As we continue to explore the roles of the various Hollywood studios in the development of the film musical, we take a look at a company which had a major influence on film musicals in two distinct periods—the early 1930s, when Forty-Second Street was a landmark in determining the style of the musical, with Ruby Keeler as its major star; and the 1950s, when Doris Day’s fourteen Warner films made her the all-time top female box office attraction. Along the way these two women and co-stars such as Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers and Joan Blondell and, later, Gordon MacRae, Jack Carson and Frank Sinatra.
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Frank Kenney, reedsBob Bork, reedsJesse Cloninger, reedsRoger Woods, reedsJoe Manis, reedsDave Bender, trumpetJosh Deutsch, trumpetJohn Polese, trumpetDouglas Dietrick, trumpetJohn Dulaney, trumpetGlenn Griffith, tromboneGlenn Bonney, tromboneTodd Johnson, tromboneMatt Treder, pianoMark Forrest, guitar, banjoNathan Waddell, bassMerlin Showalter, drums |