6
Music in My Heart
IMDb: 6 1940 70 min
A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.
6.4
Lillian Russell
IMDb: 6.4 1940 127 min
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
6.4
Let George Do It!
IMDb: 6.4 1940 82 min
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is ...
6.3
Irene
IMDb: 6.3 1940 101 min
Upholsterer’s assistant Irene O’Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long ...
5.5
Her Second Mother
IMDb: 5.5 1940 89 min
A young woman tries to repay her adoptive parents’ kindness by shielding their biological child, who has gotten involved with an embezzler, ...
6.8
Grand Ole Opry
IMDb: 6.8 1940 67 min
Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
6.4
Down Argentine Way
IMDb: 6.4 1940 89 min
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their ...
7.3
Broadway Melody of 1940
IMDb: 7.3 1940 102 min
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 ...
5.8
The Boys from Syracuse
IMDb: 5.8 1940 73 min
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant ...
5.7
Bitter Sweet
IMDb: 5.7 1940 94 min
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
6.1
Barnyard Follies
IMDb: 6.1 1940 67 min
A country orphanage puts on a show with some musicians to save their 4H club from being shut down by greedy politicians.
6.3
Trouble Brewing
IMDb: 6.3 1939 87 min
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. ...
6.9
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
IMDb: 6.9 1939 90 min
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another’s ...
6.1
Swanee River
IMDb: 6.1 1939 84 min
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern ...
6.9
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
IMDb: 6.9 1939 93 min
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to ...
6.2
St. Louis Blues
IMDb: 6.2 1939 92 min
A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and ...
6.5
Some Like It Hot
IMDb: 6.5 1939 65 min
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City’s boardwalk. Even with the band of his ...
6.7
Spook Sport
IMDb: 6.7 1940 8 min
It’s midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 ...
5.7
Ride ’em, Cowgirl
IMDb: 5.7 1939 53 min
Sandy Doyle, gambler and political chief of a small border town, seeks to gain control of the Bar-X Ranch, owned by Rufe Rickson, to further some ...
6.3
The Mikado
IMDb: 6.3 1939 91 min
In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the ...
5.5
Let’s Be Famous
IMDb: 5.5 1939 83 min
An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.
6.5
Honolulu
IMDb: 6.5 1939 84 min
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
6.5
The Girl from Mexico
IMDb: 6.5 1939 71 min
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear ...
7
First Love
IMDb: 7 1939 84 min
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. ...
5.6
Fisherman’s Wharf
IMDb: 5.6 1939 72 min
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman’s life in San Francisco until Carlo’s ...
6.2
Balalaika
IMDb: 6.2 1939 102 min
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
6.8
At the Circus
IMDb: 6.8 1939 87 min
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter’s accomplices steal the money so he ...
6.3
Babes in Arms
IMDb: 6.3 1939 93 min
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress ...
5.8
Under Western Stars
IMDb: 5.8 1938 65 min
In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his district. In Washington, he learns he needs ...
6.4
Thanks for the Memory
IMDb: 6.4 1938 75 min
Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and ...
