Ruby Keeler Movies

Broadway director Julian Marsh needs just one more hit show so he can retire and recover his health. It looks like he just may pull it off until temperamental star Dorthy Brock breaks her ankle on the eve of the show's premiere and has to be replaced by her un...

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.

A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.

A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.

A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event.

A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.

Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.

An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.

An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.

A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.

Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.

Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.

Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment and keep the...

Short documentary about the Great Depression's impact on film, specifically Berkeley musicals.

The process by which girls are chosen for chorus line members in movie musical is shown. Numbers from popular 1930s musicals are then presented. These include "Don't Say Goodnight" from Wonder Bar (1934); "Lullaby of Broadway" from Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)...

Profile of famed dance director Busby Berkeley's career, in particular "The Gang's All Here"

Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.