Run Time: 6 hours and 58 minutes
UPC: 033937081286
ISBN: 9781594646683You just cannot help singing to Royal Wedding, Stage Door, Canteen, The Inspector General, and Road to Bali.
Vintage Hollywood: Classic Musicals
DVD 1:
Royal Wedding
Brother
and sister, Tom (Fred Astaire) and Ellen Bowen (Jane Powell), have a
dance act in New York until the show closes. Their agent books them some
shows in London that coincide with the dates for the royal wedding.
Trivia: Royal Wedding is inspired by the real-life dance partnership of Fred Astaire and his sister, Adele. Released in 1951, Color, 93 minutes.
Stage Door Canteen
This
World War II-era musical follows four servicemen – Dakota, Tex,
California, and Jersey – on a 24-hour leave in New York before they are
to be shipped out. The soldiers make their ways to the Stage Door
Canteen, a restaurant that caters to soldiers, where they make the
acquaintance of the Canteen’s beautiful hostesses.
Trivia:
Also stars Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Ray Bolger, Helen
Hayes, Gypsy Rose Lee, Harpo Marx, Ethel Merman, Ralph Bellamy, and many
other celebrities. Released in 1943, Black & White, 132 minutes.
DVD 2:
The Inspector General
Georgi
(Danny Kaye), the illiterate, good-hearted lackey to a snake-oil
salesman, finds himself in a strange town. When he’s arrested for
vagrancy, shady town officials take him for the inspector general, who
is supposed to be passing through the area – and probably undercover.
Afraid that the “inspector general” will expose their crimes, they try
to do him in.
Trivia: The film is based on the play by Nicolai Goģol. Released in 1949, Color, 102 minutes.
Road to Bali
Trying
to duck various marriage proposals, song-and-dance fellows George
Cochran (Bing Crosby) and Harold Gridley (Bob Hope) take jobs as divers.
On the way to Bali, they land on a tranquil island and compete for the
attention of Princess Lala (Dorthy Lamour).
Trivia: Road to Bali is the sixth of seven Paramount Road to… films. Released in 1953, Color, 91 minutes.