Según DVDTimes, el próximo agosto, en zona 1, sale un muy esperado primer volumen con las películas de una de las párejas-icono fundamentales del cine: Fred Astaire y Ginger Rogers. Como son producciones RKO -ésas que Manga canibaliza de la peor forma- y MGM, edita Warner con la calidad habitual.
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Astaire & Rogers Collection Volume 1 in August

Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Astaire & Rogers: The Signature Collection Volume 1 for 16th August 2005. You'll Love The Way Fred and Ginger Look Tonight in the 5-film, 5-Disc Astaire and Rogers Collection Volume One, including the highly acclaimed Top Hat and Swing Time.

All five films will be available separately priced at $19.97 SRP each or as part of the signature collection box set, priced at $59.92 SRP. We're still waiting on the final press release but do have early details and artwork for each and every film...

Shall We Dance (Ritmo loco, 1937) - To keep musical-comedy star Linda Keene from retiring to marry, her manager Arthur Mille, suggests to the press that she's already married to Petrov, the ballet dancer. The two ultimately decide to marry so that they can have very public divorce and clear the air, but true love blossoms between them.

Features include:
Commentary by Kevin Cole and Hugh Martin
They Can't Take That Away from Me: The Music of Shall We Dance featurette
Musical Short Sheik to Sheik and Classic Cartoon Toy Town Hall

Swing Time (En alas de la danza, 1936)- It's Swing Time anytime Fred and Ginger slip on their dancing shoes. Here, Fred's a gambler with a fiancée back home...but one look at Ginger and all bets are off! He pursues, she resists, and it's all tied together by a series of breathtaking dances.

Features include:
Commentary by John Mueller, Author of Astaire Dancing
The Swing of Things: Swing Time Step by Step featurette
Musical Short Hotel a la Swing and Classic Cartoon Bingo Crosbyana

Top Hat (Sombrero de Copa, 1935) - Perhaps the best remembered of the 10 Astaire/Rogers musicals, Top Hat has it all: Art Deco elegance, a wonderfully addled storyline, loopy support from skilled farceurs and the incomparable chemistry of the two leads cheek-to-cheeking to Irving Berlin's finest film score.

Features include:
Commentary by Fred Astaire's Daughter Ava Astaire McKenzie and Film Dance Historian Larry Billman
On Top: Inside the Success of Top Hat featurette
Comedy Short Watch the Birdie with Bob Hope, Classic Cartoon Page Miss Glory

Follow the Fleet (Sigamos la flota, 1936) - In the fifth of 10 Astaire/Rogers pairings, Fred trades his top hat for a sailor's cap, Randolph Scott gets the girl (pre-Nelson Harriet Hilliard), Ginger gets a tap solo and viewers get the unending delight of seven sparkling Irving Berlin numbers, including Let Yourself Go, We Saw the Sea, the Duo's zany I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket skit and their sublimely powerful Let's Face the Music and Dance.

Features include:
Follow the Fleet: The Origins of Those Dancing Feet featurette
Musical Short Melody Master: Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra and Classic Cartoon Let It Be Me

The Barkleys of Broadway (Vuelve a mí, 1949) - The last Astaire/Rogers movie, about a show-biz team divided by career ambitions, is also the duo's only color film.

Features include:
Reunited at MGM: Astaire and Rogers Together featurette
Vintage Short Annie Was a Wonder and Classic Droopy Cartoon Wags to Riches

(Quedarían pendientes para el Volumen 2: "La alegre divorciada", "Roberta", "Amanda", "La historia de Irene Castle" y "Volando hacia Río de Janeiro")


Un saludo con claqué.


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