Two weeks ago I featured the best dance films. Many of them are repeated here because where there is dance, there is also music. An excellent best musical list from IndieWire:
- #1 Singin' in the Rain (1954)
- #2 All that Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
- #3 West Side Story (1961)
- #4 Dancer in the Dark (2000), featuring Björk
- #5 Mary Poppins (1964), nominated for 13 Oscars
- #6 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
- #7 The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- #8 Nashville (1975)
- #9 Cabaret (1972)
- #10 Moulin Rouge (2001)
- #11 The Sound of Music (1965)
- #12 La La Land (2016)
- #13 Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
- #14 My Fair Lady (1964)
- #15 Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
- #16 The Red Shoes (1948)
- #17 A Star is Born (1954), there was another in 1937, then 1976, and finally 2018. The 1954 version starred Judy Garland and James Mason.
- #18 The Lion King (1994)
- #19 Swing Time (1936), Oscar-winning The Way You Look Tonight with Astaire-Rogers.
- #20 Purple Rain (1984), hard to believe that this Prince film is 40 years old.
- #28 42nd Street (1933)
- #37 A Star is Born (2018)
- #40 Cabin in the Sky (1943)
- #44 In the Heights (2021), movie version of Lin-Manuel Miranda's other broadway hit.
- #49 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
- #53 West Side Story (2021)
- #57 Top Hat (1935)
- #60 New York New York (1960)
- So few recent musicals.
- A team almost totally missing is Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rogers: (these are the years the Broadway or London version opened)....Oklahoma (1943), The King and I (1951), Carousel (1945), South Pacific (1949), Flower Drum Song (1958)...but the Sound of Music made this list at #11.
- Included are several films from India and two from Japan.
- #1 Cabaret (1972)
- #2 Singin' in the Rain (1952)
- #3 The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- #6 RRR (2022), 3-hour Bollywood cinema.
- #11 Mother India (1957), from India
- #20 The Sound of Music (1965)
- #34 White Christmas (1954)
- #35 Victor/Victoria (1982)
- #1 Singin' in the Rain (1952)
- #2 Cabaret (1972)
- #3 West Side Story (1961 and 2021)
- Sounds familiar, so a few more.
- #9 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
- #18 Hamilton (2020)
- #21 Oklahoma (1955)
- #27 Snow White and Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- #38 Rocketman (2019)
- #54 The Blues Brothers (1980)
- #63 Mama Mia! (2008)
- #69 Mean Girls (2024)
- #1 The Lion King 2019 $1.7 billion
- #2 Frozen II 2019 $1.5 b
- #3 Frozen 2013 $1.4 b
- #4 Beauty and the Beast 2017 $1.3 b
- #5 Aladdin 2019 $1.0 b
- #6 The Lion King 1994 $0.97 b
- #7 The Jungle Book 2016 $0.97 b
- #8 Bohemian Rhapsody 2018 $0.90 b
- #9 Moana 2016 $0.64 B
- #10 Sing 2016 $0.63 b
- The top 25 are all from 1991 to the present
- #26 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 $0.42 v
- #44 The Sound of Music 1965 $0.29 b
- This list does not work in the inflation factor.
- #1 The Sound of Music 1965 $1.335 billion
- #2 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 $1.021 b
- #3 The Lion King 1994 $0.835 b
- #4 Fantasia 1940 $0.732 b
- #5 Mary Poppins 1964 $0.732 b
- #6 Grease 1978 $0.722 b
- #7 The Jungle Book 1967 $0.690 b
- #8 Sleeping Beauty 1959 $0.680 b
- #9 Pinocchio 1940 $0.632 b
- #10 The Lion King 2019 $0.565 b
- Notice something? These films are all for parents taking their kids to the movies.
- #1 Gone with the Wind 1939 $1.851 billion
- #2 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope 1977 $1.629 b
- #3 The Sound of Music 1965 $1.304 b
- #10 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 $0.997 b
- #20 The Lion King 1994 $0.815 b
- #27 Mary Poppins 1964 $0.705 b
- #66 My Fair Lady 1964 $0.549
- #81 West Side Story 1961 $0.512 b
- #116 Frozen 2013 $0.449 b
- #187 Saturday Night Fever 1977 $0.371 b
- #192 Funny Girl 1968 $0.366 b
- The Sound of Music 1965 283 million
- Sholay 1975 250 m (This is the entire 3 hr 18 min film from India), Rotten Tomatoes 93/95.
- Awaara 1951 217 m (to be covered below)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 170 m
- Of course, the population of the world was only 2.5 billion in 1951 and 4 billion in 1975, compared to more than 8 billion today, so that's another factor that can be inserted into the analysis if desired.
- Part I, 1974, to celebrate MGM's 50th anniversary, Rotten Tomatoes scores of 100/86.
- Par II, 1976, RT 71/78
- That's Dancing!,1985, RT 72 audience
- Part III, 1994, RT 100/83
- Gene Kelly was the only individual to host in all four films.
- Except for That's Dancing!, the three film episodes only used MGM films.
- These were profitable, and That's Entertainment I, adjusted for inflation, only grossed $19.1 million, worldwide.
- The 1948 The Red Shoes.
- A British film starring Moira Shearer, her film debut.
- Based on the 1845 fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen.
- Got five Academy award nominations and won for Best Original Score and Best Art Direction.
- Rotten Tomatoes scores of 99/91.
- These red shoes sold for around $20,000 in 2000.
- The 1934 Merry Widow with Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier. Rotten Tomatoes 82/78.
- The 1955 Guys and Dolls with Marlon Brandon, Joan Simmons and Frank Sinatra. Rotten Tomatoes score of 91/83.
- Rodgers and Hammerstein.
- A whole bunch of movies highly rated by Rotten Tomatoes on Tubi TV. Well, not exactly musicals, although every one has some kind of soundtrack, BUT THEY ARE ALL FREE. Among them:
- Dr. Zhivago
- Night at the Opera (Marx Brothers)
- Tokyo Story (Japan)
- Fiddler on the Roof
- A Star is Born (Judy Garland)
- Jurassic Park
- Freaks
- Cabaret
- My Best Friend's Wedding
- Batman
- Paddington
- Lolita
- Man on a Wire
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Thelma and Louis
- 12 Angry Men
- North By Northwest
- The Great Escape
- Fail Safe
- The Last Waltz
- 1954 Godzilla
- The Third Man
- This should keep you busy the whole summer.
- The Graduate
- Dial M for Murder
- Bull Durham
- Benny and Joon
- Apollo 11
- The Philadelphia Story
Nothing to do with best musicals, but this is an exceptional Korean series called Something in The Rain. It has a song that repeats in every episode that will become your favorite. Remember Stand By Your Man by Tammy Wynette? In this program, the song is sung by Carla Bruni. On the other hand, people do not all agree on everything, and here is a someone who thinks that this song totally ruined the series. Let me know who you think is right. This other person comes from the blog site, THE UNLIT CIGARETTE, a Silly Sapphian's Spiritual Sojourn. We do agree that actress Son Ye-Jin is really beautiful.
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