The Betty Grable Collection, Vol. 1 (My Blue Heaven / The Dolly Sisters / Moon Over Miami / Down Argentine Way)
by Henry Koster, Irving Cummings, Walter Lang
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Actor: Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, Don Ameche, John PayneDirector: Henry Koster, Irving Cummings, Walter Lang
Brand: Fox
Writer: Brown Holmes
Writer: Claude Binyon
Writer: Darrell Ware
Writer: George Seaton
Writer: John Larkin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 389 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Betty Grable Collection, Vol. 1 (My Blue Heaven / The Dolly Sisters / Moon Over Miami / Down Argentine Way)
Movie Review: Grable shines, Technicolor rules
Summary: 5 Stars
I was a boy when I saw Betty Grable (on film) we had radio and we had Movies, when a Grable film was in town, it was a family outing, we knew that all Betty Grable films had one thing in common, they made your spirits sour, you never left one of her films without a warm happy feeling, and the production numbers were always a treat, glittering costumes, and songs that raced through your head for days after, and more often than not inspired you to sing songs, like Down Argentine Way, I Can't Begin to Tell You, and Im Always Chasing Rainbows, then there was Betty Grable her self, Beautiful, great smile, fine dancer (although seldom given the chance to really shine) and always the fantastic costumes, and all in Glorious Technicolor, although critics hated Technicolor because it exagerated the colors in an almost cartoonish manner, but audiences loved it, I did & still do too. which brings me to the DVD's, Down Argentine Way, and My Blue Heaven were Mastered by Delux Digital, and they did a very good job of it, the other two discs are just a little less well transferred from film, but not as bad as at least one review I read here, there is absolutely no film grain in any of these discs, the picture has depth (amazing for films this old) and the reds,yellows, blues, golds & silvers just pop out of the screen, one look at Carmen Miranda in her red skirt leaves ones jaw dropping, indeed all the colors in Down Argentine Way are just as bright and eye popping as I remember them from so long ago, are the transfers perfect then, NO they are not, dark scenes and shadows are not as detailed as they should be, some times the skin colors are off and look artificial (they looked that way on the screen, but the equipment they have today could have been used to correct it) but never on Grable herself, only flawless peaches and cream complexion and silvery blond hair, my only real complaint is the sound track on Moon over Miami, very much as if it were comming through a telephone, and the Dolly Sisters isn't much better, I know the studios did a better job with sound then you hear in any of these discs, however the other two are passable, I have these on Laser Disc as well, and the Audio is much better then the DVD's, don't understand why, but never the less these are fun films and well worth seeing over and over again, I can hardly wait for the next batch, and the one after that, hopefully Delux will do all of the future mastering, by the way the Ladies featured in the Dark Town Strutters Ball sequence, are not really black, that is dark makeup, my reviewing equipment consists of a 73711 (73") Mitsubishi HI-DEF Monitor, Denon 5900 DVD player (with the latest factory upgrades), Denon 5803 7.1 channel receiver, and 7 Ess amt 1a floor standing speakers.
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