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1950s Musical Comedy Movies

Public list by WPS with 262 movies or TV shows/series

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Singin' in the Rain(1952)

4.1/5 (with 1,350 votes)

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

Funny Face(1957)

NR
| 1h 43min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Music
3.5/5 (with 302 votes)

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers(1954)

G
| 1h 42min | Comedy, Drama, Western
3.6/5 (with 239 votes)

In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes(1953)

NR
| 1h 31min | Music, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 393 votes)

Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.

The Court Jester(1955)

3.7/5 (with 78 votes)

A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.

White Christmas(1954)

3.6/5 (with 225 votes)

Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.

Royal Wedding(1951)

NR
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 40 votes)

Tom and Ellen are asked to perform as a dance team in England at the time of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. As brother and sister, each develops a British love interest, Ellen with Lord John Brindale and Tom with dancer Anne Ashmond.

High Society(1956)

NR
| 1h 51min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 90 votes)

Childhood friends Tracy Lord and C.K. Dexter Haven got married and quickly divorced. Now Tracy is about to marry again, this time to a shrewd social-climbing businessman. C.K. still loves her. Spy magazine blackmails Tracy's family by threatening to reveal her playboy father's exploits if not allowed to cover the wedding. A remake of the 1940 rom com The Philadelphia Story.

Gigi(1958)

G
| 1h 56min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 132 votes)

A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.

Daddy Long Legs(1955)

NR
| 2h 6min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 40 votes)

Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, while still concealing his identity, and—despite their large age difference—they soon fall in love.

Kiss Me Kate(1953)

NR
| 1h 49min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 36 votes)

Fred and Lilli are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play. A fight on the opening night threatens the production, as well as two thugs who have the mistaken idea that Fred owes their boss money and insist on staying next to him all night.

The Band Wagon(1953)

NR
| 1h 52min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 93 votes)

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

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Rock-a-Bye Baby(1958)

NR
| 1h 43min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 33 votes)

An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer.

Artists and Models(1955)

1h 49min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 52 votes)

Painter Rick Todd is having difficulty with his career, so he starts taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, Eugene, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps. Unbeknown to Eugene, Abigail Parker, the artist for his favorite comic book, lives in the same building with her roommate, Bessie, the model for Abigail's drawings.

Pal Joey(1957)

NR
| 1h 51min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 28 votes)

An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.

Jack and the Beanstalk(1952)

2.9/5 (with 21 votes)

A young boy trades the family cow for magic beans.

Les Girls(1957)

NR
| 1h 54min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 21 votes)

After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style narrative presents the story from three points of view where Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry, while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.

Rabbit of Seville(1950)

3.8/5 (with 73 votes)

Behind the Hollywood Bowl stage which is playing the opera The Barber of Seville, Bugs Bunny flees into the backstage area with Elmer Fudd in close pursuit. Seeing his opportunity to fight on his terms, Bugs raises the curtain on Elmer, trapping him on stage. As the orchestra begins playing, Bugs comes into play as the barber who is going to make sure that Elmer is going to get a grooming he will never forget.

Directed by Chuck Jones

The Opposite Sex(1956)

2.5/5 (with 8 votes)

Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back. The Opposite Sexis a remake of the 1939 comedyThe Women.

Annie Get Your Gun(1950)

3.5/5 (with 30 votes)

Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

One Froggy Evening(1955)

3.9/5 (with 71 votes)

A workman finds a singing frog in the cornerstone of an old building being demolished. But when he tries to cash in on his discovery, he finds the frog will sing only for him, and just croak for the talent agent and the audience in the theater he's spent his life savings on.

Directed by Chuck Jones

Scared Stiff(1953)

NR
| 1h 48min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...

Athena(1954)

NR
| 1h 35min | Romance / Love, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.

The Girl Can't Help It(1956)

PG
| 1h 39min | Comedy, Music
3.1/5 (with 23 votes)

A down-and-out gangster hires an alcoholic press agent to make his blonde bombshell girlfriend a recording star in 6 weeks. But what is he going to do when he finds out that she has no talent? And what is going to happen when the two fall in love?

At War with the Army(1950)

1h 33min | Comedy
2.6/5 (with 20 votes)

Two former nightclub partners are now enlisted in the Army. Sergeant Puccinelli ranks above his former partner, Private First Class Korwin. Puccinelli is desperately trying to get transferred from his dull job to active duty overseas. Meanwhile, all Korwin wants is a pass to see his wife and new baby.

Summer Stock(1950)

NR
| 1h 48min | Music, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 20 votes)

To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores in exchange for food. Her reluctance becomes attraction when she falls in love with the director, Joe, who happens to be her sister's fiance.

Silk Stockings(1957)

NR
| 1h 57min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 24 votes)

After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. She starts out condemning the decadent West, but gradually falls under its spell—with the help of an American movie producer. A remake of Ninotchka (1939).

The Spessart Inn(1958)

1h 39min | Adventure, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

Countess Franziska "is kidnapped" by a band of robbers. However, her father is not willing to pay the ransom so Franziska changes sides.

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd(1952)

1h 10min | Adventure, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two bumpkins mix-up a love letter with Captain Kidd's treasure map of Skull Island, leading to them being kidnapped and taken off to the notorious pirate's island.

Road to Bali(1953)

1h 31min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 31 votes)

Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.

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