GIMS DVD/Videotape Collection by Genre: Musical/Dance

Fading movie musical star Tony Hunter, down and out in Hollywood, decides to try his luck on the Broadway stage.

"A successful but constantly-feuding husband and wife musical comedy team threatens to break up when the wife entertains an offer to become a serious actress." www.imdb.com

A music group and a journalist cross the region of Basilicata by foot to attend a music festival.

"Young Lena becomes a chief manager of a workers' club. The problem is this club is not constructed yet and finishing it takes too much effort from a young girl. The solution is found by her grandmother and her 'old guards'. Look out Lena's enemies. Here's her grandma coming!" www.imdb.com

"Story shows the genesis of the career and the rise of Esther the most beloved actress of most popular theater in Havana at the turn of the 19th century." (www.imdb.com)

A free-spirited playboy attempts to prove his worth to a delectable Bowery mission worker through dazzling song and dance routines in this lavish turn-of-the-century musical.

"In this musical, Paul Robeson stars as Joe, a Marseilles docker hired by a wealthy English couple to find their missing son." www.imdb.com

"An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer." www.imdb.com

"This production shows, for the first time in two centuries, Moliere and Lully's comedie-ballet in its original and unabridged 1670-version, with the sung and danced interludes interwoven into the action, recreating the atmosphere of unbridled hilarity, which is the hallmark of comedie-ballet. "--Publisher.

Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and prejudice, with a Bollywood twist. In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love?

An egocentric American girl dreams of becoming a star while working in a third-rate Berlin cabaret.

The fable of rascally Little Joe, torn between the love of his good wife Petunia and the wiles of good-time bad girl Georgia Brown ... and caught in a tug-of-war between emissaries from the Lord and Satan.

"When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander." www.imdb.com

" Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast." www.imdb.com

"A new chief of a 'Culture House' is planning to hold a terribly boring New Year concert. A group of young amateur actors are doing their best to liven up the concert." www.imdb.com

Nawab Pyare Mian is in love with Jameela. But the problem is that his friend, Aslam, has also fallen for her, and the friends will have to make sacrifices for each other.

"An east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film." www.imdb.com

Three relatives stand to inherit a multi-millionaire's money if they turn against his pet hate, the theater.

Amarkanth Varma, an All India Radio reporter, is dispatched to the northeastern part of India. While waiting for a train, he meets Meghna and instantly falls in love with her. They meet again by chance but she disappears as soon as she came. Heartbroken and under pressure from his family, he agrees to marry Preeti Nair. On the day of the engagement to Preeti, Meghna shows up at his house with a private and deadly agenda of her own that will shake the very roots of the Varma family and India as a whole.

Based on K.I. Chukhovsky's adaptation of Hugh Lofting's classic, the Story of Dr. Dolittle. Short animated films created by one of Russia's most talented animation teams present several of the quirky doctor's comical adventures.

A ballet rendition of Bram Stoker's gothic novel DRACULA, presented in a style reminiscent of the silent expressionistic cinema of the early 20th Century. This work employs the subtle and sometimes bold use of color to emphasize its themes, but mainly is presented in black-and-white, or tinted in monochrome. No spoken dialogue can be heard, and the story of a sinister but intriguing immigrant who preys upon young English women unfolds through dance, pantomime and subtitles.

Story about students at the High School of Performing Arts, New York. Dance sequences include an audition, classes, a ballet solo by Antonia Franceschi, and the ensemble numbers "Fame" and "I sing the body electric."

A British valet is brought to the Old West to teach Old World charms to a certain redheaded tomboy. Of course, Bob's not really a valet--he's an out-of-work actor who's stumbled across the role of his life. It's tea at 4:00 p.m. and don't fan your soup with your hat, but will proper etiquette protect Bob from Lucy's jilted beau?

Tevye is a poor milkman in czarist Russia, where he provides for three unmarried daughters and a sharp-tongued wife. Faced with mounting financial strain and growing anti-Semitism, Tevye strives to maintain balance despite the precarious nature of his situation.

Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang Ta, a handsome college student living in Chinatown, complications, merriment, and many musical numbers ensue.

"In order to escape her narrow and restrictive life, Senta, the daughter of a rich shipowner, seeks refuge in her fantasies and dreams. IN this real of imagination, a bold and restless sea captain appears to her, the Flying Dutchman, who is cursed to wander the seas forever. In her obsessive dreams, Senta frees this man through her love for him." Container

"A Navy sailor tries to rekindle a romance with the woman he loves while on liberty in San Francisco." www.imdb.com

"Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses." www.imdb.com

The movie musical that introduced the choreography of Busby Berkeley, 42nd Street also contains the classic plot involving a tyrannical director, egotistical leading lady and wide-eyed ingenue, all set to a standout musical score.

A Cinderella story about an inconspicuous salesgirl who is whisked off to Paris by a group of fashion magazine sophisticates and transformed into a dazzling model with whom the magazine's photographer falls in love.

"A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom." www.imdb.com

" Singers Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the disapproving father of Lorelei's fiancé to keep an eye on her, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers." www.imdb.com

A medical student working as a clerk in a ritzy New England hotel falls in love with a rich woman's daughter.

Infused with spirituals, folk songs, blues, and jazz, Hallelujah follows the fortunes of Zeke, a poor cotton farmer. Love, loss, passion, redemption, make this cinematic milestone the first all-black feature from a major studio.

A kaleidoscopic satire that is a movie homage, media send-up, concert movie, and antiwar cry all at once.

"Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes." www.imdb.com

"Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way."

Set on the Baltic Sea, is the lovin' and fightin' of 10 teenage boys and 11 teenage girls on vacation. A musical version of coming of age. This bit of fluff lit up the East German box offices in 1968. There is a blend of pop songs, rock and upbeat lyrics.

The fairy tale characters of Little Red Ridinghood, Cinderella, and Jack (and the Beanstalk) are linked together with the characters of a baker and his wife. Their stories intertwine as they all search for something different in the woods. After they have all found happiness, they must band together to fight a giant.

" A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree." www.imdb.com

Wartime patriotism is captured in a wondrous trip back in time in this tribute to the all-American soldier.

A musical revolving around the ten-year reunion of three war buddies who discover that while friendship changes over time, having fun definitely does not!

A Jewish cantor's son breaks with his family to become a popular music singer.

A beautiful female ascetic named Surabhi begs for alms. While singing a famous song written by India's most famous female mendicant, 16th century saint Meerabai, Shurabhi attracts the attention of handsome young agnostic Vija. Though she begs him to stay away, he continues to follow her until she eventually tells him why she became a nun.

At the same place, only 50 years later old friends meet again to celebrate the New Year Eve together.

A musical comedy about peasants, commissars, and other characters all interacting at the annual harvest fair in the Don Cossack country of the Soviet Union.

"The people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against their ruthless British rulers." www.imdb.com

The King of Navarre and his friends think that they cannot love again. When the Princess of France and her attendants arrive for a visit, their plans are completely turned upside down.

A carefree tailor leaves Paris to collect on a past due bill at an aristocratic client's chateau. Mistaken for royalty, he attempts to woo a lovely princess.

"A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess." www.imdb.com

The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.

On receiving a telegram from his wife, Devendra hastily drives down to the station to receive her. Due to a heavy rains and a landslide he is forced to take shelter in an abandoned palace along with his doctor friend. Inside the palace, Devendra begins to think that he has been there before. He talks of a picture on the wall and the old keeper affirmsthere was one... The doctor ascribes it all to the worried mind of Devendra. But, no...a painting supposedly made by Devendra turns out to be exactly at the place where he had left it. Yes, he had come here before, but not as Devendra but as Anand, a Managar on the Estate - but this was in his previous life.

As the star of Meadow's Merry Minstrels, Al Fuller (Jolson) lands a backer for the show, springboarding the troupe to success, but when a jealous co-star puts real bullets in Fuller's stage gun, Al finds himself charged with attempted murder.

Jailed during the Spanish Inquisition for offending the church, author Miguel de Cervantes is forced to act out one of his manuscripts for the entertainment of fellow inmates. Cervantes delivers a rapturous performance as the legendary Don Quixote, the chivalrous knight whose choice to see life as it should be, not as it is, takes him into battles with an imaginary foe and into romance with the beautiful Dulcinea.

" In the year before the 1904 St Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York." www.imdb.com

A musical comedy about a pair of young lovers who lose a lottery ticket worth a million francs and chase it frantically across Paris. Considered one of the very first musical films.

" In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives for ever." www.imdb.com

An independent-minded countess leaves her foppish prince fiancé at the altar and whisks away to the Riviera.

"In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, always sticks to her own moral code." www.imdb.com

Christian is an idealistic and impoverished young writer who, newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec. A comedy of mistaken identities ensues, quickly enmeshing the young poet in a love triangle involving the unobtainable and consumptive Satine, queen courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, and the foppish Duke of Roxbury, his villainous rival for her affections.

A musician meets and falls in love with a lounge singer at the end of World War II. The couple struggles to balance their passions for music and each other under the pressures of show biz.

A New York scandal, a riot on a ship, and an evening of insanity in a concert hall are some of the problems resulting from Groucho's outrageous business schemes. The goal, to bring Milan's finest opera stars to Manhattan.

A young prairie woman is courted by a good-natured cowboy and a menacing hired hand.

A filmed performance of the three-act opera Olga, based on the life of Olga Benario Prestes, a German communist militant who came to Brazil as bodyguard and later wife of Luís Carlos Prestes, went into hiding after the failed insurrection of 1935, and was extradited to Germany and eventually interned in Ravensbrück concentration camp, from which she was sent to be gassed in 1942.

A seemingly blissful couple's marriage hits the skids when the wife's flirtatious school chum comes on to her husband a bit too strong.

Musical about a family that moves to a small town in Indiana, where their tomboy daughter begins a romance with the college man across the street.

"During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher." (www.imdb.com)

A legendary producer and his mild-mannered accountant face catastrophe when their play unexpectedly becomes a success.

" A middle-aged man who lost his love for life rediscovers it by assuming a new identity in order to rekindle the romantic spark in his marriage." www.imdb.com

Two vaudeville actors find a beautiful princess, cannibals, a giant squid, and more on a South Sea Island.

The lone survivors of a Mediterranean shipwreck, our heroes find themselves in the company of Princess Shalimar, who has purchased one of the boys to be her husband, but must now face the jealousy of nasty Sheik Mullay Kassim.

A pair of down-and-out Hollywood musicians find themselves on a slow boat to Rio de Janeiro where they meet a beautiful woman whose sinister guardian is trying to marry her off to a swindler.

When junior shipping mogul Josh Mallon comes too close to getting hitched, he and his best buddy Ace Lannigan run to the furthest point they can find on a map--Singapore. The first of the famous "Road" pictures starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby as a team of irrepressible bachelors, the scenery includes Dorothy Lamour as the beautiful live-in housekeeper they bring home.

Bing and Bob get caught up in a race to stake their claim to the veins of a Klondike gold mine after nabbing the deed from a couple of vicious killers. Since the boys themselves are skipping town after a shady deal, they decide to adopt the murderers' identities and take the opportunity to get to know the beautiful and ambitious Dorothy Lamour.

"Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women." (www.imdb.com)

Tom and Ellen are a pair of siblings whose London stage engagement overlaps Princess Elizabeth's royal wedding. If love can make anyone dance on the ceiling and walls, Tom's the one.

Isabella Rossellini stars as a Depression-era beer baroness who sponsors a contest to find the world's saddest tune in this dark comedy.

A Tunisian widow embarks on a journey of self-discovery when she is drawn to the world of cabaret belly dancers.

The story of a Brooklyn store clerk who is a Saturday night disco king; he begins to question the narrowness of his perspective when he meets a girl who is shedding her origins for a more sophisticated lifestyle.

"In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around him, marrying Palagna." www.imdb.com

"A budding romance between a ballet master and a tapdancer becomes complicated when rumours surface that they're already married." www.imdb.com

A brash barroom entertainer of the 1890s (West) has a soft spot for men in trouble, especially a mission director (Cary Grant). She unwittingly is caught up in murder and white slavery and has to clear things up as only she can. Features songs including "Frankie and Johnny."

With fame, fortune and fans galore, silent screen idol Don Lockwood thought he had it all. But one look at aspiring actress Kathy Seldon, and he knew exactly what he was missing. Now he's swinging from lampposts, singing in the raindrops and ready for love. With talking pictures on the rise, Don sets out to make a musical with the woman of his dreams, but one thing stands in his way, his jealous co-star who wants Don--and the leading role--all to herself.

Follow-up to the historic "first talkie", The jazz singer. Al Stone (Al Jolson), goes from a waiter to Broadway performer with the trials and tribulations of life and several great songs along the way.

A Viennese lieutenant is enamored of a freethinking all-girl-orchestra-leading cutie. But complications ensue when the sexually repressed princess of Flausenthurm sets her sights on him.

"A black British dockworker named Johnny Zinga becomes a famous singer and learns that he is the rightful king of the African island of Casanga." www.imdb.com

"A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral." www.imdb.com

Dancing great Bill Williamson takes a look back on the beginnings of his career and his romance with fellow rising star Selina. Their romance is brief because Selina does not want to settle down. The movie includes an all-star show hosted by Cab Calloway.

"A performer and gambler travels to New York City to raise the $25,000 he needs to marry his fiancée, only to become entangled with a beautiful aspiring dancer." www.imdb.com

A lavish screen adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's phantasmal opera. Included are performances form some of the greatest ballet dancers and opera singers ever to grace the stage or screen.

This film tells of the trials and tribulations of the Parisian exile of a group of Argentines in the late 70's, and how they seek to express their frustration, despair and anger by putting on a musical play with tango dancing which they entitle "The Exile of Gardel." Uncertain of their own futures, they have problems getting their play finished and produced. Their thoughts and experiences in Paris are bound up with two famous Latin American characters whose ties with France were noteworthy -- General San Marti?n, liberator of South America, and the famous tango singer Carlos Gardel. San Marti?n spent the last 25 years of his life in French exile and died there in 1850. Gardel, who was born in France, emigrated with his mother at the age of three to Buenos Aires. He became an international music and film star but was killed in a plane crash at the age of 44.

Rogers and Astaire are caught up in a mistaken identity plot, in which Rogers assumes that Astaire is already married, and is alternatively charmed and repelled by his advances.

"In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the 'king of the beggars'" www.imdb.com

Alexandrov's attempt at importing American musical comedy into Soviet film. An American circus star who has a black baby can only find happiness with the Soviet people in the Soviet Union.

A musical comedy which pits a whip-cracking, animal-herding, good-hearted rustic with a fine voice and a Pan-like effect on all who hear him against a so-called "finer" stratum of society. Leaving a trail of mirth and mayhem from the seaside to the Moscow theater world, our hero eventually finds harmony and lifelong melody with a pretty, tuneful serving girl.

A poverty-stricken singer in Depression-era Paris becomes convinced that the only way she can earn a living on the nightclub circuit is to masquerade as a man who impersonates women. Then she meets the man of her dreams.

An Israeli man falls in love with a Palestinian woman. Their potential relationship is greatly complicated by their families' competing falafel stands on the West Bank, however.

This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.

Join Charlie Bucket, his grandfather, and four lucky contest winners on a tour through the factory of the mysterious candy mogul Willy Wonka.

Adaptation of Sandra Bernhard's one-woman off-Broadway show, in which she takes on a number of roles in order to examine American pop culture.

A musical depicting the life of George M. Cohan, playwright, entertainer, and composer.

"A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training." www.imdb.com

"John Greyson has woven a tall tale of love and loss, sex and science, history and hysteria in the age of AIDS. Greyson revives renowned Victorian Sir Richard Burton who constructs a sensationalist multimedia museum display focusing on Patient Zero, the gay French-Canadian flight attendant accused of bringing AIDS to North America"--Container.

A dead showman looks down upon the Earth and dreams of his perfect show. A who's who of credited and uncredited Hollywood talents.