Greatest 25 Music Movies Must-Watch Released in 1942

At an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer. Explore Holiday Inn / IMDB / YouTube

The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan. Info on Yankee Doodle Dandy / IMDB / YouTube

A busboy in unrequited love with a nightclub performer grows closer to her after she is paralyzed in an attack by her gangster boyfriend. Find out about The Big Street / IMDB / YouTube

This classic of Portuguese cinema depicts the friendships and rivalries of the inhabitants of a square in downtown Lisbon, where exists a spirit of familiarity between neighbors. Get info on The Courtyard of the Ballads / IMDB / YouTube

Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel. Look into Rio Rita / IMDB / YouTube

Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives. Learn about Orchestra Wives / IMDB / YouTube

At the end of the 19th century, the young Indiana boy Paul Dresser left his hometown for a long adventure that would eventually place him at the pinnacle of American music as a songwriter. Explore My Gal Sal / IMDB / YouTube

Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are a. Details on Springtime in the Rockies / IMDB / YouTube

Mickey guest-directs a radio orchestra. The sponsor loves the rehearsal, but come the actual performance, Goofy drops all the instruments under an elevator, so they sound like toys. The sponsor hates it, but the audience loves it anyway. Explore Symphony Hour / IMDB / YouTube

A Paramount Studios security guard who was a major actor during the silent film era must carry out the illusion that he is still a big deal when his sailor son comes to visit. See more about Star Spangled Rhythm / IMDB / YouTube

In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens. Info on The Tunnel / IMDB / YouTube

A musical showcase for Harry James, the Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Lewis, and Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan. James is drafted and joining him is the band's lead vocalist who doesn't believe that Army training is necessary. Look into Private Buckaroo / IMDB / YouTube

Reporter Homer Smith accidentally draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Convoys with robot-planes. Find out about Cairo / IMDB / YouTube

After a shy sailor is kissed by a female starlet as part of a publicity stunt, he becomes known as a stud; his friends then bet that he'll be able to defrost an icy nightclub singer. Info on The Fleet's In / IMDB / YouTube

In a Paris nightclub setting, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo performs to the music of Jacques Offenbach. Find out about The Gay Parisian / IMDB / YouTube

Bugs Bunny and friends sing and dance to promote the sale of government bonds in support of the war effort. Get info on Any Bonds Today? / IMDB / YouTube

Covering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie) from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII. A romance between singer Kit Latimer from New Orleans, and Johnny Schumacher, in which they share and argue over musical ideas ensues. Prior to the making of the f. Find out about Syncopation / IMDB / YouTube

Biography of Robert Yancey, long-term district attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia. Check out The Vanishing Virginian / IMDB / YouTube

With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. But Jeff falls in love with O'Brien's daughter, Eileen, and even his father can't break them up after he arrives and himself falls under the spell of island splendor. Get info on Song of the Islands / IMDB / YouTube

Four struggling musicians lose their vocalist at the insistence of her gangster boyfriend. They find a replacement in an innocent young woman being courted by a cabbie pretending to be a king. Info on Four Jacks and a Jill / IMDB / YouTube

Joe Jonathan tries to keep his business on the level after some shady dealings but will his cronies let him? See more about The Mayor of 44th Street / IMDB / YouTube

Freckles (Johnny Downs) comes home from college...and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane (Gale Storm), falls in love with a confidence man. Explore Freckles Comes Home / IMDB / YouTube

This package for comedy and the musical numbers has Luke Brown being drugged by the gangster operators of the swank Boathouse Inn; most notably Roxie a sexy pickpocket. Brown has information that Chow Brewster and his cousin have inherited $3,000,000. The owner of the Inn intends to keep Brown under wraps until they can drive Chow to suicide. He will then marry Chow's. Find out about Sing Your Worries Away / IMDB / YouTube

New Mexico is the scene of undeveloped gold mines and kidnapping. Modern elements include tommy guns, an airplane, two-way radios, fast cars, and big city gangsters. Learn about South of Santa Fe / IMDB / YouTube

Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. Read about Sunset Serenade / IMDB / YouTube