Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart in a scene from the movie: "The Philadelphia Story." By the 1940s, Hollywood was solidly in its Golden Age. And the 1940s weren’t just a boon for ...

Nothing says Hollywood quite like the movie musical. The advent of sound in filmmaking created an explosion for musical movies, with the genre reaching its peak in the 1930s through the 1940s.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rachel McAdams in Mean Girls (2004) It’s slightly odd that movie versions of stage musicals did not follow on the heels of 1927’s ...