The Great American Songbook
by Andrew J. Kuehn
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Actor: Michael FeinsteinDirector: Andrew J. Kuehn
Brand: FEINSTEIN,MICHAEL
Producer: Andrew J. Kuehn
Producer: Stephen Netburn
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 175 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-04-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 37385
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- The people and events that put the music in our lives are celebrated in this lively anthology, hosted (and featuring vocals) by Michael Feinstein, that traces popular music from its roots in ballads and minstrel shows through the jazz age, big bands, Broadway and Hollywood. Delight as Fats Waller boogies, George Gershwin invents a musical rhapsody, Arthur Freed becomes the wizard of oohs and aahs
DVD Reviews of The Great American Songbook
DVD Review: Mostly All Judy Garland, Very Little Doris Day...
Summary: 3 Stars
I don't know why is happens, but whenever these documentaries are made, you get TONS of Judy Garland and hardly any Doris Day. Miss Day, almost single-handedly, saved the movie musical in the 1950s. She also saved Warner Brothers from becoming non-existant. When she became a star with her first film, "Romance on the High Seas," she rose to become the #1 musical star in films.
Perhaps the people who produce these films are from the "I must hate Doris Day" era. There was a time when the mere mention of Day's name drew ire from many uninformed people, some were even critics. What they don't want to admit is that Doris Day is one of the most popular and talented singer/actresses in the history of motion pictures. That's a crime, in my opinion. Forget the fact that she remains, to this day, the top female boxoffice star of all time.
Certainly, she deserves more screen time in these documentaries, since there is so much material from which to choose. She made 17 films in 7 years while at Warner Brothers alone, most of them musicals.
Most of the people who get the star treatment in these documentaries were never as big as Day, and like Garland, didn't have the crossover appeal to the Top 40 charts, as Doris did.
Until Doris gets her due, I won't buy these documentaries.
Description of The Great American Songbook
No Description Available.Genre: Documentary
Rating: NR
Release Date: 22-APR-2003
Media Type: DVD
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