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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

Call Number: VHS00518

by George J Folsey; Charles Rosher; Arthur Freed; Vincente Minnelli; Fred Astaire; Lucille Ball; Lucille Bremer; Fanny Brice; Judy Garland; Kathryn Grayson; Lena Horne; Gene Kelly; James Melton; Victor Moore; Red Skelton; Esther Williams; William Powell; Edward Arnold; Marion Bell; Cyd Charisse; Hume Cronyn; William Frawley; Robert Lewis; Virginia O’Brien; Keenan Wynn; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; Loew’s Incorporated.; Warner Home Video (Firm); Turner Entertainment Co.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co.;

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1994.

Notes: Originally released in 1946 (118 mins.); Edition contains the original theatrical trailer;

Summary: A musical salute to Broadway’s most opulent producer of stage reviews, “The Great Ziegfeld.”

OCLC #: 32137965

Call Number: VHS00458

by Judy Garland; Margaret O’Brien; Vincente Minnelli; Irving Brecher; Fred F Finklehoffe; Sally Benson;

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, [1990]

Notes: Originally released in 1945 (119 mins.); Based on the book by Sally Benson; Edition includes soundtrack recording of “Boys and Girls Like You and Me” which was cut from the original film and is accompanied in the edition with rare portrait stills; Nominated for four 1945 Academy Awards;

Summary: A charming musical about a family in St. Louis at the time of the 1903 World’s Fair.

OCLC #: 22960299

Call Number: VHS00309

by Vincente Minnelli; Fred Astaire; Cyd Charisse; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.;

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: New York : MGM/UA Home Video, ©1989.

Notes: Originally released in 1953 (112 mins.); Nominated for three 1954 Academy Awards;

Summary: A has-been Hollywood dancer joins forces with a tempermental stage producer to put on a Broadway musical.

OCLC #: 20072987

Format: VHS

Added: October 28, 2008