Best 20 Music Movies Popular from 1940

Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet a beautiful dancer. More about Road to Singapore / IMDB / YouTube

After a troupe of danseuses becomes unemployed, one of them takes up burlesque dancing while another dreams of performing ballet. See more about Dance, Girl, Dance / IMDB / YouTube

A violinist's piano accompanist retires. He hears his daughter's piano teacher (Ingrid Bergman) play, asks her to play on his next international tour, and they fall in love. Get info on Intermezzo / IMDB / YouTube

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner. Read about Broadway Melody of 1940 / IMDB / YouTube

A high school boy wants to become a professional musician, and his gal pal wants to become his best girl. They work together staging big band shows with fellow classmates in the hopes of hitting it big. Find out about Strike Up the Band / IMDB / YouTube

Jim Lucky Moore (Allan Jones), an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve (Robert Cummings): a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancee, Cynthia (Nancy Kelly). The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey (Peggy Moran), and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The . Details on One Night in the Tropics / IMDB / YouTube

After crooked nightclub owner Chips Maguire murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house. Info on It All Came True / IMDB / YouTube

The manager of Kay Kyser's band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her. Explore You'll Find Out / IMDB / YouTube

An American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner. Read about Down Argentine Way / IMDB / YouTube

A young lady goes to college, and without her knowledge, her father sends four football players as her bodyguards. They eventually join the college team and turn it into one the best - and one of them falls in love with her. Check out Too Many Girls / IMDB / YouTube

Sent by her employers on an errand to the home of the wealthy Mrs. Vincent, Irene O'Dare meets Don, a friend of Mrs. Vincent's son Bob. Attracted to Irene, Don decides to invest some money in Bob's latest venture, the Madame Lucy dress shop, in order to give Irene a job there as a model. She is very successful and Bob also becomes attracted to her. Smith, the manage. More about Irene / IMDB / YouTube

Rita Hayworth co-stars with famed recording artist Tony Martin in this musical comedy featuring the music of Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra. Following various comic misunderstandings, the two meet and fall for each other, but will lose their chance at happiness unless destiny calls. Info on Music in My Heart / IMDB / YouTube

The life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by bandleader Tony Pastor until her retirement in 1912, when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore. Find out about Lillian Russell / IMDB / YouTube

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new song. Katie joins Lily in England after the boys give their latest song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited after the boys, now in the army, show up in England. Check out Tin Pan Alley / IMDB / YouTube

A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet. Get info on Bitter Sweet / IMDB / YouTube

Colorful abstract shapes and lines move exuberantly to the syncopated modernistic piano music of Edwin Gershefsky. Get info on Tarantella / IMDB / YouTube

Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so Julius can escort Amelia to every musical event in the city. The trouble begins when he cannot meet her one night and Tony goes in his place. Tony believes that Julius and Amelia are a couple, then his . Read about My Love Came Back / IMDB / YouTube

It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks appear, then two ghosts. They move to the music's rhythm. Against the black night, they are blue and yellow. Bats appear as does a xylophone of bones. Mist rises, spooks swirl. A bell tolls. The sky turns light blue, the ghos. Explore Spook Sport / IMDB / YouTube

Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. After both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own names. The problem is that every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style. Get info on Rhythm on the River / IMDB / YouTube

A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his janitor pal, Jeff, solve the mystery for the none-too-sharp police. Learn about Up in the Air / IMDB / YouTube