Greatest 16 Music Movies Releases from 1938

A psychiatrist falls in love with the woman he's supposed to be nudging into marriage with someone else. Get info on Carefree / IMDB / YouTube

This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music. See more about Alexander's Ragtime Band / IMDB / YouTube

Laurel and Hardy, rat trap salesmen who are unable to do business in Switzerland, having no money to pay for lunch end up working for the hotel where a composer, who has run away from his wife, has taken refuge. More about Swiss Miss / IMDB / YouTube

A musician is blessed with four musical prodigies, all girls, and cursed when a troubled young composer enters the lives of his daughters. Read about Four Daughters / IMDB / YouTube

An evil gunslinging midget comes to terrorize the good little people of Tiny Town. The townspeople organize to defeat him, and zany antics ensue. Look into The Terror of Tiny Town / IMDB / YouTube

Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly sets it up for her to become a radio broadcaster. Look into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm / IMDB / YouTube

A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, showing their own small problems. Get info on La Marseillaise / IMDB / YouTube

The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts. Learn about The Big Broadcast of 1938 / IMDB / YouTube

An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show-business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage. Details on Little Miss Broadway / IMDB / YouTube

Broadway star Margaret Garrett has spent her whole life working to support her sponging relatives. When she meets carefree Dan Webster, she learns how to have fun for the first time. More about Joy of Living / IMDB / YouTube

Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band, has won a talent contest and a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But she doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use a double for her: Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to . See more about Hollywood Hotel / IMDB / YouTube

Mental imagery of music is visualized with two-dimensional shapes dancing to the rhythm of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. See more about An Optical Poem / IMDB / YouTube

The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood. Find out about Sweethearts / IMDB / YouTube

Shirley helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum-clearance project; the little miss dances with Bill Bojangles Robinson. Based on Paul Gerard Smith's book Lucky Penny. Details on Just Around the Corner / IMDB / YouTube

A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about, and writes herself letters, from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father, and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen after she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out. Details on Mad About Music / IMDB / YouTube

Judy Bellaire (Judy Garland) is the center of trouble at her exclusive, very conservative private school. She is expelled when she starts singing in a jazzy style in her music class. Mayhem ensues as she returns home to her actress mother, playwright father and dysfunctional Russian maid (Fanny Brice) and tries out as a blackface singer in a musical. More about Everybody Sing / IMDB / YouTube