The delightful Betty Hutton belting out "Rumble", from "The Perils of Pauline" (1947).
Classic musical clips from classic Hollywood films
Cliff (Ukelele Ike) Edwards and the snappy "Sing" from "Doughboys" (1930).
Buster Keaton in his talking picture debut with the title song from "Free and Easy" (1930). Was there no end to the man's talents?
Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor in the rousing song and dance number, "Moses Supposes", from "Singin' in the Rain" (1952).
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DTS Hollywood Musical Moment: "You Were Meant For Me"
Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds in the magical "You Were Meant For Me" number from "Singin' in the Rain" (1952).
Gene Kelly and Donald O' Connor sing, dance and dazzle with "Fit As A Fiddle", from "Singin' in the Rain" (1952).
Judy Garland at her zenith with "The Boy Next Door" from "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944).
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DTS Hollywood Musical Moment; "You're All The World To Me"
Fred Astaire dances on the floor, the walls and the ceiling to the dynamite tune, "You're All The World To Me", from "Royal Wedding" (1951).
Marilyn Maxwell in a delightfully campy number, "The White Virgin of the Nile" from 1958's "Rock-A-Bye Baby". NOTE: Listen very carefully to the music and realize how much the Disney songwriters flat-out STOLE from this for the "Aladdin" score over thirty years later.
Dick Powell sings "I Only Have Eyes For You" to Ruby Keeler aboard the Staten Island Ferry in "Dames" (1934).
The wonderful Evelyn Laye sings "When I Get Too Old To Dream" to Ramon Novarro in "The Night Is Young" (1935).
The delightful Lillian Roth and the lovely Hal Thompson sing my favorite tune from ANY Marx Bros. movie, Kalmar and Ruby's "Why Am I So Romantic".
Rosemary Clooney shines in the delightfully campy "Ali Baba Be My Baby" from 1953's "Here Come the Girls".
Bob Hope and Rosemary Clooney in the song and dance number "Ya Got Class" from 1953's "Here Come the Girls".
For the only time in Technicolor, Bing does some South Seas crooning to Dotty with "To See You Is To Love You" from "Road to Bali" (1952).
Bing and Bob don the kilts for the lively "Hoot Mon!" from "Road to Bali" (1952).
Danny Kaye at his smoothest performing "Anatole of Paris" from "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1947).
Cliff (Ukelele Ike) Edwards and Buster Keaton in an impromptu musical moment from 1930's "Doughboys".
Robert Woolsey serenades the magnificent Jobyna Howland, with "I'm A Gypsy" from 1930's, "The Cuckoos."
June Clyde and Hugh Trevor sing and step to Kalmar and Ruby's "All Alone Monday" from 1930's, "The Cuckoos".
The Andrews Sisters croon just one of the hits from 1941's "Buck Privates" - "Apple Blossom Time".
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