Eve Arden
3) Tea for two
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wealthy stage-struck Nan Carter strikes a bet that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she gets the $25,000 she needs to back a Broadway musical vehicle for herself. She's determined, even if it means saying "no" when the fellow she loves pops the question.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Description
10 audio discs (approximately 10 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 program guide (7 pages : illustrations)
Language
English
Description
Radio Spirits presents a collection of broadcasts from the Golden Age of Radio. Featured here is Eve Arden in her celebrated role as high school teacher Connie Brooks.
6) Grease
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's love when a greaser falls for a good girl in this classic musical depicting young life in the fifties.
Series
Signature collection volume Barbara Stanwyck
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion vs. security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.
8) Grease
Language
English
Description
A musical about the fabulous 50's. This edition includes retrospective interviews with principal stars, the director and producer.
9) Grease 2
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Return to rockin' Rydell High for a whole new term! It's 1961, two years after the original Grease™ gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors - and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington (Maxwell Caulfield) is the new kid in school - but he's been branded a brainiac. Can he fix up an old motorcycle, don a leather jacket, avoid a rumble with the leader of the T-Birds (Adrian Zmed), and...
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Description
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Journalist Agatha Reed returns to her alma mater for homecoming, although she's more interested in renewing her romance with an old flame who's now the college president. Their attempts at rekindling any sparks are thwarted by the arrival of another rival for her affections and the showing of her controversial film which could put her former beau's job in jeopardy"--From IMDb.
Series
Criterion collection volume 600
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (161 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom drama, Anatomy of a murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding supporting cast and influential jazz score by Duke Ellington,...
12) Mildred Pierce
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mildred Pierce is a happily married woman with two kids, living in the suburbs of sunny California. She secretly takes a job as a waitress so that she can pay for piano lessons and expensive clothes for her eldest daughter, Veda. Her growing financial independence permits her to open her own restaurant, and eventually a chain of eateries. She has divorced her intolerant first husband, and married well-connected Monte in order to get Veda into high...
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young window dresser's problems begin when he kisses a statue of Venus, which comes to life. This Venus turns out to be the genuine article on an earthly assignment. Her presence causes everyone around her to fall in love, except for the window dresser, who is terrified of her advances toward him. The young man suddenly becomes the object of a furious employer and a jealous fiancée.
14) Stage door
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film depicts the fears, setbacks and daily struggles of aspiring young performers, and, for the very few, stardom and success.
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a man's uncle leaves him in charge of a rundown Culver City hotel, the man changes the name and soon the hotel is host to assassins, tourists, secret agents and even a group of munchkins who are filming a movie nearby.
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Description
1 videodisc (78 min.; 87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Room Service: A cash-strapped theatrical troup tries to find a backer and keep from being thrown out of their hotel. At the Circus: The brothers try to keep the cash-strapped circus running by finding a backer.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (204 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cinderella: Cinderella is a slave to her wicked stepmother and her selfish stepsisters, until her Fairy Godmother arrives and turns her into a radiant princess ; The little mermaid: When a young mermaid falls in love with a human being, she makes a deal with the Sea Witch and sacrifices everything to be with him ; The dancing princesses: After the king discovers that his daughters' dancing shoes are worn out every night, he offers to let anyone who...
19) Mildred Pierce
Series
Criterion collection volume 860
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a...
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Description
10 audio discs (approximately 10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (32 pages : illustrations ; 13 cm).
Language
English
Description
Recordings of skits from the following radio programs: The Abbott and Costello Program, The Amos 'n' Andy Show, The Burns and Allen Show, Duffy's Tavern, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve, The Jack Benny Program, The Live of Riley, My Favorite Husband, Our Miss Brooks.
