The Carmen Miranda Collection (The Gang's All Here / If I'm Lucky / Something for the Boys / Greenwich Village / Doll Face)
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Actor: Carmen Miranda CollectionBrand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Carmen Miranda Collection (The Gang's All Here / If I'm Lucky / Something for the Boys / Greenwich Village / Doll Face)
Movie Review: Beautiful Boxset of the Brazilian Bombshell!
Summary: 5 Stars
These box set features 5 of Carmen Miranda's best films. The three in color are beautifully clear, the colors very lush and vibrant. She has never looked better! I remember seeing "The Gang's All Here" in college--the audience howled at its campiness, but this DVD version is so sharp and clear compared to the actual film I saw at the campus theater. If you love Carmen Miranda and musicals, this is a fabulous boxset, colorfully packaged like the lady herself.
Summary of The Carmen Miranda Collection (The Gang's All Here / If I'm Lucky / Something for the Boys / Greenwich Village / Doll Face)
The best-loved and most colorful performer from the canon of Fox musicals finally gets a collection all of her own. Carmen Miranda the singer/dancer/actress most famous for her outrageous Busby Berkeley banana hat and her trade-mark sarongs stars in 5 classics movies in one colorful collection.Disc 1: Doll FaceDisc 2: Greenwich VillageDisc 3: If I'm LuckyDisc 4: Something For the BoysDisc 5: The Gang's All Here RemasteredFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSICALS/MUSICALS Rating: NR UPC: 024543520115 Manufacturer No: 2252011It is a testament to Carmen Miranda's status as a larger than life pop culture icon that she warrants a DVD box set for films in which she isn't even the star. Without her, though, they would be merely pleasant diversions. The best in the bunch, 1943's The Gang's All Here, is a splashy Technicolor riot directed by the legendary Busby Berkeley (this edition, also available separately, is a big improvement over the one included in The Alice Faye Collection). Never mind Alice Faye's showgirl or James Elison's smitten soldier. All eyes are on "The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat," who plays matchmaker when she isn't otherwise wowing audiences at a New York nightclub that judging by the spectacular production numbers must have a stage the size of the Roman Colosseum. There is no denying the camp value of a phalanx of showgirls manipulating massive bananas while Miranda sings, "Some people say I dress too gay/But every day I feel so gay/And when I'm gay I dress that way/Something wrong with that?" Suffice to say, they absolutely do not make 'em like this anymore. New to DVD, Something for the Boys (1944) is an entertaining "let's put on a show" musical starring the unlikely trio of Miranda, Vivian Blaine, and Phil Silvers (with hair!) as three cousins who decide to convert the dilapidated mansion they've inherited into a home for army wives. From the same year, and also making its DVD debut, is Greenwich Village, starring Don Ameche as a composer who enters the bohemian world of New York's Latin Quarter, where Miranda works as a fortune teller at William Bendix's "members only" club. Miranda adds exotic color to two black and white musicals, If I'm Lucky (1946), featuring an underwhelming Perry Como as a crooner who is recruited to run for governor, and the snappy Doll Face (1944), based on Gypsy Rose Lee's book about a "burley-q" dancer (Vivian Blaine) who writes a sensational autobiography to legitimize herself with Broadway producers. Miranda may not be the star of these films, but with her stylized outfits, signature crazy hats, hips-don't-lie dancing (on platform heels, no less), and comic malapropisms that make fruit salad out of the English language ("You're making a mountain out of mothballs"), she is definitely the main attraction. She's am earthy force of nature for whom one will suffer Como's sleepy rendition of "Red Hot and Beautiful" in Doll Face to see her perform "Chico Chico." This set contains a cornucopia of extras, the best of which is a documentary about Miranda's remarkable life and one-of-a-kind career. A clip from The Jimmy Durante Show says it all about this ultimate show business trouper. She is stricken during a musical number, but gamely dances offstage, waving and blowing kisses to the audience. She would die 12 hours later. --Donald Liebenson
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