Marlene Dietrich
1) Marlene
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fascinating self-portrait of one of the greatest entertainers of Hollywood's golden age
Film star. Cabaret sensation. Recording artist. Writer. Marlene Dietrich was nothing short of enchanting—and remains so as she chronicles her fabulous rise to stardom in Marlene. From her early career in Germany as a chorus girl to her breakout role as Lola in The Blue Angel to her courageous wartime tours, Dietrich recounts...
Film star. Cabaret sensation. Recording artist. Writer. Marlene Dietrich was nothing short of enchanting—and remains so as she chronicles her fabulous rise to stardom in Marlene. From her early career in Germany as a chorus girl to her breakout role as Lola in The Blue Angel to her courageous wartime tours, Dietrich recounts...
2) Lili Marlene
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Description
1 audio disc (53 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
3) Lili Marlene
Author
Pub. Date
[1959]
Physical Description
1 audio disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono ; 12 in.
Language
Deutsch
6) Stage fright
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Description
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman disguises herself as a maid in order to clear her friend who's been accused of murdering his mistress's husband.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The tragic postwar romance is a tale of class anxiety and classic Romantic fatalism, run through with a typically French frankness about sex and gender. Jean Gabin is the title character, an unpretentious and proudly working-class building contractor, who falls in love with a ravishing shopgirl Blanche, quite unaware that she comes trailing a notorious sexual history and attracts the determined ardor of every man she meets. Among her current lovers...
8) Marlene
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Using hours of audio-only taped interviews, learn about this normally reclusive star, from her childhood to her marriage, collaborators, life, death, and the Holocaust.
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man is accused of murdering his wealthy woman friend in order to secure his inheritance. The defendant's mysterious wife stuns the courtroom by giving damaging testimony against her husband. The web of intrigue is finally unwoven in a shocking, chilling conclusion.
10) The Blue Angel
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged schoolmaster becomes infatuated with and marries a singer from a sleazy cafe. When she leaves him for another man he returns to his school as a broken old man, and dies.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (106, 94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of the early sound masterpieces of German cinema, this film made Marlene Dietrich an international star and helped assure director Joseph von Sternberg a place in cinematic history. The story is a gripping portrait of a middle-aged professor who is degraded by his obsession with a tawdry cafe entertainer.
12) Morocco
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Jaded cabaret singer Mademoiselle Amy Jolly (Dietrich) falls for Tom Brown (Cooper), a devil-may-care private in the French Foreign Legion. After Tom overhears the wealthy man-of-the-world La Bessiere (Adolphe Menjou) propose to Amy, he accepts a dangerous assignment, convinced that he cannot give the beautiful chanteuse the life she wants. All proves fair in love and war, however, and Amy must decide which man she truly loves"--Container.
13) Manpower
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The only thing more dangerous than their job was the woman they both loved.
Series
Criterion collection volume 935
Criterion collection volume 931
Criterion collection volume 932
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Criterion collection volume 931
Criterion collection volume 932
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Description
6 video discs (approximately 9 hrs) : mono, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cabaret singer in North Africa is torn between two lovers; a streetwalker spys for Austria during World War I; a courtesan causes a scandal on a dangerous train ride through China; a former singer resurrects her stage career after her husband becomes ill; a spoiled princess transforms into Catherine the Great; a young man falls in love with a dangerous seductress in spite of warnings against her.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married lover is accused of the crime. His only hope for acquittal is the testimony of his wife, proving his alibi. However, she has some secrets of her own to reveal.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (186 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
Series
Criterion collection volume 109
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Catherine, a German princess, married the Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Because of his madness, she was able to seize the throne and become known as Catherine the Great.
18) Just a gigolo
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him. He has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.
19) Rancho Notorious
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Description
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A western, set in the 1870s, which dramatizes the ballad The legend of Chuck-A-Luck. The search of a Wyoming cowboy for his fiancée's murderer leads him to a ranch-hideaway for bandits which is operated by an ex-saloon entertainer.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 186 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.