BILLY ROSE'S JUMBO makes it's long-awaited DVD release. The movie was one of the last hig musical hurrah's from MGM, and it was also Doris Day's last movie musical role. She shines as Kitty Wonder, the bareback-riding queen of the Wonder Circus.
Based around the classic Rodgers and Hart musical (with a new storyline devised by Sidney Sheldon). Pop Wonder (Jimmy Durante, who also headlined the original 30s' Hippodrome production) owns the magical Wonder Circus, famous for it's star attraction, Jumbo the elephant. His daughter Kitty, and on-again off-again squeeze Lulu (Martha Raye) complete his family. When the mysterious Sam Rawlins (Stephen Boyd) arrives to become the new tightrope aerialist, Kitty instantly falls in love with him, but Sam hides the secret that he is... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Doris Day - Jimmy Durante Director(s): Charles Walters DVD Release Date: Released the 26 April 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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"You can't explain Durante, he just is," says Leonard Maltin in this affectionate and thoroughly entertaining tribute to the Great Schnozzola.
A bald saloon-bar piano player with a huge nose and a sandpaper voice might not seem like a candidate for stardom, but Durante's show was a huge hit on NBC in the '50s. The best early TV shows built a close rapport with their viewers--perhaps because it was still a novelty to invite an entertainer into your home for the evening--and Durante had an instinctive grasp of this relationship. Audiences both in the studio and at home fell in love with his self-mocking wit, his rough-and-ready charm, and his habit of forgetting lines and cracking up his guests with adlibs.
Among the stars we see goofing around with Jimmy are Bette Davis, Carmen... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Jimmy Durante DVD Release Date: Released the 10 April 2001 Usually ships within 24 hours
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