HIGH SOCIETY (1956) - Blu-ray & 4K Release of Musical Romantic Comedy Starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra

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Product Description: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra romp elegantly through the scenic, moneyed grounds and waters of outwardly elitist Newport, Rhode Island, in this hip, witty musical version of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story. Legendary Louis Armstrong as himself, plays his trumpet and narrates in prose and song the peccadillos of his songwriter friend C.K. Dexter Haven (Crosby), his beautiful perfectionist ex-wife Tracy Samantha Lord (Kelly, in her final film role), and her stuffy fiancee George Kittredge (John Lund). Sinatra and wise-cracking Celeste Holm are a scandal sheet reporter and photographer who arrive to cover the wedding and complicate the tangled romances. Armstrong and his composer buddy conspire musically and by other devious means to stop Tracy's marriage. Dexter wants her back, but she takes off with the magazine writer -- all of which gives everybody wonderful excuses to break into the incomparable songs of Cole Porter. M-G-M pulled out all the stops to make High Society a must-see screen event back in 1956, even arranging to license Paramount's magnificent widescreen process VistaVision, to ensure the film would be something special. Now meticulously restored and remastered from its original VistaVision negative, and accompanied by a thrilling new Dolby Atmos remixed soundtrack, High Society looks and sounds better than ever before!

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LILI (1953) - Blu-ray Release of Oscar-Winning Musical Starring Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer and Jean-Pierre Aumont

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Product Description: Orphan Lili Daurier joins a carnival and falls under the spell of its star, a suave magician. But it is the show's crippled, embittered puppeteer who truly loves Lili, a love he can express only through his puppets. It is not often that the word 'enchanting' can accurately be applied to a musical, Clive Hirschhorn wrote in The Hollywood Musical, but it was the best way to describe Lili, as well as Leslie Caron's genuinely touching performance. Nominated for six Academy Awards , Lili offers sentiment without sugar, simplicity without banality and a lyrical heart that beats to an Oscar -winning Bronislau Kaper score highlighted by Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo and an imaginative sequence of Caron dancing with her beloved puppets come to life. Mel Ferrer, Jean Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Amanda Blake and Kurt Kasznar also star.

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New on Blu-ray: DANGEROUS WHEN WET (1953) Starring Esther Williams

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Product Description: Esther Williams and Fernando Lamas star in this musical, romantic aquacade -- Williams as a girl from Arkansas who has vowed to swim the English Channel to raise the money to save her family farm; and Lamas as the rich man who wins her heart and almost blocks her from reaching her goal . . . but who comes to realize that the woman of his dreams is Dangerous When Wet. Featuring a delightful original music score written by Johnny Mercer and Arthur Schwartz, the film is best remembered for Esther's famous swim with M-G-M's beloved animated characters Tom & Jerry.

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New on Blu-ray: THE TENDER TRAP (1955) Starring Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds

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Product Description: The future is no mystery to Julie Gillis. She has her life mapped out in details that fall just shy of where the wedding portrait will hang and the number of goldfish swimming in the bowl. Julie even knows she will be married next March 12. She just does not know to whom. But it is a cinch he will have blue eyes. Frank Sinatra headlines this ring\-a\-ding\-ding delight with the title tune that became a Sinatra standard. Debbie Reynolds plays Julie, who sets her marital sights on a Manhattan talent agent (Sinatra) dedicated to life, liberty and the happiness of pursuit. Love is indeed The Tender Trap. And with Sinatra, Reynolds and comedy experts Celeste Holm, David Wayne and Carolyn Jones on call, its an entertainment gotcha!

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New on Blu-ray: GOOD NEWS (1947) Starring June Allyson and Peter Lawford

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Product Description: With boundless enthusiasm and enough jive to meld 20s flapper giddiness with 40s swing, 1947s Good News - the feature directing debut of Charles Walters (Easter Parade, The Unsinkable Molly Brown) and screenwriting debut of Betty Comden and Adolph Green (Singin in the Rain, The Band Wagon) - is one of the best of the lighthearted rah-rah collegiate musicals (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker). Peter Lawford (as a campus football hero) and June Allyson (as the brainiac who tutors him) lead a high-spirited cast that includes Mel Torme and Broadways Joan McCracken. The Varsity Drag and Best Song Oscar® nominee Pass That Peace Pipe stand out among the numbers that are all zip and joy. And the bees knees.

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New on Blu-ray: SUMMER STOCK (1950) Starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly

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Product Description: There's an unusual harvest at Falbury Farm: beans, hay...show tunes. It s a bumper crop, too, with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly leading all the hoofing, singing and sparking. In her final MGM musical, Garland plays Jane Falbury, a farm owner more than a bit riled when her aspiring-actress sister (Gloria De Haven) shows up with a theatrical troupe that wants to stage a musical in the family's barn. Any guess who becomes the show s sudden star after its lead runs off with a Broadway actor? Highlights include Kelly's shuffle-and-squeak You, Wonderful You dance solo making use of loose boards and newspaper on the floor, tuxedo-topped Garland's leggy, joyous Get Happy and a Kelly/Phil Silvers country-bumpkin bit of Heavenly Music backed by woofing canines. After a show like this, how're you gonna keep these kids down on the farm?

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