FAU Libraries Media Center - Videographies, Musical Motion Picture

VH 3915 42nd Street
Summary: Academy award winner Warner Baxter stars as Julian Marsh, a tyrannical director of Broadway musicals. When his show's leading lady breaks her ankle on the eve of opening night, a wide-eyed chorus girl is thrust into the role. "You're going out a youngster, " the director tells his terrified ingenue, "but you're coming back a star!" Director: Lloyd Bacon. 090 Min. VIDEO 1933 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MUSICAL

VH 2617 Black Jazz and Blues
Summary: (1929, 1935, 1945). Three all-black shorts with Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Louis Jordan, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra. 044 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: JAZZ, MUSICAL, DANCE, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 1799 Cabin in the Sky
Summary: Petunia Jackson, a poor but devout woman burdened with a shiftless husband called Little Joe. When Little Joe is seriously wounded in a fight and seems about to die, the forces of heaven and hell begin a battle for his soul. Petunia finds that she needs more than a prayer to keep her beloved Joe out of the Devil's clutches. Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram, Kenneth Spencer, John W. Sublett, & Oscar Polk. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Directed by Vincente Minnelli. 099 Min. VIDEO 1943 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MUSICAL, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 2173 Dames
Summary: Containing some of Busby Berkeley's best work, Dames is the landmark musical that has it all! An ambitious songwriter (Dick Powell) and his romantic inspiration (Ruby Keeler) try to open a Broadway show. But Ruby's eccentric millionaire uncle (Hugh Herbert) has a different idea. ZaSu Pitts and Guy Kibbee provide the comic relief as meddling relatives 092 Min. VIDEO 1934 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MUSICAL

VH 4285 Der Purimshpiler, (The Jester)
Summary: A romantic Jewish comedy about a drifter who wanders from shtetl to shtetl. He finds brief happiness when he falls in love with a shoemaker's daughter in a small town in Galicia. A likable fantasy about a man's quest for the unobtainable. Directed by: Joseph Green. 090 Min. VIDEO 1937 Subject: MUSICAL

VH 5573 Dirty Dancing
Summary: Summer romance between a Gentile dance instructor and an idealistic Jewish seventeen year old guest at a hotel in the Catskills. Directed by Emile Ardolino. 105 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: MUSICAL

VH 5530 Fiddler on the Roof, Pt. 1
Summary: Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. Directed by Norman Jewison. 180 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: MUSICAL Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 5531 Fiddler on the Roof, Pt. 2
Summary: Tevye is a poor Jewish milkman with five unmarried daughters to support in a village in Czarist Russia. With a sharp tongued wife at home and growing anti-Semitism in the village, Tevye talks to God about his troubles. Directed b y Norman Jewison. 180 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: MUSICAL Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 5577 Funny Girl
Summary: Follows the early career of Fanny Brice, her rise to stardom with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her stormy romance with Nicky Arnstein. Directed by William Wyler. 165 Min. VIDEO 1968 Subject: MUSICAL Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 7688 Hi Diddle Diddle
Summary: Motion picture musical comedy about a soldier on a 48-hour leave during WWII. Directed by Andrew L. Stone. 080 Min. VIDEO 1943 Subject: MUSICAL

VH 5585 Jazz Singer, The
Summary: Originally released in 1927. The story of a Jewish cantor's son who aspires to be a jazz singer despite his father's objection and religious tradition. In motion picture history, this was the first feature film to utilize synchronous sound. Jolson's songs include "Toot, Toot, Tootsie, " "Blue Skies, " and "Mammy." Directed by Alan Crosland. 089 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: MUSICAL Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 5131 Man of La Mancha
Summary: He is a skinny old gentleman with wispy white hair and a careworn face. He is a madman who tilts at windmills and dreams the impossible dream of unsullied love and unending gallantry. He is Don Quixote de La Mancha, the knight errant who captured the world's imagination in Miguel de Cervantes' 1605 novel. 130 Min. VIDEO 1972 Subject: MUSICAL

VH 6343 Music Man, The
Summary: Traveling salesman Professor Harold Hill hoodwinks the credulous townsfolk of River City, Iowa into organizing a boy's band so he can sell them nonexistent band instruments, then tries to skip town before the chicanery is unmasked by the town librarian. Directed by Morton DeCosta. 175 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: MUSICAL

VH 6940 Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese, Part 1
Summary: Martin Scorsese presents a personal and topical look at American movies mainly from the 30's to the 60's focusing on the director's tasks and options. Using clips and interviews with directors, Scorsese charts a comprehensive course through the rich history of the American cinema. 076 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MUSICAL

VH 6941 Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese, Part 2
Summary: Martin Scorsese presents a personal and topical look at American movies mainly from the 30's to the 60's focusing on the director's tasks and options. Using clips and interviews with directors, Scorsese charts a comprehensive course through the rich history of the American cinema. 079 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MUSICAL

VH 6942 Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese, Part 3
Summary: Martin Scorsese presents a personal and topical look at American movies mainly from the 30's to the 60's focusing on the director's tasks and options. Using clips and interviews with directors, Scorsese charts a comprehensive course through the rich history of the American cinema. 074 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MUSICAL

VH 3499 Prince of Egypt, The
Summary: A tale of two brothers, one born of royal blood, one an orphan with a secret past. Growing up the best of friends, they share a strong bond of free spirited youth and good natured rivalry. But the truth will ultimately set them apart, as one becomes the ruler of a powerful empire and the other becomes the chosen leader of his people. 099 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: MUSICAL Series: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION

VH 1586 Shall We Dance
Summary: Fred and Ginger swirl, swoop and glide over the ocean waves in this frothy, lighthearted musical made at the height of their career together. Fred, ever elegant, plays a ballet dancer who, deep in his toes, longs to be a hoofer. Ginger, sweet and sexy, plays a musical comedy star coaxed into forming a dance team with him. The inimitable Edward Everett Horton garners laughs as Fred's loveable but confused manager. Director: Mark Sandrich. 109 Min. VIDEO 1937 Subject: COMMUNICATION, MUSICAL, DANCE

VH 7076 V Steklu Reke (Riverglass)
Summary: Through the liquid lens of crystalline water we perceive, perhaps for the first time, the magical underwater world of turquoise volumes, flying bubbles, pulsating membranes, dancing stones... 041 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: MUSICAL

VH 1743 La Vie Est Belle (Life is Rosy)
Summary: Tells the "rags to riches" story of a poor rural musician who realizes that to succeed in today's music world he must go to the city and break into radio and television. In Kinshasa he uses his wit and talent to win a beautiful wife, trick his greedy boss and succeed in singing his "theme song" on national television. Director: Lamy Bernard & N. Mweze. 085 Min. VIDEO 1987 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, MUSICAL Series: LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA

VH 0007 West Side Story (Part 1)
Summary: Gang rivalry and ethnic tension on New York's West Side erupts in a ground breaking musical. Loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Set in the Puerto Rican section of New York City. Natalie Wood, Richard Wise, Jerome Robbins. Director: Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise. 076 Min. VIDEO 1961 Subject: MUSICAL, DRAMA, DANCE

VH 0008 West Side Story (Part 2)
Summary: Gang rivalry and ethnic tension on New York's West Side erupts in a ground breaking musical. Loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Set in the Puerto Rican section of New York City. Natalie Wood, Richard Wise, Jerome Robbins. Director: Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise. 076 Min. VIDEO 1961 Subject: MUSICAL, DRAMA, DANCE

VH 3814 Yidl With His Fiddle (Yidl Mitn Fidl)
Summary: Molly Picon plays a shtetl girl who, disguised as a boy, goes off with her father and a band of traveling musicians into the Polish countryside. Made in pre war Poland, the film provides a warm rendering of Eastern European Jewish life, made all the more fun and wonderful by Molly Picon's unequaled ability to amuse and entertain. Subtitled in English. 092 Min. VIDEO 1936 Subject: MUSICAL, COMMUNICATION