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Kiss Me Kate 3D (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( DTS 5.1 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )
Korean ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
110 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Documentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
3D & 2D

Movie filmed in 1953 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
George Sidney

Written By:
Dorothy Kingsley
Sam Spewack

Actors:
Kathryn Grayson ..... Lilli Vanessi 'Katherine'
Howard Keel ..... Fred Graham 'Petruchio'
Ann Miller ..... Lois Lane 'Bianca'
Keenan Wynn ..... Lippy
Bobby Van ..... 'Gremio'
Tommy Rall ..... Bill Calhoun 'Lucentio'
James Whitmore ..... Slug
Kurt Kasznar ..... 'Baptista'
Bob Fosse ..... Hortensio
Ron Randell ..... Cole Porter
Willard Parker ..... Tex Callaway
Dave O'Brien ..... Ralph
Claud Allister ..... Paul
Ann Codee ..... Suzanne
Carol Haney ..... Specialty Dancer

Synopsis:

Fred and Lilly are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play. A fight on the opening night threatens the production, as well as two thugs who have the mistaken idea that Fred owes their boss money and insist on staying next to him all night.

Composer Cole Porter and director Fred Graham, who is also to star as Petruchio, talk legendary actress/singer Lilli Vanessi to play the female lead, Katherine, in Porter's new stage production "Kiss Me, Kate", a musical translation of the William Shakespeare comedy "The Taming of the Shrew". Talking Lilli into doing so is quite a feat seeing that Fred is her ex-husband with whom she parted on not so good terms a year earlier, and that Fred has cast Lois Lane, his new girlfriend, in the role of Katherine's sister, Bianca. Lois, however, is only using Fred as she is secretly seeing Bill Calhoun, cast as Lucentio, one of Bianca's suitors. The relationship between Fred and Lilli changes during rehearsals, on opening night before the curtain goes up and even on stage on opening night that mimics the story of the play. In turn, what happens on stage has to change on the emotional whims of the two leads. Thrown into the mix are Tex Callaway, Lilli's on-again/off again cattle baron fiancé, and two gangsters who've come to the theater to collect on a gambling debt and won't leave the stage in order to protect their boss' new investment.

Fred Graham and Cole Porter invite the actress Lilli Vanessi to perform Katherine in his musical version of "The Taming of the Shrew" where Fred has the lead role of Petruchio. Fred and Lili are divorced and he also invites his affair, the promiscuous Lois Lane, to perform Bianca. While they are preparing for the opening night, Lois' boyfriend Bill Calhoun, who performs Lucentio in the play, tells to Lois that he lost a large amount gambling and he signed a bill (promissory note) using the name of Fred. Out of the blue, two gangsters come to the backstage to collect the money from Fred to pay their boss.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 12 August, 2019.