Era
Golden Age Movie Musicals
The studio musical at its height, roughly 1930 to 1960, when song and dance were shot as spectacle in long takes by performers who could actually do it.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
Singin' in the Rain
Stanley Donen · 1952
The Band Wagon
Vincente Minnelli · 1953
Top Hat
Mark Sandrich · 1935
West Side Story
Steven Spielberg · 2021
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