Music Video - DVD

<p>From the folks that brought us Mr. Magoo comes "Gay Purr-ee," a stylish and sophisticated animated musical about a group of cats in Paris, France. "The Wizard of Oz" meets "Camelot" in the classic voices of Judy Garland and Robert Goulet, who add another...

<p>Academy Award-winner Gene Kelly ("Singin' in the Rain," "An American in Paris"), Oscar-nominee Dan Dailey ("The Pride of St. Louis"), and 5-time Tony-winner dancer/choreographer Michael Kidd ("Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," "Hello Dolly!") star as three WWII comrades who meet again during a ten-year...

<p>The star of a third-rate theatrical troupe in Miami catches the attention of a Broadway songwriter.</p>

<p>Musical biography of composer Sigmund Romberg, who fought to bring serious music to Broadway.</p>

The steps of the studio set towered before her like a pyramid. All Doris Day had to do was dance up and down those steps wearing a flowing gold lame dress. "You've got to be out of your minds," Day exclaimed in a voice...

<p>Hafiz, the jovial King of Beggars, dons new garments and slips into the royal palace to woo his regal "Lady of the Moonlight." Meanwhile, Bagdad's new Caliph carries out his own masquerade, posing as a gardener's son and roaming the city where he falls...

<p>The story of a sailor and the owner of a seaside cafe falling in love.</p>

<p>The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves in this Oscar-nominated musical.</p>

<p>Double trouble: Winsocki Military Institute cadet Bud Hooper has two dates for the prom: his best girl - and publicity-seeking glamour girl Lucille Ball, who unexpectedly says yes to starstruck Bud's invitation. Comedy puts its Best Foot Forward in this snappy frolic based on...

<p>They have the sky above, the sand below and a song in their hearts. Kathryn Grayson (Kiss Me Kate) and Gordon MacRae (Oklahoma!) capture the romance and splendor of one of the world's great operettas in the ravishing Technicolor treat The Desert Song. The...

<p>Take a famed operetta scored by Sigmund Romberg, update its tale of romance and heroics with the then-current Nazi peril, include a lively cast and imaginative direction, burnish the burning desert sands with rich Technicolor cinematography and voila! That's 1943's The Desert Song. Now...

<p>Samuel Goldwyn brings the classics to the masses in this joyous musical celebration starring Jascha Heifetz, Andrew Leeds, Joel McCrea and Walter Brennan. Running away from home after his stepfather threatens him with reform school, young Frankie (Gene Reynolds) attends a concert by Jascha...

<p>All-star musical follows Steve Martin,as a womanizing sheet-music salesman who's married to hapless Jessica Harper,but carries on an affair with a schoolteacher, Tony-winner Bernadette Peters. Set during the Depression, it features lyp-synced songs from the greats of that era, including Bing Crosby and Fred...

<p>The Cars were on the cutting edge when it came to music videos. And this Heartbeat City video compilation, with songs from three of the band's most successful CD5, is no exception. Inspired by their 1984 platinum-selling album, this sight-and-sound spectacular includes extensive video...

<p>No good deed goes unpunished - at least temporarily - in The Mayor of 44th Street. Future U.S. Senator George Murphy plays Joe Jonathan, a nice-guy Broadway agent who attempts to help a paroled racketeer and a kid involved in a street gang, only...

<p>Wealthy New York party girl Joan Prescott (Joan Crawford) has lassoed herself a cowboy! Not that she plans to when she heads west to her family's Montana ranch. But she steps off the train at a nowhere town to elude an on-board lothario, meets...

<p>Edna Ferber's classic tale of life and love among a theatrical troupe on a Mississippi riverboat has received many dramatic treatments since its birth over eighty years ago. But none is more satisfying than this 1936 production, widely accepted as the best and most...

<p>He penned the lines. Walter Donaldson, George Gershwin and others provided the music. Yet there was a more vital partner in lyricist Gus Kahn's life: Grace LeBoy Kahn, who put the love into his love songs. Doris Day and Danny Thomas are the Kahns...

<p>The job -- a career breakthrough -- is supposed to go to hoofer Johnny Brett, but a mix-up in names give it to his partner. Another example of Broadway hopes dashed? Not when Johnny is played by Fred Astaire. Sparkling Cole Porter songs, clever...

<p>After conquering the Borscht Belt and Broadway, David Daniel Kaminksi (Danny Kaye) got the nod from maverick impresario Samuel Goldwyn and under his tutelage soon mastered the movies as well. Kaye makes his feature film debut alongside Dinah Shore in Up in Arms (1944)...

<p>Following the success of Classic Musical Shorts from the Dream Factory, comes this rollicking volume of mostly musical shorts produced by MGM. Two-reel Technicolor extravaganzas, one-reel earthy "tabloid musicals," showstopping MGM revues and more are waiting in the wings in this 3-Disc Collection of...

<p>Presenting Judy Garland! Whether swinging a hot number with Bob Crosby's orchestra or emoting a hilariously hammy version of Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene, Judy is a delight as a stage-struck Hoosier in this charming film based on Booth Tarkington's novel. Lily just knows she...

<p>Hallelujah is a cinematic milestone: the first all-black feature from a major studio and famed director King Vidor's (The Champ, The Big Parade) first talkie. But the film surpasses its historical significance, telling a story of profound dignity and understanding that it as fresh...

<p>Legendary movie stars Marion Davies and Bing Crosby create true movie magic in this magnificent musical treat. Bored schoolteacher Sylvia Bruce (Davies) is disenchanted with life until she hears the incredible crooning of egomaniacal radio personality Bill Williams (Crosby). Hopelessly lovestruck, Sylvia has no...

<p>Esther Williams stars as the beautiful woman whose love saves Rome in this whimsical musical delight. The year is 216 B.C. and almost all of the known world has fallen to the mighty Hannibal of Carthage. In a bold and daring move, Hannibal has...

<p>Def Poetry is one of the country's fastest rising performing-art forms, and recognizing the power of urban poetry on modern culture, rap impressario Russell Simmons teamed up with HBO to create Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry. Season four of the improvisational, uninhibited late-night series...

<p>Experience the passion and fire of the hottest musicians, comedians and contemporary poets in each installment of Russell Simmons' Presents Def Poetry Season 5. Taped in front of a live audience at The Super Club in New York City, Season 5 of the improvisational,...

<p>Combining Nelson Eddy's fine baritone voice with its message of religious and ethnic tolerance, Let Freedom Ring distinguishes itself as a most unusual western. While boasting its share of bad guys and two-fisted action, this ambitious film delivers a powerful and heartfelt message. The...

<p>Jeanette MacDonald is Sonia, a bubbly widow who owns 52% of every cow and cowtown in the tiny European country of Marshovia. When she relocates to glittery Paris, suave ladies' man Captain Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) sets out in hot pursuit. His mission: avert his...

<p>From Cool World creator Ralph Bakshi, Hey Good Lookin' is an outrageous, nostalgic and adult take on a more innocent time. Well, not that much more innocent: not every street corner was a Happy Days setting. Our hero, Vinnie, leader of the ragtag gang...

<p>After Love Me Tonight, Jeanette MacDonald left for Europe and returned with an M-G-M contract. I Married an Angel was the studio's choice for the soprano's first Metro film. Choose again, said the censors. They would not approve a script about an angel losing...

<p>Jean Stapleton and Art Carney head an all-star cast in this Emmy -winning* adaption of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. When it comes to eccentric behavior, the Sycamores wrote the book. Grandpa (Art Carney) doesn't believe in paying taxes, daughter...

<p>One of the very first spin-off sensations, Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve graduated from thorn in Fibber McGee's side ("You're a HARRRRD MAN, McGee!") to his own hit radio sit-com and a series of feature films starring Harold Peary as the befuddled blowhard. As an added...

<p>Step right up for the greatest show on earth or what's left of it, as the owner of Colonel Gowdy's circus (Guy Kibbee) hasn't paid his employees in weeks. So as the performers quit, Pat (Winnie Lightner) takes over their acts, from hula dancing...

<p>The greatest variety acts of the past -- humorists, bands, vaudevillians, dramatists, dancers and more -- return for a second collection of the earliest of the venerable Vitaphone sound shorts. Entertainers from coast to coast, from stage and screen, from the heights of Brooklyn...

<p>The women of a touring symphonic orchestra are a tightly knit group, and they're not about to let the secret they hold slip through the knitting. They'll wait until fragile, pregnant bassist Barbara Ainsworth (June Allyson) has her baby before letting her know about...

<p>Orphan Lili Daurier joins a carnival and falls under the spell of its star, a suave magician. But it is the show's crippled, embittered puppeteer who truly loves Lili, a love he can express only through his puppets. "It is not often that the...

<p>Opera star Rise Stevens makes her big-screen debut opposite Nelson Eddy in this rollicking adaptation of Ferenc Molnar's The Guardsman set to The Chocolate Soldier's glorious score. Hungary's most popular musical comedy team, Karl Lang (Eddy) and Maria Lanyi (Stevens) are married to the...

<p>They came, they played, they conquered. There was no stopping them. The British invasion of the U.S. pop scene was in full force in 1965. And one of the most super of the supergroups was The Dave Clark Five. The quintet takes to the...

<p>Cowpokes from all around agree. Ain't nobody like Mary, the tomboy they call "the girl." She's as much at ease serving a slug of whiskey as she is trilling a tune. And when it comes to playing a hand of cards to save the...

<p>Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy conjure romantic magic once more in the sixth of their eight fabled films - this one based on the inspiring 1927 operetta about a beautiful young French heiress and a dashing revolutionary nobleman irresistibly drawn together in 19th century...

<p>Sumptuous photography, sensational singing from one of the world's greatest tenors and a sentimental storyline make Seven Hills of Rome a cinematic and musical delight. Marc Revere (Mario Lanza), a popular American TV singer, is in Rome searching for his jet-setting fiancee, Carol (Peggie...

<p>The brilliance of one of the world's most beloved tenors and the exciting world of opera highlight this delightful romantic adventure set in the most beautiful cities of Europe. Tonio Costa (Mario Lanza), the temperamental darling of the opera world, is forever missing performances...

An aged opera star recounts her youthful romance with a poor voice student whom she eventually left for an arranged marriage, only to be cast opposite him in a production years later.

<p>Resounding with such songs as "Rose-Marie, I Love You," "Song of the Mounties" and the beloved "Indian Love Call," Rose-Marie immortalized Hollywood's greatest singing team. This 1936 screen version of the Rudolf Friml-Herbert Stothart Broadway hit is set in the breathtaking wilderness of the...

<p>"Lon Chaney is superb" (Leonard Maltin) as the hard-boiled sergeant with a heart of gold in this two-fisted tale of Marine Corps life, costarring William Haines and Eleanor Boardman. When Skeet Burns (Haines) joins the U.S. Marines, he winds up under Sergeant O'Hara (Chaney),...

<p>There's no honor among thieves in director Tod Browning's delirious tale of love and betrayal starring Lon Chaney, Owen Moore and Renee Adoree. A notorious Limehouse criminal, Dan Tate (Chaney) lives a double life. As feared underworld figure The Blackbird, he hides in plain...

<p>While staying in Washington, D.C., Tennessee-born Gwen Harold (Carroll Baker) falls in love with and marries Japanese diplomat Hidenari (Terry) Terasaki (James Shigeta), despite the objections from her family. When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Gwen, Terry and their daughter Mako are sent to...

<p>Felix Farmer's (Richard Mulligan) latest movie flops -- and lots of Hollywood types spring into action. Agents are called. Lawyers are retained. Statements are issued. It's what master comedy director Blake Edwards calls "Standard Operating Bull," the subject of his gleefully satiric S.O.B. Julie...

<p>Ann Rogers is a lovely young opera student who would rather croon a mellow swing tune. Handsome Damon Dillingham is her classical voice instructor, although he's really the former leader of a swell big band, and he needs Ann's tuition money to reunite his...