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There is a long history of musicals in Australia, popular with audiences since the 1930s.
Surprisingly, the earliest silent Disney films didn’t avoid references to sound.
Most of Garland’s films are strikingly void of musical numbers that exist purely for their own sake. Her talents as an actor and singer would shape the movie musical for decades.
