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- This DVD documentary short subject details the making of the 1957 MGM musical, "Silk Stockings". Hosted by its star Cyd Charisse, the film gives behind-the-scenes glimpses of how this film was made with interviews by musical director Andre Previn and supporting actress Janis Paige.
- This documentary tells the story of the making of Irving Berlin's Easter Parade. From the film's pitch, script writing, rehearsals and production all the necessary elements came to gether to create a classic - Astaire and Garland at their finest, Ann Miller overcoming a back injury and director Charles Walters proving himself at MGM. Theirs was a triumph of musical filmmaking that stands the test of time.
- The making of the Oscar-winning classic, "Grand Hotel" was rife with blazing egos and star behavior unlike anything else in Hollywood history. Never before had there existed an all-star, ensemble cast on film, and none with so many heavyweights as MGM could provide. Concieved by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, (who brainstormed the notion of an ensemble cast for the film) the film boasted names like Garbo, Crawford, Beery and two Barrymores, went on have its celebrated premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and won the Academy Award for best picture. Thus, the ensemble cast film became a staple for the studio, who went on to produce "Dinner at Eight" and several others in the ensuing years.
- A short documentary which features on the UK DVD release (2004) of the film The Great Ziegfeld (1936), which includes interviews with Ziegfeld's daughter Patricia, and one of the film's stars, Luise Rainer. They discuss Ziegfeld's life and the making of the movie respectively.
- By 1952, the Arthur Freed unit at MGM was on a roll, creating hit after hit. But, the making of the Howard Deitz/Arthur Schwartz catalogue musical The Band Wagon, everything that could go wrong - did. Writer Betty Comden and Adolph Green crafted a witty screenplay about a struggling Broadway production, which was mirrored by the many difficulties encountered by the cast and crew making the picture, which has gone on to become a classic in the annals of movie musical history.
- Susan Lucci (one of the 1999 Broadway revival Annie Oakleys) recounts the legendary origins of Irving Berlin's Broadway musical, Annie Get Your Gun and the making of the top-grossing 1950 Betty Hutton MGM musical originally intended for Judy Garland in the title role.
- At long last, we rediscover the camp classic in which Joan Crawford embodies the melodramatic diva Jenny Stewart, a song-and-dance legend who finds love and humility in the arms of blind pianist, Michael Wilding.
- Though the MGM Musical "Words and Music" celebrates the brilliant body of work by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, the studio misrepresented Hart by omitting his excessive drinking and homosexuality as well as Rodgers' crankiness and perfectionism.
- The star-crossed affair between the king and queen of Hollywood.
- MGM's tempestuous Technicolor musical "The Pirate" is examined from its early beginnings as a stage play for Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine, its many screenwriters and famed anxt-ridden filming, where Judy Garland, Gene Kelly and Vincente Minnelli pushed the artistic limits of the movie musical - and themselves to the breaking point.
- This documentary short subject for DVD gives a look at the making of Cole Porter's MGM classic, "Les Girls". Hosted by Finnish film legend and star of "Les Girls", Taina Elg tells of working with Gene Kelly, Kay Kendall and George Cukor on one of the last great MGM musicals.