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Call Number: DVD00886

by: Humphrey Bogart; Ingrid Bergman; Paul Henreid; Claude Rains; Conrad Veidt; Sydney Greenstreet; Peter Lorre; Greer Garson; Walter Pidgeon; Teresa Wright; May Whitty, Dame; Reginald Owen; Henry Travers; Richard Ney; Henry Wilcoxon; Leslie Caron; Maurice Chevalier; Louis Jourdan; Hermione Gingold; Eva Gábor; Jacques Bergerac; Isabel Jeans; Gene Kelly; Oscar Levant; Georges Guétary; Nina Foch; Murray Burnett; Joan Alison; Jan Struther; Colette; Hal B Wallis; Julius J Epstein; Philip G Epstein; Howard Koch; Michael Curtiz; Sidney A Franklin; Arthur Wimperis; George Froeschel; James Hilton; Claudine West; William Wyler; Arthur Freed; Alan Jay Lerner; Vincente Minnelli; Max Steiner; Herbert Stothart; Frederick Loewe; Ira Gershwin; George Gershwin; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967); First National Pictures, Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Loew’s Incorporated.; Arthur Freed Productions.; Warner Home Video (Firm);

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2009.

Notes: Films Released between 1942 and 1958, (462 mins. Black and White & Color); Casablanca is based on the play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison, Mrs. Miniver is based on the book by Jan Struther, Gigi is based on the novel by Colette; Special features: Disc 1, Side A: 2 commentaries with critic Roger Ebert and historian Rudy Behlmer; introduction by Lauren Bacall. Side B: Greer Garson Academy Awards footage; photo gallery; 2 World War II-era shorts: “Mr. Blabbermouth” and “For the common defense.” Special features: Disc 2, Side A: Commentary by historian Jeanine Basinger with Leslie Caron; vintage short “The million dollar nickel;” classic CinemaScope cartoon “The vanishing duck;” theatrial trailer. Side B: Commentary hosted by Patricia Ward Kelly and featuring rare interviews with Gene Kelly, Vincente Minnelli, Arthur Freed, Alan Jay Lerner, Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin, Michael Feinstein, Preston Ames and Irene Sharaff, and new observations by Leslie Caron and Nina Foch; vintage FitzPatrick Traveltalks short “Paris on parade;” classic cartoon “Symphony in slang;” theatrical trailer

Summary: [Disc 1]: Casablanca: Casablanca, WWII. Rick Blaine is an exiled American who owns the most popular nightclub in town, Rick’s cafe. He comes to have possession of two valuable letters that German couriers were killed trying to deliver to the German high command. Ilsa Lund re-enters Rick’s life to purchase the letters he has obtained. Mrs. Miniver: The Miniver’s are an English ‘middle-class’ family who, together, experience life in the first months of World War II. While dodging bombs. The Miniver’s son beings courting Lady Beldon’s granddaughter. A rose is named after Mrs. Miniver and it is entered into a competition where her rose will go up against Lady Beldon’s rose.

[Disc 2]: Gigi: Gaston is the scion of a wealthy Parisian family who finds emotional refuge from the superficial lifestyle of upper class Parisian 1900s society with the former mistress of his uncle and her outgoing, tomboy granddaughter, Gigi. When Gaston becomes aware that Gigi has matured into a woman, her grandmother and aunt, who have educated Gigi to be a wealthy man’s mistress, request he become her provider. An American in Paris: Jerry Mulligan is a struggling American painter in Paris who is ‘discovered’ by an influential heiress. She just happens to an interested in more than Jerry’s art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. His relationshp with Lise is filled with romantic complications.

OCLC #: 312174857

Added: March 18, 2011