I used to think I didn’t like musicals. I thought they were loud, fake, and a little embarrassing, especially when characters broke into song instead of talking like normal people. Then I started ...

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.

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Gabrielle Ulubay is a Music writer at Collider. She has previously been published in The New York Times, Bustle, HuffPost Personal, and other magazines, and wrote at Marie Claire for nearly three ...