Published
[Atlanta, Ga.] : Turner Home Entertainment, [2011].
ISBN
0780670043, 9780780670044
Notes
General Note
This four disc set is available for check out in 2 separate volumes. Volume 1 contains Roberta and Follow the fleet. Volume 2 contains flying down to Rio and The story of Vernon and Irene Castle.
General Note
Flying down to Rio -- Roberta -- Follow the fleet -- The story of Vernon and Irene Castle.
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Flying down to Rio special features: Vintage comedy short, "Beer and pretzels", with Ted Healy and his Stooges; classic cartoon: "I like mountain music"; Theatrical trailer.
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Flying down to Rio: From a play by Anne Caldwell; based on an original story by Lou Brock. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1933.
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Flying down to Rio: This film, containing the first of many Fred Astaire - Ginger Rogers partnerships, concerns a band in Rio. Songs include "The Carioca," "Orchids in the Moonlight," and the title song. Pilot and band leader Gene Raymond woos Dolores Del Rio, and then learns that she is engaged to a friend of his, after he flys her home to Rio. Fred & Ginger provide the musical moments. Notable for a brilliantly photographed finale with chorus girls on the wings of flying airplanes, the movie was the musical that broke with the rather contrived Busby Berkeley production and moved toward a closer integration of musical and narrative elements. Astaire's dance numbers come not as interruptions but as extensions of the plot.
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Roberta special features: Musical short, "Starlit days at the Lido"; cartoon, "The calico dragon" ; audio-only bonus, "Hollywood on the air" ; radio promo; Theatrical trailer.
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Roberta: From the play Roberta by Otto Harbach and the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller; adaptation of the 1933 Broadway hit. Originally released as a motion picture in 1935.
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Follow the fleet includes: featurette, Follow the fleet ; The origins of these dancing feet ; Musical short, Melody master ; Jimmie Lunceford and his dance orchestra ; Cartoon, Let it be me ; theatrical trailer.
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Follow the fleet: includes: muscial short, Happily buried ; cartoon, Puss gets the boot.
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Follow the fleet (?): Based on the play Shore leave by Hubert Osborne as produced by David Belasco.
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Follow the fleet: Special features: "Follow the fleet: the origins of those dancing feet" featurette; "Melody master: Jimmie Lunceford and his dance orchestra" musical short; "Let it be me" classic cartoon; Theatrical trailer.
General Note
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle: Special features: Vintage musical short "Happily buried"; Classic cartoon "Puss gets the boot."
Creation/Production Credits
Flying down to Rio: Music, Vincent Youmans ; lyrics, Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn ; photographed by J. Roy Hunt ; edited by Jack Kitchin.
Creation/Production Credits
Roberta: Photographer, Edward Cronjager ; art director, Van Nest Polglase ; editor, William Hamilton ; music, Jerome Kern ; book and lyrics, Otto Harbach ; additional lyrics, Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh ; musical director, Max Steiner ; music recorded by P.J. Faulkner, Jr. ; gowns, Bernard Newman ; dances arranged by Fred Astaire.
Creation/Production Credits
Follow the fleet: Lyrics and music by Irving Berlin ; photographed by David Abel ; photographic effects by Vernon Walker ; ensembles staged by Hermes Pan ; art director, Van Nest Polglase ; musical director, Max Steiner ; gowns by Bernard Newman ; set dressing by Darrell Silvera ; recorded by Hugh McDowell, Jr. ; music recorded by P.J. Faulkner, Jr. ; edited by Henry M. Berman.
Creation/Production Credits
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle: Photographer, Robert De Grasse ; art director, Van Nest Polglase ; editor, William Hamilton ; musical director, Victor Baravalle ; costume designer, Irene Castle.
Participants/Performers
Flying down to Rio: Delores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore.
Participants/Performers
Roberta: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Helen Westley, Claire Dodd, Victor Varconi.
Participants/Performers
Follow the fleet: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Astrid Allwyn, Betty Grable, Harry Beresford, Russell Hicks, Brooks Benedict, Ray Mayer, Lucille Ball.
Participants/Performers
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan, Lew Fields, Etienne Girardot, Janet Beecher.
Description
Roberta: Fred and Ginger sing I Won't Dance, but their feet prove otherwise in a tale of Parisian high fashion and hijinks.
Description
Follow the fleet: Astaire plays a hoofer-turned-sailor. Rogers is his ex-partner, now convoying the Navy around for 10 cents a dance. One day the fleet returns to home port and the partnership is renewed--at least for one more show.
Description
Follow the fleet: A Navy sailor tries to rekindle a romance with the woman he loves while on shore leave in San Francisco.
Description
Fred and Ginger dance up a storm as they dramatize the careers of the early-1900's renowned ballroom dancers, Vernon and Irene Castle.
System Details
DVD, region 1, standard version; Dolby Digital mono, dual-layer.
Language
Subtitles: English, Français & Español (main features: bonus material/trailer may not be subtitled).