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starring: Irving Berlin See Larger Image List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $22.49 You Save: $2.46 (10%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $14.82 Third Party New Price: $13.19 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780767081962 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 076708196X Label: A&E Home Video Manufacturer: A&E Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: A&E Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 26, 2005 Running Time: 100 minutes Sales Rank: 39541 Studio: A&E Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1999 Related Items: Richard Rodgers - The Sweetest Sounds Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Harold Arlen The Great American Songbook George Gershwin Remembered (An American Masters Program) The Busby Berkeley Collection, Vol. 2 (Gold Diggers of 1937 / Gold Diggers in Paris / Hollywood Hotel / Varsity Show) see more Editorial Review: Description: Though he was born in 1888 in Russia, he came to be synonymous with the music of his adopted homeland. In a career that spanned half a century, he penned some of the most recognizable and enduring songs of all time Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - very informative and interesting I watched this DVD and wished it would never end, respective not as soon as it did. It's a very well-made biography about a very interesting, very smart, very gifted, very straight and non-boring man - Irving Berlin - and his social environment. I dearly regret not ever have had the opportunity to met him in person. Rating: - An Immigrant's Love of America There are so many wonderful stories of immigrants who struggled and overcame poverty to achieve greatness in some field. Irving Berlin's life experience is eloquently captured in this excellent biography. The Russian Jewish boy who left his impoverished Lower East Side New York family to avoid being a burden and became one of the greatest American composers of popular songs, songs like "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Easter Parade," "White Christmas," and "God Bless America," is the subject of a most ... Read More Rating: - Biography-Irving Berlin: An American Song (A&E DVDArchives Comprehensive and interesting bio of America's Songwriter, especially to those interested in standard popular music, the style of which is generally no longer being produced, written or appreciated. As good as some of today's music is, can most people really easily hum or whistle any of the score of a "Phantom" or "Les Mis?" Rating: - Biography-Iriving Berlin:An American Song An excellent video! It follows you from Russia to the streets of New York to Broadway to Hollywood telling you of the genius of this Song Writer of the Ages. It's 100 minutes of entertaining education! Rating: - For the record... I agree, Irving Berlin was a brilliant songwriter, and A&E always does a nice job with their biographies. But he didn't write "Yankee Doodle Dandy," as is written in another review- that was George M Cohan. For a wonderul portrayal of George M, get the movie "Yankee Doodle Dandy" starring Jimmy Cagney- and you thought he just did gangster movies... see more Browse for similar items by category: Documentary - Genres - DVD - Video - General Television - Genres - DVD - Video - General A&E Home Video - Television - Genres - DVD - Video - All A&E Titles Biography - A&E Home Video - Television - Genres - DVD - Video - All Titles Biography - A&E Home Video - Television - Genres - DVD - Video - Artists & Authors