Product Description

Doris Day America's sweetheart of the '40s '50s and '60s returns to DVD on April 10 with six more new to DVD titles as Warner Home Video releases The Doris Day Collection Volume 2 following the success of 2005's first collection. Volume 2 features six more new-to-DVD titles focusing on Miss Day's golden years at Warner Bros. where her film career began. The collection contains her blockbuster screen debut Romance on the High Seas as well as such audience favorites as My Dream is Yours I'll See You in my Dreams On Moonlight Bay By the Light of the Silvery Moon and Lucky Me - films which contain a treasure chest of musical standards that include "It Had to be You" "Makin' Whoopee" "I'll String Along With You" "'Ain't we Got Fun" and dozens more.Running Time: 607 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 085391137313 Manufacturer No: 113731

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10929 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2007-04-10
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 6
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 604 minutes

Amazon.com
Doris Day fans will be dizzy with pleasure over The Doris Day Collection, Volume 2. This package of six Warner Bros. films covers the early phase of Day's movie career, including her debut picture, and is actually better and more of-a-piece than Warners' previous Day set. The box doesn't include anything from the later Rock Hudson stage of her career: This is the former Doris von Kappelhoff in full youthful sparkle, with her tomboyish attitude and freckled perkiness (and skillful singing, which is showcased in each film).

Her 1948 debut, Romance on the High Seas, actually presents Day in a different light from her subsequent well-scrubbed image. (Maybe this is what co-star Oscar Levant meant when he later quipped, "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.") She's a sassy, hep-talking band singer, drawn into an unlikely (and extremely silly) plot involving confused identity during a South American cruise. Michael Curtiz might not be a comedy director, but the script is fun and there's no mistaking the spectacle of a star being born.

The follow-up, My Dream Is Yours, returns Curtiz and leading man Jack Carson in a tale that has some parallels to Day's real life: she's a singer with a young child, looking for her breakthrough. The movie's a serviceable but humdrum backstage story with great vintage locations, and Bugs Bunny appears in a surreal dream sequence. The Technicolor shines here, as it does through much of the set; the only black-and-white film is I'll See You in My Dreams, an enjoyably low-key biopic of lyricist Gus Kahn (Danny Thomas), who wrote so many of the signature tunes of the 1920s. A great score ("Makin' Whoopee," "It Had to Be You") help this one past the conventions of the composer biopic; Doris plays Kahn's alpha-female wife.

Day's rising popularity was confirmed with the success of On Moonlight Bay and By the Light of the Silvery Moon, a pair of old-timey musicals based on Booth Tarkington's "Penrod" stories. Nostalgia for the WWI era runs high in these sugary confections, with Doris paired with Gordon MacRae and a batch of vintage tunes. The strong ensemble and the backlot re-creation of a bygone era are almost impossible to resist.

By her own account, Day was exhausted by her Warners contract at the time of Lucky Me, the latest film (1955) in this set. The lame showbiz story indicates as much, with Doris stranded in Miami and coming to the attention of composer Bob Cummings. The widescreen CinemaScope process gives some oomph to the musical numbers, and if Day herself was exhausted it doesn't show; America's sweetheart never failed to turn on the high beams, and it's easy to see why the moviegoing public needed her to twinkle. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews

The Doris Day Collection Vol 2- Musicals I Love.
The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2 (Romance on the High Seas / My Dream Is Yours / On Moonlight Bay / I'll See You in My Dreams / By the Light of the Silvery Moon / Lucky Me)

I have been a fan of Doris Day since I was a young teenager going to the movies. This Doris Day Collection Vol. 2 includes six of Doris Day's most tuneful musicals which she performed on the big screen.
Here in this DVD collection, Doris Day, with her lilting voice and charismatic acting is once again displayed in beautiful technicolor and black and white.
"Romance on the High Seas", her first Musical, showcased her very popular hit song" It's Magic" and her leading man was Jack Carson. "My Dream Is Yours" she again co-starred with Jack Carson. "On Moonlight Bay" and "By The Light of the Silvery Moon" had Gordon Macrae as her leading man and both singing the old popular standards of the early vintage years. "I'll See You in My Dreams", a Warner Bros., formula musical biography, which features Danny Thomas, tells the life and times of songwriter, Gus Kahn. Several delightful songs are featured in this film. Danny Thomas, is best remembered in the TV comedy "Make Room For Daddy". This film is the only one in glorious black and white. "Lucky Me", one of Doris Day's later musical comedies, has two talented comedians, Nancy Walker and Phil Silvers, which I'm sure will have you laughing and this is shown in widescreen and glorious technicolor.
I remember Doris Day in the fifties plugging many song hits one after another which made her a rising, popular songstress on the hit parade. Anyone who is familiar with Doris Day's personality will not be disappointed here, and this Doris Day Collection Vol. 2. will certainly take you back to the good old days when musicals were so popular. This Doris Day Collection Vol. 2, is just a few of Doris Day's most endearing musicals on DVD. Her other volumes, 1 and 3 are also available which I intend to purchase in the near future.

A Wonderful Gift
This was a gift for my Mother and when she received it she was delighted! She has always loved Doris Day movies and since they are rarely on tv she is now able to watch them at her leisure. I will definitly purchase the other collections for her!

Great addition to a Day fan's collection
This boxed set is a delightful addition to my Doris Day collection. Each of the movies included is a treasure, and every DVD features theatrical trailers, and extras such as toons and sing-alongs. I only wonder why these particular films were chosen as a set, since they are not chronological, and do not all fit into a particular theme. Still, the Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2 is an exciting product that I would recommend to any fan of Doris.