"There was a time when musicals were king. They attracted massive budgets, the best directors and the biggest names of their day, whether they could sing and dance or not. After the collapse of the studio system, as audiences developed more of a taste for realism, big budget musicals began to wane. Despite the occasional film that revives the old magic (La La Land, Grease, Moulin Rouge to name a few), it's now largely considered a dead-genre by the wider movie-going public.
Instead, people prefer to revisit the warm, comforting musical fantasies they've seen a thousand times before. And no matter how many times you revisit them, the greatest films in the genre manage to remain wildly enjoyable despite the passing of time. Here's the ten greatest musicals from Hollywood's Golden Age."
