These are our favorite Old Hollywood Movies to get inspired with during springtime. With classic movies from the Golden Age, you get everything that Spring makes you feel inside.
You get the elegance, the dance moves, the songs, and a good old romance. The fresh wildflowers truly get dressed to impress, so why not join the spring party and soak your mind in beautiful 40s dresses and top hats? There is no better time for an Easter/Spring Parade than now.
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Our 10 Favorite Old Hollywood Spring Movies
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Easter Parade (1948)
A nightclub performer hires a naive chorus girl to become his new dance partner to make his former partner jealous and to prove he can make any partner a star. (Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford)
Till the Clouds Roll By (1947)
Biography of songwriter and Broadway pioneer, Jerome Kern. Unable to find immediate success in the U.S., Kern sought recognition abroad. He journeyed to England where his dreams of success became real and where he met his future wife Eva Leale.
(Robert Walker, Van Heflin, Lucille Bremer)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood. (Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds)
Mary Poppins (1965)
In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father. (Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson)
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Maytime (1937)
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student. (Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore)
April in Paris (1953)
A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat. (Doris Day, Ray Bolger, Claude Dauphin)
State Fair (1945)
Each member of the Frake clan has his/her own reason for attending the annual Iowa State Fair.
(Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes)
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Look for the Silver Lining (1949)
Marilyn Miller grows up in a showbiz family and hits Broadway before she is sixteen. She falls in love with her dancer-mentor Jack, but he is married. When she marries her stage partner Frank he soon is called to arms in World War I. (June Haver, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae)
Spring Parade (1940)
A Hungarian woman whose fortune predicts that she will marry may find it coming true when she meets an army drummer. (Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, Mischa Auer)
Brigadoon (1954)
Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past. (Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse)
