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1. The Producers (1967)

PG | 88 min | Comedy, Music

A stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, Kenneth Mars

Votes: 60,059 | Gross: $0.11M

2. Footlight Parade (1933)

Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

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

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell

Votes: 6,102 | Gross: $3.49M

3. The Broadway Melody (1929)

Passed | 100 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King, Eddie Kane

Votes: 8,028 | Gross: $6.12M

4. Repeat Performance (1947)

Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field, Tom Conway

Votes: 1,986

5. Black Widow (1954)

Approved | 95 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

A young writer insinuates herself into the life of a Broadway producer.

Director: Nunnally Johnson | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft

Votes: 3,253

6. City for Conquest (1940)

Passed | 104 min | Drama, Sport

Danny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together.

Directors: Anatole Litvak, Jean Negulesco | Stars: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp

Votes: 2,712

7. The Velvet Touch (1948)

Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A Broadway star unintentionally kills her impresario but keeps mum about it after the police investigator targets a rival actress.

Director: Jack Gage | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor, Sydney Greenstreet

Votes: 1,285

8. The Ghost Walks (1934)

Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

During a stormy night at an old dark mansion, people who claim to see ghosts roaming the halls are later found murdered.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: John Miljan, June Collyer, Richard Carle, Henry Kolker

Votes: 636

9. Easy to Love (1953)

Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

An aquatic performer tries to attract the man she loves.

Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin, John Bromfield

Votes: 807

10. Lovely to Look At (1952)

Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery

Three Broadway producers struggling to get backing for their show, hope one's sudden inheritance of a half interest in a Parisian fashion house is the answer. They travel to Paris only to learn the salon is in debt and requires their help.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Marge Champion

Votes: 861

11. Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)

Passed | 110 min | Musical, Romance

Steve Raleigh wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee, however his wife Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a... See full summary »

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Binnie Barnes

Votes: 1,358

12. Broadway Rhythm (1944)

Passed | 115 min | Music, Romance

A reluctantly-retired vaudevillian clashes with his producer son, who thinks his father's entertainment is passe'--audiences need something more sophisticated. Meanwhile, the producer's father and sister secretly produce their own show.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: George Murphy, Ginny Simms, Charles Winninger, Gloria DeHaven

Votes: 341

13. Delightfully Dangerous (1945)

Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Jane Powell, Ralph Bellamy, Constance Moore, Louise Beavers

Votes: 330

14. The Tenderfoot (1932)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Western

Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Ruth Weston, a secretary, learns that her boss, Joe Lehman, is attempting to swindle Jones and pulls a successful coup d'etat producing a play that she stars in.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Ginger Rogers, Lew Cody, Vivien Oakland

Votes: 449

15. Thrill of a Lifetime (1937)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

"Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such thing as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has ... See full summary »

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: James V. Kern, Charles Adler, George Kelly, Billy Mann

Votes: 61

16. The Thrill of Brazil (1946)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Steve, revue producer in Rio de Janeiro, is still in love with his ex-wife Vicki, his star Linda is in love with Steve and Tito is in love with Linda. Because of this they all get small problems.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Evelyn Keyes, Keenan Wynn, Ann Miller, Allyn Joslyn

Votes: 156

17. Redhead from Manhattan (1943)

Approved | 64 min | Comedy

Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan where she takes the place of her Broadway star twin sister Elaine, ... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Lupe Velez, Michael Duane, Tim Ryan, Gerald Mohr

Votes: 37

18. Cinderella Swings It (1943)

Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Scattergood Baines, Coldriver's most popular citizen, neighborly counselor and sly old fox, entices a Broadway producer to Coldriver to see the gay musical extravaganza Baines is staging ... See full summary »

Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Guy Kibbee, Gloria Warren, Helen Parrish, Dick Hogan

Votes: 32

19. The Music Goes 'Round (1936)

Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

On a leave of absence from Broadway, Harry Wallace (Harry Richman), the star of a musical comedy, encounters a troupe of untalented showboat players and takes them to New York City. Without... See full summary »

Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Harry Richman, Rochelle Hudson, Walter Connolly, Douglass Dumbrille

Votes: 21

20. My Best Gal (1944)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Kitty O'Hara (Jane Withers)has a good singing voice but will have nothing to do with trying to use it in the theatre or on the radio. She and her grandfather, Danny O'Hara (Frank Craven), ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Jane Withers, Jimmy Lydon, Frank Craven, Fortunio Bonanova

Votes: 44

21. Chicken a La King (1928)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy

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Director: Henry Lehrman | Stars: Nancy Carroll, George Meeker, Ford Sterling, Arthur Stone

22. Paris in New York (1936)

Approved | 22 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Joking with a newspaper reporter about the way he discovered French star Irene Bordoni, a Broadway producer tells how he hired the entire cast in his latest stage production. While drunk, ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: Irène Bordoni, Pansy Sanborn, Will Aubrey, Frank Mazzone

23. The Scoop (II) (2017– )

12 min | Reality-TV, Talk-Show

THE SCOOP is a hybrid docuseries where host Jeanette Bonner investigates the stories behind NYC's local and independent ice cream shops and invites a top creative professionals to join her ... See full summary »

Stars: Jeanette Bonner, Bradley Reynolds, Tessa LaNeve, Ashley Alderfer

24. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (1984)

TV-PG | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Former English teacher Jessica Fletcher travels to New York to celebrate the success of her debut novel. But when an unwanted guest is murdered by gunfire at a costume party, she wishes she'd stayed home.

Director: Corey Allen | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Eddie Barth, Jessica Browne, Bert Convy

Votes: 1,245

25. A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002)
Episode: Poison à la Carte (2002)

TV-PG | Action, Drama, Mystery

At the annual meeting of Wolfe's gourmet society, Ten for Aristology, one of the members is poisoned, and Wolfe suspects one of the beautiful servers of the crime.

Director: George Bloomfield | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Maury Chaykin, Colin Fox, Bill Smitrovich

Votes: 114

26. Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode: Gershwin's Trunk (1987)

Not Rated | 30 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Frantic to deliver a hit musical, conniving Broadway composer Jo-Jo Gillespie contacts the spirit of George Gershwin through psychic Sister Teresa, and makes marvelous music from beyond the... See full summary »

Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: Bob Balaban, Lainie Kazan, John McCook, Dana Gladstone

Votes: 190

27. The Nanny (1993–1999)
Episode: The Taxman Cometh (1996)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

Fran is watching Jay Leno's dog and getting audited by the Internal Revenue Service.

Director: Dorothy Lyman | Stars: Fran Drescher, Charles Shaughnessy, Daniel Davis, Lauren Lane

Votes: 302

28. Private Secretary (1953–1957)
Episode: Three's a Crowd (1956)

TV-G | 25 min | Comedy

Susie McNamara has been instrumental in getting a new playwright together with a Broadway producer through her bosses' agency. But when both the playwright and the producer become smitten ... See full summary »

Director: Oscar Rudolph | Stars: Ann Sothern, Don Porter, Ann Tyrrell, Gerald Mohr

Votes: 19

29. What's My Line? (1950–1967)
Episode: Dick Kollmar & Garry Moore (1955)

Family, Game-Show

A week that features three mystery guests. Panelists Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis and Fred Allen begin the show blindfolded when trying to guess the identity of Richard ... See full summary »

Director: Franklin Heller | Stars: Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, Fred Allen, Dorothy Kilgallen

Votes: 42

30. Biography (1987– )
Episode: Irving Berlin: An American Song (2001)

TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History

The life and times of one of America's greatest composers Irving Berlin.

Stars: Alan Anderson, Fred Astaire, Mary Ellin Barnett, Irving Berlin

Votes: 103