Dorothy Malone
Author
Language
English
Description
This book is full of poems, love songs, gospel songs, short stories, and a little bit of everything. It was designed to encourage the go-getters to move out and master success, to be the best. The sky is the limit of what you can have if you apply yourself. It warns how tricky the enemy can be, in the form of poetry. One must read with an open mind, knowing that it is an authors point of view but so true. It was designed to change to attitudes of...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Errol Flynn was a young movie idol, he became a crony of aging star John Barrymore, whose rich talent was ravaged by an excess of booze and life. Years later, Flynn leaped at the chance to portray his old friend in this riveting and cautionary 1958 film based on the biography by Barrymore's daughter Diana–and gave a triumphant performance that promised more dramatic greatness to come, if only Flynn hadn't died at just 50 the next year. Dorothy...
Series
Criterion collection volume 96
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Drama of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring.
4) Winter Kills
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick (Jeff Bridges) is the son of Pa Kegan (John Huston), a tycoon who heads a powerful business empire, and the brother of an American president who was assassinated 15 years ago. Working in the China seas on one of his father's oil drilling ships, Nick is plunged into the past when a dying man reveals the true identity of his brother's assassin. Nick sets out on a twisting trail to unravel a web of greed and vengeance which leads him to confront...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Three ranch-owners struggle to defend their livelihoods after the Civil War covers the nation in a cloud of lawlessness. When their Three Bell ranch is torched by Union raiders, the partners split up. Price enlists with the Confederate army, while Davis and Burns become gun-runners to rebuild their fortunes. During the ensuing dangers and romantic entanglements, the three occasionally lose sight of their ranching ambitions, but never for a moment...
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
A ratings sensation for ABC, it was already a successful 1956 novel and 1957 film, made its way to network television in 1964. A prime-time soap opera whose influences can be seen in later beloved programs such as Dallas, Knots Landing, and Twin Peaks, the show examined the complex web of scandals, schemes, and sex in a New England town.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A ratings sensation for ABC, it was already a successful 1956 novel and 1957 film, made its way to network television in 1964. A prime-time soap opera whose influences can be seen in later beloved programs such as Dallas, Knots Landing, and Twin Peaks, the show examined the complex web of scandals, schemes, and sex in a New England town.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Based on the Grace Metalious novel. Set in a small New England town, Peyton Place deals with the secrets and scandals of two generations of the town's inhabitants. An unmarried woman, Constance, and her daughter Allison are at the dramatic center of the story.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The winter holidays have come and gone, and the new year begins with a fresh dusting of snow and the return of Elliot Carson to Peyton Place. Behind the picket fences of the clapboard houses, beyond the historic pillory in the quaint town square, the neatly wrapped New England town continues to unravel in ways no one could have imagined.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The big sleep: L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister.
Key Largo: A disillisioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight...until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a...
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The big sleep: L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister.
Key Largo: A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There...
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Side A. : A college professor nearly blows his credentials when one of his gorgeous students decides the subject she wants to study is romance.
Side B. : A British recording star sets up headquarters on the beach and a grumpy newspaper publisher seeks to oust the kids from their beach area.
18) Sincerely yours
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Liberace plays a concert pianist threatened by deafness. Plunged into despair, he finds escape from sorrow by secretly involving himself in the problems of strangers. Liberace touches the heart and delights the ear with sparkling renditions of 31 selections from Chopin to Chopsticks. Along the way he romances Joanne Dru and Dorothy Malone, trades barbs with old pro William Demarest and in a humorous nightclub scene, pokes fun at his own image as the...
Author
Language
English
Description
A man wrongly imprisoned for murder breaks out of jail. He wants to clear his name, but with the police pursuing him, he's forced to take a beautiful young woman, driving a fast sports car, hostage and slip into a cross-border sports car race to try to make it to Mexico before the police get him.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A western remake of the 1941 film noir High Sierra. Joel McCrea plays veteran outlaw Wes McQueen (Humphrey Bogart in the original) who escapes from jail and hopes to pull off one last big train robbery. McQueen doesn't care for his new partners -- except perhaps Colorado Carson (Virginia Mayo), a dance-hall girl who may be the only person who genuinely cares about his well-being. McQueen, meanwhile, also has eyes for Julie Ann (Dorothy Malone), who...