 | Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $12.99 The greatest musical of all time.
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 | Meet Me In St. Louis (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $10.49 Perhaps Judy Garland's best musical at MGM.
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 | The Wizard of Oz (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy used from: $10.68 Legendary classic. Should be in everybody's top 10 to see.
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 | Annie Get Your Gun
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $7.99 Betty Hutton's best known film and she performed it with gusto. She said the people at MGM were mean to her while filming.
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 | Presenting Lily Mars
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 | The Harvey Girls
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.49 |
 | Easter Parade (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy used from: $3.99 Fred Astaire's comeback film after having numerous flops and coming out of retirement. Cyd Charisse was originally inteded for Ann Miller's part, but was injured.
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 | In the Good Old Summertime
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $4.99 A musical remake of the Lubitsch classic, The Shop Around the Corner.
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 | Ziegfeld Girl
Buy new: $18.49 / Used from: $4.23 The 2nd film featured about Flo Ziegfeld. Lana Turner steals the picture. Originally supposed to star Joan Crawford, Eleanor Powell, and Virginia Bruce.
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 | For Me and My Gal (Keepcase)
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $6.98 Gene Kelly's MGM debut film. Originally a film for Eleanor Powell and Dan Dailey.
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 | Ziegfeld Follies
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.15 The last film centered around Flo iegfeld.
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 | Till the Clouds Roll By (Remastered Edition)
Buy used from: $1.00 Watered down all star bio about the life of Jerome Kern. Charming nonetheless.
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 | Three Little Words
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.25 Debbie Reynold's MGM film debut. She's as cute as a button.
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 | Summer Stock
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.63 Judy's last film at MGM. Sings the legendary "Get Happy" number.
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 | It's Always Fair Weather
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $4.94 A pseudo sequel to On the Town
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 | Brigadoon
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.20 Cyd Charisse said that, of the several films she made with Gene Kelly, this was her favorite.
Howard Keel and Jane Powell were originally slated to play the leads. When commitments on other films left them unavailable, Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse were cast instead, and dancing subsequently emphasized over singing.
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 | On the Town
Buy used from: $2.76 Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Ann Miller. Can't ask for more. One of the first MGM films filmed on location.
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 | Anchors Aweigh (Snap Case)
Buy used from: $3.51 Feartures Gene Kelly dancing with Jerry the Mouse.
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 | Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Buy used from: $5.49 The idea for the movie was conceived by Gene Kelly, who wanted to pay tribute to the early days of baseball.
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 | Les Girls
Buy used from: $3.76 One of the last musicals Gene Kelly did at MGM.
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 | The Barkleys of Broadway
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $1.34 The swan song for Astaire & Rogers as a dancing duo.
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 | Finian's Rainbow
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $4.40 |
 | Silk Stockings
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $9.75 A musical remake of Ninotchka.
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 | Dancing Lady
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $7.89 Fred Astaire's film debut.
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 | The Broadway Melody (Special Edition)
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $1.95 The first all talking, all dancing picture and the first talkie and musical to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
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 | Broadway Melody of 1940
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $10.22 Has one of the best tap sequences ever filmed with Eleanor Powell giving Astaire a run for his money in "Begin the Beguine."
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 | Kiss Me Kate
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $6.30 #
# The original stage showed was based upon the backstage bickering of the illustrious married stage couple Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne during their 1935 Broadway production of "Taming of the Shrew."
Kathryn Grayson's role was offered first to Deanna Durbin.
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 | High Society
Buy used from: $2.38 Musical remake of The Philadelhia Story.
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 | The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $10.17 Debbie Reynold's best film and she was nominated for a well deserved Best Actress Academy Award nomination.
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 | Gigi
Buy used from: $3.94 1958 Best Picture winner
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 | An American in Paris
Buy used from: $1.30 1951 Best Picture winner.
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 | The Great Ziegfeld
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $5.97 The first film centered around Flo Ziegfeld and the 1936 Best Picture Oscar.
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 | Best Foot Forward
Buy used from: $8.36 Lana Turner was going to star in this movie but once she discovered she was pregnant Lucille Ball was given her role.
June Allyson's MGM debut.
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 | Good News
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $10.23 One of my personal faves. June Allyson is pure sunshine and the Varsity Drag sequence is definately worth checking out.
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 | The Pirate
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $10.69 Originally a film for Greer Garson and Cary Grant before it was turned into a musical. The only flop film for Judy at MGM.
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 | TCM Spotlight - Esther Williams, Vol. 1 (Bathing Beauty / Easy to Wed / On an Island with You / Neptune's Daughter / Dangerous When Wet)
Buy new: $25.49 / Used from: $40.09 The only person in Hollywood to do aqua musicals. Esther Williams is truly one of a kind.
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 | The Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Collection (Babes in Arms / Babes on Broadway / Girl Crazy / Strike Up the Band)
Buy new: $44.49 / Used from: $29.99 Their 4 "lets put on a show" films, usually in a barn, lol. Strike Up the Band is my personal fave.
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 | Royal Wedding / The Belle of New York
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $7.10 Two lesser known Fred Astaire films. June Allyson was supposed to play lead in Royal Wedding, but became pregnant.
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 | That Midnight Kiss / The Toast of New Orleans
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $16.99 Two films featuring the opera dynamics of Kathryn Grayson and Mario Lanza.
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 | Words and Music
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.60 The last of the plotless all star musical revues.
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