As the studio system of decades prior started dissolving in the late 1950s, the Golden Age of the Hollywood musical, an era ruled by versatile song-and-dance men like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, came to end. By the mid 1970s, the screen musical was all but dead, but what of those tumultuous 1960s years? Despite a proclivity for grasping at already popular shows from Broadway, the death throes of the movie musical marked an interesting and oddly ripe transition period – one that adopted a newer style which would inform some of the 70s' more experimental musical flare.
These are my ten favourites.
