Best 28 Music Movies Fan Favorites from 1930

An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer. Learn about The Blue Angel / IMDB / YouTube

Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding. Info on Animal Crackers / IMDB / YouTube

A rotund bandleader leads a series of theatrical sketches, dance numbers, special effects, and animated segments. Explore King of Jazz / IMDB / YouTube

A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager. Look into Applause / IMDB / YouTube

A countess flees to Monte Carlo on the day of her wedding, where she is courted by a count posing as a hairdresser. Find out about Monte Carlo / IMDB / YouTube

Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper-class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband, but Angela has a plan to win back her husband's affections. Learn about Madam Satan / IMDB / YouTube

Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others. Look into Whoopee! / IMDB / YouTube

Three department store employees, Connie, Franky, and Jerry, share an apartment together in New York City. Despite Jerry's pragmatism, Connie and Franky pursue wealthy men for financial gain, leading to disappointment and heartbreak. Read about Our Blushing Brides / IMDB / YouTube

New York, 1980: Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930 and call him ‚Single O.' He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams before he goes on an expedition to Mars with a friend and stowaway Single O. More about Just Imagine / IMDB / YouTube

A short, experimental, slightly poetic montage of city and abstract images. Look into Sentimental Romance / IMDB / YouTube

Mickey comes onstage to the applause of an unseen audience and plays various classical tunes on the violin, after some minor mishaps. During a sad song, he is overcome with emotion and has to stop. Find out about Fiddling Around / IMDB / YouTube

A vacuous and flirtatious daughter of a wealthy rancher falls in love and marries a Texas cowboy and rancher, who calls her 'Montana', and eventually clash over their different lifestyles, to the point of almost ending their marriage. Look into Montana Moon / IMDB / YouTube

A series of nineteen musical and comedy vaudeville sketches presented in the form of a live broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself). There are two running gags which connect the sketches. In one, an actor wants to perform Shakespeare, but he is continually denied air-time. The other gag has an inventor trying to view the broadcast on television. Four of the. Find out about Elstree Calling / IMDB / YouTube

Woman inherits a traveling circus which brings financial difficulties. Look into Rain or Shine / IMDB / YouTube

Conductor Mickey Mouse and his animal friends put on a concert. More about The Barnyard Concert / IMDB / YouTube

Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who. Details on Sunny Side Up / IMDB / YouTube

In antebellum New Orleans, two men vie for the affections of a beautiful young girl during Mardi Gras. Look into Dixiana / IMDB / YouTube

'Rainbow Girls' has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth-talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural and promises her a movie contract, so she goes to Hollywood, but there is no contract for her. She meets washed-up actress Donny (Blanche Sweet) on the lot and they become friends. Frank is fi. Check out Show Girl in Hollywood / IMDB / YouTube

Bosko has a grand time on the farm, dancing with a cow, playing a horse's tail like a violin and getting drunk with three pigs. Info on The Booze Hangs High / IMDB / YouTube

A college football player (Joe E. Brown) persuades a beautiful young woman (Joan Bennett) to individually flirt with an entire team of All-American football players, in order to entice them over to her college. But the players get angry and threaten to walk out when they find out that they have been fooled, and they get even madder when they discover that she has actu. Learn about Maybe It's Love / IMDB / YouTube

Betty Boop (with dog's ears) can't sleep on a scary night, so she sings the title song and meets the gentleman in question... a surreal version of Bimbo. Learn about Mysterious Mose / IMDB / YouTube

Club champion Lora Moore loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend Jack Martin show up. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile, Lora's friend Angie Howard chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues. Details on Follow Thru / IMDB / YouTube

When Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary, but a gold digger named Daisy has worked her way into his confidence. When Mary sees Jack and Daisy together, she leaves Jack and Jack marries Daisy the next day. When Daisy decides that she wants into the Vaudeville. Check out They Learned About Women / IMDB / YouTube

Sailor Bimbo (as Barnacle Bill) jumps ship with his little black book and visits his lady friend, Betty Boop (with dog's ears). Info on Barnacle Bill / IMDB / YouTube

When shipping clerk Jack Kelly is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club. See more about Love in the Rough / IMDB / YouTube

A love triangle develops in a traveling minstrel troupe. Details on Mammy / IMDB / YouTube

Ethnic comedy of a nightclub entertainer trying to train a boxer. Learn about Be Yourself! / IMDB / YouTube

Successful songwriter falls for society girl who is just playing around. He doesn't realize that his girl-Friday is the one he really loves until it is almost too late. Although he is dazzled by high society, he overhears the society girl's admission of just fooling in time to avoid marriage. Played against a theatrical backdrop, there are lots of songs and production. Look into Children of Pleasure / IMDB / YouTube