DVD Review: Easter Parade

(1948, Color, 103 min.)
Director: Charles Walters

Strolling along 5th Avenue or going on the bum as A Couple of Swells, Judy Garland and Fred Astaire lead a parade of music (16 Irving Berlin tunes and an Academy Award-winning adaptation score arranged by Johnny Green and Roger Edens) and gotta-dance fun (including Astaire's "Drum Crazy") in this neverending delight co-starring Ann Miller (performing a knockout "Shakin' the Blues Away) and Peter Lawford (gamely crooning "The Fella with the Umbrella" with Garland). Don't Let this colorful Easter Parade pass you by!

Disck One

New digital transfer from restored picture and audio elements

Commentary by Fred Astaire's daughter Ava Astaire McKenzie and Judy Garland biographer John Fricke

Garland Trailer Gallery

Subtitles: English, French and Spanish

Disc Two

New making-of documentary Easter Parade: On the Avenue

Three-time Emmy Award-winning American Masters Documentary Profile Judy Garland: By Myself

Outtake musical number "Mr. Monotony"

Audio-only bonuses: Radio Production with the film's stars, Radio Promo
Subtitles: English, French and Spanish
Encoding: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Standard Version presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition
Film Studio: MGM
DVD Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: March 15, 2005
UPC: 012569707221