Glenda Farrell
Physical Description
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jerry Lewis is the mad medicine man. Before he flunks out of med school, he'll have you in stitches. Even if you don't bust a gut when he sets a patient's hair on fire, you could die laughing during the high-speed ambulance chase.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (64 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shhhh. Don't spill the beans about beautiful Ruth Vincent, the governor's daughter. Don't reveal that she's the secret bride of the DA who's investigating her father on a bribery charge, or he might be yanked off the case before he can find evidence to clear Dad's name. And don't let on that Ruth is risking her lovely neck to do some sleuthing on her own!
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In his 15th film, the King plays dark-haired Air Force Lt. Josh Morgan and blond good ol' boy Jodie Tatum. On an assignment that's "like biting into a beehive," Josh wants to negotiate with the Tatums for military use of their Smoky Mountain homestead as a missile site. But Jodie is right wary of federal "revenooers" and of this lookalike who claims to be kin. Includes songs "Barefoot ballad," "[It's a] Long lonely highway," "Tender feeling," "Kissin'...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Description
1 videodisc (88 min. ; 77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his partner proposes setting fire to the unpopular museum in order to collect the insurance money. As the wax figures melt amid the blaze, the two men begin to fight. The sculptor is knocked out and left to 'perish' amongst the flames. He resurfaces many years later for the launch of his own wax museum. However, the opening coincides with the sudden disappearance of some dead bodies from the...
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"It's summer season at New England's Wentworth Plaza Hotel. And that means it's time for the rich to come out to play--and for gold diggers of every persuasion to try to reel in a sucker or two. Dick Powell heads the cast of this musical romp, playing a desk clerk who agrees to be a gentlemanly escort for the sheltered daughter (Gloria Stuart) of a wealthy widow"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
If you love music, check into Hollywood Hotel. The story's about a filmland newbie caught between a spoiled star and her likeable look-alike. But the movie's about Busby Berkeley's ace direction -- and music, music, music.
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Description
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rosmer Peck is an insurance agent with musical ambitions who become romantically involved with Norma Perry, a showgirl who has given up spangles for a stenographer's pad. Her friends Genevieve Larkin and Sally LaVerne give up their tap shoes for gold digging and take up with executives in a theatrical production company that, unbeknowst to them or the director J.J. Hobath, is going bankrupt due to poor management. Since J.J. seems to be in poor health,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (384 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
42nd Street: A Broadway producer sends in an understudy when his star twists her ankle.
Gold diggers of 1937: Rosmer Peck is an insurance agent with musical ambitions who becomes romantically involved with Norma Perry, a showgirl who has given up spangles for a stenographer's pad. Her friends Genevieve Larkin and Sally LaVerne give up their tap shoes for gold digging and take up with executives in a theatrical production company that, unbeknowst...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (96 min.; 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kissin' cousins: An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains and tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he discovers he has a lookalike cousin.
Live a little, love a little: Greg Nolan meets Bernice, and loses both his job and his apartment. However, Bernice manages to get him a new apartment, but it is so expensive that he has to get two full-time jobs.
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
I've got your number: two telephone repairmen try to save a telephone operator from vengeful crooks and the unemployment line.
Havana widows: two out-of-work New York showgirls travel to Havana, Cuba to swindle a millionaire but find love complicating their plans.
12) House of wax
Pub. Date
2003, ©1953 and ©1933.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
[House of wax] Classic horror movie about an insane sculptor that builds a wax museum out of things that used to be alive.
[Mystery of the wax museum] A deranged wax sculptor who almost loses his life in a fire set by his partner. Instead of dying in the blaze, he returns for revenge, hiding his horribly disfigured face behind a wax mask.