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The Busby Berkeley Collection, Vol. 2 (Gold Diggers of 1937 / Hollywood Hotel / Varsity Show / Gold Diggers in Paris) (1936)
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| Starring: | Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Victor Moore, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Hugh Herbert, Ted Healy, Johnnie Davis, Mabel Todd, Allyn Joslyn, Edgar Kennedy, Frances Langford, Priscilla Lane, Sterling Holloway, Rudy Vallee, Allen Jenkins, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson |
| Director: | Lloyd Bacon, William Keighley, Busby Berkeley, Ray Enright |
| Genre: | Comedy, Musicals, Romance, Musical Comedy, Romantic Musical, Showbiz Musical, Musical Romance |
| Year: | 1936 |
| Studio: | Warner Home Video |
| Length: | 387 minutes |
| Released: | September 16, 2008 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | NTSC, Black & White |
| Language: | English(Original Language), French(Subtitled), English(Subtitled) |
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SYNOPSIS:The “Buzz” continues with more musical extravaganzas in Warner Home Video's Busby Berkeley Collection, Volume 2. Featuring four more Berkeley classics which are not only new-to-DVD titles, but are making their long-awaited home video debut. Included in the collection are Gold Diggers of 1937, Gold Diggers in Paris, Hollywood Hotel and Varsity Show. Following in the dancing footsteps of Warner’s successful 2006 collection, this second spectacular volume from one of the greatest motion picture choreographers of all time also includes musical shorts, featurettes and classic cartoons. It’s musical entertainment magic at its toe-tapping, finger-snapping best by the Oscar nominated master.
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
What's a chorine to do after her show flops? Become a gold digger! The cuties do so en masse as the Gold Diggers of 1937, kicking Depression Era blues in the keister.
Dick Powell plays an insurance agent with musical ambitions while Joan Blondell is a showgirl who gives up spangles for a stenographer’s pad and... well, who watches any Diggers for a plot? Instead, watch as dance creator Busby Berkeley turns a garden party into a tap-happy romp. As Blondell leads leggy soldiers in a banner-waving, precision-formation rendition of “All’s Fair in Love and War” spectacle that’s Berkeley at his showy best. As Powell croons a gold Diggers' lullaby "with Plenty of Money and You." In short, plenty of reasons to watch. Again and again.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Technicolor historical short The Romance of Louisiana
- Classic cartoons Plenty of Money and You and Speaking of the Weather
- Two excerpts from 1929’s Gold Diggers of Broadway
- Theatrical trailer
Hollywood Hotel (1937)
If you love music, check into Hollywood Hotel. The story's about a filmland newbie (Dick Powell) caught between a spoiled star (Lola Lane) and her likeable look-alike (Lola’s look-alike sister Rosemary Lane). But the movie's about Busby Berkeley’s ace direction -- and music, music, music.
The film opens with the jubilant debut of Tinseltown’s unofficial anthem "Hooray for Hollywood." The jaunty "Let That Be a Lesson to You" shows off Berkeley’s mastery of editing and camera angles. And Benny Goodman and his Orchestra -- with Harry James on trumpet and Gene Krupa on drums – swing, swing, swing into "Sing, Sing, Sing."
BONUS FEATURES:
- Technicolor historical short The Romance of Robert Burns
- Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy comedy short Double Talk
- Classic cartoon Porky’s Five & Ten
- Theatrical trailer
Varsity Show (1937)
Broadway impresario Chuck Daly (Dick Powell) has suffered through a string of flops. But the kids at his alma mater don't know that. They're counting on Chuck to turn their varsity show has into a smash!
Powell leads an A+ cast of coed cuties and BMOC, including film-debuting sisters Priscilla and Rosemary Lane and fluty-voiced comic character star Sterling Holloway, in this exuberant college musical. Can Chuck save the show? Well, with Busby Berkeley creatining and directing a rah-rah, football-themed finale featuring high-style overhead shots, kinetic camerawork and hundreds of dancers on a 50 ft. by 60 ft. staircase, you can bet everybody graduates summa cum zowie!
BONUS FEATURES:
- Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy comedy short A Neckin’ Party
- Classic cartoon Have You Got Any Castles
- Theatrical trailer
Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)
The Gold Diggers are headed for Paris, bringing their feathers, frills, New Yawk 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.
Rudy Vallee stars as the club’s impresario and Busby Berkeley creates and directs the inventive musical numbers, both ‘magnifique’ and loaded with moxie. Lafayette, they are here!
BONUS FEATURES:
- Broadway Brevities musical short The Candid Kid
- Classic cartoons Love and Curses & Cinderella Meets a Fella
- Theatrical trailer
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