Movies: Bert Lahr

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked ...

Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work....

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history....

Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Dances From The Bible. But the show's comedian Raymond sees a way of wrong-footing the local do-gooder...

Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, Mike Malone, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The feeling is mutual. But, when she leaves to learn proper etiquette, Rose Marie meets a...

Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved....

An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption....

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....

Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of cast and crew members, their families and fans of the film....

A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success....

On an ocean liner, a nightclub singer tries to help a fellow American romance an English heiress who is being forced to return home to marry a man she doesn't love. The American must avoid his boss who is traveling on the same vessel and disguises hi...

Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love....

The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973); several uncanny moments of synchronisation and a generally darker tone than the original film....

Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones....

In this comedy short not-so-smart copper Bert Lahr gets in over his head when he becomes a mock candidate for mayor....

Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief....

Documentary featuring more than one dozen musical outtakes from classic 20th Century-Fox films....

A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat....

The Wizard of Oz composer Harold Arlen was a life-long camera buff, and this 16mm color footage was taken during portrait sittings for the film, as well as on the Emerald City set and outside a studio soundstage....

In 1880, Osawkie, Kansas is feuding with rival town Mandaroon over which will be county seat, keeping the town's men away from home most of the time. The last straw is when Matt Davis feels compelled to go on a new foray on his wedding night; his bri...