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List Price: $88.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 5176
Released: April 26, 2005 |
| Our Price: $59.99 |
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MPAA Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The Doris Day Collection features six new-to-DVD titles -- Young Man With a Horn, Lullaby of Broadway, Love Me or Leave Me, Billy Rose's "Jumbo", Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Glass Bottom Boat -- along with two of Ms. Day's all-time favorite musicals, Calamity Jane and Pajama Game which have been repackaged for the Collection. All DVDs are packed with bonus features including vintage shorts and featurettes, cartoons, trailers and more.
Young Man with a Horn (1950)
With a second-hand trumpet and the loving guidance of a brilliant bluesman, a lonely boy grows into manhood as a superb musician whose talent carries him from honky-tonks to posh supper clubs. But his desperate search for the elusive high note, trapped in his mind but impossible to play, starts him on a boozy downward slide. Charged with dynamic performances by Kirk Douglas (the title role), Doris Day, Lauren Bacall and Hoagy Carmichael and pitch-perfect direction by Michael Curtiz, the film is a feast of hot, cool, moody jazz. Legendary Harry James dubbed Douglas' horn work.
Lullaby of Broadway (1951)
Day danced divinely and sang in this musical delight about a singer newly arrived in New York and destined for Great White Way fame in the capable company of co-stars Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall, Billy DeWolfe, Gladys George and Florence Bates. Highlights are the inclusion of the OscarR -winning title tune, Cole Porter's "Just One of Those Things", "Somebody Loves Me" and six more songs.
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Laced with Doris Day's vibrant performances of songs from the era, this 1955 Academy AwardR winner (Best Motion Picture Story) is the tough-minded true tale of Ruth Etting's life with the man who boosted her career with strong-arm tactics yet smothered her in an obsessive grip she escaped at great peril. As Martin "The Gimp" Snyder, James Cagney earned one of the film's six OscarR nominations. Ms. Day's Etting was a career-best dramatic performance, bringing acclaim from critics and protest letters from fans unprepared for the departure from her traditionally sunny roles. DVD special features include: Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1, Three vintage shorts, the first two with Ruth Etting (A Modern Cinderella, Roseland, A Salute to the Theatres)
Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
Radiant Doris Day sings beloved Rodgers and Hart tunes and does her own horseback riding tricks in this razzle-dazzle musical based on Billy Rose's stage spectacular and featuring circus sequences directed by Busby Berkeley. The story revolves around a circus owner (Jimmy Durante, star of the 1935 Broadway original) with only two real attractions: his daughter (Day) and popular pachyderm Jumbo. Three-ring pandemonium breaks out when a handsome rival (Stephen Boyd) infiltrates the circus, and father, daughter and Dad's wisecracking fiancie (Martha Raye) are suddenly at risk of losing the greatest show on earth. o DVD Special Features include: Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1, Musical short Yours Sincerely, Tom and Jerry cartoon Jerry and Jumbo, Original overture rejoined to the film for the first time in more than 40 years.
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1962)
o Ms. Day brings her trademark radiance to this jovial comedy from the bestseller by playwright Jean Kerr. With Janis Paige, Spring Byington and Richard Haydn on hand for snappy comic support, Please Don't Eat the Daisies is breezy family fun with popular songs "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" and "Anyway the Wind Blows."
The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
Doris Day entered her eighth consecutive year as a Top-10 Box-Office Star when she boarded The Glass Bottom Boat, a blending of romantic comedy and the era's burgeoning spy-movie genre. Frank Tashlin directs with a cartoonist's sensibility, embracing everything from spy guises to push-button chaos in a futuristic kitchen. The film also stars top comedians Arthur Godfrey, Paul Lynde, Edward Andrews, John McGiver, Dom DeLuise and Dick Martin. o DVD special features include: Three vintage featurettes (Catalina Island, Every Girl's Dream, NASA), Oscar-winning cartoon The Dot and the Line.
Doris Day Collection 1 (Billy Rose's Jumbo / Calamity Jane / The Glass Bottom Boat / Love Me or Leave Me / Lullaby of Broadway / The Pajama Game / Please Don't Eat the Daisies / Young Man with a Horn) Reviews:
If it is Doris Day, It HAS to be good.... 
2009-05-12 - CALAMITY JANE....probably the best musical comedy of all time. "Singing in the Rain" usually gets all the credit...but this one is MUCH better. Debbie Reynolds or Doris Day? NO CONTEST.
Top that with THE PAJAMA GAME (one of the very best Broadway Shows moved to video and being true to the original). Janis Paige or Doris Day? NO CONTEST.
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME.....Doris Day's Best Performance on film, and It SHOULD have been an oscar winner..the critics goofed on that one.
YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN....Doris shows what life was like as a band singer, and Kirk Douglas does NOT steal the show.
PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES....really cute comedy.
LULLABYE OF BROADWAY....And they said Doris would never dance again. Just as good as any other female dancer on screeen AND SHE SINGS TOO.
JUMBO.........SHOULD have been a gigantic box office musical comedy. Unfortunately, it was released when musicals were no longer big at the box office. What a terrible waste of timing...this one is superior.
GLASS BOTTOM BOAT....last but not least. Doris as a mermAID...WHAT A TRIP!
THE WHOLE COLLECTION IS A TREAT TO THE EYES AND THE EARS, as well as the senses!!!
Doris Day collection
2009-02-22 - This set showcases Doris Day's versatility. She has proven her ability in drama, as well as musical comedy. Day shows new levels of emotional depth. We can relate to her vulnerability, as well as her strengths. She has always given 110%in every performance. She is to be commended for her courage in facing her personal difficulties head-on. She remains a beloved and respected personality.
Great collection of Doris Day Classics 
2009-01-28 - If you love Doris Day you can't beat this package of movies from her years at Warner Brothers. Never a false note - singing, dancing, crying, laughing - she made it all look so real that you always believed her on-screen persona. This is a collection well worth having for those times when you just feel like feeling great.
Wonderful collection of classics
2009-01-21 - My husband got me this collection for Christmas and I love it! My daughters and I love to cuddle up on a rainy Saturday and watch them together. They love the music.
My daughters Christmas.
2007-12-28 - My daughter loves Doris Day so these movies were an absolutely wonderful gift for her. She was Thrilled! We got the movies in time and the price was reasonable. Thank You
