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Julie Andrews is only a huge star today because of her first two movies? Mary Poppins, okay but The Americanization Of Emily? Surely you jest. Emily is a good film and showed her versatility but seriously? No doubt you're going say you meant The Sound Of Music but how big a fan of Andrews can...

And don't forget The Pink Panther!

You are, of course, entitled to an opinion as we all are. Is Darling Lili a great movie? No, but even in its butchered form it has its charms, notably the musical numbers and the aerial sequences. You can't stand it, well and good but to say that nothing could have saved it is presumptuous...

Julie Andrews was not married to Robert Wise whose film of Star! (1968) was the film that set her once "could do no wrong" career down the garden path. If you're referring to Darling Lili (1970), it wasn't Blake Edwards to blame for the failure of the movie but Paramount which took the film away...

I agree about Party Girl over Meet Me In Las Vegas although I'd love both on blu ray. Party Girl has a cult reputation and directed by auteur Nick Ray (oh, those French!) so a blu ray release doesn't seem improbable. Still, I'd love MMILV on blu ray just for that incredible Frankie And Johnny...

Humor is subjective since we all react differently. What's funny to me may not be funny to you and vice versa. I dislike Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, Monty Python, the 3 Stooges but Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis and Abbott & Costello have me laughing like a hyena. Go figure! Now back to Song Of...

I love Jane Powell and Eleanor Powell. If their films were released on blu ray, I'd definitely pick them up but they are all minor MGM musicals. Just keeping it real. As for my "condescending" attitude toward Jeanette & Nelson and Mario Lanza, I'm not a fan, sorry. I also have "condescending"...

Of those on your list, I think it's only a matter of time before Ziegfeld Follies, Good News and The Harvey Girls see the light of day on blu ray. Royal Wedding and Till Clouds Roll By are in the public domain so Warners might be hesitant to spend the restoration money to clean them up for hi...

Define "major" and what would they be? Outside of High Society, the 1951 Show Boat, The Great Ziegfeld and two Judy Garland musicals (The Pirate, In The Good Old Summertime), most of the "major" MGM musicals have made it to blu ray. Of course, if you consider those creaky MacDonald and Eddy...

Hopefully, sales of Song Of Norway for Kino Lorber are doing well. I ordered mine from Deep Discount which had it "in stock" but quickly went to "on backorder" which sounds like a good sign for sales.

Oh, dislike would be a better word. I could never hate the woman who discovered Janet Leigh :)

Oh, I know they have their fans. Actually, I liked the sexy pre-MGM Jeanette MacDonald from those early Lubitsch muscials like The Love Parade, One Hour With You and Monte Carlo. Once she went to MGM, they made her a lady and she became the Norma Shearer of musicals. Oh dear, I suppose now I've...

Actually, I find Kathryn Grayson attractive and as an actress, she is inoffensive. But when she starts shrieking (or "singing" if you prefer), I reach for the ear plugs.

Honestly, it's no worse than those awful Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy operettas from the 1930s. If Song Of Norway had been made by MGM in 1937 with those two or in 1952 with Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel, nostalgists would be clamoring for its release on blu ray. Personally, I'll take...