Top 24 Music Movies Editor's Pick Released in 1944

When young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of his new assistant. Details on Going My Way / IMDB / YouTube

Rusty Parker wins a contest and becomes a celebrated cover girl; this endangers her romance with dancing mentor Danny. Find out about Cover Girl / IMDB / YouTube

Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place. See more about Hollywood Canteen / IMDB / YouTube

A philandering young playboy is sent to college somewhere in the American West, and organizes a show, together with his sweetheart, to save the college from closure due to falling enrollments. Explore Girl Crazy / IMDB / YouTube

Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly. Find out about In Society / IMDB / YouTube

A contrived misunderstanding leads to the breakup of a songwriter and his fiancée. She returns to work as a gym teacher at an all-girls school, but a legal loophole allows the man to enroll as one of her students. Info on Bathing Beauty / IMDB / YouTube

A chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson. Learn about Wilson / IMDB / YouTube

Small-town Indiana girl Lily Mars dreams to be a stage actress. She begs visiting Broadway producer John Thornway for a role but he dismisses her as an amateur. She follows him to New York and worms her way into his show, and his heart. Details on Presenting Lily Mars / IMDB / YouTube

A demented physician becomes obsessed with a young singer whose voice sounds similar to his late mistress. Read about The Climax / IMDB / YouTube

Musical in which two singing sisters set up a canteen to entertain soldiers, their enterprise funded by a mysterious wealthy admirer Explore Two Girls and a Sailor / IMDB / YouTube

A U.S.O. singer poses as a Broadway star in order to attract a handsome war hero. Explore Pin Up Girl / IMDB / YouTube

Ben K. Blake went out his way to ensure that vaudeville wouldn't die, and his series of film shorts virtually guaranteed it would. This one features Reg Keyoe and his All-Girl Marimba Band, the three dancing Winters Sisters, and The Modernaires. And, Andy and Florence Mayo got into their two-piece costume and kept the career of Pansy the Dancing Horse alive. Get info on Kehoe's Marimba Band / IMDB / YouTube

Six year old Mike joins her sister Barbara Ainsworth who plays in a classical orchestra during WW II. Details on Music for Millions / IMDB / YouTube

A young woman traveling to Poland with her employer meets a count, and they fall in love as World War II begins. Find out about In Our Time / IMDB / YouTube

Liza Elliott, Allure magazines editor-in-chief, suffers from headaches and continuous daydreams and undergoes psychoanalysis to determine why. Explore Lady in the Dark / IMDB / YouTube

Re-enactments of the real-life USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas. Details on Four Jills in a Jeep / IMDB / YouTube

The stories of Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood collide with the world of jazz, resulting in three jiving bears and a jitterbugging Big Bad Wolf. Explore Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears / IMDB / YouTube

During World War II, all the studios put out all-star vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to . Get info on Follow the Boys / IMDB / YouTube

Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot. Explore Here Come the Waves / IMDB / YouTube

Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad. Get info on The Desert Song / IMDB / YouTube

A reluctantly-retired vaudevillian clashes with his producer son, who thinks his father's entertainment is passe'--audiences need something more sophisticated. Meanwhile, the producer's father and sister secretly produce their own show. Find out about Broadway Rhythm / IMDB / YouTube

Propaganda film from WW2, designed to raise the awareness of the American public regarding USSR's fight against Nazi Germany. Look into Song of Russia / IMDB / YouTube

A revue star escapes her exhausting theatre life. By train she travels to the mountains. Alone in the wilderness and dressed only in her fur coat, she is rescued by two engineers. Get info on Die Frau meiner Träume / IMDB / YouTube

Two unsuccessful vaudeville entertainers decide to search for gold during the California gold rush in 1849. They come to a town where no woman lives. The dwellers of this town promise them a lot of gold, when they bring some women to them. So they bring a vaudeville show with lots of girls. Find out about Girl Rush / IMDB / YouTube