TCM Spotlight: Doris Day Collection (It's a Great Feeling / Tea for Two / April in Paris / The Tunnel of Love / Starlift)
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Actor: Dennis Morgan, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Jack Carson, Ray BolgerBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Box set, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered
Picture Format: 1.33:1
DVD Release Date: 2009-04-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of TCM Spotlight: Doris Day Collection (It's a Great Feeling / Tea for Two / April in Paris / The Tunnel of Love / Starlift)
DVD Review: Very pleased buyer.
Summary: 5 Stars
The dvd's were in excellent condition and timely on delivery. I really recommend ordering because of the selection and service....I am so pleased...A++++ rating.DVD Review: Doris Day Spotlight Set.
Summary: 5 Stars
I am really pleased with the set as I am trying to get all of Doris's Films. I would like to know if the following ones are available.
1. Storm Warning.
2. Starlift.
3. The Winning Team.
4. Julie.
5. Where were you when the lights went out.
I would appreciate it if you could let me know if any or all of these are available,
Thanking you,
yours Sincerely,
Ronnie McCrudden
DVD Review: Happy days for collectors and fans
Summary: 4 Stars
If you're a fan or collector, you won't be reading reviews, you'll be selecting "Buy Now", and so you should.
This is a great little package of some of the films she was involved in during her Warner Bros. period. Steeped in nostalgia for the age that spawned the song titles used for a couple of these films, they play to audiences looking for light fun and frivolity. The prints are pretty good, not pristine, but then, that adds somewhat to their charm. Other reviewers have gone into depth about DVD quality, so there's no use doubling up.
Having not seen any of these films previously, I found them, for the most part, very entertaining. Doris' acting and singing talents are simply a joy to watch, and in scenes with Jack Carson in "It's A Great Feeling" they're like a veteran double act. Could've done without the excessive Ray Bolger doing everything he could to steal every scene he was in, in "April In Paris" (Astaire he wasn't).
Given the quality of the genuinely scripted films, I'm surprised at how effusive the reviews for "Starlift" here have been. This is not a genuine Doris Day film. She hardly appears in at all, and the scenes in which she appears seem more like unscripted home movies than a real Hollywood film. The plot is threadbare, with cameos supposedly filling in for storyline. Still, many reviewers here seem happy to have it released, as it goes toward completing collections. Fair enough too, as Doris brightens any scene she's in.
If you like Doris day, musicals, or films from the golden age of film, you'll enjoy this offering.
DVD Review: IF YOU LOVE DORIS DAY, YOU WILL LOVE THIS!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of her first movies, and the first movie she danced in! Very sweet, fun, and just a feel good time!DVD Review: Sensational SPECIAL FEATURES!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a lovely collection, and Doris Day is a timeless beauty! Some parts of "April in Paris" are not so clear, but this does detract from my overall viewing pleasure. I am very impressed with the Special Features, which include hours of vintage cartoons, Joe McDoakes comedic shorts, sports stunts, Hollywood bloopers, and radio shows (audio only). Very delightful!
Description of TCM Spotlight: Doris Day Collection (It's a Great Feeling / Tea for Two / April in Paris / The Tunnel of Love / Starlift)
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/07/2009 Rating: NrThe perpetually twinkling star of postwar Hollywood gets another DVD boxed set, TCM Spotlight: Doris Day Collection, covering the early part of Day's career. Four of these titles were cranked out between 1949 and 1952, when Doris was busy getting a push as the latest edition of America's Sweetheart. It's a Great Feeling is a very meta-satire on Hollywood and its crazy ways, taken from a story by future Billy Wilder writing partner I.A.L. Diamond. Doris is a simple gal from Gurkey's Corners, Wisconsin, who meets Jack Carson, the overbearing actor (playing himself), newly given a chance to direct a film because nobody else wants to work with him. (We learn this in an early sequence featuring turn-downs from real-life directors Raoul Walsh, Michael Curtiz, and King Vidor.) This fun trifle has mutual ribbing between Carson and Dennis Morgan (also playing himself), and a gaggle of cameos: Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, Edward G. Robinson, and one final-scene surprise that ought not be given away. Tea for Two teams Day with Gordon MacRae, who would be, like Carson, a frequent co-star. An extremely loose variation on the Broadway perennial No, No, Nanette, the movie imports a collection of unbeatable song classics, including some Gershwin numbers and (from the original stage musical) "Tea for Two." An incredibly labored plot device, predicting Jim Carrey's Yes Man, helps keep the non-musical sections lame, although Eve Arden and Billy De Wolfe are around to cut up. The movie is also a terrific showcase for dancer Gene Nelson, an under-appreciated hoofer who has a major part. Starlift is a long-unavailable musical that uses the Hollywood Canteen approach: get a big roster of stars together and have them perform for the troops. Day appears only in the early reels, as herself, time enough to belt out "'S Wonderful" and supply some perk. The movie shoehorns in the likes of Ruth Roman, Gary Cooper (actually talk-singing the chorus of "Look Out, Stranger, I'm a Texas Ranger"), James Cagney, Randolph Scott, and an extended bit from Phil Harris. Gene Nelson returns for some excellent dance scenes.
April in Paris gives a rare leading role to Ray Bolger, whose mugging style, better suited to the Broadway stage, contrasts with Day's camera-ready shine; the two don't have much chemistry together. The flat story has Doris as a chorus girl mistakenly invited to represent the U.S. at an international peace conference. At least the Vernon Duke-composed songs, most with lyrics by Sammy Cahn, are a decent lot, and of course Bolger can dance up a storm, notably in a trick number that has him performing with two versions of himself dressed as Lincoln and Washington. Much different in tone is The Tunnel of Love, from 1958, a leering farce based on a play (itself based on a Peter DeVries novel). Doris is married to uptight cartoonist Richard Widmark when an adoption scheme puts hubby in too-close proximity to the lady (Gia Scala) from the adoption agency. Gene Kelly's smarmy direction does nothing to improve the bizarre premise; only Gig Young and Elizabeth Wilson hit the right pitch. The discs include the usual Warners collection of shorts and cartoons, but no Day-specific supporting extras. --Robert Horton
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