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The Big Parade got a lush, digi-book Blu-ray release. There are other celebrated MGM silents awaiting such treatment!

The first thing that came to mind was The Great Ziegfeld. Could Raintree County also qualify?

March or April? Already announced for March are Captain in the Clouds, Brothers Grimm, A Star Is Born (1937).

Yeah, it may have been made at MGM's third musical unit (Jack Cummings' unit), but it contains some of Astaire's best dancing of the MGM era especially since Vera-Ellen's diminutive size and mammoth talent were perfect matches for him.

Crawdaddy is right: the iTunes digitals I have, while looking more than acceptable, pale in comparison to the quality of the Blu-ray transfers. I mostly have musicals like Summer Stock, Ziegfeld Follies, My Dream Is Yours. Holiday is also leagues inferior to the Criterion Blu-ray release.

She won the New York Film Critics Circle Best Actress award for her performance and then wasn't even nominated for the Oscar. Incredible!

I have it on one of the streaming services. Looks OK but needs work to qualify for Warner Archive Blu-ray release.

Absolutely a necessity!

And For Me and My Gal.

I can't be too disappointed. 2021 has been a great year for WA.

While I can't speak directly for him, I was following his logic in that he was ONLY speaking of the Best Picture nomination which Ivanhoe received and which was denied both The Bad and the Beautiful and Viva Zapata!

It's kind of ironic that two indelible Anne Revere performances are in this batch. She makes a wonderful Crazy Mary in The Thin Man Comes Home, too.

It really shouldn't be released unless it's in its original 3D. "J.R. in 3-D" went the ads.

If that's true about In the Good Old Summertime, I will be thrilled because the print that TCM has been showing for years and years is only okay, and you know Warner Archive will do a stunning job with the Technicolor.

It's my favorite of the Garland-Rooney films, mainly because of that stylish "Ghost Theater" sequence and the great Oscar-nominated song "How About You?" And Judy sings her heart out in "F.D.R. Jones" and "Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee."

Very excited about Take Me Out to the Ball Game.

Ah, well....hopefully we'll get it some time this year.

Argh! Closer to three hundred for me!

I bought the iTunes HD streaming version of Royal Wedding for $5, and it looks beautiful, definitely from Warners' transfer and not a public domain source.

Oh, please. I had it on laserdisc and watched it many times before it came out on DVD. Yes, Miranda is more entertaining here than in her other big MGM musical A Date with Judy. However, I'd rather have Jane Powell in Two Weeks with Love than either of those other two.

I bought the HD streaming version of Ziegfeld Follies months ago and was underwhelmed with it. However, every Warner Archive Blu-ray that I had an accompanying iTunes stream for has been noticeably and enthusiastically improved from the streaming master. (The first one that comes to mind was...

Absolutely. Streaming is very convenient, and I wouldn't want to be without it, but it's very comforting to know that I have almost every favorite movie of my life's viewing within easy access either on disc or on a service.

Yes, I always thought that song should have become a standard: it's haunting and beautiful. Sadly, it wasn't even Oscar-nominated that year.

I would say Fred Astaire is the star of the film since he's in four segments (three of them classic for-the-ages musical moments), far more than any other MGM star, and he's also mentioned by "Ziegfeld" in his opening sequence as the one of the stars from his era that was still shining brightly...

I appreciate those of you who keep us posted each month. I hope you will very soon get some information you can impart to us!

My order arrived this afternoon. :dancing-banana-04:

Once again, same here....

Same here.

They seem naturals for the Criterion Collection since Warner Archive chose other Hepburn and Hepburn-Tracy pictures to release under its own banner.

The DVD of Annie looks very good, so the Blu-ray should be a stunner.