Container of (work): Annie get your gun (Motion picture : 1950) Container of (work): Show boat (Motion picture : 1951) Container of (work): Seven brides for seven brothers (Motion picture) Container of (work): Kiss me Kate (Motion picture)
Notes:
Title from container. Annie get your gun: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel. Show boat: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Rall. Kiss me Kate: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Rall, James Whitmore, Bob Fosse, Bobby Van. Annie get your gun originally released as a motion picture in 1950. Show boat originally released as a motion picture in 1951. Seven brides for seven brothers originally reased as a motion picture in 1954. Kiss me Kate originially released as a motion picture in 1953
Contents:
[Disc 1] : Annie get your gun / screenplay by Sidney Sheldon ; based on the musical play with music and lyricis by Irving Berlin and book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields ; directed by George Sidney ; produced by Arthur Freed ; a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture (107 mins.) -- Show boat / M-G-M presents ; from the immortal musical play "Show boat" by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II ; based on Edna Ferber's novel ; screenplay by John Lee Mahin ; directed by George Sidney ; produced by Arthur Freed ; a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture (108 mins.) -- [Disc 2]: Seven brides for seven brothers / screenplay by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Dorothy Kingsley ; produced by Jack Cummings ; directed by Stanley Donen -- Kiss me Kate / screen play by Dorothy Kingsley ; music and lyrics by Cole Porter ; produced by Jack Cummings ; directed by George Sidney.
Summary:
Show boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not knowing she is pregnant. Annie get your gun: Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who meets Frank Butler. Frank is the star sharpshoot in Colonel Buffalo Bill's show. He finds himself falling for Annie, but feels that she is not marriage material. In the end, they both discover that love is wonderful. Seven brides for seven brothers: Adam is the eldest of seven brothers who goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home where she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Adam reads about the Roman capture of the Sabine women and develops an inspired solution to his brothers' loneliness. Kiss me Kate: Fred is a director and Lilly is an actress who are divorced. They are brought back together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play. A fight on the opening night threatens the production, not to mention the two thugs who have the mistaken idea that Fred owes their boss money and insist on staying next to him all night.
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