Films of musicals occupy a permanent place in the history of the cinema; although undervalued and, in fact, totally ignored by our critics, film historians and journalists, it has enjoyed continuing success with audiences. As an independent genre, the musical film does not exist any more: it lost out in competition with the action cinema. But it enjoyed a wonderful quarter of a century, full of glory, box-office successes and hits sung all over the world. Those were the times of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler, Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier, and later Nelson Eddy, Busby Berkeley, the choreographer of genius and Gene Kelly, his ingenuous successor, at work at various times between 1930 and 1955. Thus, the musical film guide-book leads us into a world continuing to exist only on cinema screens and in our memory and the aim of this book is to refresh and fix this memory. It contains discussions of over 280 musical films: those most distinguished, popular or essential - for whatever reason - with Polish audiences.