As we continue to explore the roles of the various Hollywood studios in the development of the film musical, we take a look at a company which had a major influence on film musicals in two distinct periods—the early 1930s, when Forty-Second Street was a landmark in determin-ing the style of the musical, with Ruby Keeler as its major star; and the 1950s, when Doris Day’s fourteen Warner films made her the all-time top female box office attraction. Along the way these two women and co-stars such as Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers and Joan Blondell and, later, Gordon MacRae, Jack Carson and Frank Sinatra.