Movies: Ruby Keeler

During the Great Depression, all Broadway shows are closed down. A group of desperate unemployed showgirls find hope when a wealthy songwriter invests in a musical starring them, against the wishes of his high society brother. Thus start Carol, Trixi...

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences....

A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star....

A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town....

Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees...

A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her....

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression....

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Cla...

A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show....

An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it....

Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment an...

An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters....

A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA....

A musical which begins with six men and a woman singing; then a dance number; finally, the six men and woman sing again....

A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s....

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show....

A rich young boy arranges to be kidnapped so he'll get more attention from his parents....

Profile of famed dance director Busby Berkeley's career, in particular "The Gang's All Here"...

Students at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury's Beauty Soap, in the hope of being chosen as "Miss Complexion of 1934." Martha Howson wins the contest, which includes a trip to Hollywood and ...

The process by which girls are chosen for chorus line members in movie musical is shown. Numbers from popular 1930s musicals are then presented. These include "Don't Say Goodnight" from Wonder Bar (1934); "Lullaby of Broadway" from Gold Diggers of 19...