Billy Rose's Jumbo

Starring:Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, Martha Raye, Dean Jagger, Joseph Waring, Lynn Wood, Charles Watts, James Chandler, Robert Burton, Wilson Wood, Norman Leavitt, Grady Sutton, Ron Henon, Billy Barton, Corky Cristiani, Victor Julian, Richard Berg, Joe Monahan, Adolph Dubsky
Director: Charles Walters
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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Doris Day Collection 1 (Billy Rose's Jumbo / Calamity Jane / The Glass Bottom Boat / Love Me or Leave Me / Lullaby of Broadway / The Pajama Game / Please Don't Eat the Daisies / Young Man with a Horn)
Starring: Doris Day , Stephen Boyd , Jimmy Durante , Martha Raye , and Dean Jagger
Director: Charles Walters , David Butler , and Frank Tashlin
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B0007QS2YS
Release Date: 2005-04-26

Description

The Doris Day Collection features six new-to-DVD titles -- Young Man With a Horn, Lullaby of Broadway, Love Me or Leave Me, Billy Rose's "Jumbo", Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Glass Bottom Boat -- along with two of Ms. Day's all-time favorite musicals, Calamity Jane and Pajama Game which have been repackaged for the Collection. All DVDs are packed with bonus features including vintage shorts and featurettes, cartoons, trailers and more.

Young Man with a Horn (1950)
With a second-hand trumpet and the loving guidance of a brilliant bluesman, a lonely boy grows into manhood as a superb musician whose talent carries him from honky-tonks to posh supper clubs. But his desperate search for the elusive high note, trapped in his mind but impossible to play, starts him on a boozy downward slide. Charged with dynamic performances by Kirk Douglas (the title role), Doris Day, Lauren Bacall and Hoagy Carmichael and pitch-perfect direction by Michael Curtiz, the film is a feast of hot, cool, moody jazz. Legendary Harry James dubbed Douglas' horn work.

Lullaby of Broadway (1951)
Day danced divinely and sang in this musical delight about a singer newly arrived in New York and destined for Great White Way fame in the capable company of co-stars Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall, Billy DeWolfe, Gladys George and Florence Bates. Highlights are the inclusion of the OscarR -winning title tune, Cole Porter's "Just One of Those Things", "Somebody Loves Me" and six more songs.

Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Laced with Doris Day's vibrant performances of songs from the era, this 1955 Academy AwardR winner (Best Motion Picture Story) is the tough-minded true tale of Ruth Etting's life with the man who boosted her career with strong-arm tactics yet smothered her in an obsessive grip she escaped at great peril. As Martin "The Gimp" Snyder, James Cagney earned one of the film's six OscarR nominations. Ms. Day's Etting was a career-best dramatic performance, bringing acclaim from critics and protest letters from fans unprepared for the departure from her traditionally sunny roles. DVD special features include: Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1, Three vintage shorts, the first two with Ruth Etting (A Modern Cinderella, Roseland, A Salute to the Theatres)

Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
Radiant Doris Day sings beloved Rodgers and Hart tunes and does her own horseback riding tricks in this razzle-dazzle musical based on Billy Rose's stage spectacular and featuring circus sequences directed by Busby Berkeley. The story revolves around a circus owner (Jimmy Durante, star of the 1935 Broadway original) with only two real attractions: his daughter (Day) and popular pachyderm Jumbo. Three-ring pandemonium breaks out when a handsome rival (Stephen Boyd) infiltrates the circus, and father, daughter and Dad's wisecracking fiancie (Martha Raye) are suddenly at risk of losing the greatest show on earth. o DVD Special Features include: Soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1, Musical short Yours Sincerely, Tom and Jerry cartoon Jerry and Jumbo, Original overture rejoined to the film for the first time in more than 40 years.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1962)
o Ms. Day brings her trademark radiance to this jovial comedy from the bestseller by playwright Jean Kerr. With Janis Paige, Spring Byington and Richard Haydn on hand for snappy comic support, Please Don't Eat the Daisies is breezy family fun with popular songs "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" and "Anyway the Wind Blows."

The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
Doris Day entered her eighth consecutive year as a Top-10 Box-Office Star when she boarded The Glass Bottom Boat, a blending of romantic comedy and the era's burgeoning spy-movie genre. Frank Tashlin directs with a cartoonist's sensibility, embracing everything from spy guises to push-button chaos in a futuristic kitchen. The film also stars top comedians Arthur Godfrey, Paul Lynde, Edward Andrews, John McGiver, Dom DeLuise and Dick Martin. o DVD special features include: Three vintage featurettes (Catalina Island, Every Girl's Dream, NASA), Oscar-winning cartoon The Dot and the Line.

Customer Reviews:

Great Set.......2007-03-23

Doris Day is great. I have always been a fan of hers. The movies in this set give us a good representation of her dramatic and comedic skills as an actress. This set would be a good gift to give to someone who loves the classics and musicals.

A Doris Day Attitude.......2006-11-10

Who doesn't like Doris Day? She's perky and cute and you can't keep from smiling when you watch her movies. We enjoy this collection, although some of the shows are better than others. A great keepsake for fans!

Great Tribute to A Great Star: Doris Day.......2006-08-20

If you are too young to have sat in one of those grand movie palaces and watched Doris Day grace the screen, you don't know what you missed. She lit up the screen and made millions fall in love with her.

I loved the extras for "Love Me or Leave Me" with Doris and James Cagney on the set waiting for the director to call "action!" They showed it from the standpoint of the camera and crew in the dark with the lights blazing, ready to shoot.

The inclusion of the song especially written for "The Pajama Game," "The Man Who Invented Love," was a special treat. We, her fans, had heard of the song, but had no idea that they had actually filmed the scene, which was eventually cut and shelved. It had been sitting in the vaults for over 40 years and then some brilliant researcher found it and included it as a DVD extra. Thank you!

Doris has made so many great films, she needs a couple more boxes on the market. Until then, I'll cherish this one. For all of the Day fanatics, it has been a great year with the release of all this Day material. Please, bring us more!

NOT THE GREATEST BOX SET!.......2006-05-02

I'm not a big Doris Day fan, but I thought I give the set a shot. Thought Love Me or Leave Me was excellent, Calamity Jane was very good and even Lullaby of Broadway and Young Man with a Horn weren't bad, but the rest were sickenly sweet. I thought Jumbo and The Pajama Game would NEVER end. Even Jimmy Durante couldn't save Jumbo! And The Glass Bottom Boat wasn't even worthy of the Three Stooges. The good news was I was able to sell 5 of the movies on Amazon, kept three and even made a profit by selling them individually so the box set didn't cost me anything and I made a few bucks on Doris too!

doris day is here.......2006-02-22

after way to long we get the doris day collection and it's great.a nice cross section of her films all looking great and as good as ever. if you love doris day then this is what you want.

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A pleasure fest!
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Jumbo
once again, the Wonder Circus is on parade...

Billy Rose's Jumbo
Starring: Doris Day , Stephen Boyd , Jimmy Durante , Martha Raye , and Dean Jagger
Director: Charles Walters
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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Love Me or Leave Me
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ASIN: B0007QS2YI
Release Date: 2005-04-26

Customer Reviews:

happily ever after.......2007-01-15

A movie about a circus family , falling in love, and the beloved star of the show, Jumbo, the elephant. I loved it as a child and 40 years later, its still filled with stardust, spangle, and magic. It is your basic old movie with challenges to face, but in the end they all live happily ever after. enjoy.

A pleasure fest!.......2007-01-10

Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante and Martha Raye. How could it be bad? The story is simplistic as a good romance should be. Boy meets girl, girl likes boy, boy likes girl, conflict arises, conflict resolved, happy ever after.

The JOY is how they get there. The songs are now classics: "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," "My Romance," and "Little Girl Blue," to name a few. While Doris Day is beyond her first bloom, the story is well served by a woman over 30. Stephen Boyd is as breathtakingly manly and georgeous as always. (I don't know if he actually sang his songs, but if he did, what a wonderful surprise!)

Jimmy Durante and Martha Raye strike the perfect balance of comic relief and believable characters. While their schtick is delightful, their personalities are fully deloveloped.

This has been a favorite movie of mine for many years. It's so nice to be able to watch it whenever I want instead of waiting for a movie channel to show it.

Outstanding entertainment.......2006-11-06

I waited a long time to buy this dvd as others always seemed to take precedence over it, however now that I have it in my collection I have watched it over and over again, It is an amazing 'lifter' movie. When one is feeling down it lifts your spirits to a high. It's wonderful entertainment and Doris Day 'shines' in this role. The quality of the dvd is excellent, the sound exceptional. Only wish there had been an old MGM cartoon attached (but seeing Warner now distributes maybe this was an impossiblity.Billy Rose's Jumbo is the greatest show on earth!!!

Jumbo.......2006-08-21

I first saw this movie as a little girl and can remember singing the songs from this movie to my parents. Doris Day at her funniest and most beautiful and I fell in love with the handsome Stephen Boyd. Martha Raye's performance is funny and entertaining and Durante is brilliant. A light and entertaining movie to just sit back and enjoy on a rainy afternoon.

once again, the Wonder Circus is on parade..........2005-06-16

BILLY ROSE'S JUMBO makes it's long-awaited DVD release. The movie was one of the last hig musical hurrah's from MGM, and it was also Doris Day's last movie musical role. She shines as Kitty Wonder, the bareback-riding queen of the Wonder Circus.

Based around the classic Rodgers and Hart musical (with a new storyline devised by Sidney Sheldon). Pop Wonder (Jimmy Durante, who also headlined the original 30s' Hippodrome production) owns the magical Wonder Circus, famous for it's star attraction, Jumbo the elephant. His daughter Kitty, and on-again off-again squeeze Lulu (Martha Raye) complete his family. When the mysterious Sam Rawlins (Stephen Boyd) arrives to become the new tightrope aerialist, Kitty instantly falls in love with him, but Sam hides the secret that he is the son of the Wonders' main adversary, John Noble (Dean Jagger) owner of the Noble Circus.

Tempers and emotions run high as John Noble takes away Pop's beloved circus..and even Jumbo. It's up to Sam to unite the feuding clans and reclaim Kitty's heart.

Lavish, tuneful entertainment. Doris Day suits the role of Kitty to a tee and looks lovely in her Morton Haack-designed costumes. Stephen Boyd aquits himself quite well in a rare musical role. Jimmy Durante and Martha Raye are wonderful as feuding `odd couple' Pop and Lulu.

Several real circus acts and performers appear to add extra authenticity to the circus scenes; Doris Day performed many of her own stunts. Songs include "Over and Over Again" (Day performs most of her acrobatic tricks here), "Why Can't I?" (beautifully staged with Day and Raye perched on the rear of a caravan traveling in the moonlight), "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" (Day and Boyd waltz to the strains of the caliope), "Little Girl Blue" (Day soberly wanders the empty bigtop following the Noble takeover), "This Can't Be Love" (which Day triumphantly sings while riding her white horse around the bigtop), "My Romance" (which Day sings after Boyd saves her from a near-fatal trapeze stunt) and "Sawdust, Spangles and Dreams" (the rousing finale).

In the 30+ years it took for Rodgers and Hart's circus musical to get to Hollywood, the score drastically changed (the original Broadway score also included the numbers "The Song of the Roustabouts", "Laugh", "Women", "Memories of Madison Square Garden" and "Diavolo", all cut for various reasons) and the score was interpolated with "This Can't Be Love" from Rodgers and Hart's THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE.

JUMBO originally opened on Broadway in 1935, lavishly-produced by Billy Rose (hence his tribute being added to the movie title). The musical made history being staged in the huge Hippodrome and featuring many circus acts. A real trapeze was used for some numbers. However the show was very costly to run and it closed after 233 performances. The original cast included famous clown `Poodles' Hanneford, Gloria Grafton and Jimmy Durante.

As an added bonus for the movie's DVD edition, the original Overture has been restored to the movie for the first time since the original theatrical engagements. A vintage short and the original trailer are also included. BILLY ROSE'S JUMBO is back and better than ever!

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