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Thelma Ritter is matchmaker to Jeanne Crain and Scott Brady. Witty script; directed by George Cukor. Zero Mostel, Michael O'Shea.

A Brazilian woman is wooed by an American bandleader, even though she is engaged to marry his best friend.

Dagwood tries to impersonate Mr. Dithers so he can land a big contract. Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Jonathan Hale, Larry Simms, Marjorie Kent. Gray: Shemp Howard (very funny as a process server). Schmidt: Steven Geray. Conroy: Arthur Loft. Directed by Abby Berlin.

A sibling dance team is booked to play London at the time of Queen Elizabeth II's marriage. The musical is famous for a pair of Fred Astaire solos, one a duet with a coat rack, the other a tap dance across a ceiling.

Judy Garland and Gene Kelly team in this tuneful tale about a theatrical company that stages a summer production on a financially burdened New England farm, and the down-on-her-luck owner ends up becoming the leading lady of the show.

A teenage playboy is sent to a Western mining school by his father, where two ladies competing to be a rodeo queen vie for the young man's affection. One of the best of the Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney "Let's put on a show" musicals is driven by a George and Ira Gershwin score that features "Embraceable You," "But Not for Me" and "I Got Rhythm.".

A hoofer tries to mold a singer into a sophisticated dancer in this romp.

Four sisters at the turn of the 20th century learn vital lessons about life and love as their family prepares for a move to New York City.

Oh, they have trouble, right there in River City, Iowa, where a smooth-talking con man convinces the locals to fork up the dough to pay for musical instruments so they can form a marching band and keep the youngsters of the town out of mischief. He must also convince a local librarian, who may have realized that he has no idea how to play or teach music. Robert Preston reprises the title role, for

Musical biography of the backwoods girl who struck it rich in Colorado and survived the Titanic.

The sleuth (Basil Rathbone) on the trail of Nazi spies and saboteurs in wartime England. Watson: Nigel Bruce. Kitty: Evelyn Ankers. Barham: Reginald Denny. Meade: Thomas Gomez. Lawford: Montagu Love. Lloyd: Henry Daniell. Suspenseful updating of a Conan Doyle story. John Rawlins directed.

A collection of short films.

Frank Sinatra (who produced) and his Rat Pack (in their final movie collaboration) star in this spoof of gangster films that's set in Roaring '20s Chicago and is a mixture of the Robin Hood fable and "Guys and Dolls." Eight songs by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen highlight the film, including the Oscar-nominated "My Kind of Town" (sung by Sinatra).

Tips and tricks to help the environment.

Tips and tricks to help the environment.

Techniques for entering the motion picture and television are provided for kids.

Techniques for entering the motion picture and television are provided for kids.

A first-rate adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel about Ebenezer Scrooge, a London miser who, despite his wealth, refuses to make charitable contributions and treats his sole employee, Bob Cratchit, as an indentured servant. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his selfish business partner, Jacob Marley, and then by three more spirits that same night, an experience that for

Henry Winkler as a 1930s New England Scrooge. David Wayne, Chris Wiggins. Thatcher: R.H. Thomson. Jack: Kenneth Pogue. Jessup: Gerard Parkes. Directed by Eric Till.

Santa's North Pole toy factory is threatened with demolition by greedy oil prospectors, but an eco-conscious woman and three kids come to the rescue and try to save Christmas for Santa.

Mrs. Santa Claus gets stranded in a multi-cultural neighborhood in 1910 New York City, when she takes the sleigh out and tries to find a new route for her husband and his reindeer.

A lawyer for the mob decides to go straight after one last job. When the job goes south, the lawyer is required to testify against his former bosses. He agrees, but only if his dream girl gets police protection.

A troubled New York City detective gets a chance to redeem himself when he's assigned to go undercover to investigate and clean up corruption and crime on the waterfront.

Nazi spies in America recruit a German-American college student, who promptly goes to the FBI. The Feds convince him to be come a double agent, and help them find the leader of this clan of saboteurs.

A family of poor acrobats are thrilled when they find a stash of cash hidden in their house during the Great Depression. When the father is accused of robbing their rich neighbor, the real culprit is discovered: a feisty squirrel named Rupert.

Yuletide story spun around the genesis of the editorial written for the New York Sun in 1897 by Francis Church (Charles Bronson). O'Hanlon: Richard Thomas. Mitchell: Edward Asner. Virginia: Katharine Isobel. Donelli: Massimo Bonetti. Chambers: Peter Breck. Evie: Tasmin Kelsey. Andrea: Colleen Winton. Charles Jarrott directed.

In this tuneful version of the Cinderella tale, a prince searches for a mysterious beauty who left behind a glass slipper at a royal ball.

A teenage playboy is sent to a Western mining school by his father, where two ladies competing to be a rodeo queen vie for the young man's affection. One of the best of the Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney "Let's put on a show" musicals is driven by a George and Ira Gershwin score that features "Embraceable You," "But Not for Me" and "I Got Rhythm.".

Fred Astaire as a stage star, and Ginger Rogers as his beautiful neighbor, dance---and romance---from London to Venice in this tip-top musical full of classic Irving Berlin tunes. Astaire and Rogers' fourth of 10 screen pairings was nominated for Best Picture.

A famous dancer whose career is on the decline stages a comeback with a musical adaptation of Faust, but fears the flamboyant director and his classical ballerina co-star will upstage him.

A musical love triangle in which a psychiatrist and his friend's girlfriend fall in love. He uses hypnosis to sway her affection back to his friend, but now the psychiatrist must win back her love before the wedding.

Gossip threatens to halt the budding romance between a ballerina and a tap dancer who find themselves in the midst of some very much unwanted publicity. The seventh screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers features a score by George and Ira Gershwin.

A first-rate adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel about Ebenezer Scrooge, a London miser who, despite his wealth, refuses to make charitable contributions and treats his sole employee, Bob Cratchit, as an indentured servant. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his selfish business partner, Jacob Marley, and then by three more spirits that same night, an experience that for

A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.

Henry Winkler as a 1930s New England Scrooge. David Wayne, Chris Wiggins. Thatcher: R.H. Thomson. Jack: Kenneth Pogue. Jessup: Gerard Parkes. Directed by Eric Till.

Mrs. Santa Claus gets stranded in a multi-cultural neighborhood in 1910 New York City, when she takes the sleigh out and tries to find a new route for her husband and his reindeer.

Tale of a waif adopted by an old lighthouse keeper.

Moppet Shirley Temple scored a big hit singing "The Good Ship Lollipop" and playing an orphan who worships a daredevil pilot, while living with a snooty couple, for whom her late mother once worked, and their bratty daughter.

George Sidney directed this adaptation of the Irving Berlin stage hit, with Betty Hutton as Annie.

Musical biography of the backwoods girl who struck it rich in Colorado and survived the Titanic.

A bumpy romance between a vivacious stage star and songwriter is the basis for a visually impressive musical.

The tuneful Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart-John O'Hara stage hit about a nightclub singer. Songs include "The Lady Is a Tramp," "My Funny Valentine," "There's a Small Hotel," "Bewitched.".

A dancer aspiring to be a Broadway star gets an offer to be a cover girl, but would be willing to keep her nightclub act if only the owner would notice her.

Elvis Presley needs a strong heart and nerves of steel to have a swinging time in the Nevada gambling mecca, where he enters his race car in a Grand Prix event, and goes wheel-to-wheel with his archrival as they compete on the track and for the love of a comely singer.