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Gene Kelly: The Signature Collection [DVD]

Gene Kelly , Lana Turner , Gene Kelly , George Sidney    Universal, suitable for all   DVD
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  • Actors: Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, June Allyson, Vincent Price, Frank Sinatra
  • Directors: Gene Kelly, George Sidney, Stanley Donen, Vincente Minnelli
  • Producers: Pandro S. Berman, Arthur Freed, Joe Pasternak
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 5
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Sep 2009
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B002L7O80S
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 39,741 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Collection of five films starring the great dancer, singer and actor, Gene Kelly. In the 1948 adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 'The Three Musketeers', D'Artagnan (Kelly) goes to Paris to join the musketeers, who are involved in the protection of King Louis XIII from the threats of the scheming Prime Minister. Lana Turner and Vincent Price supply the villainy. In 'On the Town' (1949), three sailors (Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin) hit New York City for a 24-hour shore leave. The first order of business is to find some women to spend it with and the boys hook up with Ivy (Vera-Ellen), an aspiring dancer, Hildy (Betty Garrett), a lady cab-driver, and Claire (Ann Miller), a paleontology student, causing mayhem across Manhattan. This was the first musical to make extensive use of location shooting rather than studio bound sets and includes the song-and-dance numbers 'New York, New York' and 'Miss Turnstiles Ballet'. In the Oscar-winning, 'Anchors Aweigh' (1945), Sinatra and Kelly star as two sailors looking for female companionship while on a four-day pass in Los Angeles. They meet a Hollywood extra (Kathryn Grayson) and try to help her realise her dream of being a star. The film features a famous sequence where Kelly dances with Jerry, the cartoon mouse of 'Tom and Jerry' fame. 'An American In Paris' (1951) is the story of Jerry Mulligan (Kelly), an American G.I. who stays in Paris after the war to become a painter. There he falls in love with Lise Bouvier (Leslie Caron), only to discover that she is engaged to his friend Henri Baurel (Georges Guetary). With music by George Gershwin, including 'I Got Rhythm' and 'Embraceable You', the film won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. In 'Singin' in the Rain' (1952), set in 1927, Don Lockwood (Kelly, who co-directs) has worked his way up from being a song-and-dance man with partner Cosmo Brown (Donald O'Connor) to become a top movie star. His on-screen partner, Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), who believes that Don loves her for real, needs to have her awful singing voice dubbed with the arrival of talkies. The girl selected is 'serious' actress Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds), for whom Don soon falls. Musical numbers include the famous title song and 'Make 'Em Laugh', 'Good Morning' and 'You Were Meant for Me'.


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66 of 72 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Beginners only need apply 18 Dec 2007
By Mr. David C. Halliday TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:DVD
If you are interested in musicals but have never tried any Gene Kelly films then this is a great place to start. 4 of the 5 films here are of his best and 2 are classics that stand up to any competition. The most famous,and rightly so, is 'singin' in the rain', a classic that is far lighter than many of it's contemporaries and far funnier too,(the scene where the lip-sync. goes wrong is great stuff),. It contains one of the most well known scenes of any film,not just musicals, as kelly reaches sublime heights in the title song & dance routine, so charming and easy going it's all too easy to miss just how skilled he was. In truth that really was his trademark,he never seemed to be working, Kelly was effortless & danced with a huge smile. Often forgotten is the brilliant Donald O'Conner himself dancing brilliantly and delivering the very funny 'make 'em laugh' with ease.
Anchors aweigh is a pleasant enough film and contains the inspired scene where Tom & Jerry dance and includes Frank Sinatra but in all it's really just a light precursor to 'On the town' which has a great theme tune,sinatra again & a terrific turn from a feisty Alice pearce.
'An American in Paris',with minelli directing & Gershwin writing songs, is hard to categorize. The frankly irritating 'I got rythmn' with a room full of kids is all but forgotten after Kellys excellent ballet against a backdrop of imitations of frances most famous artists & his singing 's'wonderful'.
I have never seen the 3 muskateers so cannot comment.
This collection is a fine one but it falters however in it's lack of extra's. Three of these titles are available in excellent 2 disc versions for very reasonable prices & contain a wealth of interesting features sadly missing here.
If you're after the basics then this boxset is a fine place to start but if you want to know more or already know you like the films here then go for the 2-disc sets.
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5.0 out of 5 stars FIne pics 9 Jan 2010
By Henk
Format:DVD
This set contains good quality pictures. The images are crisp and the sound is good. The films themselves: well, you have to like these easy-going movies. But the movement of Gene is absolutely amazing, beit swash-buckling, beit dancing: that guy moved! I enjoyed viewing them after all these years. Good value for money.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gene Kelly Collection (DVD) 3 April 2010
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This is a wonderfull collection and very good value for money."On the Town"features Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra,and Jules Munshin as three USA Sailors on 24hr leave to see the New York sights. Frank is hooked by a very streetwise taxi driver-Betty Garrett;Jules is hooked by an anthropologist-Ann Miller,all in the breathless and spectacular chase for Gene to hook Miss Subway Turnstyles -Vera Ellen.The music by Leonard Bernstein includes New York,New York (its a wonderfull Town),Come up to My Place, Miss Turnstyles Dance, and A Day in New York Ballet.Produced by Arthur Freed and Directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen 1949.An earlier film from 1945 in the same vein-"Anchors Aweigh" features Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly as sailors on special leave looking for female companionship in Hollywood.They have to take a lost little boy home on his way to join the Navy,and both fall in love with his Aunt Lucy-Kathryn Grayson who looks as beautifull as she sings.Jose Iturbi features as himself conducting a spectacular Naval Band, and playing piano. Sinatra sings "I Fall in Love too Easily" by Sammy Cahn, and Kelly dances with a Jerry Mouse Cartoon figure.Thouroughly enjoyable.The film "An American in Paris" conjours up the artistic Montmarte area with Gene playing a Painter, Oscar Levant a composer pianist,and Georges Guetary a rising stage singer.They perform the comedy song "An Umpah pa by Stausse," and other great Gershwin music.Leslie Caron is the Ballerina, and Nina Foch plays an Art Dealer.The interplay between reality and fantasy scenes is romantic and beautifull. "Our love is Here to Stay" features Caron and Kelly by the Seine, and also in a 17 minute Ballet towards the end of the film; Directed by Vincente Minelli; Produced by Arthur Freed-"S'Wonderfull"-it certainly is.This Box set includes "Singing In The Rain" where Gene teams up with Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds,in 1951,with music by Herb Brown and lyrics by Producer Arthur Freed:Directed again by Kelly and Stanley Donen.Jean Hagden gives an unforgettable performance as Nina the beautifull silent screen star of 1927, who does not transit into the new "Talkies" because of accent and personality.Completing the set is a dynamic swashbuckling 1948 version of "The Three Muscateers" .Gene is a naive rustic lad who rises to a Muscateer of Louis 13 of France in 1625.Lana Turner is a plotting Lady deWinter. Vincent Price is Cardinal Richelieu.Angela Lansbury is Queen Anne(not writing Murder),and June Allyson plays a faithful, gentle Constance.Great comedy,costumes and settings.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gene Kelly Collection dvd
I love the old classic films of Gene Kelly,who was a terrific dancer. I knew 3 of these films and was delighted to watch them yet again. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mrs. Wendy Hope
4.0 out of 5 stars Gene Kelly
Arrived in pristine condition. Initially I only wanted the Three Musketeers, but this came as 4 or 5 dvd's. Read more
Published 14 months ago by 1BeachBoy
5.0 out of 5 stars My Mums opinion of DVD`s
I bought these for my Mum .... she absolutely loves them , films that remind her of when she was a young girl amd spent most of her time at the pictures .
Published 14 months ago by Pearsy1952
4.0 out of 5 stars An Amazing Entertainer - One of a Kind
Gene Kelly was ranked #15 in the American Film Institute's "Greatest Legends" list, and not without reason. Here was one of film's greatest ever performers. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Dave Kinsella
5.0 out of 5 stars dancing king
here they are, probably the best films kelly ever done, from the classic "singing" to the outrageously funny superb adaptation of the dumas classic, the three muskateers,the first... Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2011 by Mr. Joseph Taylor
5.0 out of 5 stars christine Shelmedine
A real brgain well worth the money, I will buy from from you againgh.

Thanks Chris Shelmerdine.
Published on 4 Jan 2011 by Mrs. C. Shelmerdine
5.0 out of 5 stars Gene Kelly - Signature collection
An absolute must for any fan of the Great Gene Kelly.
Along with Frank Sinatra looking younger than I have ever seen him as well as
Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds -... Read more
Published on 17 Oct 2010 by Nigel
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent value for money
My wife and I caught the second half of "Anchors aweigh" on TV recently, by accident. It was a Gene Kelly film we hadn't seen and having seen the second half, we wanted to see the... Read more
Published on 28 April 2010 by J. M. Aucken
5.0 out of 5 stars Gene Kelly Collection (DVD)
Excellent value 5 DVDs containing 4 greatest musicals plus 1 period drama (average)
Published on 4 April 2010 by Mr. J. Scully
4.0 out of 5 stars Kelly is the Man !
This is an excellent collection - showing the Master at his best. Totally recommend this to everyone.
Published on 12 Mar 2010 by Niall Norton
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