Charles Vidor
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jazz age singing sensation Ruth Etting had it all, but it took more than talent to make it big. Her rise to fame at the hands of her Chicago gangster boyfriend turned her life off stage into a world of fear and abuse.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Professor Joseph Elsner takes his protege Frederic Chopin to Paris after Chopin insults the new Russian-installed governor and must flee the country. There he eventually comes under the influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world.
4) The swan
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A shy princess's head tells her to wed a worldly Crown Prince, but her heart is drawn to a dashing commoner. Garbed in dreamy Helen Rose gowns, surrounded by Mittel-European opulence, the leading lady dances, duels, flirts, falls in love and makes even the most jaded moviegoer want to believe in fairy tales.
6) Cover girl
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dancer in a Brooklyn night club catches the eye of a magazine publisher, who sees in her potential as a future cover girl.
Series
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The splendor and music of nineteenth-century Europe set the background for this romanticized biography of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, a man torn between his music, the church, and the woman he loves.
8) Gilda
Series
Language
English
Description
"Johnny Farrell goes to work for Ballin Mundson, the proprietor of an illegal gambling casino in a South American city and quickly rises to become Mundson's 'main man.' All is well until Mundson returns from a trip with his new bride, Gilda-- a woman from Johnny's past. Mundson, unaware of their previous love affair, assigns Farrell the job of keeping Gilda a faithful wife. Fraught with hatred, Gilda does her best to antagonize, intimidate, and instill...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (approximately 374 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Theodora goes wild: A small-time author whose racy bestsellers, written under a pseudonym, bring her notoriety when a New Yorker discovers her secret.
Together again: The mayor's widow falls for a sculptor as he works on a statue of her late husband.
The doctor takes a wife: A feminist writer is forced to pretend she's married to a man whom she loathes.
A night to remember: A woman and her mystery writer husband take an apartment in Greenwich Village...
