Guys and Dolls, Brigadoon, Damn Yankees, The Pajama Game, Gypsy, and The Boy Friend have been packaged as part of Warner Archive’s Broadway on the Big Screen 6-Film Collection. All six films have previously been released on Blu-ray.

Guys and Dolls

Hollywood legends Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine (from the original Broadway cast) are dazzling in this Frank Loesser masterpiece. Featuring hits like “Luck Be a Lady” and “A Woman in Love,” this smash film version of one of Broadway’s most popular musicals is guaranteed rip-roaring “four-star entertainment” (New York Daily News).

Bonus Features

• Behind the Scenes: A Broadway Fable: From Stage to Screen, Guys and Dolls
• Short Feature: More Guys and Dolls Stories
• Musical Performances
  • “Fugue for Tinhorns”
  • “I’ll Know”
  • “Guys and Dolls”
  • “Adelaide”
  • “Luck Be a Lady”
  • “Sue Me”
• Theatrical Trailer

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
CAST: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, with Robert Keith, Stubby Kaye, B.S. Pully, Johnny Silver, Regis Toomey, Sheldon Leonard, Dan Dayton, Veda Ann Borg, Kathryn Givney, and The Goldwyn Girls

Brigadoon

Look on a map and you won’t find it. Look in your heart and there it will be. Enchantment is a place — and a movie — called Brigadoon when Gene Kelly stars in and choreographs a lyrical film adaptation of the 1947 Broadway musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (My Fair Lady, Camelot). Vincente Minnelli directs this otherworldly tale of vacationing New Yorkers (Kelly and Van Johnson) who discover a Scottish village that comes to life once every 100 years for one day only. There, Kelly and a town lass (Cyd Charisse) share the love of a lifetime — one seemingly allotted just 24 hours. But fear not, there’s magic and timeless songs hereabouts: “Almost Like Being in Love,” “The Heather on the Hill” and more!

Bonus Features

• Deleted Scenes
  • “Come to Me, Bend to Me”
  • “From This Day On”
  • “Sword Dance”
  • “There but for You Go I!” (Audio Only)
• Trailer

DIRECTOR: Vincente Minnelli
SCREENWRITER: Alan Jay Lerner
CAST: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, with Elaine Stewart, Barry Jones, Hugh Laing, Albert Sharpe, Virginia Bosler, Jimmy Thompson, Dody Heath

Damn Yankees

Step up to the plate for Damn Yankees, the rousing movie of the 1,019-performance Broadway grand slam that imports nearly all the original New York lineup, including Tony Award -winning stars Gwen Verdon as luscious vamp Lola and Ray Walston as her slyly Satanic boss Applegate. Hollywood’s Tab Hunter suits up as potential lost soul and Washington Senators slugger Joe Hardy, revealing a freewheeling fun side unseen in previous roles. The Pajama Game duo of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross serve up an out-of-the-park home-run score, including “Whatever Lola Wants” and “Heart.” Choreographer Bob Fosse provides all the right moves, and he joins Verdon on-screen in performing “Who’s Got the Pain?” No pain here, just pure pleasure.

Bonus Features

• Theatrical Trailer (US Version)
• Theatrical Trailer (UK Version)

DIRECTORS: George Abbott and Stanley Donen
SCREENWRITER: George Abbott
CAST: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, with Russ Brown, Shannon Bolin, Nathaniel Frey, Jimmie Komack, Rae Allen, Robert Shafer, Jean Stapleton, Albert Linville

The Pajama Game

Labor and management at the Sleeptite Pajama Factory aren’t sleeping much lately: A proposed 7 1 2-cent hourly wage increase is why — and a strike may result. But negotiations here involve snappy stars, terrific tunes and dynamic dances as Doris Day, John Raitt and a Broadway-seasoned cast play The Pajama Game. Songs by the Damn Yankees duo of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross and choreography by Bob Fosse generate lots of “Steam Heat,” all whipped together delightfully under the direction of two musical masters of stage and screen, George Abbott and Stanley Donen. Besides “Steam Heat” (showcasing the quirky brilliance of dancer Carol Haney), catch “Hey There,” “I’m Not at All in Love,” “Hernando’s Hideaway,” “Once-a-Year Day” and other all-time-great numbers. For peerless entertainment, negotiate no further. Nothing’s quite the same as The Pajama Game!

Bonus Features

• Deleted Song: “The Man Who Invented Love”
• Theatrical Trailer

DIRECTORS: George Abbott and Stanley Donen
SCREENWRITERS: George Abbott and Richard Bissell
CAST: Doris Day, John Raitt, Carol Haney, Eddie Foy Jr., with Reta Shaw, Barbara Nichols, Thelma Pelish, Jack Straw, Ralph Dunn, Owen Martin, Jackie Kelk, Ralph Chambers, Mary Stanton, Buzz Miller, Kenneth LeRoy

Gypsy

Ringing with the showbiz sass of its Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim score, the film version of the Broadway hit Gypsy takes you on a grand vaudeville tour. It sweeps you up in the roller-coaster relationship of Louise (Natalie Wood), the wallflower later to blossom into sophisticated stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, and her ambitious mother, Rose (Rosalind Russell, whose performance won her a fifth Best Actress Golden Globe Award). Karl Malden scores as Herbie, the salesman who falls for Rose – to his exasperation. Full of terrific tunes (“Everything’s Coming Up Roses” and “Small World” among them), Gypsy will certainly entertain you and definitely make you smile.

Bonus Features

• Songs
  • “Together Wherever We Go”
  • “You’ll Never Get Awat from Me”
• Trailer

DIRECTOR: Mervyn Leroy
SCREENWRITER: Leonard Spigelgass
CAST: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, with Paul Wallace, Betty Bruce, Parley Baer, Harry Shannon, Suzanne Cupito, Ann Jilliann, Diane Pace, Faith Dane, Roxanne Arlen, Jean Willes, George Petrie, Ben Lessy, Guy Raymond, Louis Quinn

The Boy Friend

The star has injured an ankle, but the show — and inexperienced stage assistant Polly Browne — must go on. Break a leg, kid. And don’t let the presence of Hollywood director and talent scout Mr. De Thrill add any pressure. And so begins this colorful tale of theater hopefuls with stars in their eyes and greasepaint in their veins, a work that, under the guidance of director Ken Russell, is not just an affectionate filmization of Sandy Wilson’s London/Broadway stage hit but also an homage to the movie stagings of Busby Berkeley — complete with imaginative use of kaleidoscopic top shots and rows of leggy chorines. Fashion icon Twiggy makes her screen debut as sweet-natured Polly, a role played earlier by Julie Andrews in her Broadway debut. Curtain up. Maybe someone will be discovered tonight.

Bonus Features

• Vintage Featurette: All Talking… All Singing… All Dancing…
• Theatrical Trailer

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Ken Russell
CAST: Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian, Bryan Pringle, Murray Melvin, Moyra Fraser, Georgina Hale, Sally Bryant, Vladek Sheybal, Tommy Tune, Brian Murphy, Graham Armitage, Antonia Ellis, Caryl Little, Ann Jameson, Catherine Willmer, Robert La’Bassiere, and Barbara Windsor

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