GENE KELLY 4-FILM COLLECTION
DORIS DAY 4-FILM COLLECTION
Arriving November 18th from film preservation experts Warner Archive are two more multi-film repacks by way of Blu-ray collections highlighting the iconic work of Hollywood song and dance icons Gene Kelly and Doris Day.
These titles have all been previously been issued on Blu-ray as single editions from Warner Archive, but they have never been made available bundled together like this. These have been repackaged with the same great transfers and extras as those previous releases, and are great budget-minded, and space-saving editions for movie-lovers. Each set arrives in an oversized keepcase with flipper trays housing the individual discs, the artwork for each collection featuring a collage of the original artworks. I think any of these would make terrific Christmas gifts for you film-loving friends and family!
These sets are all available for pre-order from all the usual online retailers, including Amazon, DiabolikDVD, MovieZyng and Physical Media Land - I have provided purchase links at the bottom!
GENE KELLY 4-FILM COLLECTION (1942-1952) Here are four of the amazing Gene Kelly classics together in a superb collection. His film debut opposite Judy Garland in "For Me and My Gal", their re-teaming in Vincente Minnelli's "The Pirate", The Oscar-winning BEST PICTURE masteriece "An American in Paris" with Leslie Caron and a Gershwin score, and perhaps the greatest musical film of all-time, "Singin' in the Rain" with Debbie Reynolds and Donad O'Connor.
FOR ME AND MY GAL (1942)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated, G
Duration: 102 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, Busby Berkeley
Cast: Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Caron
Synopsis: Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Esther Williams find romance, gangsters and lots of song and dance on the baseball diamond in the fast-paced, fun-filled musical romp Take Me Out to the Ball Game.1906. The champion ball club The Wolves' success depends on the powerhouse double play combination of O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg. Trouble is O'Brien (Kelly--An American in Paris, Brigadoon) and Ryan (Academy Award winner Sinatra--From Here to Eternity, Pal Joey) would rather be pursuing their vaudeville career than playing baseball . . . that is until the team gets a new owner, beautiful K.C. Higgins (Williams--Dangerous When Wet). And when a professional gambler who has bet heavily against The Wolves tries every dirty trick he knows to influence the outcome of the big game, it's the baseball players against the gangsters for a wild, hysterical, musical nine innings.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by John Fricke
- MGM Short: La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935, 18:41)
- MGM Short: Every Sunday (1936, 10:33)
- Outtake Musical Numbers: "Three Cheers for the Yanks" (2:33), "For Me and My Gal Deleted Finale" (2:17)
- Screen Guild Players Radio Broadcast (29:37)
- "Leo is On the Air" Radio Promo (13:49)
- Theatrical Trailer (2:14)
- Song Selection
THE PIRATE (1942)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated, G
Duration: 102 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Caron
Synopsis; Newly remastered from the original Technicolor negatives! A treasure trove of fun awaits when a Caribbean beauty (Judy Garland) with a mad crush on a legendary pirate meets a vagabond actor (Gene Kelly) who poses as the scoundrel. Vincente Minnelli directs, bringing his uncanny skill with color and design to this joyous romp set to Cole Porter tunes. Mixing tremulous girlishness with hellcat hilarity, Garland was never better as a comedienne. Parodying the rakish style of Fairbanks and Barrymore, Kelly duels, dupes and dances with buccaneer bravado. All by itself, his "Be a Clown" (danced with the Nicholas Brothers and reprised with Garland) is enough to convince all to be a fan of The Pirate.
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by John Fricke
- The Pirate: A Musical Treasure Chest (18:53)
- Pete Smith's "You Can't Win" (1948, 10:33)
- Vintage Cartoon: Cat Fishin' (1947, 7:43)
- "Mack the Black" Stereo Remix Version (3:47)
- Audio Outtakes: "Love of My Life" - Original Long Version (4:43), "Mack the Black" - Unused Versions (6:03), "Voodoo" (6:11) - Performed by Judy Garland.
- Roger Edens' Guide Tracks: Be A Clown (1:29), "Manuela" (1:41), "Nina" (2:32), "Voodoo" (2:54), "You Can Do No Wrong" (6:11) - Performed by Judy Garland.
- Radio Interviews :Gene Kelly for "On the Town" (4:18), Judy Garland for "The Pirate" (4:37)
- Theatrical Trailer (2:29)
- Song Selection:
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated, G
Duration: 114 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Caron
Synopsis: Winner of six Oscars(R) including Best Picture, this sparkling musical showcases the incomparable Gene Kelly with the lovely Leslie Caron amid the glorious melodies of Gershwin. Director: Vincente Minnelli Actors: Leslie Caron, Gene Kelly Awards:
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary with Patricia Ward Kelly featiring rare interview segments with director Vincente Minnelli, stars Gene Kelly, Nina Foch, and Leslie Caron, and other key members of the cast and crew like producer Arthur Freed, screenwriter Alan Jay Lerner, co-musical directors Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin, musician Michael Feinstein, art director Preston Ames, and costume designer Irene Sharaff.
- S' Wonderful (42 min)
.- Anatomy of a Dancer (89 min):
- Paris on Parade (9 min)
- Symphony in Slang (1951, 7 min)
- Love Walked In (3 min).
- Audio Outtakes (15 min): Alternate recordings of seven musical numbers.
- Radio Interviews (14 min): Interviews with Gene Kelly, Johnny Green, Leslie Caron.
- Theatrical Trailer (4 min)
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated, G
Duration: 103 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: David Thompson, Gene Kelly, Peter Fitzgerald, Stanley Donen
Synopsis: Decades before the Hollywood film industry became famous for mega-budget disaster and science fiction spectaculars, the studios of Southern California (and particularly Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) were renowned for a uniquely American (and nearly extinct) kind of picture known as The Musical. Indeed, when the prestigious British film magazine Sight & Sound conducts its international critics poll in the second year of every decade, this 1952 MGM picture is the American musical that consistently ranks among the 10 best movies ever made. It's not only a great song-and-dance piece starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and a sprightly Debbie Reynolds; it's also an affectionately funny insider spoof about the film industry's uneasy transition from silent pictures to "talkies." Kelly plays debonair star Don Lockwood, whose leading lady Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) has a screechy voice hilariously ill-suited to the new technology (and her glamorous screen image)
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary with Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Cyd Charisse, Kathleen Freeman, co-director Stanley Donen, screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green, filmmaker Baz Luhrmann and author Rudy Behlmer
- Singin' in the Rain: Raining on a New Generation: (51 min)
- Jukebox
- Theatrical Trailer (4 min)
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DORIS DAY 4-FILM COLLECTION (1948-1962)
Doris Day takes the spotlight in four of her hit musicals-"Romance on the High Seas" (her film debut), "Lullaby of Broadway" with Gene Nelson, her unfogettable portrayal of Ruth Etting in "Love Me or Leave Me", an her final musical film, the spectacular "Billy Rose's JUMBO" featuring a Rogers and Hart score.
ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS (1948)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 99 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 and 5.1 with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.37:1)
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Doris Day, Oscar Levant, S.Z. Sakall
Synopsis: Bon voyage! Georgia Garrett's singing career may not be going anywhere, but she is. She's on a cruise, sailing under the name Mrs. Elvira Kent while the real Elvira secretly stays home to spy on her presumably philandering hubby. Meanwhile, the husband hires a spy to snoop on his supposedly voyaging wife. Doris Day makes her maiden film voyage, debuting as Georgia in a colorful bauble afloat on romantic seas. The studio surrounds the sunny overnight screen sensation with top talent: Michael Curtiz directs, the Epstein brothers provide the script, Busby Berkeley guides musical numbers, Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn create the tunes, and costars include Oscar Levant and Jack Carson. "It's Magic," Day sings. Yes, it is.
Special Features:
- Song Selection
- Hare Splitter (1948, 7:09)
- Let's Sing A Song From the Movies (1948, 10:43)
- Theatrical Trailer (2:21)
LULLABY OF BROADWAY (1951)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 92 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 and 5.1 with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (2.40:1)
Director: David Butler
Cast: Doris Day, Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall, Billy De Wolfe, Gladys George, Florence Bates. Savor
Synopsis: The steps of the studio set towered before her like a pyramid. All Doris Day had to do was dance up and down those steps wearing a flowing gold lame dress. "You've got to be out of your minds," Day exclaimed in a voice heard across the soundstage. "I can't even walk up and down those stairs." She danced divinely - and sang - in this musical delight about a singer newly arrived in New York - and desited for Great Why Way fame in the capable company of co-stars Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall, Billy De Wolfe, Gladys George and Florence Bates. Savor the Oscar winning title tune, Cole Porter's "Just One of Those Things," "Somebody Loves Me" and six more swell songs. C'mon along and listen to (and watch) this Lullaby of Broadway.
Special Features:
- Theatrical Trailer (2:41)
- Song Selection
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (1955)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 122 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 and 5.1 with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (2.55:1)
Director: Charles Vidor
Cast: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith, Tom Tully, Harry Bellaver, Richard Gaines, Peter Leeds, Claude Stroud, Audrey Wilder, John Harding
Synopsis: Roaring '20s songstress Ruth Etting had everything -- the looks, the wiles, the smokey jazz voice, the it. She also had Chicago racketeer Martin "The Gimp" Snyder, who, even as he propelled her career, afflicted her. Laced with Doris Day's vibrant performance of songs from the era, this 1955 Academy Award winner (Writing - Motion Picture Story) is based on the tough-minded tale of Etting's life with the man who boosted her career with strong-arm tactics and smothered her in an obsessive grip she escaped at great peril. As Snyder, Cagney earned of the film's six Oscar nominations. Day's Etting was a career-best dramatic performance, bringing acclaim from critics and protest letters from fans unprepared for the departure from her traditionally sunny roles.
Special Features:
- A Modern Cinderella (1932, 17:24)
- Roseland (1930, 12:11)
- Salute to the Theaters (1955, 17:09)
- Trailer (3:26)
JUMBO (1962)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 127 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 and 5.1 with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (2.40:1)
Director: Charles Walters
Cast: Dean Jagger, Martha Raye, Doris Day, Stephen Boyd
Synopsis: Jumbo is a mighty talented elephant. It's also the ideal word to describe this big-time, big-top extravaganza bursting with laughter and love, sang and dance, circus stunts and star power. Radiant Doris Day sings beloved Rodgers and Hart tunes and does her own horseback riding tricks in a razzle-dazzle musical based on Billy Rose's stage spectacular and featuring circus sequences directed by Busby Berkeley. The story revolves around a circus owner (Jimmy Durante, star of the 1935 Broadway original) with only two real attractions: his daughter (Day) and popular pachyderm Jumbo. Three-ring pandemonium breaks out when a handsome rival (Stephen Boyd) infiltrates the circus, and father, daughter and Dad's wise-cracking fiance (Martha Raye) are suddenly at risk of losing the greatest show on earth!
Special Features:
- Jerry and Jumbo (1953, 7:05)
- Yours Sincerely (1933, 19:35):
- Theatrical Trailer (3:19).
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