The Campiest Musical Numbers in Film

The ultimate.

This is the ONLY acceptable answer.

Don't be silly, NOTHING has more unintentional camp than "Ziegfeld Follies"!

Skip forward to 5:50 to see Lucille Ball whipping a bunch of girls in catsuits. Really it is, I couldn't make this shit up if I tried.

Although the finale song in "Ziegfeld Follies" is even weirder, if that's possible. Dancing in towers of soap bubbles!

Seriously, if you've never seen this mess, skip to 2:20 and ask yourself how they did this before hallucinogens became widely available.

It seems Lucy never changed her hairdo from the '40s on.

Meryl Streeps opening number in Death Becomes Her....

Alexis Carrington Colby taking a moment from her busy schedule of running an oil megacorporation to perform an unrehearsed version of "See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have" in a saloon.

"JEEZUS!"

Pia Zadora's "You Bring Out the Lover in Me" (from "Voyage of the Rock Aliens") starts with a sort of chorus line of women's feet as they sit on the toilet (one pair of panties has a huge stain on it), and then segues into a public bathroom dance number with noted terpsichore Alison LaPlaca.

Any number with Dolores Gray.

R9 WTF does that have to do with rocks or aliens?

Betty & June in THE DOLLY SISTERS....but the real star of this number is Orry-Kelly.

The French Mistake from Blazin Saddles.

13, we have a winner

Campy and hot!

R13 haha, the hissing.

No one has mentioned this yet?

Bitches be slippin':

Timothy Dalton and Mae West's duet of "Love Will Keep Us Together" from "Sextette."

The lyric "Young and beautiful/Someday your looks will be gone" was changed to "Young and beautiful/YOUR LOOKS WILL NEVER be gone," presumably in a nod to La West's eternal charms.

I wish I could contribute, but I'm not really an expert on camp. These clips are a hoot, though.

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Joan Collins and a naked Anthony Newley in "Chalk and Cheese" from "Can Heirymous Merkin....". Bizarre stuff before, but the song (rather prettily sung by Joan) really starts around 3:15

It's not the SIZE that matters....

It's the QUALITY!

Or 'counts', rather.

Nothing from Paint Your Wagon? "The Best Things in Life are Dirty," "No Name City" and all the rest?

Lynn Redgrave, OBE. "I'm So Young" from SMASHING TIME.

Hmm... No new post in 24 hours. Looks like maybe Lynn Redgrave wins.

Fame parody with the wonderful line "Do you think Tom Cruise is Bi? GAY!"

The title song from The Apple

R29, there's a huge gulf between campy, and appallingly stupid, inept and ill-thought-out.

Perhaps not so much campy as over the top!

This is the campiet musical scene of all time!

OP - Maggie wasn’t camp. She was the knowing, winking role that is comparable to Cabaret’s emcee

Don't forget Cole Porter's deliberate sexual innuendo.

So many choices in "The Ganf's All Here"--not just the Carmen Miranda numbers (those are givens), but "Polka Dot Polka" and the Finale Ultimo in which each of the main characters (including bullfrog Eugene Pallette) does a farewell line in a reprise of "A Journey to the Stars," while their disembodied heads each fades away in a bubble. My idea of what the afterlife SHOULD be! Both Charlotte Greenwood and Miss Miranda look positively demented in that sequence. The ability to enjoy this is reason enough to justify the existence of homosexuality (even though it is the product of that well-known heterosexualist Busby Berkley).

Gang Br Ganf, of course.

Gang not Ganf, damn it.

Really anything from Can’t Stop the Music wins.

Madeline Kahn in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother," singing "I"m Simply Crazy Over You" in an 1890s London music hall.

Oh, the polka dance, the polka dance, the polka dance is gone

But the polka dot, the polka dot, the polka dot lives on!

A place!

Where nobody dared to go!

Thank you, R18!

"I'll Plant My Own Tree" is probably the campiest the film has to offer, but they're all great!

Here's another from "Valley Of The Dolls"!

This is surprisingly little celebrated, but to me it's one of the campiest fun numbers of all time.

From THE GREAT ZIEGFELD: Virginia Bruce getting glorified to the tune of "You Never Looked So Beautiful Before," with some jawdropping Erte-inspired gowns by Adrian.

And of course, that number at r43 was parodied in an equally campy number, "Beautiful Girl," in "Singin in the Rain":

This shouldn't be that campy--it's "Can't Help Lovin' That Man," sung by three greats (Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson, and Hattie McDaniel)--un til for no clear reason Irene Dunne gets up and does the weirdest version of The Shuffle you've ever seen in your life at 5:05.

Listen up, you old, fat whores & pay attention to Susan Tyrrell!

One of the bare-ass dancers is Bette Midler's husband.

Papa can you hear me...

I nominate "Sing, You Sinners" from I'll Cry Tomorrow. Susan Hayward can't really sing or dance.

Anyone ever see this movie?

“We are dancing dildos are we...”

Just one of many....

In many ways, quite a few of the numbers in Cabaret are camp taken to its highest level and elevated into true art in a way no ones done before. Perhaps the best is Through My Eyes, with that gut wrenching perfect twist of the knife at the end. Unlike many of the silly superfluous ones put forward here, this falls into Sontag Notes on Camp territory. Hearing some of the back story to its making in Fosse/Verdon was very interesting, especially how important it was for the gorilla suit to have a certain look to it.

In full Cinemascope

Ken Russell anyone?

"Cut that out! This ain't that kind of place!"

This!

I do love this one from Paddington 2