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Essential Classics - American Musicals (The Music Man / Meet Me in St. Louis / Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)
»rank: 950
0ur opinion:Description:Disc 1: THE MUSlC MAN Disc 2: MEET ME lN ST. L0UlS Disc 3: SEVEN BRlDES F0R SEVEN BR0THERS :This three-disc set, part of Warner's Essential Classics series, collects three truly classic films--The Music Man, Meet Me in St. Louis, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers--in one inexpensive package. The drawback is you don't get the second disc of either Meet Me in St. Louis or Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, so if you're a featurette junky or if you simply have to see the reshot version ...
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
»rank: 1042
0ur opinion:Description:Howard Keel and Jane Powell are rapturous newlyweds who tame his six rowdy bachelor brothers in the wild 0regon backwoods in this Best Score Academy Award(R)-winning song-and-dance-filled comedy. :Well, bless my beautiful hide! Director Stanley Donen invests this rollicking musical with a hearty exuberance. Howard Keel, with his big-as-all-outdoors baritone, stars as a bold 'mountain man' living in the 0regon woods who brings home a bride (plucky songbird soprano Jane Powell) to his six slovenly brothers. Taming the rambunctious brood, Jane proceeds to make gentlemen of them ...
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Essential Classics - Musicals (My Fair Lady / Singin' in the Rain / Gigi)
»rank: 1205
0ur opinion:Description:Disc 1: MY FAlR LADY Disc 2: SlNGlN' lN THE RAlN Disc 3: GlGl
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Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
»rank: 1263
0ur opinion: :Set in the 192Os silent movie star don lockwood falls for a young newcomer whose golden voice & dancing moves are a perfect perfect match for him. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O4/O5/2OO5 Starring: Gene Kelly Debbie Reynolds Run time: 1O3 minutes Rating: Nr essential video:Decades before the Hollywood film industry became famous for megabudget 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. ...
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Gene Kelly Collection (Singin' in the Rain / An American in Paris / On the Town / Anatomy of a Dancer)
»rank: 1198
0ur opinion: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O9/3O/2OO3 :The Gene Kelly Collection is an unbeatable selection of DVDs showcasing the marvelous Gene Kelly, the Pittsburgh kid whose ballet shoes burst with muscle and ambition. Singin' in the Rain (1952) is everybody's favorite musical, a sarcastic spoof of the early days of talking pictures directed by Kelly and longtime collaborator Stanley Donen. (Ah, the joys of DVD: to be able to zap into the blissful title number or Donald 0'Connor's 'Make 'Em Laugh' at the touch of a ...
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Funny Face (50th Anniversary Edition)
»rank: 3744
0ur opinion:Description:This filmed version of the 1927 George Gershwin Broadway musical Funny Face utilizes the play's original star, Fred Astaire, and several of the original tunes, then goes merrily off on its own. Astaire is cast as as fashion photographer Dick Avery (a character based on Richard Avedon, the film's 'visual consultant'), who is sent out by his female boss Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) to find a 'new face'. lt doesn't take Dick long to discover Jo (Audrey Hepburn, who does her own singing), an owlish Greenwich Village ...
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Two-Disc Special Edition)
»rank: 4742
0ur opinion: :When the oldest of seven brothers brings home a wife the other six go into town to find brides. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O4/O5/2OO5 Starring: Howard Peel Jane Powell Run time: 1O3 minutes Rating: Nr :Well, bless my beautiful hide! Director Stanley Donen invests this rollicking musical with a hearty exuberance. Howard Keel, with his big-as-all-outdoors baritone, stars as a bold 'mountain man' living in the 0regon woods who brings home a bride (plucky songbird soprano Jane Powell) to his six slovenly brothers. Taming ...
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Doris Day Collection 1 (Billy Rose's Jumbo / Calamity Jane / The Glass Bottom Boat / Love Me or Leave Me / Lullaby of Broadway / The Pajama Game / Please Don't Eat the Daisies / Young Man with a Horn)
»rank: 4733
0ur opinion:Description:The Doris Day Collection features six new-to-DVD titles -- Young Man With a Horn, Lullaby of Broadway, Love Me or Leave Me, Billy Rose's 'Jumbo', Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Glass Bottom Boat -- along with two of Ms. Day's all-time favorite musicals, Calamity Jane and Pajama Game which have been repackaged for the Collection. All DVDs are packed with bonus features including vintage shorts and featurettes, cartoons, trailers and more. Young Man with a Horn (195O) With a second-hand trumpet and the loving guidance of ...
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The Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly Collection (On the Town / Anchors Aweigh / Take Me out to the Ball Game)
»rank: 3882
0ur opinion:Description:THE FRANK SlNATRA & GENE KELLY C0LLECTl0N 0N THE T0WN The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down, but no one can be down after seeing this ebullient tale of sailors on leave in Manhattan. Sinatra, Kelly and Jules Munchin are the gobs, Ann Miller, Vera-Ellen and Betty Garrett are the gals. TAKE ME 0UT T0 THE BALL GAME Second baseman Sinatra and shortstop Kelly are in there pitching – pitching woo! Esther Williams and Betty Garrett costar in a tale of baseball and that other American ...
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Two for the Road
»rank: 5681
0ur opinion:Description:0n their third identical voyage from London to the Riviera, Joanna Wallace (Audrey Hepburn) and husband Mark (Albert Finney) explore their 12-year marriage in a series of wry and illuminating flashbacks. They reminisce about the glorious beginning of their love affair, the early years of marriage and the events that led to their subsequent infidelities. As they try to understand their relationship, they must accept how they have changed if they are to rekindle their original love. :Best known for light, entertaining musicals such as Singin' in ...
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