A selection of filmed musicals
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- DirectorLupino LaneStarsMartin GrayWallace LupinoMaurice BarclayThe first ever musical comedy televised in its entirety direct from a theatre.
- DirectorSid SmithStarsEthel MermanFrank SinatraBert LahrOn an ocean liner, a nightclub singer tries to help a fellow American romance an English heiress who is being forced to return home to marry a man she doesn't love. The American must avoid his boss who is traveling on the same vessel and disguises himself as a gangster traveling with a minister who is, in fact, a disguised gangster on the lam.
- DirectorMax LiebmanStarsAnn SothernJames DalyLuella GearFashion magazine executive becomes unable to make decisions both at work and in her personal life. She skeptically seeks psychological help, where she recalls her musical dreams featuring people in her life, past and present.
- DirectorMax LiebmanStarsRod AlexanderThe Baird PuppetsBil BairdA special, live, television adaptation of Victor Herbert's operetta.
- DirectorMax LiebmanStarsPatrice MunselAlfred DrakeJohn ConteThis Tv staging is closer to the original 1910 operetta than the famous 1935 film was: An American comes to New Orleans to get the help of a governor in catching a pirate, though the pirate in question is actually the governor himself.
- DirectorClark JonesStarsMary MartinCyril RitchardKathleen NolanThis 1955 musical production of the classic children's tale made history as the first Broadway musical adapted to TV with the entire cast and crew intact. Join Peter and his friends in their adventures in Neverland, against the evil pirate Captain Hook.
- DirectorBill HobinMax LiebmanStarsEddie AlbertJanet BlairBoris KarloffA live television presentation of Rodgers and Hart's 1927 stage musical.
- DirectorMax LiebmanStarsNelson EddyGale SherwoodRod AlexanderFrom the Golden Age of Television, a live TV performance of the famed operetta, more faithful to the original than either the 1943 or 1953 film versions.
- DirectorBill HobinMax LiebmanStarsKeith AndesGordon DilworthLee GoodmanJohann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart his father's efforts to prevent his success when the older man becomes jealous of his melodic skill.
- DirectorMax LiebmanStarsAnne JeffreysRobert SterlingCyril RitchardBased on the Broadway show "Dearest Enemy" from 1925. This musical tv special is based on an incident of the American Revolution, at the home of Mrs. Robert Murray , and the British landing nearby and arriving at the Murray home.
- DirectorMax LiebmanStarsDave GarrowayDennis DayBarbara CookA young girl becomes lost in a department store during the Christmas shopping rush. The frightened child is comforted by a department store Santa Claus who tells her a tale of storybook characters brought to life - of Tommy Tucker's love for the lovely Jane Piper and the cold-hearted villainy of evil Silas Barnaby. Through the girl's dreams, the viewer is transported to Toyland.
- DirectorMax LiebmanStarsDan DaileyGale SherwoodGenevieveAmerican performers, some experienced and successful (or formerly so), some still striving for their first hit, try to make a living on their own artistic terms while living in Paris.
- DirectorMax LiebmanStarsAlfred DrakeDoretta MorrowArnold Moss
- DirectorAlex SegalStarsBarbara CookKeith AndesCarmen MathewsA musical set before Civil War that centers around Evalina Applegate, daughter of a hoop skirt manufacturer, who sides with her Aunt Dolly Bloomer, an avid suffragette, and falls in love with a handsome slave owner, Jefferson Calhoun.
- DirectorRalph NelsonStarsJulie AndrewsIlka ChaseEdie AdamsAlthough mistreated by her cruel Stepmother (Ilka Chase) and stepsisters Portia (Kaye Ballard) and Joy (Alice Ghostley), Cinderella (Dame Julie Andrews) is able to attend the royal ball through the help of a Fairy Godmother (Edie Adams).
- DirectorVincent J. DonehueStarsMary MartinJohn RaittWilliam O'NealIrving Berlin's stage musical about Annie Oakley and Frank Butler.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsAlfred DrakePatricia MorisonJulie WilsonAn ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and a gangster looking for some money owed to them.
- DirectorMel FerberHerbert RossStarsRosalind RussellSydney ChaplinJacquelyn McKeeverRuth Sherwood and her sister, Eileen arrive in New York from Ohio in the 1930s and find frustration, career hopes and romance in the city of their dreams.
- DirectorVincent J. DonehueStarsMary MartinCyril RitchardLynn FontanneIn this magical tale about the boy who refuses to grow up, Peter Pan and his mischievous fairy sidekick Tinkerbell visit the nursery of Wendy, Michael, and John Darling.
- DirectorDavid AskeyStarsPatricia MorisonHoward KeelMillicent MartinThe real-life marriage of theater stars Lily and Fred resembles that of Petruchio and Katharina in "The Taming Of The Shrew", in which they are performing.
- DirectorJoe LaytonDave GeiselStarsCarol BurnettJane WhiteJack GilfordThe musical story of THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA, adapted from the 1959 Broadway hit, and featuring most of the original Broadway cast.
- DirectorCharles S. DubinStarsGinger RogersWalter PidgeonCeleste HolmAlthough mistreated by her cruel stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella is able to attend the royal ball through the help of a fairy godmother.