Best 30 Music Movies Fan Favorites from 1953

An aging movie star uncertain of his future teams up with a top ballerina to headline a new Broadway musical, but the pretentiously artistic goals of its director threaten to change it beyond recognition. See more about The Band Wagon / IMDB / YouTube

The story of Calamity Jane, her saloon, and her romance with Wild Bill Hickok. Details on Calamity Jane / IMDB / YouTube

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. Read about Kiss Me Kate / IMDB / YouTube

Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. More about Moulin Rouge / IMDB / YouTube

A young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother. Find out about The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. / IMDB / YouTube

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. Check out Hans Christian Andersen / IMDB / YouTube

A beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises. Learn about Variety Lights / IMDB / YouTube

An orphaned young woman becomes part of a puppet act and forms a relationship with the anti-social puppeteer. Learn about Lili / IMDB / YouTube

Although gifted golfer Harvey Miller is too nervous to golf in public tournaments, he acts as coach and caddy for friend Joe Anthony. Check out The Caddy / IMDB / YouTube

Fleeing a murder charge, a busboy and a nightclub singer wind up on a spooky Caribbean island inherited by a young woman. Info on Scared Stiff / IMDB / YouTube

Biopic of Australian swimming champ and entertainer Annette Kellerman. After overcoming polio, Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent. Info on Million Dollar Mermaid / IMDB / YouTube

An anthology film consisting of three very different stories about love set in Europe and told in flashback. Get info on The Story of Three Loves / IMDB / YouTube

A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat. Find out about April in Paris / IMDB / YouTube

A tough but unhappy Broadway star re-evaluates her life when she crosses paths with a blind pianist. Info on Torch Song / IMDB / YouTube

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording of Daybreak Expresa this is a five-minute short on the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated train line in Manhattan, New York City. Find out about Daybreak Express / IMDB / YouTube

With her promoter-trainer and family in tow, Katie Higgins swims her way from the Arkansas Ozarks to foggy London and the English Channel. - SimonJack See more about Dangerous When Wet / IMDB / YouTube

Melvin, a photographer for Look magazine, meets Judy and wants to marry her. Her father is against that and as a last resort, Melvin promises to get Judy's photo on the cover of the next issue, a task easier said than done. Details on I Love Melvin / IMDB / YouTube

A film biography of the composer John Philip Sousa, from his early days in the Marine Corps Band through the Spanish-American War in 1898. Info on Stars and Stripes Forever / IMDB / YouTube

A judge's daughter keeps an eye on a playboy who gets 30 days in jail for speeding. Check out Small Town Girl / IMDB / YouTube

When Herman promises the mob to fix a racing horse in order to pay off his debts, he selects his veterinarian cousin as a patsy to help him but things go awry. Learn about Money from Home / IMDB / YouTube

Broadway choreographer Ted Sturgis auditions dancers for a new musical after the lead walks out, with talent ranging from a ballerina to an untrained novice and his former partner, a retired star. Explore Give a Girl a Break / IMDB / YouTube

A young teacher helps a troubled student who's fascinated by a caterpillar's metamorphosis. After losing his sister and facing challenges, he proves himself by handling a bee crisis at school. Read about Bright Road / IMDB / YouTube

An aquatic performer tries to attract the man she loves. Read about Easy to Love / IMDB / YouTube

Pansy is sent off broken-hearted to an eastern school, but with help from Happy Stella Kowalski's all-girl band, several hundred students, and an enraged police force, Dobie secures Pansy's return to Grainbelt. Learn about The Affairs of Dobie Gillis / IMDB / YouTube

Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an inves. Info on The Desert Song / IMDB / YouTube

When the composer of an opera about a swashbuckling, wenching highwayman meets his hero's real-life counterpart, he's disappointed with his lack of dash. Get info on The Beggar's Opera / IMDB / YouTube

Adapted from the book, Mexican Village, by Josefina Niggli, the film tells three interwoven love stories against the background of a feud between two villages. Cyd Charisse and Rick Jason are the lovers in a tender romance; Vittorio Gassman and Yvonne DeCarlo the lovers in a tragic romance; and Pier Angeli and Ricardo Montalban the lovers in a gay romance. Explore Sombrero / IMDB / YouTube

The Victorian-era theatrical partnership of English librettist William S. Gilbert and English composer Arthur Sullivan produced fourteen comic operas to great public acclaim, yet they clashed on both personal and creative levels. Check out Gilbert and Sullivan / IMDB / YouTube

Biopic of opera star Grace Moore, who was killed in a plane crash in 1947. Check out So This Is Love / IMDB / YouTube

Badguys Henry, Bill and Pete head a gang of outlaws who are destroying the timberland. When Gene butts in they frame him on a cattle-poisoning charge and set him up for murder. Learn about Riders of the Whistling Pines / IMDB / YouTube