Kiss me Kate [videorecording] / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; screen play by Dorothy Kingsley ; produced by Jack Cummings ; directed by George Sidney ; screenplay based upon the play produced on the stage by Lemuel Ayers and Arnold Saint Subber ; music and lyrics by Cole Porter ; musical direction, André Previn and Saul Chaplin ; choreography by Hermes Pan ; director of photography, Charles Rosher ; film editor, Ralph E. Winters ; costumes designed by Walter Plunkett.
Two squabbling, 20th-century ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash.
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Other title: | Kiss me Kate (Motion picture) Cole Porter collection. Cole Porter in Hollywood : too darn hot. Mighty Manhattan, New York's wonder city. |
Format: | Video DVD |
Language: | English French Spanish |
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Burbank, California :
Warner Home Video [Distributor],
[2003], ©1953.
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Series: | Classic musicals collection.
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Table of Contents:
- Kiss me Kate (ca. 1:50:00)
- Cole Porter in Hollywood : Too darn hot / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; written, produced and directed by Peter Fitzgerald (ca. 10:00)
- Mighty Manhattan, New York's wonder city / directed by James H. Smith ; produced and narrated by James A. FitzPatrick (ca. 20:00)