Busby Berkeley

Busby Berkeley

November 29, 1895

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Busby Berkeley (November 29, 1895 – March 14, 1976) was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical choreographer. Berkeley was famous for his elaborate musical production numbers that often involved complex geometric patterns. Berkeley's works u…

Known For

17 titles
1
Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933

1933 · 1h 37m · Movie

A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.

7.7
2
Annie Get Your Gun

Annie Get Your Gun

1950 · 1h 47m · Movie

The story of the great sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who rose to fame while dealing with her love/professional rival, Frank Butler.

6.8
3
Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

1949 · 1h 33m · Movie

Two turn-of-the-century baseball players, who work in vaudeville during the off-season, run into trouble with their team's new female owner and a gambler who doesn't want them to win the pennant.

6.6
4
For Me and My Gal

For Me and My Gal

1942 · 1h 44m · Movie

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

7.0
5
Ziegfeld Girl

Ziegfeld Girl

1941 · 2h 12m · Movie

In the 1920s, three women become performers in the renowned Broadway show the Ziegfeld Follies, where they find fame, love, and tragedy.

6.7
6
Gold Diggers of 1935

Gold Diggers of 1935

1935 · 1h 35m · Movie

Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.

6.8
7
Babes in Arms

Babes in Arms

1939 · 1h 34m · Movie

A group of vaudevillians struggling to compete with talkies hits the road hoping for a comeback. Frustrated to be left behind, all of their kids put on a show themselves to raise money for the families and to prove they've got tal...

6.3
8
Romance on the High Seas

Romance on the High Seas

1948 · 1h 39m · Movie

Romantic misunderstandings abound when spouses suspect each other of being unfaithful, and a nightclub singer takes a cruise under a false identity.

7.0
9
Girl Crazy

Girl Crazy

1943 · 1h 39m · Movie

A philandering young playboy is sent to college somewhere in the American West, and organizes a show, together with his sweetheart, to save the college from closure due to falling enrollments.

6.8
10
The Gang's All Here

The Gang's All Here

1943 · 1h 43m · Movie

A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.

6.6
11
Strike Up the Band

Strike Up the Band

1940 · 2h 0m · Movie

A high school boy wants to become a professional musician, and his gal pal wants to become his best girl. They work together staging big band shows with fellow classmates in the hopes of hitting it big.

6.8
12
Babes on Broadway

Babes on Broadway

1941 · 1h 58m · Movie

Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney star in a musical directed by Busby Berkeley as two talented teenagers dreaming of success as Babes on Broadway.

6.6
13
Fast and Furious

Fast and Furious

1939 · 1h 13m · Movie

Rare book dealers Joel and Garda take a summertime jaunt to the seashore where he becomes involved in a beauty pageant as investor and judge - much to her chagrin.

6.1
14
Hollywood Hotel

Hollywood Hotel

1938 · 1h 49m · Movie

Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band, has won a talent contest and a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But she ...

6.4
15
Palmy Days

Palmy Days

1931 · 1h 17m · Movie

The assistant of a phony psychic leaves the fraudulent business and becomes an efficiency expert.

6.9
16
Brother Can You Spare a Dime

Brother Can You Spare a Dime

1975 · 1h 43m · Movie

A nostalgic look back at the Great Depression with contemporary archival footage and film clips picturing James Cagney as an American Everyman.

7.1
17
Bright Lights

Bright Lights

1935 · 1h 22m · Movie

Joe and Fay Wilson are a happily married vaudeville team. But when a reporter discovers, that one of the chorus girls in the troupe is a slightly eccentric heiress, who bugs sometimes out to do something strange (e.g. being a chor...

6.3