A look at how Hollywood used the musical to provide much-needed escapism during the Great Depression of the early 1930s, and introduced stars such as Shirley Temple.

This comprehensive celebration of song and dance in Hollywood continues to look at the 1930s as stars such as Shirley Temple and Betty Grable became household names.

Stars look back at the musical films of the 1940s: a decade when Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St Louis and Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen's On the Town hit cinema screens.