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Silver screen icons. Broadway musicals.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 3000073525 | Warner Bros.2000135395 | Warner Bros | ([disc 1])2000135396 | Warner Bros | ([disc 2[)Language: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Series: Silver screen iconsPublisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment, [2017]Description: 2 DVD videos (422 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Other title:
  • Broadway musicals
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968. Show boat
  • motion picture adaptation of (work): Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943. Seven brides for seven brothers
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Spewack, Samuel, 1899-1971. Kiss me, Kate
Contained works:
  • Porter, Cole, 1891-1964. Kiss me, Kate
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
[Disc 1] : Annie get your gun / screenplay by Sidney Sheldon ; based on the musical play with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields ; directed by George Sidney ; produced by Arthur Freed ; a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture (107 mins.) -- Show boat / M-G-M presents ; from the immortal musical play "Show boat" by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II ; based on Edna Ferber's novel ; screenplay by John Lee Mahin ; directed by George Sidney ; produced by Arthur Freed ; a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture (108 mins.) -- [Disc 2]: Seven brides for seven brothers / screenplay by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Dorothy Kingsley ; produced by Jack Cummings ; directed by Stanley Donen -- Kiss me Kate / screen play by Dorothy Kingsley ; music and lyrics by Cole Porter ; produced by Jack Cummings ; directed by George Sidney.
Production credits:
  • Annie get your gun: Music and lyrics: Irving Berlin.
  • Kiss me Kate: Music and lyrics: Cole Porter.
  • Seven brides for seven brothers: Lyrics, Johnny Mercer ; music, Gene DePaul.
Cast: Annie get your gun: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel.Cast: Show boat: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel.Cast: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Rall.Cast: Kiss me Kate: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Rall, James Whitmore, Bob Fosse, Bobby Van.Summary: Show boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not knowing she is pregnant.Summary: Annie get your gun: Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who meets Frank Butler. Frank is the star sharpshoot in Colonel Buffalo Bill's show. He finds himself falling for Annie, but feels that she is not marriage material. In the end, they both discover that love is wonderful.Summary: Seven brides for seven brothers: Adam is the eldest of seven brothers who goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home where 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. Adam reads about the Roman capture of the Sabine women and develops an inspired solution to his brothers' loneliness.Summary: Kiss me Kate: Fred is a director and Lilly is an actress who are divorced. They are brought back together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play. A fight on the opening night threatens the production, not to mention the two thugs who have the mistaken idea that Fred owes their boss money and insist on staying next to him all night.
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Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD New MUSIC SILVER S Available 33111010004600
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Includes the films: Annie Get Your Gun; Show Boat; Kiss Me Kate; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

DVD, region 1; Dolby mono.

English, French or Spanish dialogue; Spanish, English or French subtitles; closed-captioned.

Title from container.

Annie get your gun: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel.

Show boat: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Rall.

Kiss me Kate: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Rall, James Whitmore, Bob Fosse, Bobby Van.

Annie get your gun originally released as a motion picture in 1950. Show boat originally released as a motion picture in 1951.

Seven brides for seven brothers originally released as a motion picture in 1954. Kiss me Kate originally released as a motion picture in 1953

Not rated.

[Disc 1] : Annie get your gun / screenplay by Sidney Sheldon ; based on the musical play with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields ; directed by George Sidney ; produced by Arthur Freed ; a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture (107 mins.) -- Show boat / M-G-M presents ; from the immortal musical play "Show boat" by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II ; based on Edna Ferber's novel ; screenplay by John Lee Mahin ; directed by George Sidney ; produced by Arthur Freed ; a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture (108 mins.) -- [Disc 2]: Seven brides for seven brothers / screenplay by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Dorothy Kingsley ; produced by Jack Cummings ; directed by Stanley Donen -- Kiss me Kate / screen play by Dorothy Kingsley ; music and lyrics by Cole Porter ; produced by Jack Cummings ; directed by George Sidney.

Show boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not knowing she is pregnant.

Annie get your gun: Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who meets Frank Butler. Frank is the star sharpshoot in Colonel Buffalo Bill's show. He finds himself falling for Annie, but feels that she is not marriage material. In the end, they both discover that love is wonderful.

Seven brides for seven brothers: Adam is the eldest of seven brothers who goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home where 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. Adam reads about the Roman capture of the Sabine women and develops an inspired solution to his brothers' loneliness.

Kiss me Kate: Fred is a director and Lilly is an actress who are divorced. They are brought back together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play. A fight on the opening night threatens the production, not to mention the two thugs who have the mistaken idea that Fred owes their boss money and insist on staying next to him all night.

Annie get your gun: Music and lyrics: Irving Berlin.

Kiss me Kate: Music and lyrics: Cole Porter.

Seven brides for seven brothers: Lyrics, Johnny Mercer ; music, Gene DePaul.

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