Silver Screen Icons: Broadway Musicals

Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

One of the most-requested titles in Movies Unlimited history, this fun-filled film version of the Irving Berlin musical stars Betty Hutton (who replaced Judy Garland shortly after shooting began) as legendary Wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who falls for fellow marksman Frank Butler (Howard Keel). With Louis Calhern as Buffalo Bill Cody, and J. Carrol Naish as Sitting Bull. Songs include "Anything You Can Do," "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly," and "There's No Business Like Show Business." 107 min. C/Rtg: NR

Show Boat (1951)

Spectacular MGM rendition of the beloved Hammerstein-Kern tale of show folk and steamboats along the old Mississippi. On board the show boat Cotton Blossom, an interracial couple (Ava Gardner, Robert Sterling) faces bigotry, and romance blooms for the captain’s daughter (Kathryn Grayson) and a riverboat gambler (Howard Keel). Joe E. Brown also stars. Songs include "Where's the Mate for Me?," "Can't Help Lovin' that Man," and "Ol' Man River." 108 min. C/Rtg: NR

Kiss Me Kate (1953)

This lively musical gem stars Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson as divorced Broadway actors who reunite to play feuding lovers Petruchio and Katherine in Cole Porter's musical version of "The Taming of the Shrew." The couple soon finds their on-stage and off-stage lives merging as old feelings return. Ann Miller, Bobby Van, James Whitmore, and Keenan Wynn are among the supporting cast; the Porter score includes "So in Love," "Too Darn Hot," and "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." 110 min. C/Rtg: NR

Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)

One of MGM's most exciting musical-comedies is a tale of seven backwoods brothers and seven homespun beauties in 1850 Oregon. When Adam Pontipee’s (Howard Keel) new wife Milly (Jane Powell) learns she must not only take care of her husband, but his six siblings as well, she sets out to help get all the brothers married off. With Julie Newmar, Russ Tamblyn. Songs include "When You're in Love," "Sobbin' Women," and "Spring, Spring, Spring." 102 min. C/Rtg: G

Standard/Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish.