Busby Berkeley
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This collection features 21 song-and-dance spectaculars staged and directed by Busby Berkeley, from movie musicals released in the 1930's. Included are excerpts from "42nd Street" (1933), "Gold diggers of 1933" (1933), "Fashions of 1934" (1934), "In Caliente" (1933), "Footlight parade" (1933), "Wonder Bar" (1934), "Dames" (1934), "Gold diggers of 1935" (1935), and "Gold diggers of 1937" (1937).
2) 42nd street
Series
Language
English
Description
The movie musical that introduced the choreography of Busby Berkeley, 42nd Street also contains the classic plot involving a tyrannical director, egotistical leading lady and wide-eyed ingenue, all set to a standout musical score.
Publisher
Passion Productions
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, high-living prizefighter Johnny Bradfield (Garfield) flees to avoid arrest. While hiding out on a ranch in Arizona, he meets up with a group of juvenile delinquents (The Dead End Kids). Bradfield takes it upon himself to set the kids straight, as a detective (Rains) closes in on the boxer.
Publisher
Westlake Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A moving portrayal of a new boxing champion's downfall, from a non-smoking, no swearing, no-drinking, mom-loving kid, to a fugitive on the run from a murder charge. Arriving in California farm country, the ex-champ finds romance (and the Dead End Kids), but is eventually brought back to the ring and discovery.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A young showgirl falls for a playboy soldier the night before his leave. When he comes back and is given a medal, he finds that she's singing at the celebration his family has arranged, and she finds that he gave her an assumed name and is engaged.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Cagney stars as Chester Kent, a diligent musical comedy director who is continually warding off snoopers hired by his competitors to steal his ideas. When his latest show is cancelled in favor of a talking picture, he turns to staging musical prologues to play before the features in moviehouses.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The Gold Diggers are heading for Paris, bringing their feathers, frills, New York tawk -- and ballet shoes! A French diplomat has mistaken 43rd Street's Club Balle for the American Academy Ballet, and the chorus cuties aren't going to turn down a free trip to the City of Light over such a tiny misunderstanding.
Series
Doris Day collection volume 2
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Musical about a singer, Georgia Garrett, who takes the place of a socialite on a cruise and finds herself embroiled in the plots and counterplots of a suspicious husband and wife.
11) Dames
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Three relatives stand to inherit a multi-millionaire's money if they turn against his pet hate, the theater.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
For me and my gal: Musical comedy about a vaudeville song-and-dance team who buck tough times and World War I on their way to success in show business.
The Harvey girls: Susan meets a cheery group of young women traveling out to open a 'Harvey House' restaurant at a remote whistle stop to provide good cooking and wholesome company for railway travelers.
In the good old summertime: A musical version of "The shop around the corner" tells the story...
13) Ziegfeld girl
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping...