Doris Day and Howard Keel in Calamity Jane (1953)

includes mainstream movies with scenes easily cut for jim crow

1940s Jazz, R&B, Gospel and Black music and dance performances in Film or TV

Jess Lee Brooks, Monte Hawley, CeePee Johnson, Tommie Moore, and Marguerite Whitten in Mystery in Swing (1940)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Universal_Pictures_films_(1940–1949)

List of Universal Pictures films (1940–1949)

Gordon Jones and Keye Luke in The Green Hornet (1940)

Includes Music films, but not singing Westerns. Starting with 1998, added requirement for 500  votes and 4  rating. Expanded to include TV movies and specials.

The search (excludes what's already on my lists):  [https://www.imdb.com/search/title?release_date=1927,&genres=musical&title_type=feature&runtime=45,&countries=us&sort=release_date,asc&count=100&view=simple&user_rating=4.0,&num_votes=500,&lists=!ls021062047,!ls021564702] and again for genre Music, and for title_types Video, tv_movie, tv_special (8 searches total).

Companion list: American omitted Musical Feature Films (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls021564702/) 

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls021062047/?release_date=1974&mode=simple&sort=release_date,asc

Group of Three Stooges Movies

These movies include Three Stooges filmography plus cameos, documentaries, and tributes. It all began in the early 1920s as part of a vaudeville comedy act billed as "Ted Healy and His Stooges", consisting originally of Ted Healy and Moe Howard. Over time, they were joined by Moe's brother, Shemp Howard, and then Larry Fine. The four appeared in one feature film, Soup to Nuts, before Shemp left to pursue a solo career. He was replaced by his and Moe's younger brother, Jerome "Curly" Howard, in 1932. Two years later, after appearing in several movies, the trio left Healy and signed on to appear in their own short-subject comedies for Columbia Pictures, now billed as "The Three Stooges".

The stooges include Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Shemp Howard, Joe Besser, and "Curly" Joe DeRita.

Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, and Teresa Wright in Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

from Appendix B of Tap! The greatest tap dance stars and their stories, 1900-1955 by Rusty Frank, published 1990

"From  the  1920s-1950s,  there  were very  few musical films  made  that did  not  have  tap dancing  in  some form.  This  appendix  concentrates  on "featured" tap  dancers - solo, and groups.  There  are  some  entries  listed here  that  have  not  been viewed  since  their original  release.  In  these  cases it  is  assumed that  the  tap  dancer  did  perlorm a tap  number in  the  film."

  means information I added    is an entry from Jazz Dance: The Story Of American Vernacular Dance by Marshall & Jean Stearns, 1994     is an entry that I added

View Page breaks:  1 ('29-'36) (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls027794353/?page=1) | 2 ('36-'39) (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls027794353/?page=2) | 3 ('39-'41) (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls027794353/?page=3) | 4 ('41-'47) (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls027794353/?page=2) | 5 ('47-'57) (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls027794353/?page=2)

Edit Page breaks:  1 ('29-'41) (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls027794353/edit?page=1) | 2 ('41-'57) (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls027794353/edit?page=2) 

Companion list: Tap! Filmography - The Short Films (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls021013189/)

Charles King, Bessie Love, and Anita Page in The Broadway Melody (1929)

from Appendix B of Tap! The greatest tap dance stars and their stories, 1900-1955 by Rusty Frank, published 1990 

"From the 1920s-1950s, there were very few musical films made that did not have tap dancing in some form. This appendix on "featured" tap dancers - solo, and groups."

Extracted from the larger list: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls027794353/

   means information I added     is an entry that I added 

Louis Da Pron (1925–2003)

Jack Benny, Gracie Allen, Bob Burns, George Burns, Benny Goodman, and Martha Raye in The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)

Helene Chadwick and James Finlayson in Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes (1926)

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