Movies Like It Happened in Brooklyn

If you liked It Happened in Brooklyn (1947), a comedy and music movie directed by Richard Whorf, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and romance
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
2
Love Happy (1949)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and music
The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.
3
Let's Make Love (1960)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
4
Better Nate Than Ever (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also music and comedy
13-year-old Nate Foster has big Broadway dreams but there’s only one problem — he can’t even land a part in the school play. When his parents leave town, Nate and his best friend Libby sneak off to the Big Apple for a…
5
Music and Lyrics (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and music
A washed-up '80s pop star gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write & record a duet with her, but there's a problem--Alex hasn't written a song in years; he's never written…
6
High School Musical (2006)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and music
A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and develop a friendship that threatens East High's social order.
7
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and romance
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
8
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
★ 7/10Also comedy and romance
While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for…
9
The Tender Trap (1955)
★ 6.2/10Also music and comedy
A young actress flirts demurely with a swinging Manhattan bachelor who thinks he has it made.
10
UglyDolls (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also music and comedy
In the adorably different town of Uglyville, weirdness is celebrated, strangeness is special and beauty is embraced as more than meets the eye. After traveling to the other side of a mountain, Moxy and her UglyDoll…
11
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
★ 7.3/10Also music and comedy
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
12
Silk Stockings (1957)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and romance
After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. She starts out…
13
A Song Is Born (1948)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and music
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want…
14
Arlo the Alligator Boy (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and music
Upon learning that he is from New York City, a wide-eyed boy, who is half human and half alligator, decides to leave his sheltered life in the swamp and search for his long lost father. A musical adventure.
15
Starstruck (2010)
★ 7.1/10Also romance and comedy
Pop star Christopher Wilde has fame, fortune and a big-budget Hollywood movie awaiting him. But after meeting Jessica Olson, a down-to-earth girl from the Midwest, he is faced with following his heart or doing what's…
16
Good Advice (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romance
An investment banker loses everything and must discover what's really important in life.
17
The Big Store (1941)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and music
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
18
Blue's Big City Adventure (2022)
★ 7.1/10Also music and comedy
When Josh gets the opportunity of a lifetime to audition for Rainbow Puppy’s Broadway musical, Josh and Blue skidoo to NYC for the very first time where they meet new friends and discover the magic of music, dance, and…
19
Animal Crackers (1930)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and music
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting…
20
Footlight Parade (1933)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and music
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.