Movies Like Lovely to Look At

If you liked Lovely to Look At (1952), a comedy and music movie directed by Mervyn LeRoy, 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
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.
2
Victor/Victoria (1982)
★ 7.3/10Also music and comedy
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
3
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.
4
Funny Face (1957)
★ 7/10Also music and comedy
A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.
5
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…
6
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.
7
Roberta (1935)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and music
Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her…
8
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters (2020)
★ 6/10Also romance and comedy
A fussy celebrity caterer, a blind woman, a tour-bus guide and an inexperienced wedding planner search for love.
9
What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedy
Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.
10
Love Me Tonight (1932)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and romance
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
11
An American in Paris (1951)
★ 7/10Also music and romance
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel…
12
Watching the Detectives (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and romance
Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets…
13
The Fighting Temptations (2003)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and music
Darrin Hill, a slick-talking but down-on- his-luck NYC advertising exec, returns to his hometown in Georgia to claim the inheritance his aunt left him. But before Darrin can collect the money, he must fulfill his…
14
Easy Virtue (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and romance
A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
15
Good Advice (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romance
An investment banker loses everything and must discover what's really important in life.
16
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…
17
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and music
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
18
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.
19
The Merry Widow (1934)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and music
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
20
Top Hat (1935)
★ 7.2/10Also music and comedy
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes…