Movies like Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
The best movies like Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962) are The Pajama Game (1957), On the Riviera (1951) and Flower Drum Song (1961). If Billy Rose's Jumbo hooked you with its comedy and music, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHello, Dolly! (1969)7.0/10 from 409 votes
- NewestHello, Dolly! (1969)Released 1969
The Pajama Game (1957)
An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOn the Riviera (1951)
In this fast-paced remake of the Maurice Chevalier vehicle Folies Bergère, talented Danny Kaye plays both a performer and a heroic French military pilot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Flower Drum Song (1961)
A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown, from Hong Kong, with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & romance
Guys and Dolls (1955)
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a Salvation Army missionary to Havana, and unexpectedly they fall for each other. And the bet has a hidden motive ... classic song and dance ensues!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHello, Dolly! (1969)
Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and play the piano, and learns quickly. Soon she marries Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisShow Boat (1951)
A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKiss Me Kate (1953)
A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGigi (1958)
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Thrill of It All (1963)
A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOklahoma! (1955)
There's a box social coming up, and Curly asks Laurey if she'll be his date. Trouble is, Laurey thinks he's waited too long, and in a fit of pique accepts an offer from the boorish ranch hand Jud instead. Meanwhile, Laurey's friend Ado Annie is also torn between two men: cowboy Will and foreign peddler Ali Hakim. Both women struggle to know their own hearts before it's too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Tender Trap (1955)
A young actress flirts demurely with a swinging Manhattan bachelor who thinks he has it made.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHigh Society (1956)
With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDangerous When Wet (1953)
The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English Channel. Sponsored by "Liquapep" and coached by Windy, the family arrive in Europe. There it is decided that daughter Katie is the only one strong enough to enter the contest. But while she should be focused on the difficult and risky task ahead, Katie is pursed by dashing Frenchman, André Lanet... This comedic musical is well remembered for the scene when Katie dreams she is swimming with cartoon characters Tom & Jerry!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Tea for Two (1950)
In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she can invest the money in a Broadway show featuring songs written by her beau, and of course, in which she will star. Trouble is, she doesn't realize her uncle's been wiped out by the Stock Market crash.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
South Pacific (1958)
Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lt. Joseph Cable USMC. While waiting for action in the war in the South Pacific, sailors and nurses put on a musical comedy show. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque becomes serious drama.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParadise, Hawaiian Style (1966)
Blacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards returns to Hawaii to set up a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny. Having a girl on every island is a good way to get business but it becomes clear that romance and flying don't always mix.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLove Me or Leave Me (1955)
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLet's Make Love (1960)
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
Bruce, the owner of an aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer and hires her to be his biographer so that he can be near her and win her affections. Is she actually a Russian spy trying to obtain aerospace secrets?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSpeedway (1968)
A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlue Hawaii (1961)
Just discharged GI Chad Gates returns to Hawaii, where he becomes a tour guide, defying his mother's wishes for him to join the family business.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBundle of Joy (1956)
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
My Dream Is Yours (1949)
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, but then has a problem trying to sell her to the show's sponsor. Doug tries every trick he can think of to make Martha a star, and as the two work more closely, he falls in love with her. Complicating matters further, Martha meets and becomes attracted to Garry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Indiscreet (1958)
Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. While talking about this subject with her sister, in walks Philip Adams and she realizes that this is the charming, smart, and handsome man she has been waiting for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFun in Acapulco (1963)
Mike Windgren works on a boat in Acapulco, but when the bratty daughter of its owner gets him fired, Mike finds new work as a lifeguard and singer at a local hotel. Tensions increase when Mike runs afoul of the rival lifeguard—also the champion diver of Mexico.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBells Are Ringing (1960)
Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to her own humdrum existence by adopting different identities for her clients. They include an out-of-work Method actor, a dentist with musical yearnings, and in particular playwright Jeffrey Moss, who is suffering from writer's block and desperately needs a muse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYoung at Heart (1954)
The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThere's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMidnight Lace (1960)
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like this
Like Billy Rose's Jumbo and something else?
Blend two favourites and we’ll find the films in between.
Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Billy Rose's Jumbo?
The closest matches to Billy Rose's Jumbo are The Pajama Game (1957), On the Riviera (1951) and Flower Drum Song (1961). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Billy Rose's Jumbo?
People who watched Billy Rose's Jumbo most often go on to The Pajama Game (1957), On the Riviera (1951) and Flower Drum Song (1961).
What is the highest-rated movie like Billy Rose's Jumbo?
Hello, Dolly! (1969), rated 7.0/10 by 409 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Billy Rose's Jumbo?
Hello, Dolly! (1969) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Billy Rose's Jumbo?
Yes: The Pajama Game (1957), On the Riviera (1951) and Flower Drum Song (1961).
How are movies similar to Billy Rose's Jumbo chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Billy Rose's Jumbo, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.