Shemp
09-05-2007, 02:38 PM
November 13, Sony Home Entertainment is releasing GOLDEN BOY (1939), starring Barbara Stanwyck and William Holden.
Bonus features will be...
- the Columbia short subject PLEASED TO MITT YOU (1940) (http://www.threestooges.net/episode.php?id=273). Shemp Howard costarred in the first two installments of "The Gloveslingers" boxing comedies; PLEASED was the second short in the short-lived (1939 - 1941) series.
- KANGAROO KID (1938), a Color Rhapsody cartoon
Excerpt from Sony's press release...
Celebrate Hollywood Legend Barbara Stanwyck's 100th Birthday When One of Her Great Performances Debuts on DVD November 13
GOLDEN BOY
The Classic Drama Also Stars Academy Award Winner William Holden and Academy Award Nominee Adolphe Menjou
Extensive Bonus Features Include Three Vintage Short Subjects and a Rare Episode of FORD TELEVISION THEATRE
CULVER CITY, CALIF. (September 3, 2007) – Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) marks the 100th birthday of legendary four-time Academy Award nominee and honorary Oscar winner Barbara Stanwyck with the November 13 DVD debut of GOLDEN BOY, a dynamic story of a promising violinist (William Holden) who jeopardizes his career by moonlighting as a prize-fighter. Stanwyck, whose career spanned over six decades, gives another of her indelible performances as the woman who tries to convince Holden to give up his musical ambitions for the glory of the boxing ring.
The DVD will be available for $19.95 SRP. The bonus materials include three vintage short subjects: THE KANGAROO KID, a 1938 color cartoon spoof of GOLDEN BOY; the 1940 two-reeler PLEASED TO MITT YOU, one of the "Glove Slingers" series of comedy shorts with Shemp Howard (of The Three Stooges); and the August 1, 1930 edition of SCREEN SNAPSHOTS, which features a 23-year-old Stanwyck being taught to play golf by fellow actor Ricardo Cortez. The DVD also contains her very first dramatic TV appearance: the western drama "Sudden Silence," a 1956 episode of FORD TELEVISION THEATRE that has been unseen for 50 years.
GOLDEN BOY was adapted from the critically-acclaimed play by Clifford Odets, which debuted on Broadway November 4, 1937 (celebrating its 70th Anniversary this year) and ran for 250 performances. When the show was adapted as a film two years later, Columbia Pictures, with Stanwyck's urging, cast then-unknown William Holden in the title role, launching his four-decade-plus stardom. The film was a critical and box-office success and held the title of Columbia's most successful non-Frank Capra film for seven years. However, it received only a single Academy Award nomination (Best Original Score) in the golden year of 1939. In addition to Stanwyck and Holden, GOLDEN BOY boasts an impressive lineup of talent on both sides of the camera.
The cast includes two other Academy Award nominees: Adolphe Menjou and Lee J. Cobb, recreating his role from the play, as well as veteran character actors Joseph Calleia, Sam Levene, Edward Brophy, and the ubiquitous Charles Lane, who recently passed way at the age of 102.
Bonus features will be...
- the Columbia short subject PLEASED TO MITT YOU (1940) (http://www.threestooges.net/episode.php?id=273). Shemp Howard costarred in the first two installments of "The Gloveslingers" boxing comedies; PLEASED was the second short in the short-lived (1939 - 1941) series.
- KANGAROO KID (1938), a Color Rhapsody cartoon
Excerpt from Sony's press release...
Celebrate Hollywood Legend Barbara Stanwyck's 100th Birthday When One of Her Great Performances Debuts on DVD November 13
GOLDEN BOY
The Classic Drama Also Stars Academy Award Winner William Holden and Academy Award Nominee Adolphe Menjou
Extensive Bonus Features Include Three Vintage Short Subjects and a Rare Episode of FORD TELEVISION THEATRE
CULVER CITY, CALIF. (September 3, 2007) – Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) marks the 100th birthday of legendary four-time Academy Award nominee and honorary Oscar winner Barbara Stanwyck with the November 13 DVD debut of GOLDEN BOY, a dynamic story of a promising violinist (William Holden) who jeopardizes his career by moonlighting as a prize-fighter. Stanwyck, whose career spanned over six decades, gives another of her indelible performances as the woman who tries to convince Holden to give up his musical ambitions for the glory of the boxing ring.
The DVD will be available for $19.95 SRP. The bonus materials include three vintage short subjects: THE KANGAROO KID, a 1938 color cartoon spoof of GOLDEN BOY; the 1940 two-reeler PLEASED TO MITT YOU, one of the "Glove Slingers" series of comedy shorts with Shemp Howard (of The Three Stooges); and the August 1, 1930 edition of SCREEN SNAPSHOTS, which features a 23-year-old Stanwyck being taught to play golf by fellow actor Ricardo Cortez. The DVD also contains her very first dramatic TV appearance: the western drama "Sudden Silence," a 1956 episode of FORD TELEVISION THEATRE that has been unseen for 50 years.
GOLDEN BOY was adapted from the critically-acclaimed play by Clifford Odets, which debuted on Broadway November 4, 1937 (celebrating its 70th Anniversary this year) and ran for 250 performances. When the show was adapted as a film two years later, Columbia Pictures, with Stanwyck's urging, cast then-unknown William Holden in the title role, launching his four-decade-plus stardom. The film was a critical and box-office success and held the title of Columbia's most successful non-Frank Capra film for seven years. However, it received only a single Academy Award nomination (Best Original Score) in the golden year of 1939. In addition to Stanwyck and Holden, GOLDEN BOY boasts an impressive lineup of talent on both sides of the camera.
The cast includes two other Academy Award nominees: Adolphe Menjou and Lee J. Cobb, recreating his role from the play, as well as veteran character actors Joseph Calleia, Sam Levene, Edward Brophy, and the ubiquitous Charles Lane, who recently passed way at the age of 102.