Jack Carson
Language
English
Formats
Description
"If you had it to do all over again, would you have married me?" Yes, gentlemen, there is a right answer. That's something David Smith learns the hard way when his bubbly and beautiful wife Ann queries him over breakfast. Also right are radiant Carole Lombard and easygoing Robert Montgomery as the stars of this breezy Alfred Hitchcock comedy. For three years, the Smiths have been blessed but battling. When a technicality voids their union, Mr. misses...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
As Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a successful restaurant chain, the ingratitude of her materialistic firstborn becomes a venomous serpent's tooth, setting in motion an endless cycle of desperate overtures and heartless recriminations.
4) Phffft!
Language
English
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Description
A radio writer and her lawyer husband break up and each finds someone else, causing them to realize they were better off before they were divorced.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers and falls in love with struggling artist Ally. She has given up on her dream to become a successful singer, until she meets Jack, who immediately sees her natural talent. This is the raw and passionate tale of Jack and Ally, two artistic souls coming together, on stage and in life. Theirs is a complex journey through the beauty and the heartbreak of a relationship struggling to survive.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1153
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery...
9) Stand in
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When a New York bank sends stuffy, bookish Atterbury Dodd to Hollywood to take over the reins of floundering Colossal Studios, the film community eyes the newcomer with thinly-veined amusement. Colliding with Hollywood eccentrics, Dodd uncovers a conspiracy to scuttle the studio and he enlists an unlikely pair of allies who unite to save Colossal Studios.
10) Larceny, Inc
Language
English
Description
Pressure Maxwell emerges from Sing Sing planning to run a dog track with his cronies Jug and Weepy. But a plan needs dough, so the boys open a luggage shop as a front while attempting to tunnel into the bank next door. The store gains unexpected success. Hanging around the store is a gabby traveling valise salesman. A sour con arrives wanting in on their action.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bon voyage! Georgia Garrett₂s singing career may not be going anywhere, but she is. She₂s on a cruise, sailing under the name Mrs. Elvira Kent while the real Elvira secretly stays home to spy on her presumably philandering hubby. Meanwhile, the husband hires a spy to snoop on his supposedly voyaging wife. Doris Day makes her maiden film voyage, debuting as Georgia in a colorful bauble afloat on romantic seas.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Cat on a hot tin roof: A story of deception which is destroying a patriarchal Southern family as its' members gather for the imminent demise of their "Big Daddy."
Father of the bride: Chaos reigns when the beautiful daughter of a family casually announces her plans to marry. What follows is a warmly humorous story, with wedding preparations, ruffled egos and the unavoidable meeting with the prospective in-laws.
Butterfield 8: A high-class call girl...
14) Red garters
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Vivacious Rosemary Clooney heads up a gaggle of high-kicking, red-gartered girls at the Red Dog Saloon in this amusingly tuneful spoof of the Western film. Rosie plays Calaveras Kate, a saloon owner who has her eye on the town's big shot.
15) A star is born
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
As Destry, a mild-mannered deputy who doesn't like guns, Stewart is called to restore order to the hopelessly corrupt frontier town of Bottleneck. Though reluctant to undertake such an enormous task, he's soon roped into action after meeting the seductive Frenchy (Dietrich), an alluring saloon girl who belts out unforgettable show-stoppers like "The Boys in the Back Room," while winning the hero's heart.
17) A star is born
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a band singer is discovered and guided to heights of show-business success by an alcoholic ex-matinee idol, she performs one superb song after another in a production that exhilarates with its craft and style even as its story moves toward a heartbreaking finale.
18) Love and learn
Series
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business." -- IMDb.com, March 12, 2018.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A battle between operatic highbrows and showbiz sharpies in which nightclub operators run afoul of their stuffy "cultured" classical neighbors who shut them down. But the tables are turned thanks to a sparkling Arthur Schwartz/Leo Robin score and the romantic mix-ups that inevitably follow.