I'm a huge fan of the films of the 1930s (don't mistakingly lump the 30s and 40s together... they are entirely different animals altogether!!!) The 30s began with sound films just arriving on the heels of several decades of 'silent' film and the great depression in full swing. People were looking for escapism and Hollywood provided with a creativity seldom seen sense! Taking advantage of the new technology of sound-on-film, the studios quickly churned-out musicals with energetic abandon. Depression-era audiences gobbled these films up with a passion. Surprisingly, 75 years later and we have yet to match the artistic techniques of the very first musicals. Perhaps the best musical of all time is 'LOVE ME TONIGHT' from 1932. Director Rouben Mamoulian, composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Larry Hart created an unprecedented integration of song, story and cinema. Watch this musical snippet which begins in Paris with Maurice Chevalier singing "Isn't It Romantic" in his shop. The unforgetabl