Top 27 Music Movies Highly Recommended Released in 1935

A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies. Look into A Night at the Opera / IMDB / YouTube

An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer. More about Top Hat / IMDB / YouTube

Mickey is a frustrated bandleader dealing with obnoxious ice cream seller and flute player Donald, who tries to persuade the band to play Turkey in the Straw, when a tornado hits during the concert. Check out The Band Concert / IMDB / YouTube

An American jazzman and his buddy woo a Russian princess and a fake countess in Paris. Check out Roberta / IMDB / YouTube

A Broadway producer is reluctant to hire his high school sweetheart for the leading role in a new show, so she decides to take advantage of a rumor started by a gossip columnist. Read about Broadway Melody of 1936 / IMDB / YouTube

Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of Mr. Jones. As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary. Learn about Curly Top / IMDB / YouTube

In the post-Civil war south, a darling little girl attempts to restore the peace between her parents and her plantation owner grandfather. More about The Little Colonel / IMDB / YouTube

The story of Johann Strauss the elder and younger. Senior thinks little of Junior's musical abilities while Junior is torn between baker's daughter Resi and countess Helga who both contribute to his composing the famous Blue Danube. Find out about Strauss' Great Waltz / IMDB / YouTube

Shirley Temple's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his family and is arrested. A Yankee takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Shirley and Bojangles Robinson beg President Lincoln to intercede. Info on The Littlest Rebel / IMDB / YouTube

Wealthy man Bob Harrison buys all theater seats to watch Mona Leslie's musical alone. He and her agent Ned Riley love her. Rivalry between the two men over Mona Leslie creates conflict. Look into Reckless / IMDB / YouTube

In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love. Explore Naughty Marietta / IMDB / YouTube

The princess violin from the sleepy Land of Symphony is chased by a more lively alto saxophone from the Isle of Jazz. Soon the queen (a viola) discovers them and locks the sax in the metronome. Check out Music Land / IMDB / YouTube

Former dance hall queen Cleo Borden, newly rich, falls for and pursues an upper-crust Englishman. Get info on Goin' to Town / IMDB / YouTube

A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief. See more about Sanders of the River / IMDB / YouTube

Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her situation becomes troublesome when she falls in love with Robert. Explore Victor and Victoria / IMDB / YouTube

Crosby plays a Philadelpia Quaker engaged to a Southern belle. He becomes a social outcast when he refuses to fight a duel. Fields then hires him to perform on his riverboat, promoting him as Colonel Steel...the notorious Colonel Steel...the singing killer. The plot then follows a predictable course, but there are plenty of scenes featuring W.C. Fields. More about Mississippi / IMDB / YouTube

When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the su. See more about The Phantom Empire / IMDB / YouTube

Al Howard may be a star on Broadway, but he is no longer welcomed by any producer. It seems that he just trots off to Mexico any time he wants causing shows to close and producers to lose money. When his sister Molly can no longer find Al work, she teams him up with talented Dorothy for a club date in Chicago. Flush with another success, Al wants to open his own club . More about Go Into Your Dance / IMDB / YouTube

Film shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one. Info on Papageno / IMDB / YouTube

A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher. Learn about The Nitwits / IMDB / YouTube

A magazine editor at a resort falls for a Spanish dancer he once criticized, unaware of her identity. Her uncle plots to exploit this, while she seeks revenge. A rival pursues the editor as romance blooms. Read about In Caliente / IMDB / YouTube

A successful crooner who doesn't want to join the Navy decides to prove to his father, a Navy admiral, that he has what it takes to make it in the fleet. Find out about Shipmates Forever / IMDB / YouTube

Spud Miller hopes to save his struggling radio station by winning a broadcast competition, with the help of the Radio Eye, an invention that can display live events from anywhere in the world. Find out about The Big Broadcast of 1936 / IMDB / YouTube

Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the World's Greatest Matador, engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Señor Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and the Garland Sisters. Comedy bits and dance numbers are also featured. More about La Fiesta de Santa Barbara / IMDB / YouTube

Popeye's ensemble is rehearsing the opening of the Poet and Peasant Overture (with interpolations of the Popeye theme and nautical tunes). Maestro Bluto drops in from next door to conduct and play violin and show up Popeye. Popeye plays horribly until he unlocks the previously unexplored artistic benefits of spinach. Learn about The Spinach Overture / IMDB / YouTube

Entertainers enter a political rally to get out of the rain and become part of the show. One of them (Powell) gives a speech in place of the besotted candidate (Walburn) and is chosen to be the candidate by backers he later exposes as crooks. Get info on Thanks a Million / IMDB / YouTube

Duke Ellington plays his symphonic jazz piece ('A Rhapsody of Negro Life') with his orchestra against slice-of-life background scenes. The four movements: 1) The Laborers, 2) A Triangle: Dance, Jealousy, Blues, 3) A Hymn of Sorrow, 4) Harlem Rhythm. More about Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life / IMDB / YouTube