George Stevens on DVD
by Andre Soares
On December 7, Warner Home Video releases for the first time on DVD four titles by (or about) Academy Award-winning director George Stevens: Gunga Din (1939) with Cary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., I Remember Mama (1948) with the Oscar-nominated Irene Dunne, and two George Stevens, Jr., documentaries, George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (2004), George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey (1985).
Other Stevens titles already available on DVD are: the 1956 epic Western Giant (two-disc set), for which Stevens won his second Best Director Oscar (the first came in 1951 for A Place in the Sun); Woman of the Year (1942), the first pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, who was nominated for an Academy Award; and Alice Adams (1935), which boasts another Oscar-nominated Hepburn performance.
Suggested retail price will be $19.97 for each of the new releases.
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