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Bing Crosby was the leading figure of the crooner sound as well as its most iconic, defining artist. By the 1940s, he was an entertainment superstar who mastered all of the major media formats of the day, movies, radio, and recorded music. Other popular singers of the day included Cab Calloway and Eddie Cantor.
The following is a list of musical films by year. A musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. 1920s
Pages in category "1940s musical films" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Auroratone
This is a partial list of songs that originated in movies that charted (Top 40) in either the United States or the United Kingdom, though frequently the version that charted is not the one found in the film. Songs are all sourced from, [1] [2] and,. [3] For information concerning music from James Bond films see
When adjusted for inflation, the highest-grossing musical films are The Sound of Music, with an inflation-adjusted worldwide gross of $2,572,000,000; followed by Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with an inflation-adjusted worldwide gross of $1,977,000,000 (both as of 2019). [a] The top five films are among the highest-grossing films of all time.
Popular music and motion pictures have been linked since the dawn of the talkies and The Jazz Singer (1927). While numerous films in the intervening years have featured popular music in their sound tracks, and many have profiled solo artists, the list of films about popular bands is much shorter.
A list of American films released in 1940. American film production was concentrated in Hollywood and was dominated by the eight Major film studios MGM , Paramount , Warner Bros. , 20th Century Fox , RKO , Columbia , Universal and United Artists .
The Man from Music Mountain, aka, Texas Legionnaires: Joseph Kane: Roy Rogers, Sons of the Pioneers: Singing cowboy Western My Friend Flicka: Harold D. Schuster: Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson: family Western The Outlaw: Howard Hughes: Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell, Walter Huston: adult Western Outlaws of Stampede ...