Warner Bros.
(USA) debut-on-DVD six more Doris Day movies:-
Young Man with a Horn Lullaby of
Broadway Love Me Or Leave
Me Please Don't Eat
The Daisies Billy Rose's
Jumbo The Glass Bottom Boat
The
American
Region 1 boxset is due out on 26 April 2005.
Promotional photo from Please Don't
Eat The Daisies
Having just
received advance copies of five of these DVDs I have
to give Warners a massive thumbs up as they have done
a truly impressive job of restoring and reviving these
wonderful films...
Right from
the moment the screen menu appears and a snippet of
the theme tune plays you realise you are in for a real
indulgent treat! Then there's the bonus features which
on a couple of the discs include many of the original
theatrical trailers to other movies Doris made during
her time at Warner. This of course is
a total tease which will certainly leave you craving
for more Warner releases!!
All in all
I'd encourage everyone to order either
the 8-Disc set, The Doris Day Collection or any
of the individually packaged movies. It is worth
noting that the set will also include repackaged versions
of musicals
Calamity Jane (1953) and The Pajama Game
(1957). So, that's hours and hours of Doris retailing for a very reasonable priced
$89USD!
NEWS
UPDATE: 22 January 2007
A Region 2
version of the American DVD set (with the exclusion of Lullaby of Broadway) was
initially available "exclusively" from HMV stores.The
good news it has now been given a nationwide
release. This should therefore make for a slightly
more competitive price.
As
recently reported a
Region 4 edition of the set is also now out.
With a
second-hand trumpet and the loving guidance of a
brilliant bluesman, a lonely boy grows into manhood as
a superb musician whose talent carries him from
honky-tonks to posh supper clubs. But his desperate
search for the elusive high note, trapped in his mind
but impossible to play, starts him on a boozy downward
slide. Charged with dynamic performances by Kirk
Douglas (the title role), Doris Day, Lauren Bacall and
Hoagy Carmichael and pitch-perfect direction by
Michael Curtiz, the film is a feast of hot, cool,
moody jazz. Legendary Harry James dubbed Douglas' horn
work.
DVD
special features include:
Standard 1.33:1 (B&W)
English
Soundtrack: Dolby Digital Mono
Doris
Day Trailer Gallery featuring Theatrical Trailers
for Young Man with a Horn and Storm
Warning
Day danced
divinely and sang in this musical delight about a
singer newly arrived in New York and destined for
Great White Way fame in the capable company of
co-stars Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall, Billy DeWolfe,
Gladys George and Florence Bates. Highlights are the
inclusion of the Oscar®-winning title tune, Cole
Porter's "Just One of Those Things", "Somebody Loves
Me" and six more songs.
DVD
special features include:
Standard 1.33:1 (Colour)
English
Soundtrack: Dolby Digital Mono
Doris
Day Trailer Gallery featuring Theatrical Trailers
for Romance on the High Seas, It's A Great
Feeling, Lullaby of Broadway, April in
Paris, By the Light of the Silvery Moon
and Lucky me
A lively
musical centred around the rivalry and eventual
romance between tomboy Calamity Jane and Wild Bill
Hickok. Who'd have thought that Calamity, who was so
darn occupied with fighting Indians and cracking a
bullwhip, would end up changing her high-stepping
tune....but she does!
Deadwood,
Dakota Territory becomes the backdrop to the ultimate
of Day roles and her personal favourite. It sparkles
with an Oscar nominated score by Sammy Fain and Paul
Francis Webster, who won an Academy award for Doris's
million-seller Secret Love. Other highlights are The
Deadwood Stage and The Black Hills of Dakota.
Laced with
Doris Day's vibrant performances of songs from the
era, this 1955 Academy Award® winner (Best Motion
Picture Story) is the tough-minded true tale of Ruth
Etting's life with the man who boosted her career with
strong-arm tactics yet smothered her in an obsessive
grip she escaped at great peril. As Martin "The Gimp"
Snyder, James Cagney earned one of the film's six
Oscar® nominations. Ms. Day's Etting was a career-best
dramatic performance, bringing acclaim from critics
and protest letters from fans unprepared for the
departure from her traditionally sunny roles.
DVD
special features include:
Anamorphic Widescreen 2.55:1 (Colour)
English
Soundtrack: Dolby Digital 5.1
Theatrical Trailer
Languages: English & French
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Plus three
vintage shorts, the first two with Ruth Etting: "A
Modern Cinderella", "Roseland" & "A Salute to the
Theatres"
Based on
the Broadway musical, this film adaption features
several actors from the stage cast including John
Raitt and Carol Haney. Doris was drafted in to replace
the show's original female lead -- Janis Paige. With
pioneering choreographer Bob Fosse responsible for the
dance numbers the tuneful tale of pajamas, love and
labor union vs. management conflicts are brought to
life.
Song
highlights are "I'm Not At All In Love", "There Once
Was a Man" and "Hernando's Hideaway".
Ms. Day
brings her trademark radiance to this jovial comedy
from the bestseller by playwright Jean Kerr. With
Janis Paige, Spring Byington and Richard Haydn on hand
for snappy comic support, Please Don't Eat the Daisies
is breezy family fun with popular songs "Please Don't
Eat the Daisies" and "Anyway the Wind Blows."
Radiant
Doris Day sings beloved Rodgers and Hart tunes and
does her own horseback riding tricks in this
razzle-dazzle musical based on Billy Rose's stage
spectacular and featuring circus sequences directed by
Busby Berkeley. The story revolves around a circus
owner (Jimmy Durante, star of the 1935 Broadway
original) with only two real attractions: his daughter
(Day) and popular pachyderm Jumbo. Three-ring
pandemonium breaks out when a handsome rival (Stephen
Boyd) infiltrates the circus, and father, daughter and
Dad's wisecracking fiancée (Martha Raye) are suddenly
at risk of losing the greatest show on earth.
DVD
special features include:
Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1 (Colour)
English
Soundtrack: Dolby Digital 5.1
Languages: English & French
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Theatrical Trailer
Original
overture rejoined to film for the 1st time in
more than 40 years
Plus musical
short Yours Sincerely and Tom and
Jerry cartoon Jerry and Jumbo
Doris Day
entered her eighth consecutive year as a Top-10
Box-Office Star when she boarded The Glass Bottom
Boat, a blending of romantic comedy and the era's
burgeoning spy-movie genre. Frank Tashlin directs with
a cartoonist's sensibility, embracing everything from
spy guises to push-button chaos in a futuristic
kitchen. The film also stars top comedians Arthur
Godfrey, Paul Lynde, Edward Andrews, John McGiver, Dom
DeLuise and Dick Martin.
DVD
special features include:
Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1 (Colour)
English
Soundtrack: Dolby Digital Mono
Theatrical Trailer
Languages: English & French
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Plus
three
vintage featurettes: Catalina Island, Every Girl's
Dream & NASA and Oscar®-winning cartoon
The Dot and the Line
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Young Man with a Horn
Right from
the moment the screen menu appears and a snippet of
the theme tune plays you realise you are in for a real
indulgent treat! Then there's the bonus features which
on a couple of the discs include many of the original
theatrical trailers to other movies Doris made during
her time at Warner. This of course is
a total tease which will certainly leave you craving
for more Warner releases!!
With a
second-hand trumpet and the loving guidance of a
brilliant bluesman, a lonely boy grows into manhood as
a superb musician whose talent carries him from
honky-tonks to posh supper clubs. But his desperate
search for the elusive high note, trapped in his mind
but impossible to play, starts him on a boozy downward
slide. Charged with dynamic performances by Kirk
Douglas (the title role), Doris Day, Lauren Bacall and
Hoagy Carmichael and pitch-perfect direction by
Michael Curtiz, the film is a feast of hot, cool,
moody jazz. Legendary Harry James dubbed Douglas' horn
work. 
A lively
musical centred around the rivalry and eventual
romance between tomboy Calamity Jane and Wild Bill
Hickok. Who'd have thought that Calamity, who was so
darn occupied with fighting Indians and cracking a
bullwhip, would end up changing her high-stepping
tune....but she does! 
Laced with
Doris Day's vibrant performances of songs from the
era, this 1955 Academy Award® winner (Best Motion
Picture Story) is the tough-minded true tale of Ruth
Etting's life with the man who boosted her career with
strong-arm tactics yet smothered her in an obsessive
grip she escaped at great peril. As Martin "The Gimp"
Snyder, James Cagney earned one of the film's six
Oscar® nominations. Ms. Day's Etting was a career-best
dramatic performance, bringing acclaim from critics
and protest letters from fans unprepared for the
departure from her traditionally sunny roles.
Based on
the Broadway musical, this film adaption features
several actors from the stage cast including John
Raitt and Carol Haney. Doris was drafted in to replace
the show's original female lead -- Janis Paige. With
pioneering choreographer Bob Fosse responsible for the
dance numbers the tuneful tale of pajamas, love and
labor union vs. management conflicts are brought to
life.
Ms. Day
brings her trademark radiance to this jovial comedy
from the bestseller by playwright Jean Kerr. With
Janis Paige, Spring Byington and Richard Haydn on hand
for snappy comic support, Please Don't Eat the Daisies
is breezy family fun with popular songs "Please Don't
Eat the Daisies" and "Anyway the Wind Blows."
Radiant
Doris Day sings beloved Rodgers and Hart tunes and
does her own horseback riding tricks in this
razzle-dazzle musical based on Billy Rose's stage
spectacular and featuring circus sequences directed by
Busby Berkeley. The story revolves around a circus
owner (Jimmy Durante, star of the 1935 Broadway
original) with only two real attractions: his daughter
(Day) and popular pachyderm Jumbo. Three-ring
pandemonium breaks out when a handsome rival (Stephen
Boyd) infiltrates the circus, and father, daughter and
Dad's wisecracking fiancée (Martha Raye) are suddenly
at risk of losing the greatest show on earth.
