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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION
EAN: 0826663100938
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Shout Factory Theatr
Manufacturer: Shout Factory Theatr
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Shout Factory Theatr
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 26531
Studio: Shout Factory Theatr
Theatrical Release Date: May 26, 1969
Editorial Review:
Description:
Comedians, politicians and rock stars all graced The Dick Cavett Show stage, but the audience favorites were often the movie stars. And when the guests were greats like Fred Astaire, Bette Davis, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and Orson Welles, Cavett often devoted the full 90 minutes to them. In the case of Katharine Hepburn, the interview went so well that it required two full 90 minute shows.
This 4-DVD set contains 12 episodes featuring:
Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Bette Davis, Groucho Marx, Debbie Reynolds, Kirk Douglas, Alfred Hitchcock, Marlon Brando, Mel Brooks, Frank Capra, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Mitchum, John Huston and Orson Welles.
Also contains a new Cavett interview conducted by Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne.
Additional bonus material includes:
• Outtakes featuring Katharine Hepburn
• New episode introductions by Dick Cavett
• Original promos for The Dick Cavett Show
Amazon.com:
In an era that makes celebrities out of talent-free narcissists like Paris Hilton, it's nice to be reminded of a time when stars were bigger-than-life characters who were famous and beloved because they had actually accomplished something, and whose off-screen shenanigans were the stuff of legend rather than some glib report on Entertainment Tonight. The reminder comes in the form of Hollywood Greats, the latest offering from the vaults of Dick Cavett's 1970s TV talk show. This is a really impressive lineup: Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Fred Astaire, Robert Mitchum, Orson Welles, Groucho Marx, Kirk Douglas, Bette Davis, and others. And if some of them prove less than scintillating, on balance there's still more than enough on these four discs to satisfy even the most ardent star-gazers.
Of principal interest to many will be Cavett's interviews with people like Hepburn and Brando, who rarely ventured into TV land. The notoriously press-shy Hepburn, 66 at the time (1973), is seen checking out the studio and making picky remarks about the rug and furniture before agreeing to do the do right then and there, with no audience; she ends up holding forth for two entire shows (plus bonus material), revealing herself to be witty and sophisticated, as well outspoken, practical, and entirely in charge ('You keep interrupting,' she chastens Cavett, 'Just shut up...'). Brando, a year removed from The Godfather and Last Tango in Paris, agreed to appear only if he could discuss the plight of American Indians (several of whom are also on hand). Cavett, a sharp, self-effacing, well-prepared host, went along, little suspecting that the whole interview would be an exercise in teeth-pulling, with Brando refusing to discuss his career at all; his dismissal of his stage and screen work as 'irrelevant' is laughably disingenuous, considering that were it not for his acting, he wouldn't have been invited on the show in the first place. On the other hand, Davis is grand, saucy, full of stories about Hollywood's Golden Age--everything one wants in a movie star. Astaire is charming, showing that even at age 71 he was a great dancer and good singer. Welles, the man who married Rita Hayworth, had dinner with the pre-Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, and made Citizen Kane, is worldly, erudite, expansive (in every sense--he's twice Cavett's size), and probably the most entertaining of the lot. And Hitchcock is marvelous, showing off his dry, peculiar wit and revealing several tricks of the trade (it took 78 edits to make the 45-second shower scene in Psycho). Bonus material includes several Cavett show promos and a new featurette with him and film historian Robert Osbourne. Scattered throughout the various interviews are clips from some great films, including Night of the Hunter, The Birds, Holiday Inn, a variety of Douglas' movies, and even an obscure Bette Davis item called Watch on the Rhine. --Sam Graham
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Some of the Most Boring Interviews Ever Conducted
Dick Cavett is, was and always has been a pretend "intellectual." In reality, he's a genuinely stupid man. Watch him suck up to celebrity after celebrity in these twee, precious interviews. You'll feel like you're watching Jiminy Glick without the laugh track.
Rating:  - Great Memories To Share
For those of us in our 40's and 50's the Dick Cavett Show DVD is very memorable. Unless you are from that era, you may not appreciate the unexciting Dick Cavett but what a pleasure to be able to listen to many huge and very private Hollywood Stars who rarely gave interviews at that time. An incredible look into their lives. Dick Cavett's laid back style works perfectly in this particular setting and his open affection for Katharine Hepburn is both humorous and wonderful.
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Rating: - THATS ENTERTAINMENT AT ITS BEST = IT DOES NOT COME MUCH BETTER .
This particular selection of the Dick Cavett shows originate from the 1970s period.
After watching this four DVD set, which is very well presented in packaging, it struck me afterwards... that this is a fantastic purchasing deal.
The content of Hollywood Stars from the Golden era of classic movies, was very well selected... and the entertainment and nostalgic look back at these screen idols , who have sadly past away is pleasing to movie fans.
The playback was fault-less, and ... Read More
Rating: - Great for television and film history buffs
These discs provide a wonderful opportunity to see some of the greatest stars/personalities of the 20th century doing what they do best: Fred Astaire singing and dancing; Orson Welles relating amazing ancecdotes; Alfred Hitchcock being humorously macabre; Mel Brooks being crazy; and Marlon Brando skillfully evading all of Cavett's personal and show business-related questions in order to showcase his sincere concern for the plight of American Indians.
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Rating: - A lost art
I've only watched a couple of these shows so far but can see already how much greater this chatshow format is to the modern day shows. Here, in most cases, the full show is given over to one guest (and unlike modern chatshows, they were not there to plug their latest book, film or whatever, but to entertain and to give the viewer an insight into their character) And in this collection we have some of the great Hollywood stars, simply sitting and chatting with a charming host, for an hour and a half.
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