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This package, as others have mentioned, appears to be a mixed bag of musicals not yet on DVD. The trustworthy news is that some of the Eleanor Powell films I’ve been waiting for are among them - Broadway Melodies of 1936 and 1938, Born To Dance, and Lady Be Trustworthy. I’m less crazy about the 1950’s era musicals in this package. Personally I’d say that the Broadway Melodies and Born to Dance are 5/5, Lady Be Respectable is 4/5, and the 1950’s era films are between 3 and 4 out of 5. It’s not that I don’t like Jane Powell, the star of many of the later entries, it’s impartial that the stories in some of these films seems to be more of a hindrance than a wait on. Nobody else has listed the extra features, which are necessary when judging a package like this. So I have included those next, along with the rating for each film as given by a celebrated Internet film database:

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Hit the Deck (1955) (6.4/10)

Special Features:

· Soundtrack remastered in both a modern Dolby Digital 5.1 mix and 5.0 presentation of the unique 4-track theatrical mix

· Classic M-G-M Pete Smith Specialty comedy short: The Descend Guy

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· Classic M-G-M Tex Avery cartoon: Field and Stream

· Audio-only bonuses: Dolby 5.1 music-only track for song sequences

· Audio-only outtake song Sometimes I’m Cheerful (Powell/Damone reprise)

· Unusual Theatrical trailer

· Languages & subtitles: English & Français (main feature)

Deep in my Heart (1954) (6.5/10)

· Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1, as well as fresh theatrical Mono

· Oscar-nominated musical short: The Strauss Fantasy

· Classic cartoon Farm of Tomorrow

· Outtake musical numbers: Dance, My Darlings (Traubel) and Girlies of the Cabaret (George Murphy and Esther Williams)

· Theatrical trailer

· Languages & subtitles: English & Français (main feature only)

Kismet (1955) (6.1/10)

· Soundtrack remastered in both a recent Dolby Digital 5.1 mix and 5.0 presentation of the novel 4-track theatrical mix

· Oscar-nominated CInemaScope short: The Battle of Gettysburg

· Classic cartoon: The First Unpleasant Man

· 2 excerpts from The MGM Parade TV Series

· Complete version of partially-censored musical number Rahadlakum

· Audio-only bonus: Outtake Song Rhymes Have I

· Theatrical trailers of both the 1944 and 1955 Kismet

· Subtitles: English, Français & Portuguêse (main feature only)

Nancy Goes To Rio (1950) /Two Weeks With Worship (1950)

Disc 1

Nancy Goes To Rio (6.5/10)

· Oscar-nominated Pete Smith Specialty comedy short: Despicable Intention Butch

· Classic cartoon: The Peachy Cobbler

· Theatrical trailer

· Languages & subtitles: English & Français (main feature only)

Disc 2

Two Weeks With Treasure (6.7/10)

· TCM special Reel Memories with Jane Powell, hosted by Robert Osborne

· Vintage short: Hide Actors

· Classic cartoon: Garden Gopher

· Theatrical trailer

· Subtitles: English & Français (main feature only)

Broadway Melody of 1936/Broadway Melody of 1938

DISC 1

Broadway Melody of 1936 (7/10)

· Vintage short: Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs

· Classic cartoon: To Spring

· Audio-only bonus: Leo Is on the Air radio promo

· Theatrical trailer

· Subtitles: English & Français (main feature only)

DISC 2

Broadway Melody of 1938 (6.7/10)

· Oscar-winning short: That Mothers Might Live

· Classic cartoon: Pipe Dreams

· Audio-only bonuses: Outtake Songs Yours and Mine, Your Broadway and My Broadway, and Sun Showers

· Feelin’ like a Million test recording

· Worthy News of 1938 radio program and Leo Is on the Air radio promo

· Theatrical trailer

· Languages & subtitles: English & Français (main feature only)

Born to Dance (1936) /Lady Be Profitable (1941)

DISC 1

Born to Dance (6.5/10)

· Vintage short Hollywood: The Second Step

· Oscar-nominated cartoon: The Passe Mill Pond

· Audio-only bonus: Hollywood Hotel Radio program

· Theatrical trailer

· Languages & subtitles: English & Français (main feature only)

DISC 2

Lady Be Obliging (6.6/10)

· Vintage FitzPatrick TravelTalks short: Glimpses of Florida

· Oscar-nominated cartoon: The Rookie Bear

· Audio-only bonuses: outtake song I Like to Dance and Leo Is on the Air radio promo

· Theatrical trailer

· Subtitles: English & Français (main feature only)

This is a rather unique combination of MGM musicals, possible the result of the scraping together some of the titles which had not yet appeared on DVD. They are certainly a variable lot falling into 3 subgroups - 4 with Eleanor Powell, 2 starring Jane Powell and 3 second rate titles from the fifties.

In the mid thirties, Eleanor Powell became the dancing queen of MGM with her spectacular tap. She only made at most 2 films per annum and each had colossal, kindly supporting casts and mountainous songs to showcase her. If you have not seen Powell’s dancing, you are in for a treat. The production numbers have a glitter and excitement with the gleaming dark and white photography and dynamic orchestrations.

- “Broadway Melody of 1936″, released in 1935, was Powell’s first MGM film and it is masterfully made to disguise her limitations as an actress. The film has a ample acquire including “Broadway Rhythm” and “You are my Lucky Star”, both appearing later in “Singing in the Rain”. With Frances Langford to belt out the songs, Robert Taylor as an impossibly exquisite leading man and Buddy Ebsen and Una Merkel providing solid succor, the film was a expansive success and spawned a series of films with “Broadway Melody” in the title.

- The next in the series, released in 1936, was “Born to Dance”, using the familiar area of 3 sailors and their girls. Ebsen, Langford and Una Merkel were succor with Taylor replaced by James Stewart who introduces the classic Col Porter “Easy to Savor” in an uneasy vocal. The other gargantuan song is “I’ve got you under my Skin” presented by Virginia Bruce.

- For 1937, the “Broadway Melody” title returned with Robert Taylor and the addition of Sophie Tucker and a very young Judy Garland. This is the film in which Garland sang “Dear Mr Gable”, a version of “You made me Worship You”. It is attractive to gawk Garland and Tucker together but the location in this one becomes slow.

- In “Lady be Grand”, released in 1941, Powell had been demoted from the lead. She supports Ann Sothern and Robert Young in a really stupid and overlong myth of a song writing team. Busby Berkeley staged the finale, George Gershwin’s “Animated Rhythmn”, with Powell in gargantuan invent. The other highlight is the touching “The Last Time I saw Paris”, poignantly delivered by Ann Sothern and the winner of the Oscar for best song that year. It is ironical that Powell was relegated to the second lead here because she is remarkable more relaxed and pleasing than in the earlier films.

In the unhurried forties, Joe Pasternak produced a series of light “family” musical comedies starring Jane Powell. These films date badly although the two titles here are probably the best in the series. The films are well made in beautiful technicolour and Jane Powell’s work always improved.

- the title, “Nancy goes to Rio”, says it all. Ugh! This is a film in the mould of Gidget and is fairly nauseating, to say the least. It certainly benefits from the presence of Ann Sothern as Powell’s mother and there are a few gracious songs, but otherwise, the cringe meter will gain high. Carmen Miranda is on hand too but by this time, she had become a parody. Her musical numbers are OK but the sexy insinuation in her best Fox films is replaced by MGM family values and that kills Miranda stone tiresome!

- “Two weeks with Cherish” is a better film. It has an humorous screenplay, an expedient supporting cast and Powell is quite silly although Debbie Reynolds, with a naturalness that was soon to proceed, steals the film as her younger sister. Her duet with Carleton Carpenter of “Aba daba Honeymoon” is notorious.

The last 3 films are a actual mixed bag. MGM continued to manufacture the grandest musicals of all the studios but by the mid fifties, the films were becoming increasingly heavy handed.

- “Deep in my Heart” is an all star biopic of Sigmund Romberg with a charmless Jose Ferrer showcased in the title role and a humdrum screenplay. The biographic film allowed guest appearances by the studio roster and Ann Miller steals the present, closely followed by Gene Kelly, dancing with his brother.

- “Hit the Deck” is another version of the cliched chronicle about sailors on shore leave and the musicals numbers, often dynamic, set aside the viewer from complete boredom, the best being “Hallelujah”. The cast are competent and energetic but generally second rate when compared to “On the Town” to which it has many similarities.

- “Kismet” is a technicolour Arabian Nights epic which was a large Broadway hit but is another insensible and overproduced dinosaur. Howard Keel was always estimable and how he managed to retain a straight face with some of the material he was handed is a credit to him. Dolores Gray jumps off the hide but Ann Blyth and the others are terrible. Films such as these killed the musical genre stone dull.

The Spot contains the usual assortment of outtakes (some honorable, some bad), cartoons, trailers etc. The best extra is the interview with a charming Jane Powell and it is gargantuan to inspect an ex-movie star who both looks fine and has blissful memories. The prints of the films are generally satisfactory.

So there you have it. If you like musicals, you may like all these titles. Personally, I would remove a disk which impartial contained the musical numbers. Incidentally, that’s the cast of “Lady be Estimable” displayed on Amazon.
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