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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790772875
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790772876
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 24, 2002
Running Time: 400 minutes
Sales Rank: 5601
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 30, 1949
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Hollywood's greatest dancer in four stand-out features. An American in Paris; Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer; On the Town; Singin' in the RainFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSICALS/MUSICALS UPC: 085392666027
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The Gene Kelly Collection is an unbeatable selection of DVDs showcasing the marvelous Gene Kelly, the Pittsburgh kid whose ballet shoes burst with muscle and ambition. Singin' in the Rain (1952) is everybody's favorite musical, a sarcastic spoof of the early days of talking pictures directed by Kelly and longtime collaborator Stanley Donen. (Ah, the joys of DVD: to be able to zap into the blissful title number or Donald O'Connor's "Make 'Em Laugh" at the touch of a button. Plus, the 2002 special edition is exceptional.) An American in Paris (1951), a dream project for Kelly and director Vincente Minnelli, is at its best in its glorious Gershwin numbers. Kelly's lengthy fantasy ballet, drenched in all the Technicolor MGM could muster, may have you thinking that this, after all, is why movies were invented.
Kelly and Donen forced MGM to let them shoot on location in New York for the exteriors of On the Town (1949), the movie that took musicals into the open air (and remained Kelly's favorite of his films). The spirited dancing and the wisecracking Comden-Green script make this an ebullient tale of three sailors on a 24-hour leave. The choreography plays multiple variations on the triangular team of Kelly, Jules Munshin, and a still-gawky Frank Sinatra. Finally, Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer (2002) is a terrific American Masters documentary, with oodles of superbly chosen (mint condition) film clips and interviews with many of Kelly's friends and colleagues. The emphasis is on how Kelly changed the image of the male dancer, complementing the aristocratic Fred Astaire with a more blue-collar, regular-Joe approach. It's an unblinking portrait, acknowledging the taskmaster behind the pearly grin. Those revelations make perfect sense when you see the astonishing dances: how could anyone this great not be a perfectionist? --Robert Horton
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If you like Gene Kelly you will like this collection. I bought it for my daughter who is a big fan of his and she loved it.
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As a fan of music, dance and cinema from the 40s and 50s, I loved this collection. If you like musicals, this is a great collection of classics.
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Singin' in the Rain is the excellent 2002 transfer. Bonus materials include a fine full-length documentary on MGM's Freed Unit; this is a must-see for all musical fans. For my money though the keepers here are the extensive clips of original film appearances of all these great songs. All pale in comparison to the SITR versions (though Andy Rooney and Judy Garland do an energetic version of Good Mornin') but offer a nice overview of film-musical history. Even by standards of early talkies the first ... Read More
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The Gene Kelly collection is timelessly entertaining and it was a wonderful experience to watch these movies again.
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A great addition to collection of dance DVDs for dance enthusiasts, dancers and dance historians.
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