Charles Coburn
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Special edition ; full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Newly deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve arrives at the outer offices of Hades where he asks Satan for permission to enter the gates of Hell. Though the Devil doubts he will qualify, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime of wooing and pursuing women.
3) The Lady Eve
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
J.P. Merric, the richest man in the world, a tyrannical department store tycoon, nicknamed "the devil" by his maltreated employees, meets Miss Jones and becomes a perfect angel. Hoping to root out labor discontent, J.P. goes underground posing as a shoe salesman in his own store.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
To help the war effort, a patriotic young woman rents half of her apartment to a well-to-do, retired millionaire, who decides to play cupid by renting half of his half to a high-type, clean-cut nice young man.
9) The Lady Eve
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume V. 3
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"It's the ultimate battle of the sexes when a wealthy heir (Henry Fonda) falls (literally!) for a con woman (Barbara Stanwyck) with a shady past."
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When junior shipping mogul Josh Mallon comes too close to getting hitched, he and his best buddy Ace Lannigan run to the furthest point they can find on a map--Singapore. The first of the famous "Road" pictures starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby as a team of irrepressible bachelors, the scenery includes Dorothy Lamour as the beautiful live-in housekeeper they bring home.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A successful businessman, Mr. Pennypacker, has two wives and two sets of children in two different cities -- what will he do when one wife finds out about the other one? -- Container.
12) In name only
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alec Walker's wife Maida is a beauty, but she's also a venomous, self-absorbed schemer. Then Alec falls for an open-hearted widow named Julie. And Maida turns wedding vows into a steel trap: If Alec files for divorce, she'll drag Julie into court as a homewrecker, and use Julie's little daughter as a witness.
Publisher
[Platinum Disc Corp.]
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (179 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Made for each other: Newlyweds in Hollywood's Golden Age must overcome poverty, career pressures, and illness. The power of their love sees them through. Pot o' gold: An idle young rich man signs on with a struggling swing band, and convinces his uncle to put the band on the air.
14) Edison, the man
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Incredible biography of the genius who created, among other society-changing inventions, the motion picture medium. This story depicts Edison's beginning when he was a penniless janitor who set up a make-shift laboratory in an office basement.
Series
Preston Sturges the filmmaker collection volume DVD 3
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full frame.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"It's the ultimate battle of the sexes when a wealthy heir (Henry Fonda) falls (literally!) for a con woman (Barbara Stanwyck) with a shady past."
16) Monkey business
Publisher
Twentieth Century Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2002
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A secretary and her boss can't stop themselves from engaging in a little monkey business after a chimpanzee accidentally concocts, then dumps, an anti-aging formula into the office water cooler.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 374 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: Theodora goes wild: A small-time author whose racy bestsellers, written under a pseudonym, bring her notoriety when a New Yorker discovers her secret. Together again: The mayor's widow falls for a sculptor as he works on a statue of her late husband.
Disc 2: The doctor takes a wife: A feminist writer forced to pretend she's married to a man whom she loathes. A night to remember: A woman and her mystery writer husband take an apartment in...