"Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History" is the most entertaining and comprehensive feature about the Hollywood musical ever produced.  Hosted by Academy Award winning stage, screen and television icon, Shirley Jones, it is a celebration of song and dance beginning with the Busby Berkeley era through the first musical to win an Academy Award in more than 30 years, "Chicago," and ending with the highly acclaimed box office hit "Dreamgirls."

The best films from every studio, every decade and the most important and influential stars are included. You’ll ride the rollercoaster of the genre’s dazzling heyday of success. The journey begins with the dawn of sound on film, to the patriotic feel-good musicals of World War II, through the development of the "integrated" musical in which songs became an important story-telling ingredient, through the near-death of the medium when the studio system collapsed, to the genre’s recent resurgence and multi-generational embrace. Visionary directors and producers like Rob Marshall, Bill Condon, and Craig Zadan have recently brought innovative modern musicals to audiences and filled movie theatres once again.

Fresh, new interviews with stars like Liza Minnelli, Shirley MacLaine, Mickey Rooney, Rita Moreno, Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Caron, Joel Grey and directors Bill Condon ("Dreamgirls") and Rob Marshall ("Chicago") among many, many others give an insider’s insight into the world that helped shape these filmed masterpieces.

Mesmerizing sequences interspersed  with rarely seen footage and interviews with stars including Busby Berkley, Vincent Minnelli, Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly also help us to understand the creative processes that make their films works of art. Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History is a grand historical look at the magic of Hollywood.

FILMS INCLUDE: The Jazz Singer, The Wizard of Oz, Dames, Fashions of 1934, The Little Colonel, Gold Diggers of 1935, Meet Me in St. Louis, Babes on Broadway, Yankee Doodle Dandy, On the Town, The Harvey Girls, Cover Girl, The King and I, The Sound of Music, An American In Paris, Singin’ In The Rain, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Royal Wedding, Damn Yankees, Gigi, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Oklahoma!, Carousel, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, West Side Story, Funny Girl, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Oliver!, Sweet Charity, Hello Dolly, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Fiddler On The Roof, Cabaret, Jesus Christ Superstar, Tommy, New York, New York, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Hair, All That Jazz, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Evita, Cry Baby, Moulin Rouge, Chicago, Dreamgirls and Hairspray.