The Carmen Miranda Collection
| The Carmen Miranda Collection | |
|---|---|
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| Produced by | Various |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Carmen Miranda Collection is a box set featuring five top movie titles starring Carmen Miranda. It was released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on June 17, 2008.
It is part of the 20th Century Fox Marquee Musicals, that refers to a collection of films released on DVD by Twentieth Century-Fox.[1]
Films
| Film Title | Main cast | Director | Original Release Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Gang's All Here | Alice Faye, Phil Baker, Benny Goodman | Busby Berkeley | 1943 |
| Greenwich Village | Don Ameche, Vivian Blaine | Walter Lang | 1944 |
| Something for the Boys | Michael O'Shea, Vivian Blaine | Lewis Seiler | 1944 |
| Doll Face | Vivian Blaine, Dennis O'Keefe | Lewis Seiler | 1946 |
| If I'm Lucky | Vivian Blaine, Perry Como, Harry James, Phil Silvers | Lewis Seiler | 1946 |
Reception
The New York Times has published an article in which he says, "The Gang’s All Here seems like an ingeniously designed vintage pinball machine: a triumph of mechanical engineering, not electronics." And continues: "the production was the apotheosis of Miranda’s career at Fox, and the other four films in the set follow its decline. Walter Lang's 1944 Greenwich Village, with Don Ameche and Vivian Blaine, and Lewis Seiler's barely recognizable version of the Cole Porter musical Something for the Boys (1944), with Ms. Blaine and Phil Silvers, both have glorious Technicolor and decent production values," according to the critic, but in Doll Face and If I'm Lucky, Miranda had been reduced to supporting roles. "In the new realism that dominated postwar cinema, which stories could accommodate a character as utterly unreal as the Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat?," question.[2]
References
- ^ "THE DVD SHELF: Carmen Miranda Collection and Linney and Hoffman as "Savages"". Playbill. June 13, 2008. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
- ^ "New DVDs: The Carmen Miranda Collection". The New York Times. June 17, 2008. Retrieved 26 May 2017.