Jack Cummings
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The American military knows just what a post-WWII Okinawa village needs: schools, rules and a Ladies' League for Democratic Action. The villagers know what they really need: a teahouse, complete with geishas.
4) Honolulu
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Description
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Handsome movie heartthrob Brooks Mason is tired of being besieged by adoring fans. When he meets his exact double, a shy Hawaiian plantation owner named George Smith, they decide to switch for a month. Mason sails to Hawaii, falls in love with a beautiful dancer. Smith is sent to a New York hospital, thanks to overzealous fans.
5) Ship ahoy
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Description
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ship Ahoy, a patriotic musical comedy of the WWII era, swings to the tempo of its big-band times. Eleanor Powell plays a leggy lead dancer on a cruise ship who is asked to transport a mine to Puerto Rico. Neither she nor her pulp-fiction-author beau knows she's actually working for spies who got the idea from one of his potboiler novels! All of the festivities are set to the swing of Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra featuring a very young Frank Sinatra...
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (204 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Calamity Jane: Calamity Jane is a calamity at love--she's too busy cracking a bullwhip to pay much mind to such girlie what-alls as dresses and perfume.
Seven brides for seven brothers: When the new bride of a roughneck Oregon pioneer finds she has to keep house for her husband's six rowdy brothers, she decides to groom them so that they can find brides of their own.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Description
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister Eve fears Betty's heart will be broken when Jose returns to South America. She arranges to meet with the real O'Rourke and love soon blossoms between them as well.
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A backstage yarn about two hoofers, Johnny Brett and King Shaw, who are an ambitious dance team working in a dance hall for little or nothing. A mistake in names shoots King instead of Johnny into the lead of a Broadway musical. On opening night King is unable to perform due to intoxication, and Johnny is forced to perform to save his partner's reputation. The show's producers realize their mistake in identity and all is resolved.
10) Fiesta
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Description
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maria Morales goes into the bull fighting ring in order to redeem her brother's name after he flees the ring to pursue a career as a composer.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Soon after arriving in France on a music scholarship, young Australian Marjorie takes the opera world by storm. Exhilarated by her achievement, she garners worldwide fame and is heralded as one of the greatest singers of her time. But tragedy strikes in the form of a crippling paralysis ...
12) Kiss me Kate
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two squabbling, 20th-century ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash.
13) Can-Can
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The owner of Montmartre's most notorious nightspot, the Café Le Bal Du Paradis, Simone Pistache spends a great deal of her time in court, thanks to the banning of that "lewd and lascivious" dance, the Can-Can. So when her nightlife-loving lawyer and boyfriend, François Durnais, refuses to settle down and marry her, Simone decides to play up to his rival in romance, Parisian judge Philipe Forrestier, a lovestruck young jurist who's determined to...
14) Easy to wed
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Description
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The "Morning Star" has a big problem. J.B. Allenbury is a rich and mighty man who will sue the paper for $2 million because of an article which says that his daughter, Connie, is nymphomaniac and only after married men. Reporter Bill Chandler is sent after Connie to prove that the story is true. The only problem Bill has is that he's not married, at least not yet.
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Description
1 videodisc (80 min, 83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Go West: It's 1870 and the Marx Brothers are out to get rich in Dead Man's Gulch. The Big store: The brothers reduce an enormous inventory of upscale merchandise into a multilevel disaster as they pursue and evade villains via bicycles, skates, unicycles, broad jumps, shipping chutes, elevator cables, high wires, pole vaults and pseudo-Tarzan chandelier swinging.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 209 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Royal wedding: a musical set during Princess Elizabeth's wedding to Philip Mountbatten. A brother-sister dance team go to London and get caught up in romance. The last time I saw Paris: A writer recalls his romance with a wealthy American girl in Paris, and how he lost her. In these films, one a musical and one a drama, careers and lack of commitment/philandering cause trouble with romance. In the drama, the result is tragedy. In the musical, everything...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Chicago White sox pitcher, Monty Stratton. Stratton suffers a devastating hunting accident which leads to the amputation of one leg. Learning to walk with an artificial limb, he struggles to resume his career.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bert Kalmar always wanted to be a magician, but all it takes is a disastrous opening night to make his dream go poof! So, Kalmar moves on and finds songwriting magic with collaborator Harry Ruby.
Pub. Date
©2006, ©1956
Physical Description
1videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Okinawa 1946, occupied by American troops whose assignment is to bring democracy to the inhabitants. The captain in charge, Captain Fisby (Glenn Ford), is a well-meaning but inept loser, and faces a wily Okinawan interpreter, Sakini (Marlon Brando), and a determined geisha girl, Lotus Blossom (Machiko Kyo), along with villagers who know how to take advantage of foreign occupation!