Happy 2021! Grateful that it’s a new year.
For my 2021 movie watching project, I am going to watch the 50 movies listed in the book from Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Must-See Musicals: 50 Show-Stopping Movies We Can’t Forget by Richard Barrios (Running Press, 2017; available on Amazon.com, on the Shop TCM website, and, hopefully, from your favorite bookseller).
Heaven knows that we could use some happiness, so what better way than to watch a bunch of escapist musicals?! Over the course of 2021, I’ll plan to watch one of these films per week. I will be documenting my progress on my Instagram account (@moviespap), so please join me there. I’ll keep the blog updated with my progress, too (mostly with just copies of my Instagram posts).
Here’s the list of films. Excited to get started. Hope you’ll want to follow along, too!
*=Haven’t Seen
- The Broadway Melody (MGM, 1929)
- The Love Parade (Paramount, 1929)*
- Sunny Side Up (Fox, 1929)*
- King of Jazz (Universal, 1930)*
- Le Million (Films Sonores Tobis-France, 1931)*
- Love Me Tonight (Paramount, 1932)*
- 42nd Street (Warner Bros., 1933)
- Top Hat (RKO, 1935)
- Show Boat (Universal, 1936)*
- Swing Time (RKO, 1936)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Walt Disney, 1937)
- The Wizard of Oz (MGM, 1939)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (Warner Bros., 1942)
- Holiday Inn (Paramount, 1942)
- Cabin in the Sky (MGM, 1943)
- Cover Girl (Columbia, 1944)
- Meet Me in St. Louis (MGM, 1944)
- On the Town (MGM, 1949)
- Annie Get Your Gun (MGM, 1950)
- An American in Paris (MGM, 1951)
- Singin’ in the Rain (MGM, 1952)
- Million Dollar Mermaid (MGM, 1952)
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (20th Century Fox, 1953)
- The Band Wagon (MGM, 1953)
- Calamity Jane (Warner Bros., 1953)
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (MGM, 1954)
- A Star Is Born (Warner Bros., 1954)
- Oklahoma! (Magna/RKO, 1955)
- The King and I (20th Century Fox, 1956)
- The Girl Can’t Help It (20th Century Fox, 1956)*
- Funny Face (Paramount, 1957)
- The Pajama Game (Warner Bros., 1957)
- Jailhouse Rock (MGM, 1957)
- Gigi (MGM, 1958)
- West Side Story (Mirisch Corporation/United Artists, 1961)
- The Music Man (Warner Bros., 1962)
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Parc Film/20th Century Fox, 1964)
- A Hard Day’s Night (Shenson, United Artists, 1964)
- Mary Poppins (Walt Disney, 1964)
- My Fair Lady (Warner Bros., 1964)
- The Sound of Music (20th Century Fox, 1965)
- Funny Girl (Columbia, 1968)
- Oliver! (Romulus/Columbia, 1968)
- Fiddler on the Roof (Mirisch Corporation/United Artists, 1971)
- Cabaret (ABC/Allied Artists, 1972)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (20th Century Fox, 1975)
- Grease (Paramount, 1978)
- Beauty and the Beast (Walt Disney, 1991)
- Chicago (Miramax, 2002)
- La La Land (Summit Entertainment/Lionsgate, 2016)
