Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Music, Romance • 1h 44m
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter, Richard Carlson, Spring Byington, Connie Gilchrist, Mártha Eggerth, Douglas Croft, Leonid Kinskey, Patricia Barker, Janet Chapman, Annie Ross, Ray McDonald, Tommy Dorsey, Bob Crosby, Abigail Adams, Foncilla Adams, Bobby Barber, Ray Bauduc, Barbara Bedford, Betty Blythe, Eric Braunsteiner, Judy Carol, Pete Carpenter, Bill Cartledge, Lynne Carver, Wally Cassell, Robert Cauterio, Jack Chefe, Milton Chisholm, Frank Coghlan Jr., Cliff Danielson, Bryn Davis, Helen Dickson, Bill Dill, Mary Elliott, Virginia Engels, Virginia Gumm, Max Herman, Marcella Holmes, Vicky Lane, Carl M. Leviness, Marilyn Maxwell, Claire McDowell, Charles Meakin, Mary Alice Moore, Alberto Morin, Buddy Morrow, Al Murphy, Lee Murray, Remington Olmsted, Lew Payton, Wanda Perry, Ben Pollack, Frances Rafferty, Gil Rodin, Harry Rosenthal, Gus Schilling, Almira Sessions, Mabel Smaney, Bruce Squires, Henry Sylvester, William Tannen, Jack Vlaskin, Charles Walters, Pat West, Frank Whitbeck, Lee Wilde, Lyn Wilde, Lillian Yarbo, Joe Yule
Best English-friendly release · updated 1 month ago
Overview
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for Dec 2026 release
Warner Archive Blu-ray in October
More Music on Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
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.
Director: Sian Heder
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Has full and forced English subtitles
Apple TV 4K Blu-ray with Atmos
(Eagle Pictures is 5.1)
Director: Miloš Forman
Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray
Extended: Warner Bros Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray: Huge improvement in colors and detail. The restoration was done by the Academy instead of WB MPI which explains that there’s no grain management or issues with colors. They also accessed the original credit optical and scanned that one instead of recreating them digitally
Theatrical: WB 4K Blu-ray, according to Saentz, the 5.0 is a recreation of the original and subsequently 70mm mix from original elements.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Criterion 4K Blu-ray replacement disc for fixed audio (there were some dialogues missing)
While the video on the replacement disc is exactly the same as the original release, the Atmos with missing lines has been corrected as it was also corrected on the Criterion commentary. Criterion also included the 6-track which is almost identical to the PAL track; It’s 4.0 in a 5.1 container. This 6-track is slightly better than the PAL DVD track as the PAL has some flutter on some parts that Criterion doesn’t have.
The Atmos on the replacement is identical to the Imprint AUS Blu-ray track which also has all the lines. The compatibility track is also the same,
It is worth mentioning the Imprint only has the Atmos and no 6-track. The 5.1 surround is with LFE and split surrounds and it’s just a downmix of the Atmos. Ditto for the LPCM 2.0 on said Blu-ray.
Director: George Cukor
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