The Carmen Miranda Collection

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.

The Carmen Miranda Collection
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Produced byVarious
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Distributed by20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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
  1. "THE DVD SHELF: Carmen Miranda Collection and Linney and Hoffman as "Savages"". Playbill. June 13, 2008. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  2. "New DVDs: The Carmen Miranda Collection". The New York Times. June 17, 2008. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
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