Warner classics to be released Feb '04
11-12-03, 05:18 PM
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Warner classics to be released Feb '04
Found this at HTF (credit to original poster there, Herb Kane)
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Here are the specific details cut & pasted from their (Warner's) press release...
BURBANK, Calif., November 12, 2003 - My Fair Lady -- one of the most popular musicals of all time, nominated for 12 Academy Awards® and winning eight, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director -- will be released on a brand new two-disc DVD Special Edition February 3 by Warner Home Video (WHV).
Additionally, four more Academy Award® Best Picture winners will debut on DVD February 3 including Grand Hotel, The Great Ziegfeld, Mutiny On The Bounty, and Mrs. Miniver along with Gaslight the acclaimed psychological thriller featuring the Academy Award® -winning performance by Ingrid Bergman and Goodbye Mr. Chips starring 1939 Best Actor, Robert Donat. The My Fair Lady Two-Disc DVD Special Edition, featuring a high-definition widescreen (anamorphic) format transfer from restored film elements and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, will sell for $26.99 SRP. The other titles will each sell for $19.98 SRP.
My Fair Lady, starring Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Wilfred Hyde-White and Stanley Holloway and directed by George Cukor, also won Oscars® for Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography. Based on George Bernard Shaw's classic play Pygmalion, the story chronicles an egotistical linguist's attempt to win a bet with a friend by transforming a feisty, Cockney waif into an elegant lady in time for an important society ball.
The My Fair Lady Two-Disc DVD Special Edition sound bonus features include:
Disc One:
- Commentary by art director Gene Allen, singer Marni Nixon and restoration team Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz...
Disc Two:
- More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of My Fair Lady - Then and Now
- The Production
- All-new 1963 Production kickoff dinner
- Audio of George Cukor directing Baroness Bina Rothschild
- Audrey Hepburn, Alternate vocals for "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" and "Show Me"
- Posters and Lobby Cards with Rex Harrison Radio Interview
- "The Fairest Fair Lady" making-of featurette
- LA Premiere Footage
- "Show Me" Galleries
- Key Set: Black and White Production Stills
- Production Documents
- Cecil Beaton Costume Sketches
- Architectural Drawings
- The Awards
- Rex Harrison's Golden Globe Acceptance Speech
- 37th Academy Awards®
- The Comments
- Martin Scorsese
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- The Trailers of Lerner and Loewe
- Brigadoon 1954
- Camelot 1967
- Gigi 1958
- My Fair Lady 1964
- My Fair Lady 1994 Re-release Trailer
Grand Hotel - This 1932 MGM film which won the Oscar® for Best Picture features a 1930's "A-list" cast including Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and Wallace Beery. Set at the luxurious Grand Hotel, where "nothing ever happens," a disfigured doctor (Lewis Stone) doles out cynical commentary as hotel patrons come and go. Edmund Goulding directed the ensemble cast in this stunning story of love, betrayal and despair.
The Grand Hotel DVD bonus features include:
- Checking Out: Grand Hotel (New "making-of" documentary)
- Hollywood Premiere of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Grand Hotel (1932 newsreel)
- Just a Word of Warning (1932 theatre announcement)
- Nothing Ever Happens (Newly-discovered 1933 Vitaphone Short, a Spoof on Grand Hotel)
- Theatrical trailers
- Grand Hotel 1932
- Week-end at the Waldorf 1945 re-make of Grand Hotel
The Great Ziegfeld - The immensely entertaining 1936 biographical film about flamboyant impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, starring William Powell in the title role, won three out of its seven Academy Award® nominations with Luise Rainer taking home the first of her two consecutive Best Actress Oscars® for her moving portrayal of Zeigfeld's first wife. The scene in which she phones to congratulate Ziegfeld on his new wife is one of the most memorable in cinema history. Besides Best Picture, the film also won for Outstanding Dance Direction...
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, the story follows Ziegfeld's tumultuous climb from humble carny barker to the pinnacle of his career, when he became spectacularly famous as the producer of his legendary "Follies," eventually triumphing with four simultaneous hits on Broadway. Playing the second Mrs. Ziegfeld (Bille Burke) is Powell's perennial co-star, the lovely Myrna Loy (The Thin Man).
The Great Ziegfeld DVD bonus features include:
- Ziegfeld on Film (An all-new behind-the-scenes documentary)
- New York Hails The Great Ziegfeld (1936 newsreel)
Mutiny On The Bounty - This famous sea-going epic became one of MGM's most successful box-office blockbusters, and won 1935's Best Picture award. It earned a total of eight nominations, including directing, writing and film editing along with nods to its three top stars. Adapted from the Nordhoff-Hall book about the brutal 1789 mutiny on a return voyage from the South Seas, Charles Laughton turns in a brilliant performance as the cruel and tyrannical Bligh, pitted against the heroic and fair-minded Fletcher Christian (portrayed by Clark Gable), who leads the crew in mutiny.
The Mutiny on the Bounty bonus features include:
- Pitcairn Island Today - 1935 MGM Short
- Mutiny On The Bounty Wins 1935 Award (1936 newsreel)
- Theatrical trailers
- Mutiny On The Bounty 1935
- Mutiny On The Bounty 1962
Mrs. Miniver - Directed by multiple Academy Award® -winner William Wyler, this 1942 story of a British family's struggles during World War II garnered 12 nominations, won six Oscars® including Best Actress, Best Director and Best Picture, and did much to help rally American support for British allies during WWII. Director William Wyler battled with studio head Louis B. Mayer to include a fascist-spouting Nazi pilot. Only after Pearl Harbor was attacked, did Mayer let Wyler have his way with the character. Greer Garson's Academy Award® -winning performance as Mrs. Miniver, the middle-class British housewife determined to keep her family together during the ravages of the German Blitzkrieg, has never lost its power to inspire audiences. The film also stars Walter Pidgeon and boasts a great supporting cast that includes Teresa Wright (who won the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress), Dame May Whitty, Richard Ney, Reginald Owen and Henry Travers.
The Mrs. Miniver DVD bonus features include:
- Greer Garson Academy Awards® footage
- Photo Gallery (33 stills)
- Two Vintage MGM Wartime shorts
- Mr. Blabbermouth
- For the Common Defense
- Theatrical trailer
Gaslight - Ingrid Bergman captured 1944's Oscar® for Best Actress with her role as a wealthy, beautiful but naïve socialite in this electrifying psychological thriller directed by George Cukor (My Fair Lady). The film also won the Academy Award® for Best Art Direction with Best Supporting Actor nominations going to Charles Boyer for his mesmerizing portrayal as the psychopathic husband who attempts to drive Bergman's character insane and to Angela Lansbury (in her film debut) as the spirited maid unwittingly drawn into Boyer's master plan. The film also received nominations for Best Picture, Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay.
The Gaslight DVD bonus features include:
- The original 1940 British version of Gaslight starring Diana Wynyard (Full-length feature)
- Reflections on Gaslight (All-new "making-of" documentary)
- Oscars® for Movie Stars (archival newsreel)
- 1944 Theatrical trailer...
Goodbye, Mr. Chips - The recipient of seven nominations for Academy Awards® including Best Actress, Best Director and Best Picture in 1939, the year of Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Stagecoach, this film features Robert Donat's Best Actor Oscar®- -winning performance as the old schoolmaster who looks back upon his life. Greer Garson made her screen debut in the film and became an overnight sensation. Directed by Sam Wood, the movie is a deeply stirring work about a shy professor (Donat) who teaches at a prestigious private school. Initially, his straight-laced ways don't go over well with the students and he becomes discouraged and depressed. While traveling he meets Katherine Ellis (Garson), who not only becomes the love of his life but who helps him turn his fate around.
With the exception of the My Fair Lady Two-Disc DVD Special Edition, the other six films will be featured on DVD in regular 4x3 full-screen format (as shot) with mono sound.
My Fair Lady Two-Disc DVD Special Edition
$26.99 SRP
Rating: G
Street Date: February 3, 2004
Oscar® Winners DVDs
$ 19.98 SRP
Street Date: February 3, 2004
Gaslight
Not Rated
Run Time: 198 minutes
Grand Hotel
Not Rated
Run Time: 112 minutes
The Great Ziegfeld
Not Rated
Run Time: 186 minutes
Mutiny on the Bounty
Not Rated
Run Time: 132 minutes
Mrs. Miniver
Not Rated
Run Time: 134 minutes
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Not Rated
Run Time: 114 minutes
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Here are the specific details cut & pasted from their (Warner's) press release...
BURBANK, Calif., November 12, 2003 - My Fair Lady -- one of the most popular musicals of all time, nominated for 12 Academy Awards® and winning eight, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director -- will be released on a brand new two-disc DVD Special Edition February 3 by Warner Home Video (WHV).
Additionally, four more Academy Award® Best Picture winners will debut on DVD February 3 including Grand Hotel, The Great Ziegfeld, Mutiny On The Bounty, and Mrs. Miniver along with Gaslight the acclaimed psychological thriller featuring the Academy Award® -winning performance by Ingrid Bergman and Goodbye Mr. Chips starring 1939 Best Actor, Robert Donat. The My Fair Lady Two-Disc DVD Special Edition, featuring a high-definition widescreen (anamorphic) format transfer from restored film elements and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, will sell for $26.99 SRP. The other titles will each sell for $19.98 SRP.
My Fair Lady, starring Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Wilfred Hyde-White and Stanley Holloway and directed by George Cukor, also won Oscars® for Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography. Based on George Bernard Shaw's classic play Pygmalion, the story chronicles an egotistical linguist's attempt to win a bet with a friend by transforming a feisty, Cockney waif into an elegant lady in time for an important society ball.
The My Fair Lady Two-Disc DVD Special Edition sound bonus features include:
Disc One:
- Commentary by art director Gene Allen, singer Marni Nixon and restoration team Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz...
Disc Two:
- More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of My Fair Lady - Then and Now
- The Production
- All-new 1963 Production kickoff dinner
- Audio of George Cukor directing Baroness Bina Rothschild
- Audrey Hepburn, Alternate vocals for "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" and "Show Me"
- Posters and Lobby Cards with Rex Harrison Radio Interview
- "The Fairest Fair Lady" making-of featurette
- LA Premiere Footage
- "Show Me" Galleries
- Key Set: Black and White Production Stills
- Production Documents
- Cecil Beaton Costume Sketches
- Architectural Drawings
- The Awards
- Rex Harrison's Golden Globe Acceptance Speech
- 37th Academy Awards®
- The Comments
- Martin Scorsese
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- The Trailers of Lerner and Loewe
- Brigadoon 1954
- Camelot 1967
- Gigi 1958
- My Fair Lady 1964
- My Fair Lady 1994 Re-release Trailer
Grand Hotel - This 1932 MGM film which won the Oscar® for Best Picture features a 1930's "A-list" cast including Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and Wallace Beery. Set at the luxurious Grand Hotel, where "nothing ever happens," a disfigured doctor (Lewis Stone) doles out cynical commentary as hotel patrons come and go. Edmund Goulding directed the ensemble cast in this stunning story of love, betrayal and despair.
The Grand Hotel DVD bonus features include:
- Checking Out: Grand Hotel (New "making-of" documentary)
- Hollywood Premiere of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Grand Hotel (1932 newsreel)
- Just a Word of Warning (1932 theatre announcement)
- Nothing Ever Happens (Newly-discovered 1933 Vitaphone Short, a Spoof on Grand Hotel)
- Theatrical trailers
- Grand Hotel 1932
- Week-end at the Waldorf 1945 re-make of Grand Hotel
The Great Ziegfeld - The immensely entertaining 1936 biographical film about flamboyant impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, starring William Powell in the title role, won three out of its seven Academy Award® nominations with Luise Rainer taking home the first of her two consecutive Best Actress Oscars® for her moving portrayal of Zeigfeld's first wife. The scene in which she phones to congratulate Ziegfeld on his new wife is one of the most memorable in cinema history. Besides Best Picture, the film also won for Outstanding Dance Direction...
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, the story follows Ziegfeld's tumultuous climb from humble carny barker to the pinnacle of his career, when he became spectacularly famous as the producer of his legendary "Follies," eventually triumphing with four simultaneous hits on Broadway. Playing the second Mrs. Ziegfeld (Bille Burke) is Powell's perennial co-star, the lovely Myrna Loy (The Thin Man).
The Great Ziegfeld DVD bonus features include:
- Ziegfeld on Film (An all-new behind-the-scenes documentary)
- New York Hails The Great Ziegfeld (1936 newsreel)
Mutiny On The Bounty - This famous sea-going epic became one of MGM's most successful box-office blockbusters, and won 1935's Best Picture award. It earned a total of eight nominations, including directing, writing and film editing along with nods to its three top stars. Adapted from the Nordhoff-Hall book about the brutal 1789 mutiny on a return voyage from the South Seas, Charles Laughton turns in a brilliant performance as the cruel and tyrannical Bligh, pitted against the heroic and fair-minded Fletcher Christian (portrayed by Clark Gable), who leads the crew in mutiny.
The Mutiny on the Bounty bonus features include:
- Pitcairn Island Today - 1935 MGM Short
- Mutiny On The Bounty Wins 1935 Award (1936 newsreel)
- Theatrical trailers
- Mutiny On The Bounty 1935
- Mutiny On The Bounty 1962
Mrs. Miniver - Directed by multiple Academy Award® -winner William Wyler, this 1942 story of a British family's struggles during World War II garnered 12 nominations, won six Oscars® including Best Actress, Best Director and Best Picture, and did much to help rally American support for British allies during WWII. Director William Wyler battled with studio head Louis B. Mayer to include a fascist-spouting Nazi pilot. Only after Pearl Harbor was attacked, did Mayer let Wyler have his way with the character. Greer Garson's Academy Award® -winning performance as Mrs. Miniver, the middle-class British housewife determined to keep her family together during the ravages of the German Blitzkrieg, has never lost its power to inspire audiences. The film also stars Walter Pidgeon and boasts a great supporting cast that includes Teresa Wright (who won the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress), Dame May Whitty, Richard Ney, Reginald Owen and Henry Travers.
The Mrs. Miniver DVD bonus features include:
- Greer Garson Academy Awards® footage
- Photo Gallery (33 stills)
- Two Vintage MGM Wartime shorts
- Mr. Blabbermouth
- For the Common Defense
- Theatrical trailer
Gaslight - Ingrid Bergman captured 1944's Oscar® for Best Actress with her role as a wealthy, beautiful but naïve socialite in this electrifying psychological thriller directed by George Cukor (My Fair Lady). The film also won the Academy Award® for Best Art Direction with Best Supporting Actor nominations going to Charles Boyer for his mesmerizing portrayal as the psychopathic husband who attempts to drive Bergman's character insane and to Angela Lansbury (in her film debut) as the spirited maid unwittingly drawn into Boyer's master plan. The film also received nominations for Best Picture, Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay.
The Gaslight DVD bonus features include:
- The original 1940 British version of Gaslight starring Diana Wynyard (Full-length feature)
- Reflections on Gaslight (All-new "making-of" documentary)
- Oscars® for Movie Stars (archival newsreel)
- 1944 Theatrical trailer...
Goodbye, Mr. Chips - The recipient of seven nominations for Academy Awards® including Best Actress, Best Director and Best Picture in 1939, the year of Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Stagecoach, this film features Robert Donat's Best Actor Oscar®- -winning performance as the old schoolmaster who looks back upon his life. Greer Garson made her screen debut in the film and became an overnight sensation. Directed by Sam Wood, the movie is a deeply stirring work about a shy professor (Donat) who teaches at a prestigious private school. Initially, his straight-laced ways don't go over well with the students and he becomes discouraged and depressed. While traveling he meets Katherine Ellis (Garson), who not only becomes the love of his life but who helps him turn his fate around.
With the exception of the My Fair Lady Two-Disc DVD Special Edition, the other six films will be featured on DVD in regular 4x3 full-screen format (as shot) with mono sound.
My Fair Lady Two-Disc DVD Special Edition
$26.99 SRP
Rating: G
Street Date: February 3, 2004
Oscar® Winners DVDs
$ 19.98 SRP
Street Date: February 3, 2004
Gaslight
Not Rated
Run Time: 198 minutes
Grand Hotel
Not Rated
Run Time: 112 minutes
The Great Ziegfeld
Not Rated
Run Time: 186 minutes
Mutiny on the Bounty
Not Rated
Run Time: 132 minutes
Mrs. Miniver
Not Rated
Run Time: 134 minutes
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Not Rated
Run Time: 114 minutes
Last edited by RevKarl; 11-12-03 at 05:29 PM.
11-12-03, 05:39 PM
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Originally posted by TomOpus
While it's pretty good news for all those movies, I'll be all over Gaslight
Thanks for the info!
While it's pretty good news for all those movies, I'll be all over Gaslight
Thanks for the info!
I'll be getting all of these
11-12-03, 08:52 PM
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Same here. That looks very cool, especially with both versions of the film included. I just hope that squeezing all of that onto one disc doesn't hurt the audio/video quality.
Same here. That looks very cool, especially with both versions of the film included. I just hope that squeezing all of that onto one disc doesn't hurt the audio/video quality.
I can't wait for most of these films . I don't think I will rebuy My Fair Lady as the current edition is ok for me. and it is not my favorite Audrey Hepburn movie
By the way when is Fox going to release Two For the Road
11-12-03, 11:15 PM
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The My Fair Lady: SE has basically the same extras as the single disc version available now. Anamorphic too. Looks like no double dipping for me.
Will probably get Mr Chips & Gaslight
Will probably get Mr Chips & Gaslight
11-13-03, 01:54 AM
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Originally posted by DataZak
The My Fair Lady: SE has basically the same extras as the single disc version available now. Anamorphic too. Looks like no double dipping for me.
Will probably get Mr Chips & Gaslight
The My Fair Lady: SE has basically the same extras as the single disc version available now. Anamorphic too. Looks like no double dipping for me.
Will probably get Mr Chips & Gaslight
I could certainly be swayed by a much improved transfer and audio (though I'm not exactly dissatisfied with the current release). But I probably wouldn't buy it right away.... Just like I'm still deciding on when to get the better transfer version of Lawrence of Arabia.
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Angels with Dirty Faces? Ever?
Definitely #1 or 2 of my "most wanted on dvd list" from warner classics. Between that and another well known Cagney flick...
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