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 The Essential Musicals Collection (1964)

UPC/Barcode: 7321902101156   Catalogue No: DY 10115   Released: 9th October 2006   Category: Feature, Musical   Availability: Sell Thru / Rental   Format: DVD / Box Set

Subtitling:

The main feature and some extras have English subtitles. [explanation]

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Subtitling comments:

 allan on 23-12-2006:

All 9 main features have English subtitles and English subtitles for the hearing impaired. Lyrics (songs) are English subtitled on 6 of the features (Annie Get Your Gun, Gigi, My Fair Lady, Seven Brides and Seven Brothers, Singin' In The Rain and The Wizard Of Oz). Unfortunately there are no subtitles for the lyrics on the other 3 main features (Calamity Jane, High Society and Meet Me in St.Louis).

Special features:
Annie Get Your Gun - Special Introduction by Susan Lucci feature has English subtitles. However other features (Outtakes, Audio recording session track and Theatrical Trailer) are not subtitled.
Gigi - Only special feature is a theatrical trailer which is not subtitled.
My Fair Lady - The Fairest Fair Lady has English Subtitles. Other Features (commentary, 2 Audrey Hepburn Vocals and Theatrical Trailer) are not subtitled.
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers - 'Making of Seven Brides' has English Subtitles. Trailer is not subtitled.
Singin' In The Rain - No extras.
The Wizard Of Oz - Lots of extras and also stills. Only two featurettes - 'The Making of a Movie Classic' and 1979 Interviews (Oz Afterlife) - are subtitled. Other featurettes (Audio Supplements, Trailers, Outtakes & Deleted Scenes, Behind the scenes, Oz History and Oz Afterlife) are not subtitled.
Calamity Jane - All special features have English subtitles. Theatrical Trailer is not subtitled.
High Society - All special features have English subtitles. Theatrical Trailer is not subtitled.
Meet Me In St.Louis - Introduction by Liza Minnelli and 'The Making of documentary' are English subtitled. Other Features (Commentary, 'Skip to my Lou' and Trailer) are not subtitled.

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Film information:

Story: Box set containing nine classic musicals. 'My Fair Lady' (1964) is Lerner and Loewe's musical version of George Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion'. Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), an expert in phonetics, accepts challenge of transforming common cockney flowergirl Eliza Dolittle (Audrey Hepburn) into a lady through elocution lessons. Includes classic songs such as 'Wouldn't It Be Loverly', 'The Rain in Spain', 'I Could Have Danced All Night' and 'Get Me to Church on Time'. In 'Singin' in Rain' (1952), Don Lockwood (, who co-directs) has worked his way up from being a song-and-dance man with partner Cosmo Brown (Donald O'Connor) to become a top movie star. His on-screen partner, Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), who believes that Don loves her for real, needs to have her awful singing voice dubbed with arrival of talkies. The girl selected is 'serious' actress Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds), for whom Don soon falls. Musical numbers include famous title song and 'Make 'Em Laugh', 'Good Morning' and 'You Were Meant for Me'. 'High Society' (1956) is a musical remake of 'The Philadelphia Story' and stars Grace Kelly as socialite Tracy Lord who, even as she prepares for her second marriage, still has obvious feelings for her ex-husband (Bing Crosby). She also strikes up a friendship with a reporter (Frank Sinatra), who has been sent to cover her society wedding. The Cole Porter score includes 'Who Wants To Be a Millionaire' and famous Crosby/Sinatra duet 'Well, Did You Evah'. In 'Calamity Jane' (1953), Doris Day plays a famous female sharpshooter, who would rather hit targets than chase men - until she falls for 'Wild Bill' Hickok (Howard Keel), who would rather shoot Indians than chase after a tomboy like Calamity Jane. Featuring Oscar-winning song 'Secret Love'. In 'Gigi' (1958), an innocent French girl (Leslie Caron) finds herself being trained as a courtesan so that she can become mistress of Gaston Lachaille (Louis Jourdan), a family friend and heir to a sugar fortune. However, when Gaston actually falls in love with young Gigi he complicates a long-standing family tradition and throws their whole social circle into a flap. 'Annie Get Your Gun' (1950) stars Betty Hutton as backwoods sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Plucked out of obscurity by Buffalo Bill (Louis Calhern), the rough-edged Annie is groomed for a leading role in Bill's world famous Wild West show. However, Annie has a rival in form of rifleman Frank Butler (Howard Keel), a man she soon falls in love with. Features songs 'Anything You Can Do' and 'There's No Business Like Show Business'. 'Meet Me in St. Louis' (1944) stars Judy Garland as a young St. Louis girl in love with boy next door. The film is set in 1904, when St. Louis hosted World's Fair. Songs include 'Meet Me in St. Louis', 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' and 'The Trolley Song'. 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers' (1954) stars Howard Keel as Adam Pontabee, a recently married rancher who brings his bride Milly (Jane Powell) back to live on ranch with him and his six unruly brothers. Shocked at their bad manners, Milly begins to coach boys in ways of polite society and accidentally gives them idea of kidnapping six eligible young ladies for purposes of marriage. Includes songs 'Bless Your Beautiful Hide' and 'Lonesome Polecat'. Finally, in 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) a tornado whisks Dorothy (Garland) and her house from Kansas to Munchkin City, squashing Wicked Witch of East upon landing. The Wicked Witch of West vows revenge, while Dorothy sets off on yellow brick road for Oz with a scarecrow, a tin man and a cowardly lion - all of whom have specific reasons for wanting to meet magical Wizard of Oz.

Cast: Leslie Caron, Doris Day, Maurice Chevalier, Philip Carey, Hermione Gingold, Jacques Bergerac, Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Louis Jourdan, John Abbott, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Holloway, Rex Harrison, Gladys Cooper, J. Carrol Naish, Gale Robbins, Eva Gabor, Jeremy Brett, Judy Garland, Isabel Jeans, Paul Harvey, Edward Arnold, Chubby Johnson, Tom Drake, Theodore Bikel, Keenan Wynn, Margaret O'Brien, Dick Wesson, Benay Venuta, Evelyn Beresford, Mary Astor, Virginia Gibson, Isobel Elsom, Matt Mattox, Mona Washbourne, Walter Burke, John Mylong, John Alderson, Leon Ames, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Grace Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Susan Odin, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Bremer, Celeste Holm, Jacques d'Amboise, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Debbie Reynolds, Bert Lahr, John Lund, Jean Hagen, Hank Daniels, Howard Petrie, Ruta Lee, Harry Davenport, Marc Platt, Kelly Brown, Nancy Kilgas, Louis Calhern, Jack Haley, Millard Mitchell, June Lockhart, Billie Burke, Sidney Blackmer, Rita Moreno, Jane Powell, Thomas Rall, Betty Carr, Douglas Fowley, Margaret Hamilton, Louis Armstrong, Marjorie Main, Margalo Gillmore, Cyd Charisse, Hugh Marlowe, Norma Doggett, Charley Grapewin, Jeff Richards, Robert Sully, Julie Newmeyer, Madge Blake, Clara Blandick, Russ Tamblyn, Lydia Reed, Ian Wolfe, Pat Walsh, Chill Wills, King Donovan, Frank Morgan, Singer Midgets, The, Mitchell Lewis, Marni Nixon

Directed by: Gene Kelly, Charles Walters, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney, David Butler, George Cukor, Stanley Donen, Victor Fleming, King Vidor

Studio: Warner Home Video

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