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🎬 1950



  • Three Little Words

  • Summer Stock

  • Wabash Avenue

  • My Blue Heaven

  • The Toast of New Orleans

  • The West Point Story

  • Let’s Dance

  • The Petty Girl

🎬 1951

  • Show Boat

  • Royal Wedding

  • On Moonlight Bay

  • An American in Paris

  • The Great Caruso

  • Texas Carnival

  • Rich, Young and Pretty

  • Call Me Mister

  • I’ll See You in My Dreams

  • Excuse My Dust

🎬 1952

  • Singin’ in the Rain

  • The Belle of New York

  • Lovely to Look At

  • Because You’re Mine

  • Hans Christian Andersen

  • With a Song in My Heart

  • Just for You

  • April in Paris

  • Bloodhounds of Broadway

  • Skirts Ahoy!

🎬 1953

  • Calamity Jane

  • The Band Wagon

  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

  • Kiss Me Kate

  • Small Town Girl

  • By the Light of the Silvery Moon

  • Dangerous When Wet

  • Give a Girl a Break

  • Down Among the Sheltering Palms

  • Those Redheads from Seattle

🎬 1954

  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

  • White Christmas

  • A Star Is Born

  • There’s No Business Like Show Business

  • Athena

  • Deep in My Heart

  • Rose Marie (remake)

  • Carmen Jones

  • Hit the Deck

  • Susan Slept Here

🎬 1955

  • Oklahoma!

  • Guys and Dolls

  • Love Me or Leave Me

  • It’s Always Fair Weather

  • My Sister Eileen

  • The Tender Trap

  • Lady and the Tramp (Disney musical animation)

  • The King and I

  • Pete Kelly’s Blues

  • The Court Jester

🎬 1956

  • Carousel

  • High Society

  • The Opposite Sex

  • The Best Things in Life Are Free

  • Rock Around the Clock

  • Don’t Knock the Rock

  • The Girl Can’t Help It

  • Anything Goes (remake)

  • Meet Me in Las Vegas

  • The Eddy Duchin Story

🎬 1957

  • Funny Face

  • Silk Stockings

  • Pal Joey

  • Les Girls

  • Jailhouse Rock

  • Loving You

  • Mister Rock and Roll

  • The Pajama Game

  • Bernardine

  • April Love

🎬 1958

  • South Pacific

  • Gigi

  • Damn Yankees

  • Mardi Gras

  • King Creole

  • St. Louis Blues

  • Sing, Boy, Sing

  • The Big Beat

  • Rock, Pretty Baby

  • Let’s Rock

🎬 1959

  • Porgy and Bess

  • A Hole in the Head (Sinatra musical comedy)

  • Say One for Me

  • Li’l Abner

  • The Five Pennies

  • Holiday for Lovers

  • The Sound and the Fury (musical elements)

  • The Gene Krupa Story

  • The Young Philadelphians (musical sequences)

  • Sleeping Beauty (Disney musical animation)

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