DVD Musicals The Collection

NB! Filmil puuduvad eesti keesed subtiitrid! Collection of five musicals from the 1940s and ´50s. ´Annie Get Your Gun´ (1950) stars Betty Hutton as backwoods sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Plucked out of obscurity by Buffalo Bill (Louis Calhern), the rough-edged Annie is groomed for a leading role in Bill´s world famous Wild West show. However, Annie has a rival in the form of rifleman Frank Butler (Howard Keel), a man she soon falls in love with. Songs include ´Anything You Can Do´ and ´There´s No Business Like Show Business´. In ´Easter Parade´ (1948) Fred Astaire plays one half of a dance team who is ditched by his partner. Deciding he can make a star out of anyone he wants, he chooses a lowly chorus girl (Judy Garland) as his new partner. Songs include ´A Couple of Swells´, ´Stepping Out With My Baby´ and ´Shaking the Blues Away´. In ´Calamity Jane´ (1953) Doris Day stars as the famous frontierswoman, who would rather hit targets than chase men - until she falls for ´Wild Bill´ Hickok (Keel). However, he would rather shoot Indians than chase after a tomboy like Calamity Jane. Songs include ´The Black Hills of Dakota´ and the Oscar-winning ´Secret Love´. ´High Society´ (1956), based on ´The Philadelphia Story´ play by Philip Barry, stars Grace Kelly as socialite Tracy Lord who, even as she prepares for her second marriage, still has obvious feelings for her ex-husband (Bing Crosby). She also strikes up a friendship with a reporter (Frank Sinatra), who has been sent to cover her society wedding. Songs include ´Who Wants to Be a Millionaire´ and the famous Crosby/Sinatra duet ´Well, Did You Evah´. ´Meet Me in S.Louis´ (1944) follows Esther Smith (Garland), a young woman from St. Louis who falls in love with the boy next door. The film is set in 1904, when the city hosted the World´s Fair. Songs include ´Meet Me in St. Louis´, ´Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas´ and ´The Trolley Song´. However, T´Challa soon finds his rule challenged as a number of rival