Best 30 Music Movies Popular from 1943

An acid-scarred composer rises from the Paris sewers to boost his favorite opera understudy's career. Details on Phantom of the Opera / IMDB / YouTube

Disney animators tour South America and present four animated shorts inspired by their trip. Read about Saludos Amigos / IMDB / YouTube

Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar. More about Road to Morocco / IMDB / YouTube

Donald Duck has a nightmare that he lives in Germany slaving under the Nazi regime. Info on Der Fuehrer's Face / IMDB / YouTube

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI. Read about For Me and My Gal / IMDB / YouTube

A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife. Explore Cabin in the Sky / IMDB / YouTube

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s. Details on Stormy Weather / IMDB / YouTube

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before he strikes again. Info on Lady of Burlesque / IMDB / YouTube

Elmer Fudd introduces two pieces of classical music: Tales of the Vienna Woods and The Blue Danube, and acted out by Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Laramore the Hound Dog, a family of swans, and a juvenile Daffy Duck. Check out A Corny Concerto / IMDB / YouTube

Two producers are putting together a wartime charity show with an all-star cast, but the egotism of radio personality Eddie Cantor disrupts their plans. Look into Thank Your Lucky Stars / IMDB / YouTube

A young soldier arrives in NYC and, before heading overseas to WWII, visits Stage Door Canteen, where famous actresses and entertainers volunteer to entertain soldiers. Find out about Stage Door Canteen / IMDB / YouTube

A nightclub's coatroom attendant who's in love with the club's singer accidentally sips a drugged drink that makes him dream he's French King Louis XV, courting the infamous Madame Du Barry. Look into Du Barry Was a Lady / IMDB / YouTube

Embittered, ambitious Helen Chernen sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister. Learn about The Hard Way / IMDB / YouTube

The daughter (Joan Fontaine) of a musical mentor (Montagu Love) is hopelessly in love with her cousin's husband (Charles Boyer), a handsome composer. Info on The Constant Nymph / IMDB / YouTube

A soldier wounded in the War (WWI) becomes a producer and stages a show for the forces. Details on This Is the Army / IMDB / YouTube

Daffy is an agent representing Sleepy Lagoon trying to sell him to talent scout Porky. Daffy spends a great deal of time and energy explaining and demonstrating what the kid can do, while the kid sits on a couch licking a giant sucker. Details on Yankee Doodle Daffy / IMDB / YouTube

Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days off. Find out about The Sky's the Limit / IMDB / YouTube

Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars. Read about Thousands Cheer / IMDB / YouTube

With their employer bankrupt, servants scheme to marry maid Millie to a rich husband. But Frank Sinatra lives across the street... Check out Higher and Higher / IMDB / YouTube

A bumbling pants presser at an upscale hotel's valet service nurses an unrequited crush on a Broadway star. He gets more than he bargained for when she agrees to marry him, to spite her womanizing fiance, and encounters Nazi saboteurs. More about I Dood It / IMDB / YouTube

Henry falls in love with Billie, one of seven daughters of an eccentric hotel owner. Billie loves him back but refuses marriage because family tradition demands that the eldest daughter must marry first. Look into Seven Sweethearts / IMDB / YouTube

A young girl visits New York for two reasons: to see her half-brother, and to try to start a musical career. Explore His Butler's Sister / IMDB / YouTube

In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress. Info on Hello Frisco, Hello / IMDB / YouTube

Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toas. Info on Coney Island / IMDB / YouTube

Beverly Ross moderates a 5:30 AM radio show with swing music, dedicated to the local servicemen. Two buddies of her brother have a chance to meet her and both fall in love. One of them is a wealthy sponsor and the other used to be his chauffeur. Before she can decide which one she prefers, the soldiers have their marching orders and are away to their destination. Look into Reveille with Beverly / IMDB / YouTube

The owner of a seedy dive and brothel on a South Seas island meets two treasure hunters looking for a sunken ship with a $3-million cargo of gold. She persuades them to let her in on the deal. Complications ensue because of intrigue, double-crosses and an approaching violent monsoon. Learn about Isle of Forgotten Sins / IMDB / YouTube

Donald is visiting South America, where he is first overcome by altitude sickness. He spends some time in the picturesque market. Then he take a llama up into the mountains, with exciting results. Explore Donald Duck Visits Lake Titicaca / IMDB / YouTube

The third film in the 3 Smart Girls trilogy starring Deanna Durbin as Penny Craig, the youngest sister in the Craig Family. Now all grown up, she goes to work in a munitions factory during World War II determined to do her bit for America whilst wanting to be close to a young pilot, Bill Morley (Joseph Cotten). He gets posted overseas leaving Penny to worry for his . Find out about Hers to Hold / IMDB / YouTube

George, an employee at an outdated underwear company, invests in a revolutionary thread. The firm rejects it, so he quits. Later, they realize its potential and scramble to rehire him before competitors do, offering a lucrative deal. Find out about Turned Out Nice Again / IMDB / YouTube

Lowell Blackford (Kay Kyser) is blessed with a gift of music,but also cursed with a hereditary evil eye which hypnotizes people,and he is virtually a recluse. He goes in search of a Broadway publisher for a symphonietta he has written, and ends up crashing an audition at the Swing Publishing Company, where he meets torch singer Ginger Gray (Marilyn Maxwell) and her . Look into Swing Fever / IMDB / YouTube