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Hollywood musicals : year by year / Stanley Green ; revised and updated by Barry Monush.

By: Green, Stanley.
Contributor(s): Monush, Barry.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Milwaukee : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2010Edition: 3rd edition.Description: xxii, 461 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781423489030.Subject(s): Musical films -- United States -- History and criticism | Motion pictures -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 791.436
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Whose singing voice was substituted for Marjorie Reynolds in Holiday Inn ? What movie was the first to combine live action with animated cartoon characters? What movie did Marlon Brando first sing in? These and thousands of other interesting facts about Hollywood's favorite musicals are answered in Hollywood Musicals Year by Year . This book provides a world of information, facts, and trivia about cinema's favorite musicals. Beginning with The Jazz Singer and moving through the years, this illustrated book documents more than 300 movies. Each entry includes the screenplay writer, producer, director, choreographer, cast list, song list, release date, plot summary, and interesting notes surrounding the production, cast, and spin-offs that the movie inspired. Hollywood Musicals Year by Year also contains many photographs of memorable moments in celluloid history.

Includes indexes.

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Stanley Green (1928-1990) was a historian of the American musical theater, devoting many years to lecturing and writing on the subject. He was the author of Broadway Musicals Show by Show , The World of Musical Comedy , and The Encyclopedia of the Musical Film , among other well-loved books., Barry Monush (Metuchen, New Jersey) is the associate editor of Screen World and a researcher at the Paley Center for Media in New York City. He is the author of the acclaimed Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the Silent Era to 1965 (Applause'), 'as well as the recently published Everybody's Talkin': The Top Films of 1965-1969 (Applause).