The Broadway to Hollywood [7 Discs] [DVD]

Five classic musicals based on successful Broadway shows are featured in this special DVD collectors set. The Classic Musical Collection: Broadway to Hollywood includes the titles The Band Wagon, in which fading stage star Tony Hunter (Fred Astaire) agrees to star in a show directed by pretentious "genius" Jeffrey Cordova (Jack Buchanan); Bells Are Ringing, starring Judy Holliday as an employee of a telephone answering service with a habit of getting involved in her customers' lives; Brigadoon, in which Gene Kelly and Van Johnson stumble upon a Scottish village whose residents appear only once every hundred years, with Kelly falling for the enchanted Cyd Charisse; Easter Parade, featuring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland as a hoofer and the chorus girl he grooms for stardom; and Finian's Rainbow, featuring Fred Astaire as a leprechaun who arrives in the American South to hide his gold and discovers a troubled community in this early directorial effort from Francis Ford Coppola.