With a Song in My Heart (1952)

With A Song in My Heart is a bunch of musical numbers tied together by the spot-on performance and lip-synching chops of Susan Hayward, a rightful Academy Award nominee, and, what can only be described as, a non-script. Don't expect deep theorizing on, or a three-dimensional portrait of, the film's subject, singer Jane Froman (who is portrayed too good-naturedly - as represented in Tea for Two when Froman sings a boy for you and the soldier recants a girl for me : he gets both kids and she's a doormat.) There are, though, great classic songs performed by Ms. Froman (the title tune, Embraceable You, Get Happy, It's A Good Day, Blue Moon, I'll Walk Alone, the riveting United States medley finale) and visualized by Ms. Hayward (as the singing virgin) that make it palatable.

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...How To Marry A Millionaire (1953)

How to Marry A Millionaire is an absolute charmer with three lovely leading ladies (Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable) playing exquisitely with their respective glasses, hamburgers, and snow suit. The film has the airiness of a musical (although it's just a plain old light comedy) and four men who hold their own against our leading babes (Dick Powell, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne and Cameron Mitchell). Catch this one anytime you can.