit.
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"Everyone who's anyone in Brookford can claim ancestors who were heroes of the Revolutionary War. Everyone except Sam and Susie Parker. But then the Parkers find a letter from George Washington that acknowledges the heroism oa a long-ago Parker patriarch and says essentially this to him and his heirs: IOU $7 BILLION."--Container.
19) Blessed event
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"While his boss is on vacation, reporter Alvin Roberts has been writing a snappy gossip column featuring announcements of 'blessed events, ' impending births of both the married and unmarried. Although the column is not very respectable, circulation jumps, so Alvin is assigned a regular position. Soon, he is so powerful that gangster Sam Goebel sends his gunman, Frankie Wells, to threaten him. Instead, Alvin tricks Frankie into confessing to murder...
20) Sinatra
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Through the years, Frank Sinatra did it his way. To set the record straight, he collaborated in the making of this movie of his life, featuring his own vocals and some astonishing personal revelations. It covers more than 50 years, beginning with a spirited boyhood in Hoboken and ending with the 1974 return from retirement of the man whose voice captivates generations. More than two dozen Sinatra standards grace this production, and most are from...
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