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TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Broadway Musicals (Show Boat / Annie Get Your Gun / Kiss Me Kate / Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) DVD

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	4.5/5 (11 Reviews)

5/5 TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Broadway Musicals
  by music lover (San Diego, CA)
This is an excellent DVD. Quality is superb. What a joy to be able to see 4 great musicals together- Show Boat, Annie Get Your Gun, Kiss Me Kate, and 7 Brides For 7 Brothers. Superb dancing, superb music. Chance to see that wonderful dance number with Bob Fosse and Carol Haney (among others)in "Kate" & the humorous number "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" done by gangsters Keenan Wynn & James Whitmore. And nothing compares to the magnificent athletic dance number in "7 Brides". Can't go wrong with this collection.

5/5 Musicals!
  by Rachel N. Miller (Utah)
Great value; four movies in one. I love these musicals, they speak for themselves.

5/5 fast shipment! thanks
  by aprshep (Knoxville, TN)
Bought this for my daughter...it is one of her favorites. Super fast shipment and she really enjoys it.

5/5 Good Collection
  by gmaofmany (MT)
I own all of these on individual DVDs but thought the idea of the musical collection was great so I purchased them all for my son's family.

5/5 four all-time classic movies for an unmissable price!
  by Byron Kolln (the corner where Broadway meets Hollywood)
Build your collection of classic movies quickly and save lots of shelf space at the same time! These TCM/Warners classic movie packs are to be applauded for giving us some of the best movies ever made for one small price!

SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS: Jane Powell and Howard Keel star in this lusty musical favourite with a particularly sweeping Johnny Mercer/Gene DePaul score. Special Features: audio commentary with director Stanley Donen, and a Donen musicals trailer gallery.

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN: Musical dynamo Betty Hutton fires on all cylinders with her performance as sharp-shootin' Annie Oakley in the celebrated screen version of the Broadway musical, co-starring Howard Keel. Special Features: all-new introduction by Susan Lucci, deleted musical number "Let's Go West Again", three songs with original star Judy Garland ("Doin' What Comes Natur'lly", "I'm An Indian, Too" and "Colonel Buffalo Bill"), audio session tracks.

SHOW BOAT: The most beloved and popular screen version of the Broadway musical, starring Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel as lovers Magnolia and Ravenal, torn apart and reunited on the Cotton Blossom. Ava Gardner aquits herself nicely in a rare musical role, although her singing was dubbed by Annette Warren. Special Features: trailer.

KISS ME, KATE: Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel are again paired in this solid movie version of the Cole Porter musical, about a divorced pair of actors forced to work together again in a stage production of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew". Special Features: all-new featurette "Cole Porter in Hollywood: Too Darn Hot" hosted by Ann Miller, vintage short "Mighty Manhattan, New York's Wonder City", trailer, behind-the-scenes notes.

TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Broadway Musicals (Show Boat / Annie Get Your Gun / Kiss Me Kate / Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) Summary Show Boat (1951) A Vivid And Vibrant Saga Of Riverboat Lives And Loves Has Glorious Stars (kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Marge And Gower Champion) In Technicolor Radiance, Timeless Jerome Kern/oscar Hammerstein Ii Songs And An Equally Timeless Outcry Against Racial Bigotry. Like Ol' Man River, Its Delights Just Keep Rollin' Along. Annie Get Your Gun Betty Hutton (as Annie Oakley) And Howard Keel (as Frank Butler) Star In This Sharpshootin' Funfest An Oscar Winner For Adaptation Scoring Based On The Broadway Smash Boasting Irving Berlins Beloved Songs, Including Doin' What Comes Naturally, I Got Lost In His Arms And The Anthemic There's No Business Like Show Business. Seven Brides For Seven Brothers The Perfect Marriage Of Song And Dance! Backwoods Boys Inspired By Romance And The Lure Of Hot Biscuits Raid The Local Town For Brides. Un-uh: The Would-be Brides Insist The Fellas First Become Respectable! Howard Keel And Jane Powell Head A Leaping Whoop For Joy In This Exuberant Oscar Winner. Kiss Me Kate When Squabbling Ex-married's Kathryn Grayson And Howard Keel Are Cast As Squabbling Renaissance Romantics In A Musical The Taming Of The Shrew, Life Imitates Art, Art Imitates Life And It All Proves No Musical Comedy Imitates This Backstage/onstage Delight From The Broadway Hit With 14 Peerless Cole Porter Songs. It's All Too Darn Hot!

Turner Classic Movies' Greatest Classic Films Collection: Broadway Musicals collects four movies on two double-sided discs, with top picture quality and the bonus features that appeared on disc 1 when one of those films was released on a two-disc set, or the features that appeared on the single discs of the other three. The four films here aren't really Broadway musicals, but rather movies that were (with one exception) based on material originally created for the Broadway stage. Show Boat was one of the earliest shows in the modern-musical era, and this 1951 adaptation (the third, following versions in 1929 and 1936) stars familiar MGM players Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, and others in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's Southern epic, featuring "Ol' Man River," "Can't Help Loving That Man of Mine," and more. Annie Get Your Gun (1950) stars Bettie Hutton (in a role intended for Judy Garland) as a spunky Western gal who gives Howard Keel all he can handle, and features such Irving Berlin standards as "There's No Business Like Show Business," "Anything You Can Do," and "Doin' What Comes Naturally." Grayson and Keel return again in Kiss Me Kate (1953), as life imitates art in a production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, and the Cole Porter songs include "Wunderbar" and "So in Love." The exception is Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), one of MGM's greatest original creations that was itself adapted for the stage years later. Keel woos Jane Powell to become his wife--and mother figure for his six brothers. Hilarity and much dancing ensue (especially in Michael Kidd's rousing barn number), and the Gene de Paul-Johnny Mercer songs include "Bless Yore Beautiful Hide," "Wonderful Wonderful Day," and "Spring, Spring, Spring." Bonus material on the two-sided discs is relatively plentiful for the TCM Classics series since only one of the movies had been released on a two-disc set: you lose Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' alternate cut and some supplemental material, but you still get director Stanley Donen's commentary track plus some trailers, shorts, and other material for the other three movies. --David Horiuchi

TCM Greatest Classic Films... DVD Techincal Details Cast: Howard Keel, Betty Hutton, Jane Powell
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Running Time: 427 mins
UPC: 883929060115
Binding: DVD
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Release Date: 2009-05-05
Region Code: 1
Specs: Color, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC

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