AFI's Top 25 Musicals

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So many good movies, so little time.
The American Film Institute just came out with the top 25 American musicals of all time

1. Singin' in the Rain, (1952), MGM
2. West Side Story, (1961), United Artists
3. The Wizard of Oz, (1939), MGM
4. The Sound of Music, (1965), 20th Century Fox
5. Cabaret, (1972), Allied Artists
6. Mary Poppins, (1964), Disney
7. A Star Is Born, (1954), Warner Bros.
8. My Fair Lady, (1964), Warner Bros.
9. An American In Paris, (1951), MGM
10. Meet Me in St. Louis, (1944), MGM
11. The King and I, (1956), 20th Century Fox
12. Chicago, (2002), Miramax
13. 42nd Street, (1933), Warner Bros.
14. All That Jazz, (2002), Miramax
15. Top Hat, (1935), RKO
16. Funny Girl, (1968), Columbia
17. The Band Wagon, (1953), MGM
18. Yankee Doodle Dandy, (1942), Warner Bros.
19. On the Town, (1949), MiraMGM
20. Grease, (1978), Paramount
21. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, (1954), MGM
22. Beauty and the Beast, (1991), Disney
23. Guys and Dolls, (1955), MGM
24. Show Boat, (1936), Universal
25. Moulin Rouge!, (2001), 20th Century Fox

Missing? For me Oklahoma, Fiddler on the Roof and Saturday Night Fever.
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Originally Posted by TheUsualSuspect
Moulin Rouge should be higher.
I know, I maybe, the only one to say this I did not Moulin Rouge at all, There I said it, i think it should be replaced by Saturday Night Fever
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Im so glad that Beauty and the Beast is on there. I would have entered an unimaginable rage of fury if it had not been.
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How about "The Music Man" with Robert Preston and Shirley Jones - one of my favorites, with a chance to see a (very) young Ron Howard.



I thought Moulin Rouge was an Aussie movie...Baz Luhrmann being an Aussie and it being filmed in Australia...not sure it belongs in the "top 25 American musicals of all time"...

Replace it with "A Chorus Line" or "Once More with Feeling" imo



I'm glad that West Side Story is on the above-mentioned list, and that it made the number two spot. Here's hoping that this great, golden oldie-but-goody movie-musical classic will reach numero uno! I'm waiting on that day!!



Some of the other Oscar-winning pictures I've seen and liked are as follows:

Lawrence of Arabia
French Connection
Million Dollar Baby
No Country for Old Men
Crash
The Departed
My Fair Lady
Midnight Cowboy
Rainman, Rainman
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King


(oops--wrong thread-sorry)

However, other films that I've enjoyed that didn't win any Oscars are as follows:

How the West Was Won
Cat Ballou
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Grizzly Man
Some Like It Hot
Dirty Harry (the first one)
Flipper
Endless Summer
Georgy Girl
The Seventh Seal
Alexander Nurevsky
The Graduate

to name afew.



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I don't know how West Side Story isn't #1. And also the list without Fiddler On The Roof, Brigadoon with the great Gene Kelly, and Oklahoma are not on there.
perplexes me also, Anybodys. Who knows, though? Hopefully, maybe, someday, West Side Story will take the numero uno spot! While I liked Brigadoon, and thought Oklahoma was OK, they're both better on stage, imo. Was not crazy about Fiddler on the Roof, however.