- Cabaret (1972) *** - Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey star in Bob Fosse's dark and wonderful version of Kander & Ebb's stage hit.
- Cabin in the Sky (1943) **** - An angel and a demon battle for the soul of a common man. This fine adaptation of the stage hit was a career highlight for director Vincent Minnelli, and stars Ethel Waters, Eddie Anderson and Lena Horne.
- Caddy, The (1953) ** - Martin & Lewis as golfers aiming for show biz fame. Hit song: "That's Amore."
- Cadet Girl (1941)
- Cain and Mabel (1936)
- Cairo (1942) ** - Jeanette MacDonald stars in uneven spy thriller spoof.
- Calamity Jane (1953) *** - Doris Day is at her best as a butch cowgirl wgho must go fem to capture Howard Keel's heart. Good score & lots of laughs.
- Calendar Girl (1947)
- Call Me Madam (1953) **** - Ethel Merman re-creates her stage triumph, and packs a wallop. Great Berlin score & fine supporting cast -- a joy for musical buffs.
- Call Me Mister (1951) ** - Soldier Dan Dailey pursues angry girlfriend Betty Grable around occupied Japan – fun score, uneven film.
- Call of the Flesh (1930)
- Call Out the Marines (1942) * - Stupid waterfront spy tale.
- Calypso Joe (1957) NO STARS - Calypso musical - surely you have something better to do!
- Camelot (1967) * - Ghastly film version of Lerner & Loewe's musical about King Arthur & his roundtable. Some handsome images, but incoherent direction and rotten singing make this too painful to sit through.
- Cameo Kirby (1930)
- Camp (2003) **** - A delightful look at a heady clash of lust and ambition at a performing arts summer camp for teens. Don't let the jarring opening sequence fool you -- this one is a winner.
- Campus Honeymoon (1948)
- Campus Rhythm (1943)
- Campus Sleuth (1948)
- Can This Be Dixie? (1936)
- Can-Can (1960) ** - Stellar cast, Parisian setting and Cole Porter score cannot enliven this meager version of the 1950s stage hit. Great title tune dance sequence.
- Can't Help Singing (1944) ** - Deanna Durbin stars in this dull Wild West musical with a Jerome Kern - Yip Harburgh score.
- Can't Stop the Music (1979) NO STARS - All-star pop song fest, beyond awful. Gives camp a bad name.
- Captain January (1936)
- Captain of the Guard (1930)
- Caravan (1934) * - Charles Boyer and Loretta Young in an operetta? Chorus does the singing -- you'll do the snoozing.
- Career Girl (1944)
- Carefree (1938) *** - Psychiatrist Astaire falls in love with patient Rogers, set to an Irving Berlin score. Not this team's best, but still loads of fun.
- Carmen Jones (1954) *** - Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte and Pearl Bailey sizzle in Oscar Hammerstein II's update of Bizet's opera.
- Carnegie Hall (1947) *** - The teeny plot about an aspiring pianist is an excuse to tort out some of the greatest classical musicians of the 1940s in rare screen appearances. If classical is your bag, settle in and enjoy.
- Carnival in Costa Rica (1947) * - Dick Jaymes and Vera Ellen on a honeymoon trip to boredom.
- Carolina Cannonball (1955) * - Judy Canova stars in this moronic story of espionage in the sticks.
- Carousel (1956) *** - Somewhat stodgy version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's stage hit still entertains – Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones star.
- Casa Manana (1951)
- Casanova in Burlesque (1944)
- Casanova's Big Night (1954) ** - Bob Hope as a nobody pretending to be the famous lover in this lavish film.
- Casbah (1948) *** - Unlikely fun with Tony Martin as a thief in old Algiers. Harold Arlen tunes are an asset.
- Cat and the Fiddle, The (1934)
- Catch My Soul (1974) NO STARS - Repulsive rock version of Shakespeare's Othello.
- Centennial Summer (1946) ** - Sisters seek romance in 1876 Philadelphia, set to an unremarkable Jerome Kern score. Weak rip off of Meet Me in St. Louis.
- Cha-Cha-Cha-Boom (NO stars) - Carrumba!
- Champagne Waltz (1937)
- Charlotte's Web (1973) **** - An animated gem based on the classic children's tale of spider out to save a barnyard piglet. Debbie Reynolds voices the title role, and the Sherman Brothers provide a fine score.
- Chasing Rainbows (1930)
- Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
- Chicago (2002) **** - Ron Marshall's sensational adaptation of the Kander & Ebb stage hit, with murderous flappers seeking fame in the 1920s.
- Children of Dreams (1931)
- Children of Pleasure (1930)
- Chip Off the Old Block (1944) ** - Donald O'Connor finds teenage romance.
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) *** - Dick Van Dyke is outstanding in this fun story of an inventor who finds adventure in a flying car. Some fine Sherman Brothers songs, and handsome special effects.
- Chocolate Soldier, The (1941) ** - The plot is borrowed from The Guardsman, with Nelson Eddy as a jealous actor anxious to prove that his actress wife Rise Stevens is unfaithful. Long stretches of dialogue, but good musical numbers.
- Chorus Line, A (1985) * - This screen version of the long-running Broadway hit is totally off the mark, ranging from weak to embarrassing.
- Chu Chin Chow (1934) * - Long-running British stage version of Ali Baba legen is a crasing bore.
- Cigarette Girl (1947)
- Cinderella (1950) **** - Disney's classic animated version, as magical as anyone could ask for. Okay songs and lush visuals throughout.
- Cinderella Jones (1946)
- Clambake (1967) * - Elvis clunker.
- Climax, The (1944)
- Close Harmony (1929)
- C'Mon Let's Live a Little (1967) * - Folk singer get mixed up in campus nonsense. Hilarious Patsy Kelly almost makes this worth sitting through.
- Cockeyed Cavaliers (1934) * - Two kleptomaniacs are mistaken as royal physicians in pre-revolutionary France. The vaudeville team of Wheeler & Woolsey look ridiculous in this lavish but witless clunker.
- Cock-Eyed World, The (1929)
- Cocoanut Grove (1938)
- Cocoanuts, The (1929) *** - Marx Brothers in their insane stage hit, with such classics as the Viaduct sketch ("Viaduct? Via no chicken?").
- Colleen (1936)
- College Coach (1933)
- College Holiday (1936)
- College Swing (1938)
- Collegiate (1936)
- Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)
- Coney Island (1943) *** - Betty Grable travels from saloons to Broadway stardom in the 1890s. Entertaining & colorful.
- Copacabana (1947) ** - Even the combo of Carmen Miranda and Groucho Marx as her agent can't breathe much life into this dud.
- Coronado (1935)
- Cotton Club, The (1984) * - Studio cuts made this Prohibition-era film hard to follow. Some fine musical performers can be spotted along the way.
- Countess of Monte Cristo, The (1948)
- Country Music Holiday (1958)
- Court Jester, The (1956) *** - Danny Kaye dazzles in this medieval musical comedy – all fun, but the "vessel with the pestle" routine is a comedy classic.
- Cover Girl (1944) *** - Rita Hayworth must choose between modeling career and her love for nightclub owner Gene Kelly. Great musical numbers overcome the pedestrian plot.
- Cowboy Canteen (1944)
- Cowboy From Brooklyn (1938) * - Dick Powell as a singing radio cowboy? Yikes.
- Cowboy in Manhattan (1943)
- Crazy House (1943)
- Crooner (1932)
- Cross My Heart (1946)
- Crusin' Down the River (1953)
- Cuban Love Song, The (1931)
- Cuban Pete (1946)
- Cuckoos, The (1930)
- Curly Top (1935)
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