TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: American Musicals (The Band Wagon / Meet Me in St. Louis / Singin’ in the Rain / Easter Parade) (2009)
December 12th, 2009 in Easter Gifts
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Turner Classic Movies’ Greatest Classic Films Collection: American Musicals collects four movies on two double-sided discs, with top picture quality and the bonus features that appeared on disc 1 when all of the films were released on two-disc sets. Here the subject is classic musicals from the glory days of MGM, starting with the greatest of them all, Singin’ in the Rain (1952), with Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O’Connor turning out classic routines set in the early days of Hollywood. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) was one of Judy Garland’s milestone pictures, in which she was directed by her future husband, Vincente Minnelli, and sings the great “Trolley Song,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” and “The Boy Next Door.” Shift forward a few years to a pair of Fred Astaire movies, Easter Parade (1948), in which he plays a veteran dancer trying to train Garland to replace Ann Miller as his vaudeville partner, and The Band Wagon (1953), MGM’s (more…)
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