17 Facts About Musical film

Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by singing and dancing.

Musical film was a natural development of the stage musical after the emergence of sound film technology.

Musical film's saw 'terror in all their faces', she said, as if they knew that 'the game they had been playing for years was finally over'.

The film showcased the talents of several internationally recognized musical artists including: Kirsten Flagstad, Wilfred Pelletier (Canadian conductor of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra), Tito Guizar (Mexican tenor), Shep Fields conducting his Rippling Rhythm Jazz Orchestra and John Serry Sr.

The most successful musicals of the 1960s created specifically for film were Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book, two of Disney's biggest hits of all time.

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The 1978 Musical film version of Grease was a smash hit; its songs were original compositions done in a 1950s pop style.

Director Damien Chazelle created a musical film called La La Land, starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

An exception to the decline of the musical film is Indian cinema, especially the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai, where the most of films have been and still are musicals.

The second Musical film to follow its track was Jagga Jasoos in the year 2017.

Mehboob Khan's Mother India, a remake of his earlier Aurat (1940), was the first Indian Musical film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, which it lost by a single vote.

Mother India was an important Musical film that defined the conventions of Hindi cinema for decades.

The Musical film pays homage to India, incorporating an Indian-themed play and a Bollywood-style dance sequence with a song from the Musical film China Gate.

The first Spanish film stars came from the musical genre: Imperio Argentina, Estrellita Castro, Florian Rey and, later, Lola Flores, Sara Montiel and Carmen Sevilla.

Musical film returned in 1932, and in 1934 directed The Jolly Fellows, the first Soviet musical.

The film was light on plot and focused more on the comedy and musical numbers.

The star, again, was Lyubov Orlova and the Musical film featured singing and dancing, having nothing to do with work.

The Musical film can be seen as a glorification of Moscow canal without any hint that the canal was built by Gulag prisoners.