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Movies Like Grounds for Marriage

If you liked Grounds for Marriage (1951), a music and comedy movie directed by Robert Z. Leonard, 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. 1The Big Store

    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.

  2. 2Much Ado About Nothing

    Much Ado About Nothing (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.

  3. 3Love Happy

    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.

  4. 4Sneakerella

    Sneakerella (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also music and comedy

    When El, an aspiring sneaker designer from Queens, meets Kira King, the fiercely independent daughter of legendary basketball star and sneaker tycoon Darius King, sparks fly as the two bond over their mutual affinity…

  5. 5Godspell

    Godspell (1973)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and music

    In modern-day New York City, John the Baptist calls out to a group of young men and women to learn from the teachings of Jesus. Through song and dance, they relive Christ's crucifixion.

  6. 6Make Mine Music

    Make Mine Music (1946)

    ★ 5.8/10Also music

    In the tradition of Fantasia, Make Mine Music is a glorious collection of musically charged animated shorts featuring such fun-filled favorites as "Peter and the Wolf", narrated by the beloved voice behind Winnie the…

  7. 7Footlight Parade

    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.

  8. 8Animal Crackers

    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…

  9. 9A Song Is Born

    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…

  10. 10Fun with Dick and Jane

    Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy

    When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

  11. 11A Day at the Races

    A Day at the Races (1937)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and music

    Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's sanitarium by winning a big race with a finicky horse owned by Judy's boyfriend Gil. There are a few problems. Hackenbush, who was recently put in charge of…

  12. 12Detroit Rock City

    Detroit Rock City (1999)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and music

    In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the four teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete…

  13. 13Ziegfeld Follies

    Ziegfeld Follies (1945)

    ★ 6/10Also music and comedy

    The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

  14. 14Room Service

    Room Service (1938)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy

    Broke Gordon Miller tries to land a backer for his new play while he has to deal with with the hotel manager trying to evict him and his cast.

  15. 15Arlo the Alligator Boy

    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.

  16. 16Curly Top

    Curly Top (1935)

    ★ 6.5/10Also music and comedy

    Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones". As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself…

  17. 17Taking Care of Business

    Taking Care of Business (1990)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.

  18. 18The Lizzie McGuire Movie

    The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy

    Lizzie McGuire has graduated from middle school and takes a trip to Rome, Italy with her class. And what was supposed to be only a normal trip, becomes a teenager's dream come true.

  19. 19Rookie of the Year

    Rookie of the Year (1993)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    When the cast comes off his once broken arm, a 12-year-old boy can throw a 100-mile-an-hour fastball, and the Chicago Cubs want him as their new pitcher.

  20. 20Sing

    Sing (2016)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and music

    A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hosting a singing competition.

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