Classic Musicals From The Dream Factory Volume 3.From Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980. April 8 BURBANK, Calif. -- The singing and dancing continues April 8 when Warner Home Video debuts Classic Musicals From The Dream Factory Volume 3 -- an all-new-to-DVD collection with nine favorites from a 20-year period when M-G-M defined the movie musical. There are three all-star, widescreen musicals from the 1950s: Hit The Deck, Kismet kismet alludes to the part of life assigned one by his destiny. [Moslem Trad.: EB (1963), 13: 418; Pop. Culture: Misc.] See : Fate , and Deep in My Heart, two 2-disc double feature sets honoring the tap dancing queen Eleanor Powell: Broadway Melody of 1936/ Broadway Melody of 1938 and Born to Dance/Lady Be Good, along with two films starring Jane Powell: Nancy Goes To Rio and Two Weeks With Love. The collection will be available for $69.92 SRP SRP - A data link layer protocol. , single titles for $19.97 SRP and the double features for $24.98 SRP. Hit the Deck Three sailors (Tony Martin, Vic Damone, Russ Tamblyn) and three cuties (Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Ann Miller) flirt, squabble, run afoul of shore patrol and of course, fall in love to a hit parade of Vincent Youmans tunes. Deep In My Heart Fred Kelly and legendary brother Gene happily hoof in this colorful musical biopic bi·o·pic n. A film or television biography, often with fictionalized episodes. biopic Noun Informal a film based on the life of a famous person [bio(graphical) + pic(ture)] about Sigmund Romberg, the ex-piano man who went on to compose some 80 productions. Kismet This lavish musical follows the exotic adventure of a beggar-poet (Howard Keel) and his daughter (Ann Blyth) confronting a wicked wazir Wazir may refer to:
Nancy Goes To Rio/Two Weeks With Love Back lot Rio is the setting for this comedy about personal and professional mix-ups as an aspiring actress (Jane Powell) and her mother (Ann Sothern) seek the same stage role. Powell's charm is again on display when she and Debbie Reynolds turn a 1900s Catskills vacation into Two Weeks With Love, where Powell hopes to catch the eye of suave Ricardo Montalban Broadway Melody of 1936/Broadway Melody of 1938 Eleanor Powell taps the spangled span·gle n. 1. A small, often circular piece of sparkling metal or plastic sewn especially on garments for decoration. 2. A small sparkling object, drop, or spot: spangles of sunlight. ebullience of Broadway Rhythm in Broadway Melody of 1936. 15-year-old Judy Garland sings a smitten Dear Mr. Gable to a portrait of Hollywood's King in Broadway Melody of 1938 and both actresses notch career breakthroughs. Born to Dance/Lady Be Good Eleanor Powell and James Stewart star in Born to Dance, a break-a-leg tale of an understudy turned Broadway star that includes Cole Porter's tunes. In Lady Be Good, Powell's radiant appeal and astonishing a·ston·ish tr.v. as·ton·ished, as·ton·ish·ing, as·ton·ish·es To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise. tap-dancing skills energize the screen again when she plays friend and matchmaker Matchmaker - A language for specifying and automating the generation of multi-lingual interprocess communication interfaces. MIG is an implementation of a subset of Matchmaker. to two struggling songwriters (Robert Young, Ann Sothern). |
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