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1) Married life
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1940s, a philandering husband plots his wife's death instead of facing the turmoil of divorce.
Language
English
Description
After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything...
Language
English
Description
Set in the world of theater, with its temperamental and insecure personalities and actors who don't know when to stop acting, this is a story of pretense and fantasy. Breathless fan Eve Harrington worms her way into the confidence of Broadway star Margo Channing. Eve becomes first her secretary, then her understudy, then her rival. Only one person sees through Eve's act: Birdie, Margo's wardrobe woman. Survivors of Eve's savage climb to the top...
4) Heidi
Series
Shirley Temple volume 1
Language
English
Description
When her aunt tires of caring for her, orphan Heidi goes to live in the Alps with her gruff grandfather, who comes to adore her. Eventually placed with another family, Heidi fights to join her grandfather again.
5) My fair lady
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arrogant, irascible, and misogynistic professor of phonetics Henry Higgins believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society. He boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering--also an expert in phonetics--that he could teach any woman to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball. He chooses as an example a sassy, young working-class London flower seller from the...
Language
English
Description
THE ROMANCE COLLECTION brings together eight perennial favorites in an extraordinary DVD set sure to delight all fans of sophisticated entertainment. Like no other films ever made, these lavish realizations capture every nuance of the celebrated stories that have enthralled generations of readers. Titles included in this collection are: PRIDE & PREJUDICE: THE SPECIAL EDITION (2 discs), EMMA, JANE EYRE, LORNA DOONE, THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (3 discs),...
7) Daisy Kenyon
Series
Fox film noir volume 23
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Daisy Kenyon is a lovelorn commercial artist caught in a romantic triangle with two men-- one she loves but cannot have and one whose love she cannot return. While in an emotionally draining love affair with married attorney Dan O'Mara, who refuses to leave his wife, she meets returning Army sergeant Peter Lapham-- a decent and gentle man who instantly falls in love with her. Although she carries a torch for Dan, she knows Peter will give her the...
8) Far north
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Epic thriller about a battle for survival, unexpected passion, and the temptation of revenge. Haunted by a violent past, Saiva and Anja share an isolated, brutal existence in the desolate Arctic tundra.
11) Lorna Doone
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A young man is sworn to destroy the Doones who killed his father, but falls in love with a beautiful member of the Doone clan.
Series
Criterion collection volume 515
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Trying to settle down, a drifter takes a job in a small Southern town and becomes involved with two women.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
DINNER AT EIGHT (1933) You're invited to a sparkling all-star peek into the lives of the troubled and troublemaking Who's Who coming to a posh Manhattan party, led by Jean Harlow, Marie Dressler, John and Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery and more. George Cukor directs. LIBELED LADY (1936) When society diva Myrna Loy sues newsman Spencer Tracy for libel, he enlists fiancée Harlow and buddy William Powell in a scheme involving a rigged marriage, a phony...
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