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 (right, 1939), an adventure tale with Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Victor McLaglen, and Joan Fontaine; I Remember Mama (1948), a family drama with Oscar-nominated Irene Dunne delivering one of the best performances of her remarkable career (as the remembered mama), and featuring more Oscar-nominated performances by Barbara Bel Geddes (as the "I" who remembers mama), Ellen Corby, and Oskar Homolka; and two documentaries directed by George Stevens Jr, George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1985) and George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin (2004).
I Remember Mama poster
Other George Stevens titles already available on DVD include Giant (two-disc set), a 1956 oil epic 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 a Best Actress Academy Award; and Alice Adams (1935), which offers another Oscar-nominated Hepburn performance; Fred MacMurray is Hepburn's leading man in this one.
Suggested retail price will be $19.97 for each of the new releases.