Rosalind Russell
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1940.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this undeniable gem of Hollywood's golden age, Walter, a hard-boiled newspaper editor, discovers that his ex-wife and former employee, Hildy, is set to marry a wet-blanket insurance salesman. Walter, certain that this is the wrong move for a strong-willed and ambitious woman such as Hildy, decides to sabotage her marital plans by enticing her with one last story--the execution of a convicted murderer. A classic of the Screwball Rom-Com genre, HIS...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 193 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
His Girl Friday: Hildy Johnson is a reporter. Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns, who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow news writers with the story of an impending execution in order to keep her from hopping the train that's supposed to take her to Albany and a new life as a housewife (1940, 92 min). Also presented here is smash hit play The Front Page (1931, 101 min).
4) The Women
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Women ruin their friends' reputations at various social gatherings.
5) Picnic
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Full screen and widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story covers one Labor Day week-end in a small Kansas town, and tells about the impact a handsome drifter has on the lives of several women in town.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (159 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the classic play by Eugene O'Neill, set in a time near the end of the Civil War. Poisoning, infidelity, gunshots and shocking family secrets explode in a haunting climax that will never be forgotten.
7) Auntie Mame
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1928, a 10-year-old boy goes to live with his eccentric, sophisticated aunt--a lady who throws a party for any occasion or nonoccasion that comes to mind.
8) Gypsy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee, her rise to stardom from vaudeville and her volatile relationship with her ambitious mother.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two mischievous students turn convent school upside down with their pranks. During Christmas break, Mary remains at the school and is touched by the Sisters' celebration of the Yule. Their graduation is both a relief and a celebration for the Mother Superior.
10) Sister Kenny
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Could a simple country nurse possibly have found a treatment for polio when educated doctors have failed? This is the remarkable true story of Elizabeth Kenny, a nurse far out in the Australian bush, who follows her instincts to treat small children inflicted with the dreaded crippling disease.
13) Rendezvous
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Intrigue, plot twists and romantic jealousy drive this riveting World War I espionage thriller. A decoding expert is assigned to office work instead of the combat role he longed to play. But there is no shortage of action as he becomes involved with a socialite whose uncle, the Assistant Secretary of War, sends him into a world of German spies, a Russian mistress and betrayal at almost every turn. As he helps to orchestrate and decipher some of the...
14) The women
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (133 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequence ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mary Haines loses her husband to ruthless Crystal Allen who is aided and abetted by Sylvia Fowler whose own spouse has taken up with another woman. In Reno, in the throes of divorce, all wage war on one another.
Publisher
Delta Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92, 31 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
His girl Friday: An unscrupulous newspaper editor uses every dirty trick in the book to keep his ace reporter/ex-wife from retiring and remarrying in this twist on The Front Page.
Cary Grant on film: A biography of the career of Cary Grant, with selections of scenes from his movies highlighting his career.
16) Night must fall
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Remastered edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A headless corpus delicti, a weird forest at night and a woman's head in a locked leather hat box under the bed. Add to this a neurotic English girl, a doddering hypochondriac and a charming but cold-blooded killer. The result? One of the most unusual and daring thrillers to come out of Hollywood in the '30s ..."--Container.
17) Reckless
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Remastered edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A Broadway star married for love. The tabloids say she murdered for money. ... [Jean Harlow] plays musical star Mona Leslie, the bride of a champagne-stewed blueblood. When he blows his brains out, Mona is suspected of his murder, igniting a media frenzy"--Container.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Comedic drama centering around nuns in a convent and the conflict between the traditional, rigid values of the Roman Catholic church and the liberalism of the 1960s.
20) China Seas
Publisher
Warner Bros. Turner
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rugged Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That’s not the only risky cargo he carries. Both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancée are aboard! With their wisecracking banter, gutsy glamour, and dynamic physicality, Gable and Harlow prove once again that they were the ’30s’ most scorching screen pair in this rough-and-tumble tale of the sea.