Musical Comedies Collection - 16-DVD Box Set ( An American in Paris / Brigadoon / The Barkleys of Broadway / A Star Is Born / The Wizard of Oz / Singin' in the Rain / The Band Wagon / Meet Me in St. Louis / Easter Parade / High Society / West Side Story / Little Shop of Horrors / Seven Brides for Seve )

Musical Comedies Collection - 16-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$71.99

Original Title: An American in Paris / Brigadoon / The Barkleys of Broadway / A Star Is Born / The Wizard of Oz / Singin' in the Rain / The Band Wagon / Meet Me in St. Louis / Easter Parade / High Society / West Side Story / Little Shop of Horrors / Seven Brides for Seve
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
David Donatello Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Mono )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Mono )
German ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Mono )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
1897 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1936-1986 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Vincente Minnelli
Charles Walters
George Cukor
Victor Fleming
Mervyn LeRoy
Norman Taurog
Richard Thorpe
King Vidor
Stanley Donen
Gene Kelly
Jerome Robbins
Robert Wise
Frank Oz
Francis Ford Coppola
Blake Edwards
Robert Z. Leonard

Written By:
Alan Jay Lerner

Betty Comden
Adolph Green
Sidney Sheldon
Moss Hart
Dorothy Parker
Alan Campbell
Robert Carson
William A. Wellman
Noel Langley
Florence Ryerson
Edgar Allan Woolf
L. Frank Baum
Arthur Freed
Irving Brecher
William H. Cannon
Norman Corwin
Fred F. Finklehoffe
Sally Benson
Victor Heerman
William Ludwig
Frances Goodrich
Albert Hackett
Guy Bolton
John Patrick
Philip Barry
Ernest Lehman
Arthur Laurents
Jerome Robbins
William Shakespeare
Howard Ashman
Roger Corman
Charles B. Griffith
Dorothy Kingsley
Stephen Vincent Benet
E.Y. Harburg
Fred Saidy
Blake Edwards
Hans Hoemburg
Reinhold Schünzel
William Anthony McGuire

Actors:
Gene Kelly ..... Jerry Mulligan
Leslie Caron ..... Lise Bouvier
Oscar Levant ..... Adam Cook
Georges Guétary ..... Henri Baurel
Nina Foch ..... Milo Roberts
Robert Ames ..... Ballet Dancer
Joan Anderson ..... Child in Ballet
Marie Antoinette Andrews ..... News Vendor
Larry Arnold ..... Frenchman
Martha Bamattre ..... Mathilde Mattieu
Gene Kelly ..... Tommy Albright
Van Johnson ..... Jeff Douglas
Cyd Charisse ..... Fiona Campbell
Elaine Stewart ..... Jane Ashton
Barry Jones ..... Mr. Lundie
Hugh Laing ..... Harry Beaton
Fred Astaire ..... Josh Barkley
Ginger Rogers ..... Dinah Barkley
Oscar Levant ..... Ezra Millar
Billie Burke ..... Mrs. Livingston Belney
Gale Robbins ..... Shirlene May
Jacques François ..... Jacques Pierre Barredout
Judy Garland ..... Vicki Lester
James Mason ..... Norman Maine
Jack Carson ..... Matt Libby
Charles Bickford ..... Oliver Niles
Tommy Noonan ..... Danny McGuire
Lucy Marlow ..... Lola Lavery
Judy Garland ..... Dorothy Gale
Frank Morgan ..... Professor Marvel / The Gatekeeper / The Carriage Driver / The Guard / The Wizard
Ray Bolger ..... 'Hunk' / The Scarecrow
Bert Lahr ..... 'Zeke' / The Cowardly Lion
Jack Haley ..... 'Hickory' / The Tin Man
Billie Burke ..... Glinda
Margaret Hamilton ..... Miss Gulch / The Wicked Witch of the West
Gene Kelly ..... Don Lockwood
Donald O'Connor ..... Cosmo Brown
Debbie Reynolds ..... Kathy Selden
Jean Hagen ..... Lina Lamont
Millard Mitchell ..... R.F. Simpson
Cyd Charisse ..... Dancer
Fred Astaire ..... Tony Hunter
Cyd Charisse ..... Gabrielle Gerard
Oscar Levant ..... Lester Marton
Nanette Fabray ..... Lily Marton
Jack Buchanan ..... Jeffrey Cordova
James Mitchell ..... Paul Byrd
Judy Garland ..... Esther Smith
Margaret O'Brien ..... 'Tootie' Smith
Mary Astor ..... Mrs. Anna Smith
Lucille Bremer ..... Rose Smith
Leon Ames ..... Mr. Alonzo Smith
Tom Drake ..... John Truett
Judy Garland ..... Hannah Brown
Fred Astaire ..... Don Hewes
Peter Lawford ..... Jonathan Harrow III
Ann Miller ..... Nadine Hale
Jules Munshin ..... Headwaiter François
Clinton Sundberg ..... Mike the Bartender
Bing Crosby ..... C. K. Dexter-Haven
Grace Kelly ..... Tracy Lord
Frank Sinatra ..... Mike Connor
Celeste Holm ..... Liz Imbrie
John Lund ..... George Kittredge
Louis Calhern ..... Uncle Willie
Natalie Wood ..... Maria
Richard Beymer ..... Tony
Russ Tamblyn ..... Riff
Rita Moreno ..... Anita
George Chakiris ..... Bernardo
Simon Oakland ..... Schrank
Levi Stubbs ..... Audrey II
Rick Moranis ..... Seymour Krelborn
Ellen Greene ..... Audrey
Vincent Gardenia ..... Mushnik
Steve Martin ..... Orin Scrivello D.D.S.
Tichina Arnold ..... Crystal
Howard Keel ..... Adam Pontipee
Jeff Richards ..... Benjamin Pontipee
Russ Tamblyn ..... Gideon Pontipee
Tommy Rall ..... Frank (Frankincense) Pontipee
Marc Platt ..... Daniel Pontipee
Matt Mattox ..... Caleb Pontipee
Fred Astaire ..... Finian McLonergan
Petula Clark ..... Sharon McLonergan
Tommy Steele ..... Og
Don Francks ..... Woody Mahoney
Keenan Wynn ..... Senator Billboard Rawkins
Barbara Hancock ..... Susan the Silent
Julie Andrews ..... Victoria Grant
James Garner ..... King Marchand
Robert Preston ..... Carole "Toddy" Todd
Lesley Ann Warren ..... Norma Cassady
Alex Karras ..... 'Squash' Bernstein
John Rhys-Davies ..... Andre Cassell
William Powell ..... Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Myrna Loy ..... Billie Burke
Luise Rainer ..... Anna Held
Frank Morgan ..... Billings
Fanny Brice ..... Fannie Brice
Virginia Bruce ..... Audrey Dane

Synopsis:

An American in Paris: Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is 'discovered' by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications abound. Brigadoon: Americans Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, on a hunting vacation in Scotland, discover a quaint and beautiful village, Brigadoon. Strangely, the village is not on any map, and soon Tommy and Jeff find out why: Brigadoon is an enchanted place. It appears once every hundred years for one day, then disappears back into the mists of time, to wake up to its next day a century hence. When Tommy falls in love with Fiona, a girl of the village, he realizes that she can never be part of his life back in America. Can he be part of hers in Brigadoon? The Barkleys of Broadway: Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade. A Star Is Born: Norman Maine, a movie star whose career is on the wane, meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he drunkenly stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops, then blossoms into romance before tensions increase as Esther's career takes off while Norman's continues to plummet. The Wizard of Oz: When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical Land of Oz. They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and on the way they meet a Scarecrow who wants a brain, a Tin Man who wants a heart, and a Cowardly Lion who wants courage. The Wizard asks them to bring him the Wicked Witch of the West's broom to earn his help. Singin' in the Rain: 1927 Hollywood. Monumental Pictures' biggest stars, glamorous on-screen couple Lina Lamont and Don Lockwood, are also an off-screen couple if the trade papers and gossip columns are to be believed. Both perpetuate the public perception if only to please their adoring fans and bring people into the movie theaters. In reality, Don barely tolerates her, while Lina, despite thinking Don beneath her, simplemindedly believes what she sees on screen in order to bolster her own stardom and sense of self-importance. R.F. Simpson, Monumental's head, dismisses what he thinks is a flash in the pan: talking pictures. It isn't until The Jazz Singer (1927) becomes a bona fide hit which results in all the movie theaters installing sound equipment that R.F. knows Monumental, most specifically in the form of Don and Lina, have to jump on the talking picture bandwagon, despite no one at the studio knowing anything about the technology. Musician Cosmo Brown, Don's best friend, gets hired as Monumental's ideas man and musical director. And by this time, Don has secretly started dating Kathy Selden, a chorus girl who is trying to make it big in pictures herself. Don and Kathy's relationship is despite their less than friendly initial meeting. Cosmo and Kathy help Don, who had worked his way up through the movie ranks to stardom, try make the leap to talking picture stardom, with Kathy following along the way. However, they have to overcome the technological issues. But the bigger problem is Lina, who will do anything to ensure she also makes the successful leap into talking pictures, despite her own inabilities and at anyone and everyone else's expense if they get in her way, especially Kathy as Don's off screen girlfriend and possibly his new talking picture leading lady. The Band Wagon: Tony Hunter, a famous singer/dancer movie star, is feeling washed up and old hat (old top hat, tie and tails to be exact). The reporters are out for Ava Gardner, not him. But his old friends Lily and Les Martin have an idea for a funny little Broadway show and he agrees to do it. But things begin to get out of hand, when bigshot 'artistic' director/producer/star Jeffrey Cordova joins the production, proclaims it's a modernistic Faust and insists on hiring a prima ballerina, Gabrielle Gerard, to star opposite Tony, and it's hate at first sight. And her jealous choreographer isn't helping to ease the tension. The show is doomed by pretentiousness. But romance, a 'let's put on a show' epiphany, and a triumphant opening are waiting in the wings. After all, this is a musical comedy! Meet Me in St. Louis: St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has just moved in, John. He however barely notices her at first. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transfered to a nice position in New York, which means that the family has to leave St. Louis and the St. Louis Fair. Easter Parade: Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but she decides to start a career on her own. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. After a while, this new team is so successful that Florenz Ziegfeld is interested in them, but due to the fact that Nadine Hale also dances (and stars) in the Ziegfeld Follies, Don says no. Despite the fact that he is in love with Hannah, he keeps the relation with her strictly business. So Hannah is of the opinion that he is still in love with Nadine, and her suspicion grows when he dances with Nadine in a Night Club Floor Show. High Society: C.K. Dexter-Haven, a successful popular jazz musician, lives in a mansion near his ex-wife's Tracy Lord's family estate. She is on the verge of marrying a man blander and safer than Dex, who tries to win Tracy's heart again. Mike Connor, an undercover tabloid reporter, also falls for Tracy while covering the nuptials for Spy magazine. Tracy must choose between the three men as she discovers that 'safe' can mean 'deadly dull' when it comes to husbands and life. West Side Story: West Side Story is the award-winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy 'Romeo and Juliet'. The feuding families become two warring New York City gangs--the white Jets led by Riff and the Latino Sharks, led by Bernardo. Their hatred escalates to a point where neither can coexist with any form of understanding. But when Riff's best friend (and former Jet) Tony and Bernardo's younger sister Maria meet at a dance, no one can do anything to stop their love. Maria and Tony begin meeting in secret, planning to run away. Then the Sharks and Jets plan a rumble under the highway--whoever wins gains control of the streets. Maria sends Tony to stop it, hoping it can end the violence. It goes terribly wrong, and before the lovers know what's happened, tragedy strikes and doesn't stop until the climactic and heartbreaking ending. Little Shop of Horrors: Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day as Seymour is seeking a new mysterious plant, he finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper. Soon enough, Seymour feeds Audrey's sadistic dentist boyfriend to the plant and later, Mushnik for witnessing the death of Audrey's ex. Will Audrey II take over the world or will Seymour and Audrey defeat it? Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading about the Roman capture of the Sabine women, Adam develops an inspired solution to his brothers' loneliness. Finian's Rainbow: Of Glocca Morra, Ireland, Finian McLongeran, who has his own unique belief system of Irish legends, uproots himself and his adult daughter, Sharon McLonergan, and heads for the mythical land of Rainbow Valley, Missitucky, USA where he believes he will become rich. Victor Victoria: In 1934 Paris, trained coloratura soprano Victoria Grant (Dame Julie Andrews), a native Brit, can't get a job as a singer and is having trouble making ends meet. She doesn't even have enough money for the basics of food and shelter. Gay cabaret singer Carole 'Toddy' Todd (Robert Preston) may befall the same fate as Victoria, as he was just fired from his singing gig at a second-rate club named 'Chez Lui'. To solve their problems, Toddy comes up with what he considers to be an inspired idea: with Toddy as her manager, Victoria, pretending to be a man, get a job singing as a female impersonator. The Great Ziegfeld: At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Flo Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more successful neighbor Billings, and steals his girlfriend to boot. This pattern is repeated throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever bigger, more spectacular shows (sections of which appear in the film). French revue star Anna Held becomes his first wife, but it's not easy being married to the man who 'glorified the American girl.' Late in life, now married to Billie Burke, he seems to be all washed up, but...

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