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Silver screen icons. Broadway musicals [digital videodisc] : Annie get your gun ; Show boat ; Kiss me Kate ; Seven brides for seven brothers.

Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, [2017]

Oakley, Annie, 1860-1926 -- Drama.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company -- Drama.

Shooters of firearms -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Gamblers -- Drama.

Women entertainers -- Drama.

Actresses -- Drama.

Showboats -- 19th century -- Drama.

Gambling on river boats -- Mississippi River -- 19th century -- Drama.

Married people -- Drama.

Families -- Drama.

Actors -- Drama.

Divorced people -- Drama.

Oregon -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama.

2 videodiscs (422 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

[Disc 1]: Annie get your gun / screenplay by Sidney Sheldon ; based on the musical play with music and lyricis by Irving Berlin and book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields ; directed by George Sidney ; produced by Arthur Freed ; a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture (107 mins.) -- Show boat / M-G-M presents ; from the immortal musical play "Show boat" by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II ; based on Edna Ferber's novel ; screenplay by John Lee Mahin ; directed by George Sidney ; produced by Arthur Freed ; a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture (108 mins.) -- [Disc 2]: Seven brides for seven brothers / screenplay by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Dorothy Kingsley ; produced by Jack Cummings ; directed by Stanley Donen -- Kiss me Kate / screen play by Dorothy Kingsley ; music and lyrics by Cole Porter ; produced by Jack Cummings ; directed by George Sidney.

Annie get your gun: Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who meets Frank Butler. Frank is the star sharpshoot in Colonel Buffalo Bill's show. He finds himself falling for Annie, but feels that she is not marriage material. In the end, they both discover that love is wonderful.

Show boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not knowing she is pregnant.

Kiss me Kate: Fred is a director and Lilly is an actress who are divorced. They are brought back together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play. A fight on the opening night threatens the production, not to mention the two thugs who have the mistaken idea that Fred owes their boss money and insist on staying next to him all night.

Seven brides for seven brothers: Adam is the eldest of seven brothers who goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home where she discover he has six brothers--all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Adam reads about the Roman capture of the Sabine women and develops an inspired solution to his brothers' loneliness. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers was based on the short story “The Sobbin' Women” by Stephen Vincent Benét, which in turn was inspired by the abduction of the Sabine women as narrated in Plutarch's Life of Romulus.

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