Best Backstage Musical Movies of the 1940s

Director: Charles Walters
Writers: Sidney Sheldon
Stars: Judy Garland,Fred Astaire,Peter Lawford,Ann Miller,Liza Minnelli,Jules Munshin,June Gale,Richard Beavers
IMDb ID: tt0040308
Genres: Musical,Musical comedy,Backstage Musical,Comedy,Romance Film
Release date: 1948-06-30
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language,French Language,Italian Language

Director: Norman Taurog
Stars: Fred Astaire,Eleanor Powell,George Murphy,Frank Morgan,Lynne Carver
IMDb ID: tt0032284
Genres: Musical,Black-and-white,Romance Film,Musical Drama,Backstage Musical
Release date: 1940-02-09
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: Busby Berkeley,Vincente Minnelli
Stars: Judy Garland,Mickey Rooney,Margaret O'Brien,James Gleason,Virginia Weidler,Fay Bainter,Luis Alberni,Richard Quine,Donald Meek,Alexander Woollcott
IMDb ID: tt0034485
Genres: Musical,Black-and-white,Romance Film,Backstage Musical,Musical comedy,Comedy
Release date: 1941
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: Archie Mayo
Writers: Darrell Ware,James Prindle,Karl Tunberg
Stars: Ann Rutherford,George Montgomery,Cesar Romero,Lynn Bari,Marion Hutton,Harry Morgan,Harold Nicholas,Mary Beth Hughes,Carole Landis,Fayard Nicholas
IMDb ID: tt0035157
Genres: Musical,Romance Film,Musical Drama,Backstage Musical,Drama
Release date: 1942-09-04
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: David Butler
Stars: Humphrey Bogart,Ann Sheridan,Hattie McDaniel,Dennis Morgan,Eddie Cantor,Joan Leslie,Olivia de Havilland,John Garfield,Edward Everett Horton,Jack Carson
IMDb ID: tt0036422
Genres: Musical,Black-and-white,Musical comedy,Backstage Musical,Comedy
Release date: 1943
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Stars: George Murphy,Lena Horne,Nancy Walker,Gloria DeHaven,Charles Winninger,Ginny Simms
IMDb ID: tt0036673
Genres: Musical,Musical comedy,Backstage Musical,Comedy
Release date: 1944
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Virginia Mayo,Steve Cochran,Louis Armstrong,Benny Goodman,Danny Kaye,Tommy Dorsey,Hugh Herbert,Mel Powell,Lionel Hampton,Charlie Barnet
IMDb ID: tt0040820
Genres: Musical,Musical comedy,Backstage Musical,Comedy
Release date: 1948-10-19
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: Hal Walker
Stars: Robert Benchley,Mae Busch,Barry Fitzgerald,Don DeFore,Betty Hutton,Bill Goodwin,Noel Neill
IMDb ID: tt0038119
Genres: Musical,Black-and-white,Romance Film,Romantic comedy,Backstage Musical,Drama,Musical Drama,Musical comedy,Comedy
Release date: 1945-12-19
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: Lloyd Bacon
IMDb ID: tt0040390
Genres: Musical,Backstage Musical,Musical Drama
Release date: 1948
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language

Director: John H. Auer
Stars: Frances Langford
IMDb ID: tt0039177
Genres: Musical Drama,Musical,Backstage Musical,Musical comedy,Comedy
Release date: 1947
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language