Universal's beloved singing sensation receives the full star treatment with this five-disc set. In "Mad About Music" (1938), vain movie star Gail Patrick decides she wants to forget about daughter Deanna Durbin, so she sends her to a Swiss boarding school. Songs include "I Love to Whistle." Then, smitten with journalist Melvyn Douglas, teenager Deanna ignores former beau Jackie Cooper until Douglas sets things right, in the romance "That Certain Age" (1938). Songs includes "You're as Pretty as a Picture." "Three Smart Girls Grow Up" (1939) offers Durbin as a young woman getting tangled up in her sisters' love affairs. Songs include "Because" and "The Last Rose of Summer." Then, eager for a shot at Broadway stardom, would-be actress Deanna works to become the protege of veteran stage star Charles Laughton, in the comedy " Because of Him" (1946). And, in her final film, "For the Love of Mary" (1948), Deanna plays a White House telephone operator who gets help from her unseen chief executive boss in straightening out her romantic problems. 7 3/4 hrs. total. **Five-disc set includes "Mad About Music," "That Certain Age," "Three Smart Girls Grow Up," "Because of Him," and "For the Love of Mary."** ... more

Eager for a shot at Broadway stardom, would-be actress Deanna Durbin works to become the protege of veteran stage star Charles Laughton, over the objections of playwright Franchot Tone, in this breezy, song-filled romantic comedy. With Helen Broderick, Donald Meek. 98 min.

Claudette Colbert stars as a beautiful young woman who becomes the object of affection for the charming doctor (Richard Arlen) who rents a room in her financially troubled family's home, in "Three-Cornered Moon" (1933). Colbert and Fred MacMurray are free-spirited young lovers who oppose the infamous 17th-century Massachusetts witch hunts, in "Maid of Salem" (1937). An American fashion designer (Colbert) is romanced by a writer (Melvyn Douglas), a playboy (Robert Young), and her hometown boyfriend (Lee Bowman), in "I Met Him in Paris" (1937). "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" (1938) is an Ernst Lubitsch comedy with Gary Cooper as a millionaire who's gone through seven marriages and looks to make French shopgirl Colbert his next bride. A sophisticated and refined reporter (Colbert) has "No Time for Love" (1943) but reluctantly falls for a salt-of-the-earth laborer (MacMurray) anyway. And, city-bred Claudette gets more than she bargained for when she weds chicken farmer Fred and moves to the country, in "The Egg and I" (1947), with Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride. 8 3/4 hrs. total on three discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English (SDH), French, Spanish; featurette. ... more

Superb Warner Bros. biodrama starring Edward G. Robinson as Dr. Paul Ehrlich, the German physician who developed Salvarsan, the first treatment for syphilis. The film traces Ehrlich's fascinating life from his work detecting blood diseases and the problems in finding funding for research to his personal crises. With Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp, and Maria Ouspenskaya. 103 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. ... more

"The Cheat" (1931), a remake of the 1915 C.B. DeMille silent, is a racy (for its time) melodrama about a socialite who loses big money by gambling. Tallulah Bankhead, Harvey Stephens star. "Merrily We Go to Hell" (1932) follows an alcoholic playwright (Fredric March) who shatters his marriage vows. With Adrianne Allen, Sylvia Sydney, and Cary Grant. On a "Hot Saturday" (1932), Nancy Carroll loses her job over rumors connecting her to Grant and Randolph Scott. With Lili Bond, Edward Woods. A sullied "Torch Singer" (1933) looks for redemption on a children's radio show. Claudette Colbert, David Manners star. A killer tries to destroy the famous "Earl Carroll's Vanities" Broadway stage show, in "Murder at the Vanities" (1934). Victor McLaglen, Kitty Carlisle star. Con men peddling a fitness magazine conduct a "Search for Beauty" (1934) that turns up Buster Crabbe and Ida Lupino, among other Olympic athletes showing the kind of skin the Production Code would later frown upon. With Robert Armstrong, Gertrude Michael. 7 3/4 hrs. total on three discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English (SDH), French, Spanish; featurette; Production Code repro. ... more

Five-disc set includes "Hollywood Cavalcade," "Rose of Washington Square," "The Great American Broadcast," "Hello, Frisco, Hello," and "Four Jills in a Jeep."

This lavish five-disc boxed set opens with the tearful melodrama "Sadie McKee" (1934), as maid Joan travels to the big city and is pursued by rakish wastrel Gene Raymond, millionaire Edward Arnold and lawyer Franchot Tone. "Strange Cargo" (1940), Crawford and Clark Gable's eighth film together, is an unusual religious allegory in which a group of Devil's Island escapees fall under the sway of a Christ-like fellow convict. With Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas. Next, plastic surgeon Melvyn Douglas repairs blackmailer Crawford's outward appearance, but cannot heal her scarred soul, in director George Cukor's "A Woman's Face" (1941), with Conrad Veidt. The classic soaper "Flamingo Road" (1949) stars Joan as a carnival dancer stranded in a small Southern town who finds romance with politicos Zachary Scott and David Brian and trouble with corrupt sheriff Sydney Greenstreet; Michael Curtiz directs. And icy Broadway star Crawford forsakes romance for her career, until she meets blind pianist Michael Wilding, in the lush love story "Torch Song" (1953), with Gig Young and Harry Morgan. 8 1/4 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; featurettes; bonus shorts; radio shows; theatrical trailer ... more

Fired war correspondent Bob Hope tries to win his job back by uncovering a Nazi spy ring in "They Got Me Covered" (1943), with Dorothy Lamour, Otto Preminger. Hapless insurance salesman Hope's newest client is none other than Jesse James, who has a scheme to get Bob mistaken for the outlaw and gunned down in his place. "Alias Jesse James" (1959) also stars Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, and a corral of movie cowboys in cameos. Hope and Lucille Ball learn "The Facts of Life" (1960) as the principals in a would-be love affair that never gets started thanks to their families. Ruth Hussey, Louis Nye co-star. A job transfer to Europe is the drastic step that overprotective dad Hope takes to break up daughter Tuesday Weld's romance with rock-and-roller Frankie Avalon in "I'll Take Sweden" (1965). And real estate agent Bob tries to hide a movie queen (Elke Sommer) on the run from her studio and director boyfriend. "Boy Did I Get a Wrong Number!" (1967) co-stars Phyllis Diller, Cesare Danova. Seven-disc set also includes "The Princess and the Pirate" and "The Road to Hong Kong." 11 1/4 hrs. total. Standard/Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles; English, Spanish. ... more

First, Busby Berkeley directs Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in a rousing rendition of Rodgers and Hart's famed Broadway hit "Babes in Arms" (1939). They're children of vaudevillians who, after not being allowed to join in their parents' performance, start their own show. Songs include "Where or When," "Good Morning." Next, Mick and Judy's high school band is out to nab an award in Paul Whiteman's national radio contest, in "Strike Up the Band" (1940). Songs include "Our Love Affair," "Nell of New Rochelle." Rooney and Garland are together again in "Babes on Broadway" (1941), and this time they're out to put on a show on the Great White Way. Look for Donna Reed, Margaret O'Brien. Includes the title tune, "(I Like New York in June) How About You." And, Rooney is sent to a small private school to mend his "Girl Crazy" (1943) ways. But once he sees Garland, it's love at first sight in this musical-comedy based on the Gershwin Broadway hit. With June Allyson, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra. Classic Gershwin score includes "Embraceable You," "But Not for Me." Five-disc set also includes a disc loaded with extras, photo cards, and a booklet. 7 1/4 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby D ... more