Best Musical Number in a Movie

No love for Julie up in the Alps singing "The Sound of Music"?

Meryl, "The Winner Takes It All"

Liza for "Mein Heir", plus amazing choreography.

Judy and Liza should be the winners.

Hindi Sad Diamonds

No one should vote unless they've watched and are familiar with all the numbers listed by OP.

Where’s Singin’ in the Rain ?

It's HEARTS, not diamonds you fool!

Nothing beats 'The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti hat'. Let Freudians make of it what they will.

This is the correct answer

THIS is the correct answer:

ONLY those ten choices. You may have NO others. ONLY THOSE TEN COUNT!!!

Ahem.

This one recently grabbed hold of the number one spot.

You're all kidding, right?

Here's the best.

It's so beautiful the way it advances the film plot.

The Trolley Song The Man That Got Away

Judy Garland - “The Trolley Song” - “Meet Me in St. Louis”

Louis Jourdan - “Gigi” - “Gigi”

Gene Kelly - “Singin’ in the Rain” - “Singin’ in the Rain”

Robert Preston - “Trouble” -“The Music Man”

Paul Robeson - “Ol’ Man River” - “Show Boat”

Julie Andrews - “Do Re Mi” - “The Sound of Music”

Deborah Kerr/Marni Nixon - “Shall We Dance” - “The King and I”

Mitzi Gaynor - “Wonderful Guy” - “South Pacific”

“I Can’t Do It Alone” isn’t even the best Catherine Zeta-Jones number in Chicago. “All That Jazz” is a better showcase for her, and “Cell Block Tango” is the movie’s showstopper, even though the eternally young Miss Zeta-Jones doesn’t dominate.

And I don’t think “Hindi Sad Diamonds” is the best, but I’m glad R5 mentioned it. It is a fantastic number.

Donna Summer "Last Dance"

Diana Ross "Home" & "Don't Explain"

The Polka Dot Polka

Maybe this time is dramatic and advanced the story- cabaret is perhaps the best movie musical ever. But Liza’s voice (for me) is kind of ugly- she goes a half note flat within a a wide vibrato- and pushes rather than soars.like her mother and Streisand. Great sound pours and flows out of Judy and Barbra. Liza!s a great performer without a great voice, although she carries herself as though she has a great voice. That’s what she has not had a successful recording career. She is a performer, like Merman, but not a great singer. Judy and Barbra’s voices and artistry are for the ages.

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Who forgot Bette Midler’s “Stay with Me Baby” in The Rose - absolutely gut wrenching ( of the ten offered, Liza doing “Maybe This Time” 👍👍👍👍. These are two of the BEST !

Sorry for your poor choices. Here it is, the dream of every queen.

For me, it's Whitney singing Dolly's song "I Will Always Love You"

But I voted for Judy's Rainbow in WoO -- they originally were going to cut that song out of the movie! But thankfully, they changed their minds.

This is it.

What’s the main criteria OP? Since we are discussing films, if you’re scoring primarily on jaw-dripping visualization and camera-work then Don’t Rain On My Parade is hard to top - it seems much less impressive now in the age of CGI, computer controlled steadi-cams and drones but the train & tugboat shots were done with a just a helicopter, an incredibly skilled camera operator and an army of people getting everting in exactly the right place at exactly the right moment.

If choreography and a supreme sense of effortless perfection are most important, then I’d go with Kelly’s Singin’ In the Rain.

If the vocal performance & emotion are paramount then I’d vote for “Somewhere Over The Rainbow.”

Marilyn Miller in the Wild Rose number in [italic] Sally [/italic].

I’ve always loved this number.

Oy, Tropical Nights- my case closed… had no idea how bad it got- and Whitney’s version of Always Love you is like being hit over the head with a hammer, repeatedly. Pipes without musicianship display 1. Dolly’s version much better.

Geez. Flamers flamers flamers. I like cool ROCK

Effie big number in Dreamgirls. And I am telling you..

The Greatest Showman - This Is Me

No love for the queen ?

Madonna - Don't Cry For Me Argentina

Today, June 22, marks the 53rd anniversary of the most tragic event in homosexual history, if not in all of world history.

Millions have never recovered.

from Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates

One of the best dance scenes.

"Dancing in the Dark" from The Band Wagon