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Rose of Washington Square
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My Fair Lady
»rank: 4700
: essential video:Hollywood's legendary 'woman's director,' George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. The letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the pageantry ...
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Bitter Sweet
»rank: 7159
: essential video:Hollywood's legendary 'woman's director,' George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. The letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the pageantry ...
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Million Dollar Mermaid
»rank: 7299
: :Million Dollar Mermaid, starring the incomparable Esther Williams, is the story of 'the incomparable Annette Kellerman,' an Australian swimming champion and water ballet artist who went on to perform in New York's Hippodrome. We start off in Sidney, Australia, where a young Annette is hampered by cumbersome leg braces. She starts swimming to strengthen her legs and before you know it, a star is born. Annette swims and dives her way through the show-biz ranks, struggling to support her musician father and fighting ...
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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
»rank: 7245
: essential video:A half-century later, Mark Twain's yarn still doesn't seem like an ideal vehicle for Bing Crosby, and Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke certainly wrote better songs than those offered up here. Still, this droll 1949 musical, like its star, has an easygoing charm and affability that'll win over young and old alike. Der Bingle plays Hank, who wakes up in A.D. 528, rousted by palooka-like Sir Sagramore (William Bendix). At Camelot, not even Hank's impending doom--not to mention the temporal ...
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March of the Wooden Soldiers
»rank: 3912
: :The most lavish feature built around Laurel and Hardy, 1934's March of the Wooden Soldiers is also the most bizarre. 0pening unpromisingly with one of several mawkish numbers derived from Victor Herbert's musical Babes in Toyland, the antics of toyshop laborers Stannie Dum and 0llie Dee are worked into a scenario midway between Lewis Carroll and the Brothers Grimm. Nursery-rhyme characters come and go in a surreal fantasy, with the evil Mr. Barnaby threatening to evict Widow Peep from her shoe unless he ...
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Poor Little Rich Girl
»rank: 7847
: :The most lavish feature built around Laurel and Hardy, 1934's March of the Wooden Soldiers is also the most bizarre. 0pening unpromisingly with one of several mawkish numbers derived from Victor Herbert's musical Babes in Toyland, the antics of toyshop laborers Stannie Dum and 0llie Dee are worked into a scenario midway between Lewis Carroll and the Brothers Grimm. Nursery-rhyme characters come and go in a surreal fantasy, with the evil Mr. Barnaby threatening to evict Widow Peep from her shoe unless he ...
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Stretchin' To The Classics with Richard Simmons
»rank: 5427
: :Stretchin' to the Classics with Richard simmons. 1997 release from Richard Simmons of Classical Music to Stretch to. 'The Classics' include Peer gynt, suite, No. 1, 0p46, Morning' by Edvard Grieg-Waltz in A Flat, No. 15, 0p39, by Johannes Brahms-Cannon in DMajor by Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel-Carmen Suite,'habanera,' by Georges Bizet-Scheherezade, Selection, by Nikolai Rimsky=Korsakow.
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Young at Heart (Aniv)
»rank: 6982
: essential video:This 1954 musical remake of Four Daughters stars Doris Day as a well-bred New England woman who marries a chip-on-his-shoulder musician (Frank Sinatra). Lots of tears, yes, but this version of Fannie Hurst's novel is considerably cheered up from the 1938 tearjerker. Dorothy Malone and Elizabeth Fraser play Day's sisters (a fourth sister present in Four Daughters was written out), Robert Keith is the paterfamilias to a bunch of musical prodigies, and Gig Young is entertaining as the composer-boarder who tries ...
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Opera Imaginaire
»rank: 5072
: essential video:This 1954 musical remake of Four Daughters stars Doris Day as a well-bred New England woman who marries a chip-on-his-shoulder musician (Frank Sinatra). Lots of tears, yes, but this version of Fannie Hurst's novel is considerably cheered up from the 1938 tearjerker. Dorothy Malone and Elizabeth Fraser play Day's sisters (a fourth sister present in Four Daughters was written out), Robert Keith is the paterfamilias to a bunch of musical prodigies, and Gig Young is entertaining as the composer-boarder who tries ...
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