The 25 Best Golden-Age Movie Musicals
The 25 Best Golden-Age Movie Musicals By Samantha Ladwig Photo: Maya Robinson/Vulture From the 1930s to the early 1950s, musicals dominated the big screen. The genre emerged alongside the invention of sound in the late 1920s thanks to the first full-length — and controversial — sound picture, The Jazz Singer (1927), and soon the sounds of singers and tap shoes were highlighting the groundbreaking audio technology in ways that dramatic pictures couldn’t. Which is why a bulk of the earliest musicals were simple Broadway adaptations like Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) and plotless song-and-dance productions like The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (not to mention these mindless extravaganzas satisfied Depression-era audiences seeking es...











































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