THE DESERT SONG
starring Kathryn Grayson, Gordon MacRae
Sigmund Romberg's famous operetta about El Khobar, a mysterious Robin Hood leader of the Riffs, has been a perennial success both on stage and in films.
In this version Kathryn Grayson plays the General's daughter who is taken hostage first by an anthropologist in disguise and then by villainous Sheik Yousseff - Raymond Massey in disguise.

and at 4.5
GYPSY
starring Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden
This dazzling, tune-filled musical is based on the memoirs of entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee - 'the greatest show in the business'.
Rosalind Russell gives the performance of her life in the role of the domineering mother - a part created by Ethel Merman in the original Broadway show.
Films: page 15