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| Category | Music Video DVDs, Musical Movies, Biography Videos, G-Rated | | Starring | Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Jenny Agutter, Robert Reed, Daniel Massey, Beryl Reid, Michael Craig, Bruce Forsyth, John Collin | | Director | Robert Wise | | Cinematographer | Ernest Laszlo | | Editor | William H. Reynolds | | Music Director | Lennie Hayton | | Producer | Saul Chaplin | | Production Designer | Boris Leven | | Writer | William Fairchild |
Julie Andrews stars in this biopic of the celebrated stage star Gertrude Lawrence. puckish Daniel Massey plays Noel Coward, Lawrence's childhood chum. the movie staggers around between the big production numbers. Its social message--independent Lawrence just needed a man to boss her around--was just as grating in the age of The Graduate as it is now. In this biography of legendary entertainer Gertrude Lawrence, her early, determined attempts at beginning a showbiz career are examined, as well as her rise to fame on two continents. A musical biography of British music hall and Broadway star Gertrude Lawrence, STAR! is a convincing and entertaining film, featuring an impressive score. The immensely talented Julie Andrews plays Lawrence, a beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely independent woman who will do anything for her career (including leaving her daughter and husband). Her early adventures in the music hall chorus and her later involvement in British high society are chronicled in this lush film that, though it received several Academy Award nominations, was not appreciated by the public until some 30 years after its original showing, when it was rereleased. One of the most interesting, heartwarming, and perhaps most famous aspects of Lawrence's story was her lifelong friendship with playwright Nöel Coward (Daniel Massey, the real-life grandson of Coward), which the film accurately portrays. STAR! also shows the lowlights of Lawrence's life, including her strained relationship with her daughter Pamela (Jenny Agutter), her involvement with such men as American actor Charles Fraser (Robert Reed) and English nobleman Sir Anthony Spencer (Michael Craig), and the financial difficulties she amassed from her extravagant lifestyle. The film used 10,000 costumed extras, and 125 original costumes were designed at an approximate cost of $350,000.
The film was conceived especially for Julie Andrews by Robert Wise and Saul Chaplin.
This is the only John Collin video. Star! | List Price | $9.98 (You save $2.89) | | Studio | 20th Century Fox | | Orig Year | 1968 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  9098  | | CD Universe Part number | 6678599 | | Catalog number | 2221358 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Apr 20, 2004 | | Rating | G (MPAA) | | Running Time | 172 Minutes | | Movie Details | Color |
Star! DVD Region 1
Keep Case
Dual Side
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Mono - English
Side One:
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary -
1. Robert Wise - Director
Side Two:
Additional Release Material:
Featurettes -
1. "STAR! The Sound of a Legend"
Trailers -
1. Advance Teaser Trailer
2. Regular Theatrical Trailer
3. Advance TV Spot
4. Reissue Television Spot
5. Regular TV Spot
6. TV Spot
Purchase Star! Movie To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Thoroughly Modern Millie DVD (1967) Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled
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This characteristically spectacular Ross Hunter musical production, a parody of the films of the 1920s, stars Julie Andrews as the eager young Millie Dillmount. She arrives in New York City in the 1920s intent on a job as a secretary with a rich, handsome, eligible boss. Deciding to adopt the appearance of a flapper, she has her hair bobbed. At a women's hotel run by Mrs. Meers (Beatrice Lillie), who also runs a white slavery ring, she meets the beautiful, naive Miss Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore). Millie does get a job with a handsome boss, Trevor Graydon (John Gavin), but he has eyes only for Miss Dorothy, and Millie is forced to make do with Jimmy Smith (James Fox), a paper-clip salesman. After they've returned to the hotel from attending a party at the Long Island estate of wealthy Muzzy van Hossmere (Carol Channing), Millie finds that Miss Dorothy has disappeared. When she and Jimmy detect the scent of opium in Mrs. Meers's room, they realize she has a sideline. The valiant Jimmy must go in drag to uncover the whereabouts of the white slavers' hideout. The cast and crew perform admirably in this light farce that is almost too sweet for its own good.
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Muisc & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Score conducted by David Caddick.
Recorded live at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC. Includes a book by John Weidman & liner notes by Frank Rich.
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