COMMEMORATE THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF ICON GENE KELLY’S BIRTH WITH A HISTORIC TV PRODUCTION PREMIERING ON DVD FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER - REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL KINESCOPE PRINTS!
This February, Entertainment One and The Archive of American Television Presents will release the complete Omnibus episode OMNIBUS: GENE KELLY -- DANCING: A MAN’S GAME, written, presented, and performed by Kelly himself. The legendary actor, dancer, director, and choreographer won renown for his athletic, masculine style and as the foremost proponent of filmed dance. Especially memorable sequences from this innovative broadcast include appearances by Olympic skater Dick Button, baseball star Mickey Mantle, basketball hero Bob Cousy, boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson, football quarterback Johnny Unitas, and other celebrated sports professionals, whose characteristic movemen ts Mr. Kelly incorporates into a solo dance sequence. The program also includes a stunning performance by Edward Villella, and an extended tap routine by Mr. Kelly and Mr. Robinson. This historic production aired just once on December 21, 1958, over the NBC Television Network. It remained publically unavailable thereafter, until now.
Called "the most successful cultural magazine series and a prototype for educational television,[1]" Omnibus was the Golden Age of Television’s most distinguished production, a multiple Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning series delivering sophistication, refinement, and sparkling intelligence to a national audience. Its eight groundbreaking seasons -- broadcast live and nationwide from 1952 to 1961 over 164 episodes -- of live, co mmercial-network broadcasts featured host Alastair Cooke and the most accomplished luminaries of the day, and garnered more than 13 million viewers per program and 65 awards - including nine Emmy® and two Peabody Awards.
On DVD February 5, 2013!
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