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A warm, funny, feel-good series about a family’s adventures on a gorgeous Greek island when they uproot from their English home in the hope of a better life.
Based on Gerald Durrell’s much-loved Corfu trilogy of novels, The Durrells sees impoverished but sparky widow Louisa Durrell make the radical decision to seek out a new destiny for her family when her options in late 1930s England seem to be limited to struggling on or marrying a wealthy but dreary older man.
Concerned that the lives of her four ‘children’, are heading down the wrong track, she relocates her reluctant brood to a dilapidated house in the Greek sun. This beautifully-shot series follows the family as they adjust to their new life, face a whole new set of challenges and meet new friends, rivals, lovers – and animals.
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Set in 1927, Don Lockwood (Kelly) has worked his way up from being a song-and-dance man with partner Cosmo Brown (Donald O'Connor) to become a top movie star. His on-screen partner, Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), who believes that Don loves her for real, needs to have her awful singing voice dubbed with the arrival of
talkies. The girl selected is 'serious' actress Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds), for whom Don soon falls. Musical numbers include the famous title song, as well as 'Make 'Em Laugh', 'Good Morning' and 'You Were Meant for Me'.
An American in Paris (1951)
American G.I. Jerry Mulligan (Kelly) has remained in Paris after the war to become a painter. There he falls in love with Lise Bouvier (Leslie Caron), only to discover that she is engaged to his friend, Henri Baurel (Georges Guetary). With music and songs by George and Ira Gershwin, including 'I Got Rhythm' and 'Embraceable
You', the film went on to win six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Kelly and Frank Sinatra star as two sailors looking for female companionship while on a four-day pass in Los Angeles. They meet a Hollywood extra (Kathryn Grayson) and try to help her realise her dream of being a star. The film features a famous sequence where Kelly dances with Jerry, the cartoon mouse of 'Tom and Jerry' fame.
On the Town (1949)
Three sailors (Kelly, Sinatra and Jules Munshin) hit New York City for a 24-hour shore leave. The first order of business is to find some women to spend it with and the boys hook up with Ivy (Vera-Ellen), an aspiring dancer, Hildy (Betty Garrett), a lady cab-driver, and Claire (Ann Miller), a paleontology student, causing mayhem across Manhattan. This was the first musical to make extensive use of location shooting rather than studio bound sets and includes the song-and-dance numbers 'New York, New York' and 'Miss Turnstiles Ballet'.
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Valentino (Blu-ray disc)
Leslie Caron, Carol Kane, Michelle Phillips, Seymour Cassel, Rudolf Nureyev, …
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Ken Russell directs this biographical drama starring Rudolf Nureyev
as Italian-American actor Rudolph Valentino. The film begins at the
31-year-old actor's funeral in 1926 in New York and, using
flashbacks, backtracks to his glory days when the former ballroom
dancer used his good looks and charm to mould a successful silent
movie career and become one of the first male screen idols in
Hollywood.
"Caron provides countless dishy details about her exploits which
are sure to entertain film buffs, Caron fans and aspiring
actors."
-"Booklist"
While still a teenager, Leslie Caron-the daughter of an American
mother and French father-was literally plucked from the Ballets des
Champs- Elysees to star opposite Gene Kelly in "An American in
Paris," and went on to become an MGM star and one of the most
cherished and admired actresses of our time.
Wry, poignant, and unguardedly frank, "Thank Heaven" (an homage to
"Thank Heaven for Little Girls," the song Maurice Chevalier sings
about her in "Gigi") recounts Caron's unorthodox childhood in
France, her string of Hollywood successes and leading men, her very
public affair with Warren Beatty, and her later triumph over
depression and alcoholism. Both witty and deeply moving, Caron's
unsentimental memoir will captivate anyone who loves classic
American movies.
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