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“The
best musical entertainment that will ever
be made.”
- Los
Angeles Times
“You’re going to have the absolute time of your
movie life.”
- Cosmopolitan
Warner
Home Video Presents the Musical of Musicals Featuring
More Stars than there are in Heaven!
THAT’S
ENTERTAINMENT:
THE COMPLETE COLLECTION
The
incomparable tributes to the classic MGM musicals
debut on DVD October 12 with fully remastered picture
and Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio
Collectible
Four Disc DVD Giftset Packed with over FIVE
Hours
of Extra Content Material
Burbank,
CA (July 13, 2004) Â The musical of musicals makes
its DVD debut on October 12, when Warner Home Video
presents MGM’s acclaimed musical anthologies - That’s
Entertainment!, That’s Entertainment, Part 2 and That’s
Entertainment! III Â in a special edition
four-disc DVD giftset, That’s Entertainment:
The Complete Collection. Representing some
of the most requested titles in WHV’s vast library, That’s
Entertainment: The Complete Collection gets
the “red carpet” treatment with each feature in the
trilogy presented with a fully remastered picture
and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, and features both the
16x9 widescreen theatrical version, plus full-screen
4x3 version with letterboxed performance segments. That’s
Entertainment: The Complete Collection includes
a bonus fourth disc entitled That’s Entertainment:
Treasures from the Vault, available exclusively with
the giftset featuring more than five hours of exciting
extras including three great documentaries, premiere
night coverage and salutes to the great behind-the-camera
talents, TV specials, making-of featurettes, plus
an extensive video jukebox of rare, star-packed musical
outtakes from classic films, and more! That’s
Entertainment: The Complete Collection is
available for $49.92 SRP. That’s Entertainment!,
That’s Entertainment, Part 2 and That’s
Entertainment! III are also sold separately
for $19.97 SRP.
“Since
the earliest days of DVD, consumers have eagerly
anticipated the release of the celebrated That’s
Entertainment trilogy to the format, as well
as the classic MGM musicals saluted in these films,
which are among the most prized within the mammoth
Warner Home Video library,” said George Feltenstein,
WHV Senior VP, Classic Catalog. “The combination
of these three unique and irresistible compilation
films together on DVD, coupled with the exclusive
disc of fascinating extras, is sure to make That’s
Entertainment: The Collection one of the most
exciting DVD releases this fourth-quarter. We expect
the huge fan base for these classic musicals will
be thrilled by the presentation, which is also ideal
for holiday family viewing and gift-giving.”
“Exuberant,
extravagant…”  Newsweek
That’s
Entertainment! showcases 125 stars from
nearly 100 films including superstars Elizabeth
Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Mickey Rooney, Fred Astaire,
Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Liza
Minnelli, Peter Lawford, Donald O’Connor, James
Stewart and many more. Originally released in
1974 to mark MGM’s 50th Anniversary
and to celebrate the golden era of the greatest
movie musicals ever made, That’s Entertainment! was
an unexpected surprise smash at the boxoffice,
grossing $28 million at the time and firmly establishing
the MGM musical within the pantheon of greatness
within American film history. Written, produced
and directed by Jack Haley Jr., with Daniel Melnick
as executive producer, That’s Entertainment! uniquely
blends newly-filmed accounts of the personal
memories of 11 of the stars who were at MGM from
1929-1958 during the making of these classic
films with a panoramic retrospective of unforgettable
musical sequences from them. Film historian Robert
Osborne provides a new introduction to all three
films on DVD.
“A
wonderful movie…a priceless souvenir.”  Pat
Collins, WCBS-TV
Originally
released in 1976, That’s Entertainment, Part
2 continues the dazzling tradition of That’s
Entertainment! taking up where the other one
left off, presenting fabulous sequences from movie
musicals and highlighting such non-singing stars
as Greta Garbo, Clark Gable and the Marx Brothers.
Also featured are two of the champion song and dance
men of all time, Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly (together
for the first time since Ziegfeld Follies of 1946),
acting not only as narrators but also as performers,
singing and dancing in all-new numbers directed by
Kelly just for the film. That’s Entertainment,
Part 2 was produced by Saul Chaplin and Daniel
Melnick, with narration by Leonard Gershe and additional
music arranged and conducted by Nelsen Riddle.
“That’s
more than entertainment, that’s pure gold.” Â
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Released
in 1994 in celebration of MGM’s 70th Anniversary, That’s
Entertainment! III brings back to the screen
the stars and musical numbers that have excited audiences
for generations. In the acclaimed tradition of its
two predecessors, That’s Entertainment! III incorporates
scores of famous songs and dances from MGM films
and reunites nine of the performers who rose to international
stardom through their MGM association. That’s
Entertainment! III features astonishing classic
musical moments, great comedy and romantic teams
and unearths rare footage with marvelous big-star
scenes originally unseen because they were cut from
their films. Gene Kelly opens and closes the picture
as nine starry hosts including June Allyson, Cyd
Charrise, Lena Horne, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Debbie
Reynolds, Mickey Rooney and Esther Williams present
this must-see assemblage of Golden Era treasures,
none of which has been seen in either of the previous
films. Written, produced and directed by Bud Friedgen & Michael
J. Sheridan, the film was executive produced by Peter
Fitzgerald.
An
amazing fourth disc is an added bonus available only
with the That’s Entertainment: The Complete
Collection giftset with more than
five hours of extra content features sure to enthrall
fans of the great MGM musicals. Entitled That’s
Entertainment: Treasures From The Vault, the
exclusive disc includes rare footage from MGM’s 25th Anniversary
in 1949; “That’s Entertainment: 50 Years of MGM”
(1974 TV special); “That’s Entertainment! III Behind
the Screen” (1994 making-of documentary about the
behind the camera talent); “The Lion Roars Again”
(1975 MGM short); footage from the original premiere
of That’s Entertainment! in Beverly Hills
with Army Archerd as master of ceremonies and the
cast of stars on stage; excerpts from “The Mike Douglas
Show” TV special in 1976 that featured two days of
premiere coverage of That’s Entertainment, Part
2; “The Masters of The Musical” (a new half hour
documentary with Ann Miller, Jane Powell, Angela
Lansbury and others); “Just One More Time” (1974
featurette); and a dazzling MGM Outtake Jukebox which
includes an impressive array of rarely-seen deleted
musical numbers from the cutting-room floor featuring
such stars as Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy
Durante, Esther Williams, Lena Horne, Jane Powell,
Mel Torme and many other legendary MGM stars.
Additional
titles from Warner Home Video are new Classic Musical
Collection DVD 2-packs featuring many of Hollywood’s
best loved films for a collectible $29.90 SRP. Included
in this special promotion are: Annie Get Your
Gun/Show Boat, An American in Paris/Gigi, On the
Town/Brigadoon, Anchors Away/Take Me Out to the Ballgame,
For Me and My Gal/In the Good Old Summertime, Kiss
Me Kate/High Society, Calamity Jane/The Pajama Game,
Fame/Pennies from Heaven, The Great Ziegfeld/42nd Street,
The Harvey Girls/Ziegfeld Girl, Jailhouse Rock/Viva
Las Vegas, Les Girls/Silk Stockings, Pee-Wee’s Big
Adventure/Little Shop of Horrors, Singin’ in the
Rain/The Music Man, Victor Victoria/Cabaret, The
Wizard of Oz/Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,
Ziegfeld girl/Broadway Melody of 1940.
With
operations in 89 international territories Warner
Home Video, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company,
commands the largest distribution infrastructure
in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video's
film library is the largest of any studio, offering
top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires
of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment, Castle
Rock Entertainment, HBO Home Video and New Line Home
Entertainment.
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