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Curly Top (1935)

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:19:02 +0000

1h 15min. // Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of “Mr. Jones.” As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary.

Directed by: Irving Cummings

Writing Credits: Patterson McNutt (screenplay), Arthur J. Beckhard (screenplay)

Starring: Shirley Temple (as Elizabeth Blair), John Boles (as Edward Morgan) and Rochelle Hudson (as Mary Blair)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Venice Film Festival 1935. Best Foreign Film. Irving Cummings.

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Jolson Sings Again (1949)

Charlotte Movies — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:19:01 +0000

1h 36min. // In this sequel to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer’s career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife has left him and the appeal of the spotlight isn’t what it used to be. This time Jolson trades in the stage for life in the fast lane: women, horses, travel. It takes the death of Moma Yoelson and World War II to bring Jolson back to earth – and to the stage. Once again teamed with manager Steve Martin, Jolson travels the world entertaining troops everywhere from Alaska to Africa. When he finally collapses from exhaustion it takes young, pretty nurse Ellen Clark to show him there’s more to life than “just rushing around”.

Directed by: Henry Levin

Writing Credits: Sidney Buchman (screenplay)

Starring: Larry Parks (as Al Jolson), Barbara Hale (as Ellen Clark), William Demarest (as Steve Martin), Ludwig Donath (as Cantor Yoelson), Bill Goodwin (as Tom Baron), Myron McCormick (as Ralph Bryant) and Tamara Shayne (as Moma Yoelson)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1950. Best Writing, Story and Screenplay. Sidney Buchman.

NOMINATED.Academy Awards, USA 1950. Best Cinematography, Color. William E. Snyder.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1950. Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture. Morris Stoloff and George Duning.

NOMINATED.Writers Guild of America, USA 1950. Best Written American Musical. Sidney Buchman.

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The Caddy (1953)

Charlotte Movies — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:18:11 +0000

1h 35min. // Although gifted golfer Harvey Miller is too nervous to golf in public tournaments, he acts as coach and caddy for friend Joe Anthony.

Directed by: Norman Taurog

Writing Credits: Edmund L. Hartmann (screenplay), Danny Arnold (screenplay and story)

Starring: Dean Martin (as Joe Anthony), Jerry Lewis (as Harvey Miller, Jr), Donna Reed (as Kathy Taylor) and Barbara Bates (as Lisa Anthony)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1954. Best Music, Original Song. Harry Warren (music), Jack Brooks (lyrics) for the song “That’s Amore”.

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Centennial Summer (1946)

Charlotte Movies — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:16:01 +0000

1h 42min. // In 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters, Julia and Edith Rogers, fall in love with a Frenchman , Philippe Lascalles, who’s come to town to prepare the French pavilion for the Centennial exposition.

Directed by: Otto Preminger

Writing Credits: Michael Kanin (screenplay), Albert E. Idell (novel)

Starring: Jeanne Crain (as Julia Rogers), Cornel Wilde (as Philippe Lascalles), and Linda Darnell (as Edith Rogers)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1947. Best Music, Original Song. Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) for the song “All Through the Day”.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1947. Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture. Alfred Newman.

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The Jolson Story (1946)

Charlotte Movies — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:16:01 +0000

2h. 8min. // This movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson, a little Jewish boy who goes against the will of his father in order to be in showbiz. He becomes a star, falls in love with a non-Jewish dancer, and marries her.

Directed by: Alfred E. Green

Writing Credits: Stephen Longstreet (screenplay)

Starring: Larry Parks (as Al Jolson), Evelyn Keyes (as Julie Benson) and William Demarest (as Steve Martin)

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Awards:

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1947. Best Sound, Recording. John P. Livadary.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1947. Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture. Morris Stoloff.

WON. Photoplay Awards 1948. Gold Medal.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1947. Best Actor in a Leading Role. Larry Parks.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1947. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. William Demarest.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1947. Best Cinematography, Color. Joseph Walker.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1947. Best Film Editing. William A. Lyon.

NOMINATED. Cannes Film Festival 1947. Feature films. Alfred E. Green.

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A Ticket To Tomahawk (1950)

Charlotte Movies — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:15:42 +0000

1h. 30min. // In 1876 Colorado, the Tomahawk and Western Railroad is expanding through the Rockies, but some stagecoach operators, fearing a loss of revenue, plan to sabotage the railroad.

Directed by: Richard Sale

Writing Credits: Mary Loos (screenplay), Richard Sale (screenplay)

Starring: Dan Dailey (as Johnny Behind-the-Deuces), Anne Baxter (as Kit Dodge Jr.), Rory Calhoun (as Dakota), Walter Brennan (as Terence Sweeny) and Marilyn Monroe (as performer: “Oh, What a Forward Young Man You Are” – uncredited)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Writers Guild of America, USA 1951. Best Written American Western. Mary Loos and Richard Sale.

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Royal Wedding (1951)

Charlotte Movies — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:15:27 +0000

1h. 42min. // Tom and Ellen Bowen are a brother and sister dancers whose show closes in New York. Their agent books them in London for the same period as the Royal Wedding. They both fall in love on their journey towards Europe. Will romance break up their act and dreams of stardom.

Directed by: Stanley Donen

Writing Credits: Alan Jay Lerner (story and screenplay)

Starring: Fred Astaire (as Tom Bowen), Jane Powell (as Ellen Bowen) and Peter Lawford (as Lord John Brindale)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1952. Best Music, Original Song. Burton Lane (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) for the song “Too Late Now”.

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The Gene Krupa Story (1959)

Charlotte Movies — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:15:15 +0000

1h. 41min. // The story of legendary jazz drummer, Gene Krupa. Since his youth, all Gene ever wanted to do is play the drums and make music. This is something his parents would not approve of- they want him to be a priest. When Gene’s father dies he promises to enter the priesthood. He soon realizes that he doesn’t belong there and leaves to join his friend, Eddie’s band. Ethel, Eddie’s girlfriend, convinces Gene to go to New York and make it big. The 3 of them head to New York. Here Ethel and Gene soon fall in love and Gene makes a name for himself. Gene starts to live in the fast lane, with drugs, alcohol, women and parties. Ethel, unhappy with Gene’s lifestyle, leaves him. Gene soon “hits rock bottom” where he has to face reality and choose where to take his life.

Directed by: Don Weis

Writing Credits: Orin Jannings (screenplay)

Starring: Sal Mineo (as Gene Krupa), Susan Kohner (as Ethel Maguire) and James Darren (as Eddie Sirota)

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Awards:

WON. Golden Globes, USA 1959. Most Promising Newcomer – Female. Susan Kohner.

NOMINATED. Laurel Awards 1960. Top Musical. 5th place.

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The Joker Is Wild (1957)

George — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:15:01 +0000

2h 6min. // Set in Chicago in the late 1920s, during the days of Prohibition, the film tells the story of Joe E. Lewis (played by Frank Sinatra), a rising singer of the Club 777, a speakeasy owned by Georgie Parker, known for his ties with the mob.

Lewis’ life turns upside down when he leaves Georgie and accepts the offer of another club owner who gives him more money. His decision almost cost his life as a couple of Parker’s men attack him badly, fracturing his skull and cutting his throat. Miraculously, he survives the aggression, but the wounds end his career as a singer.

Bleak, he starts working as a clown in low rated vaudeville acts. But suddenly, he returns to the spotlight when his old friend Sophie Tucker makes him sing on stage with her. With his voice damaged, he can’t hit the high notes, so he uses his acerbic and sharp sense of humor to disarm the audience and he realizes his talent for comedy. Soon, Lewis makes a great career as a comedian, but his drinking problems and his self-destructive behaviour lead him to question his life.

Based on Art Cohn’s biography The Life of Joe. E. Lewis, The Joker is Wild is one of the most memorable Frank Sinatra’s films.

Directed by: Charles Vidor

Writing Credits: Oscar Saul (screenplay), Art Cohn (book)

Starring: Frank Sinatra (as Joe E. Lewis), Mitzi Gaynor (as Martha Stewart), Jeanne Crain (as Letty Page) and Eddie Albert (as Austin Mack)

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Awards:

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1958. Best Music, Original Song for “All the Way”. Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics).

NOMINATED. Writers Guild of America (WGA), USA 1958. Best Written American Musical. Oscar Saul.

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Spring Is Here (1930)

Charlotte Movies — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:37:56 +0000

1h 8min.- Betty Braley finds her heart pulled toward the charming but unreliable Steve Alden, a fellow who can turn on the romance but not always the responsibility. Her father Peter, a practical man with an eye on security rather than sentiment, champions the steadier Terry Clayton as the ideal match for his daughter. Around the Braley household, love becomes less a gentle breeze and more a gusty storm as parental expectations collide with youthful desire.

As songs and snappy pre-Code banter punctuate the courtship tangle, Betty tries to sort out whether she wants the excitement Steve promises or the stability Terry offers. Musical numbers underscore each shift in her affections, with playful duets and ensemble pieces turning the family parlor into a stage for flirtation and frustration alike. Misunderstandings, comedic interludes, and a few romantic gambles push everyone toward a final choice, where Betty must decide whether to follow her father’s wishes or the unpredictable rhythm of her own heart.

Directed by: John Francis Dillon

Starring: Louise Fazenda, Ford Sterling, Natalie Moorhead, Alexander Gray, Bernice Claire