I've never had a problem with Howard Keel - he's especially good in Seven Brides, and he's just fine in his non-musical performance in Day of the Triffids.
The rest: Kiss Me Kate looks like it's always looked - caveat being watching in 2-D - soft but with decent color. Calamity Jane? Best transfer in the box, IMO, in terms of color - it just looks great and since it's the same time frame as The Band Wagon I'll just say again that, for me, The...
I'll be the lone voice in the wilderness, I guess. I found almost the entire transfer to be too yellow. Skin tones are pasty and jaundiced way too much of the time, at least for me. I did own a 16mm dye transfer print that really looked nothing like this, but it was made in the 1960s and that...