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42nd Street and Singin' In The Rain

42nd Street (Country: US; Year: 1933; Director: Lloyd Bacon; Writer: Rian James, James Seymour, Bradford Ropes, Whitney Bolton; Stars: Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers)

A chorus girl understudy steals the show on Broadway after the leading lady is unexpectedly incapacitated.

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Calamity Jane (Country: US; Year: 1953; Director: David Butler; Stars: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn McLerie)

The classic musical about a tough cowgirl whose world is turned upside down when she falls in love.

Guys And Dolls (Country: US; Year: 1955; Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz; Writer: Joseph L Mankiewicz, Ben Hecht, based on the story The Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown by Damon Runyon and the book for the musical play by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling; Stars: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith, Stubby Kaye, B S Pulley, Johnny Silver, Sheldon Leonard, Regis Toomey)

The Broadway musical of crooks, gamblers and a Sally Army sergeant, called Sarah.

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Pakeezah (Pure Heart) (Year: 1972; Director: Kamal Amrohi; Writer: Kamal Amrohi; Stars: Meena Kumari, Raaj Kumar, Ashok Kumar)

A woman doomed from birth falls for a man she can never be with.

Singin' In The Rain (Country: US; Year: 1952; Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly; Writer: Adolph Green, Betty Comden; Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse, Douglas Fowley, Rita Moreno, Dawn Addams, John Albright, Betty Allen)

A silent film idol romances a Hollywood starlet in this much-loved classic.

Full Review See: Dance Film Festival introduction: celebrating dance in film