digital dream door’s 100 greatest film musicals

A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.

Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.

A young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.

Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' band leader to raise money before he can skip town.

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make a crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.

A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.

Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.

The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.

Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.

A fading matinee idol helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.

In Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.

On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.

The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s: her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld Girl, her subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.

In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.

An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.

An aging movie star uncertain of his future teams up with a top ballerina to headline a new Broadway musical, but the pretentiously artistic goals of its director threaten to change it beyond recognition.

Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

When a backwoodsman in 1850s Oregon brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.

A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly - if only everyone else would allow them to.

Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.