Kiss Me Kate

( Warner Bros. Pictures )

"Kiss Me Kate" (1953)

George Sidney directed this rollicking version of the Cole Porter Broadway hit about divorced theater stars (Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel) playing Katherine and Petruccio in a Broadway-bound musical adaptation of "The Taming of the Shrew."

"It has a few gimmicks cut into it, but it's not a gimmick film," Joseph says.

Though most reference books state that "Kiss Me Kate" had a limited 3-D release, that isn't true, even though "it did not show in 3-D at Radio City Music Hall. It showed flat there," Joseph says.

"But actually, it had the largest 3-D print run that Technicolor did up to that time. It was a huge print release -- 250 -- that's a lot."