That's Entertainment! III (1994)
Documentary, Music • 1h 53m
Directors: Bud Friedgen & Michael J. Sheridan
Cast: June Allyson, Cyd Charisse, Lena Horne, Howard Keel, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Ann Miller, Debbie Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, Granville Van Dusen, Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Ray Bolger, Leslie Caron, Joan Crawford, Claudette Colbert, Billie Burke, Lucille Bremer, Joseph I. Breen, Jack Buchanan, George K. Arthur, Adrian, Bing Crosby, Xavier Cugat, Doris Day, Gloria DeHaven, Marlene Dietrich, Jimmy Durante, Buddy Ebsen, Nelson Eddy, Marion Davies, Marie Dressler, Nanette Fabray, Cliff Edwards, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Greer Garson, Betty Garrett, Paulette Goddard, Dolores Gray, Jean Harlow, Oliver Hardy, Kathryn Grayson, Katharine Hepburn, Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Harry James, Stan Laurel, Angela Lansbury, Hedy Lamarr, Grace Kelly, Buster Keaton, Louis Jourdan, Betty Jaynes, Vivien Leigh, Oscar Levant, Myrna Loy, Carole Lombard, Una Merkel, Marilyn Monroe, Carmen Miranda, Jeanette MacDonald, Jules Munshin, Ricardo Montalban, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Eleanor Powell, Ginger Rogers, Ann Sothern, Lana Turner, Rosalind Russell, Norma Shearer, Elizabeth Taylor, Vera-Ellen, Chill Wills, Donald O'Connor, Arlene Dahl, Rosetta Duncan, Vivian Duncan, Tony Martin, Joan McCracken, Ray McDonald, Douglas McPhail, Polly Moran, George Murphy, J. Carrol Naish, Janis Paige, Jack Pearl, Jane Powell, Luise Rainer, Aggie Ross, Elmira Ross, Maggie Ross, Clinton Sundberg, Don Taylor, Lupe Vélez, Nancy Walker, Frances Williams, Harry Wilson, Robert Young, Roland Young
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Overview
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
TV series
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative for all episodes
Director: John Ford
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Warner Archive Blu-ray is 4K restoration from nitrate projection elements
Germany Filmjuwelen Blu-ray is AI upscaled https://ibb.co/album/mCJ7RQ
Director: Norman Taurog
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Delbert Mann
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Lloyd Bacon
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has excellent master in SDR and a good encode. BD caps here.
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor audio: The 2.0 is fine but unremarkable, the 5.1 is presumably an upmix with a botched, strongly raised LFE channel which makes the entire track unlistenable on well-tuned equipment. Audio graphs here.
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While it's included on both Criterion The Palm Beach Story extras and Arrow's Sullivan's Travels' extras, Criterion uses a different source and is vastly superior, see caps
Director: Ebrahim Golestan
Director: Ebrahim Golestan
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