WARNER ARCHIVE: Irene Dunne and John Barrymore in Latest Wave

Six new-to-DVD releases have been announced by Warner as part of their Archive Collection. Click here for details.

OLIVE: Penny Serenade, Only the Valiant Plus Hope & Kaye Comedies

Olive Films has announced a total of six new titles for late August, all of which are new to Blu-Ray. Of the pack, Penny Serenade (1941) and Only the Valiant (1951) will get both DVD & Blu releases.

Serenade, starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, will be most welcome as it should hopefully be the definitive release for the often abused public domain drama. Valiant, starring Gregory Peck and Barbara Payton, with a deep supporting cast, was previously released by Lionsgate.

The four below were released on DVD by Olive in 2010 & 2011 and are now scheduled for an upgrade to hi-def.

• Knock on Wood (Blu-Ray) (1954) - Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling
• My Favorite Spy (Blu-Ray) (1951) - Bob Hope, Hedy Lamarr, Francis L. Sullivan, Arnold Moss, John Archer, Frank Faylen, Marc Lawrence, Mike Mazurki
• Off Limits (Blu-Ray) (1953) - Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney, Marilyn Maxwell
• On the Double (Blu-Ray) (1961) - Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Margaret Rutherford, Diana Dors

They can all be found in the recent additions section.

UNIVERSAL VAULT: 4 With Welles, McCrea, Dunne & Day

It's a star-studded wave from Universal and their Vault Series as they have added the four titles below over at Amazon.

• Lady in a Jam (1942) - Irene Dunne, Patric Knowles, Ralph Bellamy, Eugene Pallette
• The Virginian (1946) - Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, Sonny Tufts, Barbara Britton
• Man in the Shadow (1957) - Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Colleen Miller, Ben Alexander, Barbara Lawrence
• The Ballad of Josie (1967) - Doris Day, Peter Graves, George Kennedy, Andy Devine, William Talman

All are new to DVD are now available for rent at ClassicFlix... and nowhere else!