Musical theatre combines music with dialogue, song and dance, and is performed everywhere in the world. Musicals easily adapted from the stage to the big screen, so it wasn’t long before the genre of musical film was born.

Ruby Keeler was born as Ethel Keeler, one of six children, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Amazingly, she starred in three of the greatest musicals of her time in one year: 42^nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933 and Footlight Parade. She skyrocketed to stardom but chose to abandon it all to start a family. She came back to the stage in 1971, at the age of 62, to star in No No Nanette.

Christopher Plummer was born on the infamous "Black Friday," the day that started the Great Depression. This ill-fated birthday did not hamper Plummer’s career. He won a Tony Award for the title role in the Broadway musical Cyrano but was best-known for his gentle rendition of Edelweiss as the gruff Captain Von Trapp in the movie The Sound of Music.

These Screen Legends are music to our ears.