Singin' in the rain Music man Seven brides for seven brothers Yankee Doodle Dandy Viva Las Vegas
Notes:
Originally released as motion pictures 1942-1964. Dolby digital 5.1, Dolby digital mono, anamorphic wide screen 1.85:1, full screen 1.33:1. Gene Kelly, Robert Preston, Jane Powell, James Cagney, Elvis Presley.
Contents:
Singin' in the rain (1952, 103 min.) / directed by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly -- The music man (1962, 151 min.) / directed by Morton DaCosta -- Seven brides for seven brothers (1954, 102 min.) / directed by Stanley Donen -- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942, 125 min.) / directed by Michael Curtiz -- Viva Las Vegas (1964, 85 min.) / directed by George Sidney.
Summary:
A Hollywood actor who has risen from vaudeville to become a silent film star must make the difficult transition to sound films; in early twentieth-century Iowa, con artist Harold Hill invades a small town to sell its citizens, and its piano-teaching librarian, on creating a boys' band; set in the Oregon frontier, a young woman named Milly marries woodsman Adam and discovers that she has to keep house for his six brothers as well, and the brothers discover that they also want wives; follows the life of composer, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan; a racing driver struggles to raise money to enter the Las Vegas Grand Prix and to win the heart of a hotel swimming instructor.
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