Best 21 Music Movies Highly Rated Released in 1939

The Marx Brothers try to help the owner of a circus recover some stolen funds before he finds himself out of a job. More about At the Circus / IMDB / YouTube

A group of vaudevillians struggling to compete with talkies hits the road hoping for a comeback. Frustrated to be left behind, all of their kids put on a show themselves to raise money for the families and to prove they've got talent, too. Explore Babes in Arms / IMDB / YouTube

The story of the dancing team who taught the world to two-step. Find out about The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle / IMDB / YouTube

The son of the Mikado of Japan, a wandering minstrel, falls for a girl who is engaged to her guardian. Find out about The Mikado / IMDB / YouTube

An orphaned boarding school graduate secretly attends a prestigious ball, where she falls for the boyfriend of her snobbish cousin. Look into First Love / IMDB / YouTube

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. Check out Honolulu / IMDB / YouTube

A singer becomes a star in the Ziegfeld Follies, but her marriage to a con man has a bad effect on her career. Learn about Rose of Washington Square / IMDB / YouTube

A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name. Find out about Slightly Honorable / IMDB / YouTube

A boy runs away from home and ends up at a music school for poor children. When the school suffers hard times, he enlists the aid of violinist Heifetz to save the day. Check out They Shall Have Music / IMDB / YouTube

A Manhattan career woman tries to resist a man who wants her to be his wife. Details on Honeymoon in Bali / IMDB / YouTube

Three sisters believe life is going to be easy now that their parents are back together, but then one sister falls in love with another's fiancé and the youngest plays matchmaker. Learn about Three Smart Girls Grow Up / IMDB / YouTube

Blondie takes over Dagwood's job while he goes off on a fishing trip. Info on Blondie Meets the Boss / IMDB / YouTube

Radio sensation Kay Kyser and his band are lured to Hollywood to make a movie, but the screenwriters assigned to the project have difficulty tailoring a script to Kyser's persona. Details on That's Right - You're Wrong / IMDB / YouTube

A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love. More about Balalaika / IMDB / YouTube

An advertising executive goes to Mexico looking for talent and finds a hot-tempered singer, who goes to New York to stay with him, his aunt and uncle, and decides to steal him from his fiancée. Explore The Girl from Mexico / IMDB / YouTube

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 friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, The Living Corpse and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu o. Explore Some Like It Hot / IMDB / YouTube

A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family. Learn about East Side of Heaven / IMDB / YouTube

A bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang. Info on Days of Jesse James / IMDB / YouTube

Mary Hale, a singer, and Jimmy Seymour, a pianist/composer, are a showbiz couple working in The Big Apple in small nightclubs hoping to hit it big. One night, Broadway producer Larry Bryant spots Mary and is taken with her beauty and golden voice. He asks her to audition for Mr. Collier and have Jimmy accompany her. After hearing Mary, Collier wants Mary to be in his . Check out Broadway Serenade / IMDB / YouTube

Penny, the dance captain/manager of the Abbott Dancers, who are just concluding their engagement at the Cocoanut Grove, and Tommy are just about to be married, Penny to join the dance troupe in San Francisco after the conclusion of the honeymoon. But in also being mother hen to the girls in both professional and personal matters, Penny, in having to put out one fire t. Look into Love on Tap / IMDB / YouTube

Americans come West to California in the hope of peaceful settlement. Find out about In Old Caliente / IMDB / YouTube