A Certain Cinema

Laura La Plante, Neil Hamilton and director William Wyler display their musical side on a break from shooting The Love Trap

Celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of Modern Screen magazine, Jimmy Durante entertains Gloria DeHaven, John Payne, Robert Walker, Esther Williams and Van Johnson

Ramon Novarro accompanies himself

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Ginger Rogers works on the song Jenny with the vocal arranger for Lady in the Dark, Joseph J. Lilley

Tommy Steele plays for Fred MacMurray between scenes of The Happiest Millionaire

Gypsy Rose Lee joins The Ritz Brothers (Harry, Jimmy and Al) in a quartet on the set of You Can't Have Everything

Director Jack Conway borrows Cliff Edwards' ukelele to entertain Clark Gable on the set of Saratoga

James Stewart poses with the jazz greats who appear with him in The Glenn Miller Story. Top: Ben Pollack, Gene Krupa, Louis Armstrong, Stewart, Murray McEachern and Babe Russin. Botttom: Trummy Young, Cozy Cole, Barney Bigard and Arvell Shaw

Johnny Downs and Eleanore Whitney on the set of College Holiday

Buster Keaton, Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel

Songwriters Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin present Dorothy Dell with the song Down Home

Rory Calhoun

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Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby rehearse with High Society music supervisor Saul Chaplin

Lois Chartland and Montgomery Clift make beautiful music on the set of A Place in the Sun. December, 1949

Assistant Robert Florey, cinematographer Max Fabian, assistant Nick Grindé, Paulette Duval and director Josef von Sternberg are entertained by the obligatory set musicians during filming of Exquisite Sinner

Writer Leigh Jason, Bessie Love and director William Wyler belt it out on the set of Anybody Here Seen Kelly?

Drummer Jackie Cooper

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Linda Darnell plays the organ in her dressing room between scenes of This is My Love

Recording session for Annie Get Your Gun with Howard Keel, Betty Hutton, associate producer Roger Edens and conductor Adolph Deutsch. The gentleman in the back is director George Sidney

Rick Jason shows Linda Darnell how to play the guitar during the filming of This Is My Love

Michael Wilding gets a piano lesson from music adviser Harold Gelman for his role in Torch Song

Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington react to Paul Newman's trombone playing on the set of Paris Blues

Hoagy Carmichael and Jane Russell rehearse a song for The Las Vegas Story

Songwriter Frank Loesser and Marlon Brando rehearse a song from Guys and Dolls

Joan Rice plays the guitar between scenes of The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

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Winnie Lightner, Charles Butterworth-- Side Show

Shirley Jones plays for Fluffy

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As the SS Queen Mary docks at New York Harbor, Ezio Pinza and Danny Kaye break into song. July, 1951

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Gene Krupa and James Stewart on the set of The Glenn Miller Story

Stepin Fetchit displays his musical abilities at a reunion of the Women's Breakfast Club in Los Angeles. July, 1934

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While filming East of Eden, Burl Ives and James Dean formed an unusual duet

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1955.

Director Robert Z. Leonard, Paulette Duval, Conrad Nagel, Marguerite De La Motte and Lewis Stone join in a song on the set of Cheaper to Marry

Burgess Meredith entertains Granville Bates on the set of Of Mice and Men

In preparation for a scene from The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Olivia de Havilland gets a lesson in lute playing from director Michael Curtiz

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Director Ernst Lubitsch entertains the stars of Trouble in Paradise, Herbert Marshall and Kay Francis

James & Lucile Gleason-- The Shannons of Broadway

Mario Lanza, Marisa Allasio and Renato Rascel between takes of Seven Hills of Rome

A rehearsal of the song Always and Always from Mannequin with Alan Curtis, Joan Crawford and two of Hollywood's great pipe smokers, producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz and director Frank Borzage

Funster Jimmy Durante turns a solo from Mario Lanza for The Great Caruso into an unexpected duet

Visiting the set of Athena, Tony Martin (center) joins Louis Calhern, Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds and Vic Damone in a bit of harmonizing

Julie Andrews and producer Saul Chaplin rehearse a song from STAR!

Ramon Novarro, pianist

Stan Laurel, Buster Keaton, Oliver Hardy and Jimmy Durante

Buster Keaton admires the musicianship of Edward Sedgwick, director of The Cameraman

Rock Hudson enjoys James Best's guitar playing on the set of Seminole

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Music-making at the Lupinos: Stanley, Ida, Connie and Rita

"When the sound pictures department of the Paramount studios in Hollywood asked for a short test of the singing voice of Baclanova, noted Russian actress, she saved time for her work on George Bancroft's current starring picture The Wolf of Wall Street by obliging via the Dictaphone. Bancroft, who once was a star in musical comedy, not only played the accompaniment but lent a soft baritone to the melody. Baclanova was once a noted dramatic soprano of the Russian theater."

A gag photo of James Murray and director King Vidor during the making of The Crowd

Veronica Lake plays

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On a break from filming Dream Wife, Deborah Kerr and writer-director Sidney Sheldon delight in Cary Grant's musical ability

Gregory Peck plays some music between scenes of Duel in the Sun

Director George Sidney, José Iturbi and producer Joe Pasternak have fun on the set of Anchors Aweigh

Composer Jerome Kern and Jean Harlow on the set of Reckless

James Cagney plays guitar between shots of The Bride Came C.O.D.

Singer-songwriter Alan Price and director Lindsay Anderson, O Lucky Man!

Howard Keel, Red Skelton and Ricardo Montalban feel a song coming

Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot recording the songs of Viva Maria!

Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan make beautiful music together

Marlon Brando practices between scenes of Guys and Dolls

Mary Pickford tickles the ivory in her New York hotel suite. December, 1933

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Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong-- A Song is Born

Marlene Dietrich, Kirk Douglas and Gina Lollobrigida rehearse a song for a benefit in Monte Carlo. August, 1955

Red Skelton (center) joins Cabin in the Sky's Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson and Duke Ellington in an impromptu trio

Jean Hersholt completes the quartet at M-G-M's barbershop

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Irving Berlin sings his new song, "White Christmas"

Marion Davies and songwriters Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed rehearse "I'll Remember Only You" for Peg o' My Heart

Musical director Ray Heindorf and Virginia Mayo rehearse a song from the score of She's Back on Broadway

Burl Ives enjoys a private show from Cuban street musicians while filming Our Man in Havana

As was common in the silent movie days, musicians provide the mood on the set of A Social Celebrity for director Malcolm St. Clair, Louise Brooks and Adolphe Menjou

Ida Lupino composes

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Michael Whalen plays the piano for his dog

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Paul Newman practices the banjo for a scene of Cool Hand Luke

Katharine Hepburn is serenaded on the set of Song of Love

June Vincent and Dan Duryea have fun on the set of Black Angel

Irene Rich plays the piano between scenes of Craig's Wife

Adolphe Menjou, Leopold Stokowski, Mischa Auer-- One Hundred Men and a Girl

A violinist supplies the mood for the emoting of Theodore Kosloff and Betty Compson on the set of The Green Temptation

Bando da Lua, Carmen Miranda-- Nancy Goes to Rio

Ramon Novarro gives Janet Gaynor a piano lesson

Jeanette MacDonald at home with the organ husband Gene Raymond gave her

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Steve Allen gets the approval of Benny Goodman and his daughter Rachel, as well as costar Donna Reed, as he plays the clarinet on the set of The Benny Goodman Story

James Stewart, Trummy Young, Louis Armstrong-- The Glenn Miller Story

Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland-- Strike Up the Band

Jackie Cooper beats his drums

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Composer Paul Mertz plays for Joan Crawford on the set of They All Kissed the Bride

Director William Wyler jams on the set of The Letter

Kim Hunter, José Ferrer-- Anything Can Happen

Anthony Perkins enjoys a little guitar playing between scenes of Green Mansions

Alice Faye, Benny Goodman-- The Gang's All Here

Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan display their musical talent on the set of George Washington Slept Here

Famed violinist David Rubinoff plays for Alice Faye, director Norman Taurog and Don Ameche on the set of You Can't Have Everything

Accordionist Bill Borzage entertains Joe Sawyer and Walter Brennan during the filming of Curtain Call at Cactus Creek

Ginger Rogers and William Holden play with a musical box on the set of Forever Female

Tyrone Power plays the piano between scenes of Marie Antoinette

Fredric March plays the violin between scenes of Another Part of the Forest

Kay Kendall and associate producer Saul Chaplin rehearse a song for Les Girls

A violinist plays for Maria Montez on the set of Pirates of Monterey

James MacArthur plays some music between scenes of The Love-Ins

Gary Cooper listens to records between scenes of A Man from Wyoming

Virna Lisi is serenaded by musicians between scenes of The 25th Hour

Fun on the set of The Man Life Passed By: Eva Novak sings and dances, accompanied by her sister Jane and director Victor Schertzinger (himself a composer)

Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood on the set of All the Fine Young Cannibals

Director Robert Siodmak entertains Geraldine Fitzgerald and George Sanders on the set of The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

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