I know, it was only a few days ago that I said I was done with Roy Rogers films for now, but I guess I felt like giving him a second chance with a more substantial film. The Yellow Rose of Texas (dir. Joseph Kane) is much more of a musical than the last Rogers film, with the singing cowboy playing an insurance agent (named Roy Rogers, naturally) working undercover on a show boat while attempting to discover what happened to some stolen money.

In Song of the Open Road (dir. S. Sylvan Simon), child star Jane Powell (Jane Powell; the teen actress' real name was Suzanne Burce, but the studio decided to make this character's name her stage name) has just finished making a short film promoting the "Crops Corps", a government program during WWII that had teenagers working on farms helping to pick crops while the adults were busy with the war effort.

Directed by Charles Reisner, Meet the People is, I believe, the last film we'll see Dick Powell in for this series, since he was already at this point trying to focus more on his serious dramatic roles. Powell plays "Swanee" Swanson, a welder at a shipyard who has also cowritten - with his brother - the libretto for a musical he titles "Meet the People".

Roy Rogers was the quintessential singing cowboy, but I've not watched any of his films before now; I honestly have no idea why this is the one I ended up watching. Cowboy and the Senorita (dir. Joseph Kane) sees Rogers (who always seems to play himself) travelling looking for work with his sidekick Teddy Bear (Guinn Williams). After Teddy finds a bracelet by the road, the two are accused of kidnapping a teenage girl, Chip Williams (Mary Lee).

Show Business (dir. Edwin L. Marin) is a generic title for an extremely formulaic movie, which follows all the beats I've come to expect from a film about vaudeville performers in the period before, during, and after WW1. George Doane (George Murphy) is a successful performer in burlesque clubs who pairs up with newcomer Eddie Martin (Eddie Cantor) to start a new act.

Two Girls and A Sailor (dir. Richard Thorpe) stars June Allyson and Gloria DeHaven as sisters Patsy and Jean Deyo, children of vaudeville performers who become singers themselves. They have a mysterious admirer, known only as "Somebody", who sends flowers and gifts, and then sends them the deed to a warehouse and everything they need to set up a canteen to entertain the troops.

In Seven Days Ashore (dir. John H. Auer), marine Dan Arland (Gordon Oliver) is coming home for shore leave, but he's engaged to three different women who all expect him to spend time with them: Carol Dean (Virginia Mayo) and Lucy Banning (Amelita Ward) are musicians in a band together, and Annabelle Rogers (Elaine Shepard) is a family friend and his actual girlfriend.

Pin Up Girl (dir. H. Bruce Humberstone) stars Betty Grable as popular canteen hostess and pin up girl Lorry Jones. She and her friend Kay Pritchett (Dorothea Kent) are leaving their jobs to become stenographers in Washington D.C.; on a final night out in New York they meet war hero Tommy Dooley (John Harvey), but they end up telling him that Lorry is a Broadway star named Laura Lorraine.

And the Angels Sing (dir. George Marshall) is a comedy about the Angel Sisters, four women raised to be singers by their father (Raymond Walburn), but who'd rather follow their own paths - Nancy (Dorothy Lamour) is a secretary, Josie (Diana Lynn) a pianist, and Patti (Mimi Chandler) an actress. When the fourth sister, Bobby (Betty Hutton), gets them a singing gig for $10, they reluctantly go along.

Another even lower-budget film today, Trocadero (dir. William Nigh) tells the extremely fictional story of the origin of the famous Trocadero nightclub in Los Angeles. Rosemary Lane and Johnny Downs play siblings who run the club named in honour of their father Tony Rocadero, with various ups and downs, and uh... I have no idea what happened in this movie.

One of those shorter B-movie comedies, Jam Session (dir. Charles Barton) has a story about a young woman, Terry Baxter (Ann Miller), who wants to make it in Hollywood. She arrives in town and rents the only room she can get - a bed under the stairs with a curtain for privacy - then tries her best to get discovered, mainly by sneaking onto movie lots and trying to get in front of the producers, sometimes in disguise as an old lady, sometimes by pretending to be a secretary.

Sort of a successor to the Broadway Melody series (they changed the title around the same time they dropped Eleanor Powell from the cast), Broadway Rhythm (dir. Roy Del Ruth) stars George Murphy as Broadway producer Jonnie Demming, who becomes fixated on getting Hollywood star Helen Hoyt (Ginny Simms) to star in his next show. When she doesn't like the script and turns him down, he starts courting her hoping he can change her mind.

Lady, Let's Dance (dir. Frank Woodruff) stars British ice skater Belita as a version of herself who is a Belgian refugee from WWII. When a hotel needs a last minute replacement for a dancer, Belita, who is working as a maid at the hotel, is picked for the job. She's a success as a dancer, and eventually gets recruited for a Broadway ice show, where she becomes a huge star.

Very loosely based on the life of some actual vaudeville stars, Shine On, Harvest Moon (dir. David Butler) stars Dennis Morgan as Jack Norworth, a performer and songwriter who meets singer Nora Bayes (Ann Sheridan) at a nightclub where she is mistreated by her boss, Dan Costello (Robert Shayne). He offers to give her a better act performing his songs, and they form a lifelong partnership.

Cover Girl (dir. Charles Vidor) stars Rita Hayworth as Rusty Parker, a dancer at a nightclub, who gets chosen to be the cover girl on Vanity magazine because of her resemblance to her grandmother, to whom the editor John Coudair (Otto Kruger, and as a young man Jess Barker) was once engaged. This makes her instantly famous and leads to a job offer from Broadway producer Noel Wheaton (Lee Bowman).

A musical comedy adapted from a stage musical by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson, Knickerbocker Holiday (dir. Harry Joe Brown) is a period piece set in New Amsterdam in the 17th century. A new governor, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn), is about to arrive from the Netherlands, and the local council decides to execute local publisher Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy) who has been exposing their corruption.

Throughout the Second World War, many entertainers who were not in active duty in the military worked to entertain troops in various capacities, including undertaking tours to visit troops who were fighting overseas, under the United Service Organisations (USO). Four Jills in a Jeep (1944) is a musical comedy based on the real experience of four entertainers when they went on a USO tour to Europe and North Africa: Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye, and Mitzi Mayfair.

A low budget comedy, Sweethearts of the U.S.A. (dir. Lewis D. Collins) is a bit of an odd one. Una Merkel stars as Patsy Wilkins, a worker at a tool making factory who accidentally knocks herself out at work; the rest of the movie is presented as a dream sequence. In the dream, Patsy is unable to find a job because of her boss Gilhooley (Ralph Sanford) blacklisting her.

Up in Arms (dir. Elliott Nugent) is a comedy starring Danny Kaye as Danny Weems, a hypochondriac who works as an elevator operator in a hospital in order to have easy access to the doctors. Danny is in love with nurse Mary Morgan (Constance Dowling), who is actually in love with Danny's best friend Joe Nelson (Dana Andrews) but too nice to let Danny down; at the same time, Mary's best friend Virginia Merrill (Dinah Shore) is in love with Danny, who is oblivious.