Ray Henderson joins Buddy
De Sylva and Lew Brown to
form
a successful 1920s musical show writing team. They soon have several
hits
on Broadway but De Sylva's personal ambition leads to friction as the
other
two increasingly feel left out of things.
Call Me Mister
Starring: Dan Dailey, Betty
Grable & Danny Thomas
G.I. Sergeant Shep Dooley, former stage star
awaiting
discharge in postwar Tokyo, meets his estranged love Kay when she
arrives to
entertain the troops. Shep, who hasn't exactly lost his former
irresponsibility, does his best to court Kay anew...but she has no lack
of
other admirers as she labors to put on a soldier show.
The Get-Away
Starring: Dan Dailey, Donna
Reed & Robert
Sterling
A government agent goes under cover as a
prison
inmate
to unearth information regarding a gang of wanted men.
I Can Get it For You Wholesale
Starring: Dan
Dailey, Susan
Hayward & George Sanders
A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone
in her
way in
order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to
choose
between her ambition and the man she loves.
The Kid From Left Field
Starring: Dan Dailey, Anne
Bancroft,
Lloyd Bridges
& Billy Chapin
Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut
vendor, who
takes
too much of an interest in the game. But he's passed on his craze for
baseball
to his son, Christie. When his dad gets fired, Chris makes friends with
the former team owner's niece (and her boyfriend Pete), and not only
gets
his dad's job back, but a batboy position for himself. With his dad's
help,
Christie begins to make a few suggestions here and there. And as a
publicity
stunt, the team makes him their youngest manager on record. But when
Chris
gets sick, Coop has to come to the rescue.
The
Mortal Storm
Starring: Dan Dailey, Margaret Sullavan,
Robert Young,
Frank Morgan,
Robert Stack,
Irene Rich & Jimmy Stewart
University professor Victor Roth leads a
contented life with
family and friends in the south German Alps of 1933. This changes
quickly and
dramatically once Adolf Hitler comes to power. Most of the town
embraces the
new creed while a few friends such as Martin Breitner do not. Victor
himself is
"non-Aryan" and his two step-sons soon leave his house, while his
loyal daughter Freya breaks her engagement from Nazi-inclined Fritz.
Against
increasing difficulties an attachment between Freya and Martin starts
to grow.
Mother Wore Tights
Starring: Dan Dailey & Betty Grable
Narrated by: Anne Baxter
In
this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900)
goes to
San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line.
Soon,
star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then
marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest
daughter
Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.
Pepe
Starring: Cantinflas, Dan Dailey, Shirley
Jones, Edward G Robinson
Carlos Mantalban, Maurice
Chevalier, Bing Crosby, Kim Novak,
Richard Conte, Bobby Darin, Joey
Bishop, Judy Garland,
Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford,
Ernie Kovacs, Jimmy Durante,
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Greer Garson,
Janet Leigh, Jack Lemon,
Donna Reed, Jay North, Debbie
Reynolds, Frank Sinatra,
Cesar Romero, Charles Coburn,
Dean Martin & Tony Curtis
The young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood star Ted
Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and
Pepe's encounter with half the stars working in Hollywood at the time.
Soon Hollywood wants to put his story on the big screen, and Pepe falls
victim to the Hollywood lifestyle.
The Pride of St. Louis
Starring: Dan Dailey, Joanne
Dru & Richard
Crenna
The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a
major-league
baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the
1930s and
1940s.
Sunday Punch
Starring: Dan Dailey, William Lundigan &
Jean Rogers
The routine of a group of fledgling
boxers all
living in Ma Galestrum's boarding house is interrupted when Ma allows
her
roving niece, beautiful Judy Galestrum, to move in. Especially
interested is
ex-college boy Ken Burke who is trying to quickly make it to the top,
and young
brawny Swedish janitor Olaf Jensen who believes Judy will fall for him
if he
becomes a champion boxer. The rivalry between the two friends leads
them to an
inevitable meeting in the ring
A
Ticket to Tomahawk
Starring: Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter,
Walter Brennan & Rory
Callhoun
In 1876 Dawson wants to prevent a train from getting to Tomahawk CO on
time, to keep it from competing with his stage coach line. Kit, who
must get the train to its goal, forces Johnny aboard as the needed
passenger. Madame Adelaide's showgirls (including Marilyn as Clara)
ride along and, en route to Tomahawk
You Were
Meant for Me
Starring: Dan Dailey & Jeanne
Crain
1920's bandleader Chuck Arnold meets hometown girl Peggy at one of the
band's dances and next day weds her. Though she loves him, life on the
road
becomes increasingly difficult for her, but it is the 1929 Crash that
makes
things really tough for the both of them.
You’re My Everything
Starring: Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter & Buster
Keaton
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah
Adams picks up
musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing
leads to
another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor
comes
along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the
star
careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies. Includes good
imitation
"silents" with classic cameo by Buster Keaton.
Ziegfeld Girl
Starring: Dan Dailey, Jimmy
Stewart, Judy
Garland,
Hedy Lamarr,
Lana Turner & Jackie Cooper
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's
life but
not
necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they
join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind
her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl
pursued
both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the
mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband
cannot
endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her
glamour
in skimpy costumes.
