Silver Screen Icons Doris Day DVD 4 Disc Set Jack Carson Cameron Mitchell Cagney

Description: Silver Screen Icons Doris Day DVD ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS (1948) For a crystal-clear lesson in how an unknown vaults into immediate stardom, look no further than Romance on the High Seas, the silly 1948 musical that launched the movie career of Doris Day. A band singer, Day was plucked from the ranks when Warner Bros. and director Michael Curtiz needed to find a replacement for a role intended first for Judy Garland and then for Betty Hutton. She's fourth-billed, but there's no question Doris Day owns the picture; in retrospect, the part seems tailor-made to break a new star. The plot is a howler: society wife Janis Paige is suspicious when husband Don DeFore (hubby to TV's Hazel) claims he must stay in New York on business instead of going on a cruise to South America. So Paige gives the cruise ticket to lounge singer Doris, on the condition that she pretend to be Paige, while wifey hangs back in New York. Make sense? Meanwhile, a suspicious DeFore hires a detective (Jack Carson) to spy on his wife during the cruise, except of course it isn't really his wife, it's... well, you get the picture. Day is somewhat sassier than her later well-scrubbed image would allow; she actually seems like an up-from-the-streets, well-traveled barnstormer. The saucy script has a handsome pedigree; it was penned by Casablanca boys Julius and Philip Epstein and polished by future Billy Wilder partner I.A.L. Diamond. However, it must be stated that Curtiz is nobody's idea of a buoyant comedy director, even if the lounge-singing sequences are sharply made. The cast is stocked with screwball stalwarts such as S.Z. Sakall, Eric Blore, and Franklin Pangborn. CALAMITY JANE (1953) Day and Howard Keel fuss, feud and fall in love as Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in this entertainment mother lode. At first curvaceous Calamity is too durned busy fighting Indians and cracking a bullwhip to pay mind to such girly what-alls as dresses and perfume. And Wild Bill is too danged busy wooing a dainty chanteuse (Allyn McLerie) to give a hoot about a hotheaded tomboy. But things change in a rootin’, tootin’ big way when each becomes love’s target. INCLUDES: Premiere and Awards Newsreels Languages: English & Français Subtitles: English, Français & Español (Main Feature. Bonus Material/Trailer May Not Be Subtitled). LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (1955) Roaring ’20s songstress Ruth Etting had everything – the looks, the wiles, the smoky jazz voice, the it. She also had Chicago racketeer Martin “The Gimp” Snyder (James Cagney) who, even as he propelled her career, [mistreated or undermined] her. Laced with Day’s vibrant performances of songs from the era, this 1955 Academy Award® winner (Best Motion Picture Story) is based on the tough-minded tale of Etting’s life with the man who boosted her career with strong-armed tactics and smothered her in an obsessive grip that she escaped only at great peril. INCLUDES: 3 Vintage Shorts – A Modern Cinderella, Roseland and A Salute to the Theatres Languages: English & Français Subtitles: English, Français & Español (Main Feature. Bonus Material/Trailer May Not Be Subtitled). PLEASE DON’T EAT THE DAISIES (1959) Kate Mackay (Day) has four boys who someday may lend their names to hurricanes. Also, a monstrosity of a country fixer-upper that needs its lower fixed too. And a poison-pen, drama-critic hubby (David Niven) who sees plays under the worst possible circumstances – by being in the audience. With Janis Paige, Spring Byington and Richard Haydn on hand for snappy comic support, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies is breezy family fun. Languages: English & Français Subtitles: English, Français & Español (Main Feature. Bonus Material/Trailer May Not Be Subtitled

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