Movies like The Band Wagon

20 movies like The Band Wagon, ordered by similarity : Night and Day(1946), Footlight Parade(1933), Gold Diggers of 1933(1933), Broadway Melody of 1940(1940), Thanks a Million(1935), 42nd Street(1933), My Blue Heaven(1950), Anything Goes(1956), Saturday Church(2017), Greenwich Village(1944), Kiss Me Kate(1953), On With the Show(1929) ...

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The Band Wagon

Two playwrights bring a movie dancer (Fred Astaire) to New York for a Broadway show with a ballerina (Cyd Charisse).

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star 6.2/10
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Night and Day

A fictionalized biopic of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.

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star 7.6/10
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Footlight Parade

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

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star 7.7/10
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Gold Diggers of 1933

A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play.

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star 7.4/10
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Broadway Melody of 1940

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to gives him the name of his partner.

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star 6.5/10
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Thanks a Million

Entertainers enter a political rally to get out of the rain and become part of the show. One of them (Powell) gives a speech in place of the besotted candidate (Walburn) and is chosen to be... See full summary »

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star 7.4/10
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42nd Street

When the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.

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star 6.2/10
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My Blue Heaven

Betty Grable and Dan Dailey are a married song and dance team who cannot have children. The movie follows the travails as they try and adopt and keep the kids they adopt while performing on their TV show.

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star 6.2/10
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Anything Goes

Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role to ... See full summary »

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star 6.4/10
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Saturday Church

A 14 year-old-boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.

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star 6.1/10
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Greenwich Village

In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.

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star 7.1/10
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Kiss Me Kate

An 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 two gangsters looking for some money owed to them.

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star 5.8/10
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On With the Show

A musical advertised as the first 100% natural color, all-singing production. The plot concerns a wide-eyed former hatcheck girl who takes the place of a rebellious star.

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star 6.8/10
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Broadway Melody of 1936

Bob Gordon is staging a new Broadway Show. He gets an offer of money by Lillian, if she can dance in his show. Gordon's old class mate Irene, tries to get the leading role in this show, but Lillian insists in getting this part herself.

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star 6.9/10
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Hans Christian Andersen

The opening scene of the movie describes it best: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy tales."

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star 6.5/10
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Dreamgirls

A trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.

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star 7.2/10
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Grease

Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?

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star 6.9/10
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The Big Broadcast

A radio-singer, Bing Hornsby, is none-too-concerned about his job, and an affair with Mona leads to his dismissal. When it appears Hornsby is getting and paying a lot of attention to his ... See full summary »

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star 6.4/10
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Till the Clouds Roll By

Biography of songwriter and Broadway pioneer, Jerome Kern (Robert Walker). Unable to find immediate success in the U.S., Kern sought recognition abroad. He journeyed to England where his dreams of success became real and where he met his future wife Eva Leale (Dorothy Patrick).

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star 8.3/10
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Singin' in the Rain

A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

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Two Girls and a Sailor

A sailor (Van Johnson) from a rich family meets a nightclub-singing sister act (June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven) in wartime New York.

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