GENE KELLY COLLECTION - Warner Archive's 4-Film Blu-ray Collection

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Product Description: Here are four of the amazing Gene Kelly classics together in a superb collection. His film debut opposite Judy Garland in "For Me and My Gal", their re-teaming in Vincente Minnelli's "The Pirate", The Oscar-winning BEST PICTURE masteriece "An American in Paris" with Leslie Caron and a Gershwin score, and perhaps the greatest musical film of all-time, "Singin' in the Rain" with Debbie Reynolds and Donad O'Connor.

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New on Blu-ray: THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT (1974) - 50th Anniversary Remastered Edition

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Product Description: M-G-M marked its 50th anniversary with this outstanding collection of musical performances from the studio's reign as the king of the genre during Hollywood's golden era. Drawing from more than 100 feature films, writer/producer/director Jack Haley Jr.'s compilation took the box-office by storm, becoming one of the highest grossing films of 1974, and brought excerpts from timeless gems from An American in Paris to Ziegfeld Follies to audiences new and old in just 135 magical minutes. For this special occasion, Haley called upon talented stars to 'host' this brilliantly conceived cinematic event: Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart and Elizabeth Taylor. This celebration of the M-G-M musical has been painstakingly remastered from the best existing elements to yield a new presentation that finally does justice to Haley's dazzling cinematic achievement, which cemented the importance of the M-G-M musical's unique place in film history.

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New on Blu-ray: WORDS AND MUSIC (1948) Starring Mickey Rooney, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh, Judy Garland and More

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Product Description: Mickey Rooney, Tom Drake, Betty Garrett, Janet Leigh, and a host of top musical performers headline M-G-M producer Arthur Freed's extravagant biographical tribute to the prolific songwriting duo of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. In the early 1920s, the diminutive Hart (Rooney) teams up with Rodgers (Drake) to launch a successful 24-year music career, penning nearly 500 songs with him until Hart's death in 1943 at the age of 47. Rodgers marries his dream girl (Leigh) while Hart pines after Peggy (Garrett), eventually spiraling into depression and death after her rejection. June Allyson, Perry Como, Ann Sothern, Mel Torme, Cyd Charisse, Judy Garland, and Lena Horne are just some of the singing sensations featured. This is the last movie in which Garland and Rooney appeared together. It also boasts the first full-length modern ballet piece in a Hollywood movie: Choreographed and danced by Gene Kelly, with Vera-Ellen as his partner, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue provides the show-stopping seven-minute finale to the film. Among the hit songs performed are Blue Moon, Thou Swell Manhattan, Johnny One Note, I Wish I Were in Love Again, Where or When, and The Lady Is a Tramp.

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New on Blu-ray: DU BARRY WAS A LADY (1943) Starring Red Skelton, Lucille Ball & Gene Kelly

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Product Description: Hapless nightclub hatcheck boy Red Skelton loves glamorous chanteuse Lucille Ball. Handsome hoofer Gene Kelly loves her too. And Lucy? Lucy loves money. Then Red mistakenly gulps down a Mickey Finn and dreams he’s in 18th-century France. Before you can powder your wig, a throng of suitors – Red, Gene, King Louis XV, a dashing rebel, a sinister duke and just about everybody – loves Lucy! This glittery, tune-filled bonbon features a supporting cast of wags and wits (including the inimitable Zero Mostel) and three Cole Porter songs from the original Broadway smash: “Friendship,” “Katie Went to Haiti” and “Do I Love You?” Cherchez la Lucy for comedy, music and star power from Hollywood’s golden era.

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New on Blu-ray: FOR ME AND MY GAL (1942) Starring Judy Garland, Gene Kelly & George Murphy

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Product Description: Judy Garland and Gene Kelly star in the classic musical directed by Busby Berkeley. Young vaudeville performers Harry Palmer and Jo Hayden (Kelly and Garland) dream of stardom, but the United States enters World War I and Harry receives his draft notice--trapping the two between their obligation to each other's dreams and their duty to their country.

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New on Blu-ray: THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1948) Starring Lana Turner & Gene Kelly

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Product Description: Gene Kelly stars as the swashbuckling young French nobleman D'Artagnan who, possessing nothing more than his title, travels to Paris to join The Three Musketeers. D'Artagnan no sooner arrives in the capital, than he insults Athos (Van Heflin), Porthos (Academy Award winner Gig Young) and Aramis (Robert Coote), the most feared of the musketeers. Challenged to a duel by each, D'Artagnan earns their respect with his courage, if not by his fighting prowess. But his courage, skill and wit are quickly needed to help the musketeers thwart a plot by the powerful Prime Minister Richelieu (Vincent Price) to overthrow King Louis XIII (Frank Morgan), save Queen Anne (Angela Lansbury) and win the heart of Lady de Winter (Lana Turner). This all-star frolic was a box-office hit as M-G-M and director George Sidney pulled out the stops to bring together its finest talents, and now it's been restored and remastered for its Blu-ray debut.

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Chris Evans in Talks to Play Gene Kelly in Film Produced by John Logan

Marvel Cinematic Universe alum Chris Evans is in talks to star as legendary actor Gene Kelly in an upcoming film based on an original idea by Evans. The film will be produced by "Gladiator" and "Skyfall" scribe John Logan.

The film will focus on a 12-year-old boy who works on the MGM Lot in 1952 and begins to create an imagined friendship with the legendary movie star Kelly while working on his newest film. A studio is not yet attached to the project.

Evans will produce the film alongside Logan, who is also writing the script. Rian Johnson is set to produce alongside Ram Bergman and Mark Kassen. Evans and Johnson last worked together on "Knives Out". A sequel for that movie is currently in post-production.

Evans' upcoming projects also include the "Toy Story" spinoff "Lightyear", and the Russo Brothers' new film "The Gray Man" in which he stars opposite Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas and Billy Bob Thornton.

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New on Blu-ray: TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME (1949) Starring Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Esther Williams

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Product Description: Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Esther Williams find romance, gangsters and lots of song and dance on the baseball diamond in the fast-paced, fun-filled musical romp Take Me Out to the Ball Game.1906. The champion ball club The Wolves' success depends on the powerhouse double play combination of O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg. Trouble is O'Brien (Kelly--An American in Paris, Brigadoon) and Ryan (Academy Award winner Sinatra--From Here to Eternity, Pal Joey) would rather be pursuing their vaudeville career than playing baseball . . . that is until the team gets a new owner, beautiful K.C. Higgins (Williams--Dangerous When Wet). And when a professional gambler who has bet heavily against The Wolves tries every dirty trick he knows to influence the outcome of the big game, it's the baseball players against the gangsters for a wild, hysterical, musical nine innings.

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New on Blu-ray: THE PIRATE (1948) Starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly

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Product Description: Newly remastered from the original Technicolor® negatives! A treasure trove of fun awaits when a Caribbean beauty (Judy Garland) with a mad crush on a legendary pirate meets a vagabond actor (Gene Kelly) who poses as the scoundrel. Vincente Minnelli directs, bringing his uncanny skill with color and design to this joyous romp set to Cole Porter tunes. Mixing tremulous girlishness with hellcat hilarity, Garland was never better as a comedienne. Parodying the rakish style of Fairbanks and Barrymore, Kelly duels, dupes and dances with buccaneer bravado. All by itself, his Be a Clown (danced with the Nicholas Brothers and reprised with Garland) is enough to convince all to be a fan of The Pirate.

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New on Blu-ray: THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT The Complete Collection (1974-1994) - 3 Movies

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Product Description: In an era when we have an unprecedented number of movies and other diversions at our fingertips, is there still a need for a clip show like That's Entertainment? Certainly, because the film series, beginning in 1974, was an unabashed peddler of glorious nostalgia, not only collecting many of the most memorable moments in the magical history of the MGM musical--and therefore in the history of film--but bringing in many of the original stars to introduce them decades later. And another few decades after the series was released, the nostalgia is that much greater since many of those stars are now gone. In addition, the sheer number and variety of clips (though they're often too short) would be hard to match in any collection or in the span of an evening's viewing. Where else could you enjoy Gene Kelly singin' in the rain and also James Stewart crooning "Easy to Love"? Or follow fun trends like the Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland "let's put on a show" pictures, of which Rooney says "only our names seemed to change"? Following the surprising box-office success of the initial film, Part 2 was released in 1976 and it still had plenty of famous and obscure clips (remember Bobby Van?), and even a nod to the nonmusical films of the era such as the Hepburn-Tracy pictures. It topped everything off with the irresistible pairing of hosts Kelly and Fred Astaire, who share a dance--for only the second time in their careers--at the ages of 64 and 77, respectively (and a more graceful 77-year-old you never will see!). The third film wasn't made until in 1994 (host Kelly is strikingly older), but it offered more of the usual fare plus a variety of cut numbers by such stars as Judy Garland, Lena Horne, and Debbie Reynolds. A half-century later, Hollywood's valentine to the movie musical was still shining strong.

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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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New on Blu-Ray : SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952) - 60th Anniversary

Synopsis: America’s beloved musical gem, starring Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor, celebrates its 60th Anniversary on Blu-ray for the very first time with an all new 3-Disc Blu-ray & DVD Ultimate Collector’s Edition. The sensational limited and numbered 3-Disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition will feature the film both on Blu-ray and DVD, newly remastered in 2011 4K transfer, and includes an all new hi-definition documentary, and special collectible memorabilia.

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• 60th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Blu-ray/DVD Combo - $74.99) - 3 Discs
• 60th Anniversary Blu-ray ($13.86) - 1 Disc
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