Greatest 28 Music Movies Editor's Pick Released in 1936

The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed. Find out about The Great Ziegfeld / IMDB / YouTube

A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally, in 1906 San Francisco. Get info on San Francisco / IMDB / YouTube

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady. Learn about Show Boat / IMDB / YouTube

Mickey has been reading Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, and falls asleep. He finds himself on the other side of the mirror, where the furniture is alive. He eats a walnut, which makes him briefly larger, then small. He dances around a lot, ultimately doing a major number with a deck of cards. He dances with the queen, making th. More about Thru the Mirror / IMDB / YouTube

A band of Gypsies is camped outside the walls of Count Arnheim's palace. Oliver's wife kidnaps the Count's daughter Arline, then leaves the child and runs off with her lover, Devilshoof. Not knowing her true identity, Oliver, with Uncle Stanley's help, raises the girl as his own. Years later, Arline, still unaware of her noble birth, is caught trespassing on the Cou. See more about The Bohemian Girl / IMDB / YouTube

A spoof of Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer, a strict piano teaching owl is cursed with a son who loves to singa, but only jazz. Info on I Love to Singa / IMDB / YouTube

On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him. Get info on Born to Dance / IMDB / YouTube

The daughter of a wealthy businessman becomes lost in the city while traveling to a new school, and is taken in by a pair of down-on-their-luck performers. Find out about Poor Little Rich Girl / IMDB / YouTube

A young girl lost in Shanghai is taken in by an American playboy and his girlfriend. Learn about Stowaway / IMDB / YouTube

An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother. Explore Rose-Marie / IMDB / YouTube

When two investors inform an opportunistic dancer that they can't fund an elderly stage producer's production, she suggests they get an insurance policy on the producer's life. See more about Gold Diggers of 1937 / IMDB / YouTube

At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received broken toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas. Explore Christmas Comes But Once a Year / IMDB / YouTube

Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promise an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. Find out about Pennies from Heaven / IMDB / YouTube

Married coaches Slug and Bessie find hillbilly football tosser Amos and the team gets invited to the Yale Bowl. Explore Pigskin Parade / IMDB / YouTube

Mickey is preparing to conduct an opera when he chases Pluto away. Pluto crashes into a magician's props backstage and spars with the hat, its rabbits, and its doves. The opera begins: Clarabelle plays flute, Clara and Donald are the leads in a Romeo and Juliet style opera, Bella Figlia Dell'Amore from Verdi's Rigoletto. Pluto follows the magic hat onstage, to Micke. Details on Mickey's Grand Opera / IMDB / YouTube

Young man falls for blonde heiress forced onto ship. Follows to rescue her, disguising as mobster's aide when realizing she's returning home and his boss is aboard. Get info on Anything Goes / IMDB / YouTube

Two teenage girls lend their fantastic singing voices to the cause when the city council threatens to replace the orchestra led by one girl's grandfather as the regular entertainment at the Sunday concert-in-the-park series. Explore Every Sunday / IMDB / YouTube

The story of a Boston dance teacher who gets shanghaied by buccaneers who might make his next steps be off the plank! Read about Dancing Pirate / IMDB / YouTube

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the ranch where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters. Check out Rhythm on the Range / IMDB / YouTube

At the Texas Centennial in Dallas Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double. More about The Big Show / IMDB / YouTube

A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, Hanna returns to Germany and works her way into becoming the live-in maid and nurse to her child being raised by an orchestra conductor and his wife. Details on The Final Chord / IMDB / YouTube

Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site. Details on Red River Valley / IMDB / YouTube

A pair of hit songwriters fall in love with an ex-film star and her friend, but a blackmailer arrives to disrupt the romances. Based on William Field's short story Temperamental Lady. Look into Sitting on the Moon / IMDB / YouTube

Gene Autry enters the Cavalry, where he attracts the Colonel's daughter. When a jealous Lieutenant conspires to send Gene into an ambush, Gene loses a man and his group is ousted from the army. Details on Ride, Ranger, Ride / IMDB / YouTube

When a nightclub singer is murdered, a local gossip columnist begins his own investigation. Get info on I'll Name the Murderer / IMDB / YouTube

Rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Allen have both been assigned to stir up publicity for separate exhibitions at the 1936 Texas Centennial. See more about Hats Off / IMDB / YouTube

An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer. See more about Moonlight Murder / IMDB / YouTube

Singing star loses his voice, recuperates in the country, meets aspiring playwright and her daughter. Details on The Singing Kid / IMDB / YouTube