| The Carmen Miranda Collection | |
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| Produced by | Various |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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.
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]
| 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 |
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]
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Copacabana is a 1947 American musical comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green starring Carmen Miranda, Groucho Marx and Steve Cochran. The film is a showcase for Miranda, who performs several numbers in her usual style, including a high-energy rendition of "Tico-Tico". Groucho, as Lionel, her fiance and agent, also sings a musical number, "Go West, Young Man", wearing his traditional greasepaint brows, mustache, and baggy suit. This was Groucho's first significant film appearance as a solo act, minus Harpo and Chico.
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Doll Face is a 1945 American film released by 20th Century Fox and directed by Lewis Seiler starring Vivian Blaine as "Doll Face" Carroll. It also stars actor Dennis O'Keefe and singers Carmen Miranda and Perry Como. The film is based on the 1943 play The Naked Genius written by Gypsy Rose Lee. In the opening credits, she is billed under her birth name, Louise Hovick. The film is also known as Come Back to Me in the United Kingdom.
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