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The Sound of Music (Two-Disc 40th Anniversary Special Edition)
: :Shot in Salzburg against the majestic Bavarian Alps, THE SOUND OF MUSIC is considered one of the greatest screen musicals ever made. Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (Robert Wise), the film, based on a real family and their true events, tells the story of a young postulate, Maria (Julie Andrews), who, after proving too high-spirited for the Mother Abess and other nuns, is sent off to work as a governess to seven unruly ...
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The Music Man (Special Edition)
: :Meredith Willson's Broadway play is brought to the screen in this musical featuring Preston as Professor Harold Hill, a con artist whose schemes are unmasked by the lovely librarian, Marian (Jones).Genre: MusicalsRating: GRelease Date: 1-JUN-2004Media Type: DVD essential video:The Music Man was one of the last great movie musicals from any studio, and it proved to be that rarest of events: a Broadway show that was measurably improved by its transition to the screen. Robert Preston made his ...
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Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
: :A Hollywood actor who has risen from vaudville to become a silent film star must make the difficult transition to sound.Genre: MusicalsRating: GRelease Date: 24-SEP-2002Media Type: DVD 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. Indeed, when the prestigious British film magazine Sight & Sound conducts ...
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My Fair Lady
: :Lerner and Loewe's musical version of 'Pygmalion' about a Covent Garden flower girl who becomes a lady.Genre: MusicalsRating: GRelease Date: 8-DEC-1998Media Type: DVD essential video:Hollywood's legendary 'woman's director,' George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on ...
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A Hard Day's Night
: :The Beatles star in this film about a \''typical\'' day in the life of the Beatles.Genre: MusicalsRating: GRelease Date: 6-JUL-2004Media Type: DVD essential video:The Fab Four from Liverpool--John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr--in their first movie. Nobody expected A Hard Day's Night to be much more than a quick exploitation of a passing musical fad, but when the film opened it immediately seduced the world--even the stuffiest critics fell over themselves in praise (highbrow Dwight ...
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Full Screen Edition)
: :Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls--start your engines. You are about to take an incredible ride with one of the most wonderful family films of all time! Now celebrating its 30th Anniversary Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has never looked or sounded better. With its clever tunes (including the Oscar-nominated title song) marvelous cast and enchanting story line this delightful family film is lot of fun and simply 'toot sweet' to pass up! Dick Van Dyke stars as eccentric inventor ...
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (30th Anniversary Edition)
:Description:An Academy Award(R) winner for Best Visual Effects (1971), BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS is a magical blend of live action and animation that makes it one of Disney's most enduring classics. This magical 30th anniversary edition version of the film is now yours to enjoy in digital splendor on this remastered, fully restored DVD! BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS is the enchanting story of an amateur witch who, along with three precocious orphans, flies into one fantastic adventure after another aboard a bewitched ...
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Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
: :Classic fairy tale of the rags-to-riches romance of Cinderella in a musical featuring more than a dozen songs.Genre: MusicalsRating: GRelease Date: 6-NOV-2007Media Type: DVD :A guilty, guilty pleasure, perhaps not one a left-wing feminist should be admitting to in public. Female boomers should recall yearly TV reruns of this Rodgers and Hammerstein production, featuring such delights as 'Impossible' and 'Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?' It may appear a bit stark to younger viewers, but part of the ...
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Auntie Mame
:Description:Rosalind Russell recreates her hallmark stage role as the accentric grande dame of highlife, briging up a 10-year-old nephew. A banquet of laughter, nominated for 6 Academy Awards(R). :Remember darlings, 'Life's a banquet, and most suckers are starving to death.' That tag line sums up this exuberant and immensely amusing 1958 comedy that can be seen repeatedly, as it never grows stale. Rosalind Russell plays the flamboyant aunt who takes in poor, orphaned Patrick, played with sophisticated ease by Jan ...
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Hello, Dolly! Widescreen Edition
:Description:Barbara Streisand is a knockout as Dolly Levi, the woman 'who arranges things like furniture and daffodils and lives.' And Hello Dolly, is the blockbuster musical you'll want to see her in again and again. The famed plot concerns Dolly, a young widow and professional matchmaker who sets her sights, and whatever else she can muster, on conquering tight-fisted Yonkers merchant, Horace Vandergeider, beautifully played by Walter Matthau. How she does it has to be the grandest, singingest, dancingest, marchingest ...
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