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Hey Warner! where are the girls?

post #1 of 51
10/4/06 at 1:33pm
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why not a box set with female stars? so far you have given us 2 boxes with male stars (tough guys collection, gangster collection) but non with the women( I don't think this one counts http://www.amazon.com/Leading-Collec...897642?ie=UTF8 )

Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer, Vivien Liegh, Judy Garland, Barbara Stanwyck, Katharine Hepburn, Greer Garson, Grace Kelly, Rosalind Russell, Myrna Loy
why not a big 8 movies collection?

Waterloo Bridge & The Swan would be perfect to be included
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post #2 of 51
10/4/06 at 6:56pm

Re: Hey Warner! where are the girls?

This concept would work if there was a common theme (a la gangsters, crime, film noir or pre-Code) that you could hang the collection on. But Warner seems more interested in issuing boxes grouped by star (Bette, Joan, Garbo, Judy, etc.)
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post #3 of 51
10/5/06 at 5:11am
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Re: Hey Warner! where are the girls?

Im very sure Warner can come up with a theme for the girls

I can think of 38 Crawford & 34 Davis movies that are DVD worthy
However there is gonna be a Crawford vol.2 & Davis vol.3 next year so there is 33 Crawford, 29 Davis left. they can at least put 2 or 3 Crawford/Davis movies in a "Ladies Collection"

There is only 5 Garland movie left(The Pirate,The Clock,Little Nellie Kelly,Listen, Darling,Everybody Sing)

Elizabeth Taylor & Lana Turner also has some movie that could be included
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post #4 of 51
10/5/06 at 12:14pm

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yeah they might as well box the rest of judy's movies together, release the remaining garbo talkies (6 left) and lana turner needs her own set now.
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post #5 of 51
10/11/06 at 10:14pm

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don't forget Ida!!
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post #6 of 51
10/12/06 at 5:12am

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Originally Posted by bobraleigh
don't forget Ida!!

i'd love to see the hard way, out of the fog, and the man i love released on dvd. i think joan crawford v2 or jean harlow will be the first female set of 2007.
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post #7 of 51
10/12/06 at 6:50am

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A Stanwyck Box? NIGHT NURSE, EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE, JEOPARDY (quite a tour de force), THESE WILDER YEARS (with Cagney), LADIES THEY TALK ABOUT, TO PLEASE A LADY (with Gable), MAN IN A CLOAK, and an excuse to finally bring out EXECUTIVE SUITE....
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post #8 of 51
10/12/06 at 1:57pm
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I agree about Stanwyck

I think Jean Harlow is gonna be released first and then Crawford
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post #9 of 51
10/12/06 at 2:33pm

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I think they will release a Katharine Hepburn in May 2007 to celebrate her 100th birthday.
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post #10 of 51
10/12/06 at 8:15pm

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Please Warner. Give us a scopp of what's coming early 2007. I can't wait for the Harlow and Crawford boxes, as well as the mentioned Ginger Rogers collection (though I think this won't be out until 2008). Esther Willians, Bette Davis Vol. 3 and a Katharine Hepburn box would be must buys too.
Can't forget the wonderful Barbara Stanwyck. And since I know she won't have a box set of her own, I would love to see more Ann Sheridan on dvd.
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post #11 of 51
10/13/06 at 10:18am

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I am waiting for a Natalie Wood Box from Warner.

Inside Daily Clover
Splendor In The Grass: SE
Penelope
Sex and the Single Girl
Gypsy
Cash McCall
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post #12 of 51
10/13/06 at 11:31am

Re: Hey Warner! where are the girls?

There are a lot of films with female leads from the Warner/Turner catalog that are worthy of DVD release:

Green Dolphin Street- with Lana Turner and Donna Reed
I'll Cry Tomorrow- starring Susan Hayward
Light In The Piazza- starring Olivia deHavilland, recently made into a Broadway musical which was televised this year live on PBS
The Valley of Decision- with Greer Garson (who should have her own box set!)
Escape- Norma Shearer battles the Nazis to save Robert Taylor
Confession-Kay Francis kills for love (now, this is a star who needs rediscovery a la Louise Brooks. Before Bette Davis, she was the queen of Warner Bros., and did many a melodrama that made her Warners' answer to both MGM's Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo- at one point, she was the highest paid actress in Hollywood!)

-mind you, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Just to prove that there are a lot of major and lesser-known films from the Golden Age with stong leading ladies that deserve a DVD release!
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post #13 of 51
10/13/06 at 12:26pm
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"Escape" with Norma Shearer is one I relly would like too see
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post #14 of 51
10/13/06 at 5:26pm

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smilin through with frederic march and norma shearer is the 2nd most requested on title not on DVD acording to the TCM website.
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post #15 of 51
10/14/06 at 7:48am

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Originally Posted by Junior_V
Im very sure Warner can come up with a theme for the girls


There is only 5 Garland movie left(The Pirate,The Clock,Little Nellie Kelly,Listen, Darling,Everybody Sing)

Has BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938 been released?
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post #16 of 51
10/14/06 at 9:14am

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Originally Posted by MattH.
Has BROADWAY MELODY OF 1938 been released?

speaking of broadway melody, they should have an eleanor powell set icluding:

-broadway melody of 1936 & 1938 (double feature)
-lady be good
-rosalie
-born to dance
-ship ahoy
-honolulu
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post #17 of 51
10/14/06 at 10:54am

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Originally Posted by Corey
speaking of broadway melody, they should have an eleanor powell set icluding:

-broadway melody of 1936 & 1938 (double feature)
-lady be good
-rosalie
-born to dance
-ship ahoy
-honolulu
AMEN!
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post #18 of 51
10/14/06 at 12:15pm

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An Eleanor Powell set would be awesome!!!
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post #19 of 51
10/15/06 at 4:45pm

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i hope they have those eleanor powell musicals on the release schedule because she most likely wouldn't get a set devoted to her.
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post #20 of 51
10/15/06 at 7:29pm

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I'm hoping Warner Bros. is going to release "RAINTREE COUNTY" starring Elizabeth Taylor for its 50th Anniversary next year. I'm eager to have this on DVD.

Andy
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post #21 of 51
10/15/06 at 8:29pm

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Originally Posted by Andrew Budgell
I'm hoping Warner Bros. is going to release "RAINTREE COUNTY" starring Elizabeth Taylor for its 50th Anniversary next year. I'm eager to have this on DVD.

Andy

they already said they were in the HTF chat earlier this year. it was going under restoration. along with singin in the rain (ultra res) and quo vadis, it should look stunning.
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post #22 of 51
10/16/06 at 1:49pm

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Originally Posted by Corey
they already said they were in the HTF chat earlier this year. it was going under restoration. along with singin in the rain (ultra res) and quo vadis, it should look stunning.

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN has already been given the Ultra-Resolution treatment. I think you meant AN AMERICAN IN PARIS which is being remastered now using that process.
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post #23 of 51
10/16/06 at 3:57pm

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Originally Posted by MattH.
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN has already been given the Ultra-Resolution treatment. I think you meant AN AMERICAN IN PARIS which is being remastered now using that process.

yeah i'm sorry. i was blanking. that's what i meant.
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post #24 of 51
10/17/06 at 7:30am

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How about an Edna May Oliver boxset or at least a Hildegarde Withers collection. Some movies include The Penguin Pool Murders, Murder on a Honeymoon, Murder on the Blackboard, Laugh and Get Rich, Fanny Foley Herself, Ladies of the Jury, We're Rich Again, and the list goes on. Cracked Nuts and Hold Em Jail would be good too but I think those belong in another boxset dedicated to two men.
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post #25 of 51
10/17/06 at 8:16am

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I somehow always wait that somebody besides me mentions Hedy Lamarr in these wishing threads. Never happens so I guess I'm the only one who would love a set with

Come Live with Me
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
The Conspirators
White Cargo
Experiment Perilous

Maybe Warner could even somehow save Algiers from p.d. hell.
Really nobody beyond me who would love to see such a set? There's even a new docu about her: Hedy Lamarr - Secrets of a Hollywood Star.
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post #26 of 51
10/18/06 at 7:42am

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Maybe Warner could even somehow save Algiers from p.d. hell.
Really nobody beyond me who would love to see such a set? There's even a new docu about her: Hedy Lamarr - Secrets of a Hollywood Star.


Count me in. I would love to see a Hedley Lamarr set!!

Also, count me in for an Eleanor Powell set. I have only seen snippets of her films, but in these short clips alone her dancing blows me away.
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post #27 of 51
10/18/06 at 9:08am

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Well - I guess I gotta put in my 2 cents for Jeanette MacDonald ( and not just her films with Nelson Eddy) She did some great films at MGM without him too -- THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE, MERRY WIDOW, THE FIREFLY, etc.
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post #28 of 51
6/26/07 at 6:18pm

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Oh my God...Jean Harlow, where are you?? Thisis getting ridiculos...
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post #29 of 51
7/1/07 at 8:23am

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Originally Posted by Charles H
A Stanwyck Box? NIGHT NURSE, EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE, JEOPARDY (quite a tour de force), THESE WILDER YEARS (with Cagney), LADIES THEY TALK ABOUT, TO PLEASE A LADY (with Gable), MAN IN A CLOAK, and an excuse to finally bring out EXECUTIVE SUITE....

I'm surprised that Warner isn't releasing a Stanwyck set this year. Isn't it her 100th birthday this year?
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post #30 of 51
7/2/07 at 3:00am

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Quote:
Originally Posted by KellyVO
I'm surprised that Warner isn't releasing a Stanwyck set this year. Isn't it her 100th birthday this year?

Yes, on the 16th of July.
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