The Warner Archive Collection has packaged Romance on the High Seas, Lullaby of Broadway, Love Me or Leave Me, and Billy Rose’s JUMBO in the Doris Day 4-Film Collection. All four films are in color and have previously been released on Blu-ray by the Warner Archive Collection.

In addition to Doris Day, they’ve packaged sets for Errol Flynn, Greta Garbo, Gary Cooper, Elizabeth Taylor, Clark Gable, Gene Kelly, James Cagney, and Doris Day. Upcoming collections include Robert Taylor, James Stewart, Spencer Tracy, and Fred Astaire.

Romance on the High Seas

Synopsis

Bon voyage! Georgia Garrett’s singing career may not be going anywhere, but she is. She’s on a cruise, sailing under the name Mrs. Elvira Kent while the real Elvira secretly stays home to spy on her presumably philandering hubby. Meanwhile, the husband hires a spy to snoop on his supposedly voyaging wife. Doris Day makes her maiden film voyage, debuting as Georgia in a colorful bauble afloat on romantic seas. The studio surrounds the sunny overnight screen sensation with top talent: Michael Curtiz directs, the Epstein brothers provide the script, Busby Berkeley guides musical numbers, Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn create the tunes, and costars include Oscar Levant and Jack Carson. “It’s Magic,” Day sings. Yes, it is.

Bonus Features

• Vintage Musical Short: Let’s Sing a Song from the Movies
• Classic Cartoon: Hare Splitter
• Theatrical Trailer

DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz
SCREENWRITERS: Julius J. Epstein & Philip G. Epstein (Additional Dialogue by I.A.L. Diamond)
CAST: Jack Carson, Janis Page, Don DeFore, and Doris Day, with Oscar Levant, S.Z. Sakall, Fortunio Bonanova, Eric Blore, William Bakewell, Franklin Pangborn, Avon Long, The Samba Kings

Lullaby of Broadway

Synopsis

The steps of the studio set towered before her like a pyramid. All Doris Day had to do was dance up and down those steps wearing a flowing gold lame dress. “You’ve got to be out of your minds,” Day exclaimed in a voice head across the soundstage. “I can’t even walk up and down those stairs.” She danced divinely — and sang in this musical delight about a singer newly arrived in New York and destined for Great White Way fame in the capable company of costars Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall, Billy De Wolfe, Gladys George, and Florence Bates. Savor the Oscar -winning* title tune, Cole Porter’s “Just One of Those Things,” “Somebody Loves Me” and five more swell songs. C’mon along and listen to (and watch) this Lullaby of Broadway.

Bonus Features

• Trailer
• Song Selection

DIRECTOR: David Butler
SCREENWRITER: Earl Baldwin
CAST: Doris Day, Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall, Billy DeWolfe, Gladys George, with Florence Bates, Anne Triola, Hanley Stafford, Page Cavanaugh Trio, Carlo and Constance De Mattiazzi

Love Me or Leave Me

Synopsis

Roaring ’20s songstress Ruth Etting had everything — the looks, the wiles, the smokey jazz voice, the it. She also had Chicago racketeer Martin “The Gimp” Snyder, who, even as he propelled her career, afflicted her. Laced with Doris Day’s vibrant performance of songs from the era, this 1955 Academy Award winner (Writing – Motion Picture Story) is based on the tough-minded tale of Etting’s life with the man who boosted her career with strong-arm tactics and smothered her in an obsessive grip she escaped at great peril. As Snyder, Cagney earned of the film’s six Oscar nominations. Day’s Etting was a career-best dramatic performance, bringing acclaim from critics and protest letters from fans unprepared for the departure from her traditionally sunny roles.

Bonus Features

• A Modern Cinderella
• Roseland
• Salute to the Theatres
• Trailer
• Song Selection

DIRECTOR: Charles Vidor
SCREENWRITERS: Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart
CAST: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, with Robert Keith, Tom Tully, Harry Bellaver, Richard Gaines, Peter Leeds,

Billy Rose’s JUMBO

Synopsis

Jumbo is a mighty talented elephant. It’s also the ideal word to describe this big-time, big-top extravaganza bursting with laughter and love, sang and dance, circus stunts and star power. Radiant Doris Day sings beloved Rodgers and Hart tunes and does her own horseback riding tricks in a razzle-dazzle musical based on Billy Rose’s stage spectacular and featuring circus sequences directed by Busby Berkeley. The story revolves around a circus owner (Jimmy Durante, star of the 1935 Broadway original) with only two real attractions: his daughter (Day) and popular pachyderm Jumbo. Three-ring pandemonium breaks out when a handsome rival (Stephen Boyd) infiltrates the circus, and father, daughter and Dad’s wise-cracking fiance (Martha Raye) are suddenly at risk of losing the greatest show on earth!

Bonus Features

• Jerry & Jumbo
• Yours Sincerely
• Trailer

DIRECTOR: Charles Walters
SCREENWRITER: Sidney Sheldon
CAST: Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, Martha Raye, Dean Jagger, with Joseph Waring, Lynn Wood, Charles Watts, James Chandler, Robert Burton, Wilson Wood, Norman Leavitt, Grady Sutton, Ron Henon, The Carlisles, The Pedrolas, The Wazzans, The Hannefords, Billy Barton, Corky Cristiani, Victor Julian, Richard Berg, Joe Monahan, Miss Lani, Adolph Dubsky, Pat Anthony, Janos Prohaska, The Barbettes

The Doris Day 4-Film Collection is available on Blu-ray.

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