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
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 – 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." – 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.
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