From "Blackbirds of 1928" to "Seesaw," which opened in 1973, one year before her death, Miss Fields created the lyrics for 13 stage and 18 screen musicals.

The 1969 "Sweet Charity" was Bob Fosse's first all-out attempt at directing a screen musical.

His dancing skill revolutionized movie musicals, and his 1952 hit Singin' in the Rain is one of the finest and most loved screen musicals.

Still, with "Moulin Rouge," Luhrmann set out to solve the problem of making human beings the stars of a screen musical.

It's significant that the redemption of the fallen silent-era hero in "The Artist" comes by way of the screen musical.

You might think that the most radical thing about Elton writing an original screen musical may be the writing of one at all.

The film was Doris Day's last screen musical.

In the 1920s he moved to Hollywood to write lyrics for screen musicals.

Stage transplants of screen musicals (there are perhaps seven) never seem to keep step with their matchless sources.

That will be filmed in New York in the spring; another Reiner project is an original screen musical.