Top 21 Music Movies Editor's Pick Released in 1929

During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves. Find out about The Cocoanuts / IMDB / YouTube

A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt. More about The Broadway Melody / IMDB / YouTube

The clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for four skeletons to come out and dance a bit. Look into The Skeleton Dance / IMDB / YouTube

An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players. Find out about The Hollywood Revue of 1929 / IMDB / YouTube

A sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city. Learn about Hallelujah / IMDB / YouTube

An insanely, egocentric ventriloquist, even though he is possessed by his wooden dummy, is in love with a dancer who is in love with another. The dummy gives advice to the ventriloquist. Check out The Great Gabbo / IMDB / YouTube

A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl. Details on Thunderbolt / IMDB / YouTube

The rise of a showgirl, Gloria Hughes, culminating in a Ziegfeld extravaganza Glorifying the American Girl. Explore Glorifying the American Girl / IMDB / YouTube

Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit The Kinkajou over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit. Check out Rio Rita / IMDB / YouTube

Duke Ellington in a jazz musical short with a tragic plotline. Details on Black and Tan / IMDB / YouTube

In her only known film appearance, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith witnesses her lover's betrayal, then sings a powerful rendition of the title song. Info on St. Louis Blues / IMDB / YouTube

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder. Get info on Broadway / IMDB / YouTube

The activities of Nubi (Myrna Loy), a minx-like, Hungarian gypsy girl who, while on the run from her abusive husband, takes shelter in a farmhouse, where she seduces and holds in thrall all the male members of the family. Get info on The Squall / IMDB / YouTube

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. Info on On with the Show! / IMDB / YouTube

When a vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer have little luck in their separate careers, they decide to combine their acts; to save money on the road, they get married. More about The Dance of Life / IMDB / YouTube

A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader. Find out about The Vagabond Lover / IMDB / YouTube

A chorus girl with marital woes is pursued by a gangster. Get info on New York Nights / IMDB / YouTube

Parysia is the rage of Paris. She has a daughter, secretly engaged to Andre, and the boy's aristocratic father objects to the alliance because of Margaret's mother being a revue artist. Director Ewald Andre Dupont took almost a year to make Moulin Rouge at a production cost of $500,000, a huge amount for 1928. Explore Moulin Rouge / IMDB / YouTube

Animated figure Talkie gets a visit from his friend Mutie in search for a job. Talkie takes him to the Western Electric sound lab, where a technician explains the process of putting sound on film and reproducing it in the theatre. Find out about Finding His Voice / IMDB / YouTube

A Bonapartist falls for a Royalist. See more about Devil-May-Care / IMDB / YouTube

Producer Ginsburg invests in a big-budgeted talkie musical, financially supported by his lawyer John. During a screening for prospective exhibitors the projectionist mixes up the sound-disc reels, with the images not matching the dialogue. Details on The Talk of Hollywood / IMDB / YouTube