JULIE ANDREWS HOSTS OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN TRIBUTE, 3 DVDs, PBS + BIO. DOCUMENTARY

Description: These are 3 rare promotional/reviewer's DVDs from PBS. See my other items for 3 documentaries on Oscar Hammerstein. Buy both and get free shipping (within the USA). The first DVD is from 1995. It contains the entire PBS special: "Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II." 90 minutes. The second DVD is from 2012. It contains the full documentary: "Oscar Hammerstein II, Out Of My Dreams." 60 minutes. The third DVD is from 1998. A documentary on the films of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein. All the DVDs come in plain jewel cases with no inserts and no artwork. The DVDs were not issued sealed. The DVDs are in mint condition and the quality is perfect. First DVD: "Oscar Hammerstein II, Out Of My Dreams."The new documentary contains more than a dozen new interviews, plus archival ones with Hammerstein and his late son James, also there's an interview with Tony Award-winning producer-director Harold Prince, who had an acquaintance with Hammerstein in the 1950s."He was a very political fellow without being, you know, cantankerous or bullish," said Prince, who directed the award-winning 1994 revival of "Show Boat.""He was very concerned with human rights and they were reflected in his musicals," Prince said. "The idea of someone dealing with all [racism and miscegenation] in 1927 is pretty damn extraordinary.""It's funny what we call liberal now and what we call liberal back then," said Andy Hammerstein, who lectures about his grandfather and is the author of "The Hammersteins: A Musical Theatre Family.""He was a very pre-hippie, pre-drug small 'l' liberal," said Hammerstein, who was 3 when his grandfather died in 1960 of cancer. "He was a writer, and a writer doesn't like to have someone in the government tell him what he can or cannot write or make suggestion on what he should be writing."As a result of his liberal leanings, his grandson said, Hammerstein was not popular with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. And during the House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings, Hammerstein was called in to testify informally if he was or had ever been a member of the Communist party."He was asked the usual set of questions and his responses were interesting," said his grandson. "When he was asked would you ever work with a Communist, he surprised them by answering, 'Of course I would. If there are going to help me load my gun to shoot Nazis' — which is what the Russians had just done — 'I would be happy to work with them.' "It kind of shut them up."Mitzi Gaynor, who starred as Nellie Forbush in the 1958 feature film version of "South Pacific," describes Hammerstein as a mensch. "He was a real person and a real human being," she said, adding that she felt he was very much like the sentiment of the "South Pacific" song, "A Cockeyed Optimist." Second DVD: "Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II." A musical tribute to lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth, through performances of songs he wrote with composers Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers. Includes archival footage. Taped before a live audience at City Center, New York City, 1995. 90 minutes. "All the Things You Are" sung by Willie Nelson "Bali Ha'i" - sung by Mandy Patinkin "A Cock-Eyed Optimist" Sung by Julie Andrews "Edelweiss" sung by Julie Andrews "The Last Time I Saw Paris" sung by Dawn Upshaw "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" sung by Keith Carradine An operetta medley sung by Peabo Bryson and Audra Ann McDonald A medley from "Show Boat" sung by Michel Bell, Rebecca Luker, Mark Jacoby, Lonette McKee, Gretha Boston and Ensemble "What's the Use of Wond'rin'?" sung by Bernadette Peters "Why Was I Born?" sung by Vanessa Williams "You'll Never Walk Alone" sung by Patti LaBelle and the New York City Gay Men's Chorus "You've Got to be Carefully Taught" sung by Mandy Patinkin "If I Loved You" sung by Sally Murphy and Michael Hayden "Soliloquy" sung by James Barbour The 3rd DVD Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies is a comprehensive and entertaining 97-minute documentary surveying the film career of the beloved songwriting team and how their screen work was interwoven with their stage work. A comprehensive and entertaining 97-minute documentary surveying the film career of the beloved songwriting team and how their screen work was interwoven with their stage work. (State Fair was written directly for the screen before they began adapting their stage shows for film.) Host Shirley Jones (the ingenue in both Oklahoma! and Carousel) provides numerous trivia tidbits on most of the films, while segments on The King and I, Flower Drum Song, and The Sound of Music are presented by those who appeared in them:

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