With a rich baritone and ruddy good looks, he became one of the Hollywood musical's ideal leading men.
Most music played for the many visitors on the islands was tropical ballads, typically found in Hollywood musicals.
The early chanchadas were often seen emulating the Hollywood musicals of the era.
The distinctive energy of Hollywood musicals petered out in the 1960's.
Gloria liked that better, all the songs she had heard in her beloved Hollywood musicals.
Mattox had a higher profile as a specialty dancer in Hollywood musicals.
For example, the Hollywood musicals had as their plot the world of entertainment itself.
After all, it is one of the great clichés of old-fashioned Hollywood musicals.
Over sixty Hollywood musicals were released in 1929, and more than eighty the following year.
Murphy was a song-and-dance leading man in many big-budget Hollywood musicals from 1930 to 1952.