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Warner Home Video Is Rolling Out The Red Carpet for Its Best Picture Winners; ``My Fair Lady'' Arriving Feb. 3 in New Two-Disc DVD Special Edition.


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BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2003

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"Goodbye Mr. Chips" Complete Oscar(R)-winning DVD Line Up

"My Fair Lady" -- one of the most popular musicals of all time, nominated for 12 Academy Awards(R) and winning eight, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director and starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison -- will be released on a brand new two-disc DVD Special Edition Feb. 3 by 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.  (WHV).

Additionally, four more Academy Award(R) Best Picture winners will debut on DVD Feb. 3 including "Grand Hotel," "The Great Ziegfeld," "Mutiny On The Bounty" and "Mrs. Miniver," along with "Gaslight" and "Goodbye Mr. Chips." The "My Fair Lady" Two-Disc DVD Special Edition, featuring a high-definition widescreen (anamorphic See anamorphic lens and anamorphic DVD. ) format transfer from restored film elements and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, will sell for $26.99 SRP SRP - A data link layer protocol. . The other titles will each sell for $19.98 SRP.

-- "Grand Hotel" -- This 1932 MGM film which won the Oscar(R) for

Best Picture features Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John

Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and Wallace Beery. Set at the

luxurious Grand Hotel, a disfigured dis·fig·ure  
tr.v. dis·fig·ured, dis·fig·ur·ing, dis·fig·ures
To mar or spoil the appearance or shape of; deform.



[Middle English disfiguren, from Old French desfigurer
 doctor doles out cynical

commentary as hotel patrons come and go.

-- "The Great Ziegfeld" -- The 1936 biographical film about

flamboyant impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, starring William

Powell, won three out of its seven Academy Award(R)

nominations with Luise Rainer taking home the first of her two

consecutive Best Actress Oscars(R) for her portrayal of

Zeigfeld's first wife.

-- "Mutiny On The Bounty" -- This famous sea-going epic became

one of MGM's most successful box-office blockbusters, and won

1935's Best Picture award. It earned a total of eight

nominations, including directing, writing and film editing

along with nods to its three top stars.

-- "Mrs. Miniver" -- Directed by multiple Academy Award(R)

winner William Wyler, this 1942 story of a British family's

struggles during World War II garnered 12 nominations, won six

Oscars(R) including Best Actress, Best Director and Best

Picture, and did much to help rally American support for

British allies during WWII.

-- "Gaslight" -- Ingrid Bergman captured 1944's Oscar(R) for Best

Actress with her role as a wealthy, beautiful but naive

socialite in this electrifying psychological thriller directed

by George Cukor ("My Fair Lady").

-- "Goodbye, Mr. Chips Goodbye, Mr. Chips (originally Good-bye, Mr. Chips) is a novel by James Hilton, first published in 1934. The story was first published in the British Weekly " -- The recipient of seven nominations for

Academy Awards(R) including Best Actress, Best Director and

Best Picture in 1939, the year of "Gone With the Wind," "The

Wizard of Oz Wizard of Oz

reaches and departs from Oz in circus balloon. [Children’s Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]

See : Ballooning


Wizard of Oz

false wizard takes up residence in Emerald City. [Am. Lit.
" and "Stagecoach," this film features Robert

Donat's Best Actor Oscar(R)-winning performance as the old

schoolmaster who looks back upon his life.
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