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Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A 17th century entertainer exiled from England and shipped to America falls in love with a princess who is kidnapped by pirates.
2) Coney Island
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A saloon entertainer is transformed from a raucus song-and-dance girl into a refined chanteuse.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 1 hr., 36 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A popular husband-and-wife entertainer team, making their move from radio to television, believe their lives will be complete when they can start a family. When they decide to adopt, they face problems and disappointments and are ultimately rewarded with an overabundance of babies.
4) Green book
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on a book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey...
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Father Conroy has a parish which serves the acting and performance community. He guides a talented young parishoner as she pursues a career in entertainment, and tries to save her from the clutches of a wolfish nightclub owner.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A tuneful Irving Berlin musical that depicts the trials and triumphs of a veteran vaudeville family. Molly and Terry Donahue start out as a duo and keep adding kids to the act until they finally become The 5 Donahues. Their busy and tumultuous lives aren't always easy, but the Donahues have plenty of love to get them through the hard times and more than enough talent to keep them on top. Highlighted by one classic Irving Berlin song after another...
7) The Rat Pack
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop, known as "The Rat Pack", set the style and the pace for 1950s America. But when President Kennedy, newly elected with the support of the Pack, is advised that the friends who made him shouldn't be the friends he keeps, the Rat Pack discovers that lady luck has chosen another partner.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joshua and Dinah Barkley are a successful (but argumentative) musical-comedy team. But their duo is threatened when a serious playwright envisions Dinah as a great dramatic actress.
10) Ray
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Ray Charles was born in a poor predominantly black town in central Florida. He went blind at the age of 7. With the staunch support of his determined single mother, he developed a fierce resolve. He had wit and incredible talent which would eventually enable him to overcome not only Jim Crow racism and the cruel prejudices against the blind, but also discover his own sound which revolutionized American popular music. Nonetheless, as Ray's unprecedented...
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The steps of the studio set towered before her like a pyramid. All Doris Day had to do was dance up and down those steps while wearing a flowing gold lame dress. "You've got to be out of your minds," Day exclaimed in a voice heard across the soundstage. But dance and sing she did. Day plays a singer who arrives in New York never dreaming it will begin an alternately funny and heartfelt shot at stardom on the Great White Way.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jazz age singing sensation Ruth Etting had it all, but it took more than talent to make it big. Her rise to fame at the hands of her Chicago gangster boyfriend turned her life off-stage into a world of fear and abuse.
13) Chasing rainbows
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Carlie and Terry constitute a vaudeville team in a traveling musical show; also in the company are Eddie, the stage manager; Bonnie, a comedienne; and Polly, the wardrobe mistress. Terry's habit of constantly falling in love with the leading lady causes him to marry Daphne, a two-timing songstress. When he finds her with another man, Eddie threatens to kill himself, but his little partner reassures him that Happy days are here again, and the show...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 429 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Up in arms: Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe.
Wonder man: Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn....
15) Pal Joey
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of a nightclub entertainer who is also a heel. He romances a wealthy socialite to get her to finance his own nightclub, then falls for a chorine he hires for the club.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33 1) and widescreen (2.35:1) presentations Dolby Digital.
Language
English
Description
In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia...
17) Show boat
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen and full frame.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer,...
19) Selena
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
Full screen and widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the Grammy Award-winning South Texas singer whose life tragically ended just as she was taking Tejano music into mainstream America.
Publisher
Turner Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (398 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Roberta: Fred and Ginger sing I Won't Dance, but their feet prove otherwise in a tale of Parisian high fashion and hijinks.
Follow the fleet: Astaire plays a hoofer-turned-sailor. Rogers is his ex-partner, now convoying the Navy around for 10 cents a dance. One day the fleet returns to home port and the partnership is renewed--at least for one more show.
Follow the fleet: A Navy sailor tries to rekindle a romance with the woman he loves while on...
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