Classic Musicals - 2 DVD Set Actor:Edvard Grieg Till The Clouds Roll By — This large-scale Technicolor musical is one of those over-the-top, maximalistic productions that the Golden Age of the Studio System was famous for! Based on the life and times of composer Jerome K... more »ern, TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY features an all-star cast which includes the great crooner Frank Sinatra, the legendary musical starlet Judy Garland, and the notoriously beautiful Lena Horne. And of course, it features many of the hit tunes of the era.
Pied Piper of Hamelin
A piper (Van Johnson) with magical abilities, based on the classic poem by Robert Browning, charms the populace of a Bavarian village in 1284, and lures the town's children to his mountain home after the townspeople fail to keep a promise. The haunting music of Edvard Grieg highlights this made for television program.
SWING HI SWING LOW
Singer Lombard gives trumpet player MacMurray a break that launches his career in show business, if he can stay away from booze.
This musical drama is based on the stage play "Burlesque."
SVENGALI
John Barrymore reprises the stage role that garnered him critical acclaim. Svengali is a masterful and menacing hypnotist, bearded and unkempt, who draws a young woman, Trilby, into his lair.
She has worked as a nude model for many artists and now, cajoled by Svengali's manipulative gift, she leaves behind her family in order to pursue a singing career on the concert circuit.
What Trilby does not know, however, is that she can perform only upon the hypnotist's command. Svengali and Trilby are pursued by a young artist who, like Svengali, is madly in love with Trilby.« less
